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Jim Tressel (National Champion, ex-President, Youngstown State University, CFB HOF)

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A nice, predictable touch by JT. Contrast this with some of the tacky utterances made by one or two of our rival coaches.


CalvinistBuck;1588875; said:
Loved this comment by JT in the presser

"Joe... you know him, he's the perfect gentleman. His comment was, "Hey, Jimmy, your kids played really well." And that's the way he is. He's great for the game. He's a legend. Sometimes I pinch myself to think that I've had a chance to coach against him," Tressel said.

Buckeye fans are blessed. Having a coach with class never gets old.
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Ohio State notebook: Tressel remembers Rose Bowl with his dad.
By Todd Porter
CantonRep.com staff writer
Posted Nov 10, 2009

COLUMBUS ? .When Jim Tressel was growing up and his late father, Baldwin-Wallace Head Coach Lee Tressel, finally had a break, the Tressel family made Jan. 1 a football holiday.

Tressel, whose Buckeyes could play in the Rose Bowl if they beat Iowa on Saturday, remembered watching the Rose Bowl with his father every year when the Big Ten and PAC-10 always sent a team there.

?Jan. 1 in our house, two black-and-white TVs set up side by side, that old 30-cup coffee machine ? that little silver thing ? my dad never got off the couch, man. We were taking him coffee and switching the stations. I mean, that was ? shoot you were living on Jan. 1.? Tressel paused for a second. ?That was it for the year, by the way.?

The last time Tressel coached Ohio State in the Rose Bowl it was an odd game. The Buckeyes played UCLA in the first game after the Sept. 11 attacks. ?It wasn?t a normal away trip, and I also remember we didn?t win,? Tressel said. It also was noted by Bruce Hooley, a talk show host in Columbus, that it was the only time Tressel did not wear a sweatervest during a game as the Buckeyes? head coach.
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Ohio State notebook: Tressel remembers Rose Bowl with his dad - Canton, OH - CantonRep.com
 
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Rob Oller commentary: There's no time like the present for Tressel
Saturday, November 14, 2009
By Rob Oller
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

Time is not on the side of Jim Tressel. And the feeling is mutual. The Ohio State coach is no fan of living in the past or ruminating on the future. He sees calendars as a waste of, well, time, because every day is today.

The present is all that matters to Tress, who lives by the Einsteinian theory that the only reason for time is so that everything does not happen at once.

Operating in the here and now has proved mostly successful for Tressel and the Buckeyes, who by defeating Iowa today would secure their fifth consecutive Big Ten championship. It would be a rare five-peat. Only the 1972 to '77 Buckeyes have won more consecutive conference titles (six). Michigan (1988 to '92) is the only other school to win five straight.

Just don't ask Tress why it's so hard to repeat as conference champion and expect to receive a descriptive answer. That would require him to ponder the past, and he is not big on personal reflection.

"We don't look at things in groups like that," he said. "We look at things today, and it will be highly difficult today (vs. Iowa), and the only way to be Big Ten champions is to be good today, which is irrelevant to the four before that, or the 30-some prior that have been won at Ohio State."
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Virtues of Tressel Ball on display last week
Saturday, November 14, 2009
By Ken Gordon
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

Laws are like sausages, the saying goes -- it is better not to see them being made.

Add "Tressel Ball" to that list. The process is hardly pretty, but the results can be effective.

Ohio State's victory last week at Penn State perhaps was the perfect example of how coach Jim Tressel wants to play.
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Virtues of Tressel Ball on display last week | BuckeyeXtra
 
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OregonBuckeye;1594446; said:
Tressel didn't coach a good game but dammit am I happy with the W and roses!
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I think he called a pretty good game. Conservative all around, but all in all he did a good job. I really think the KR TD changed everything. Up 24-10 with momentum clearly on our side. If we got a stop there I know that Tressel would have tried to pound it out and get some sort of score and take more time off of the clock. I think that then the game would have turned out something like 34-17.
 
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Merih;1594449; said:
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I think he called a pretty good game. Conservative all around, but all in all he did a good job. I really think the KR TD changed everything. Up 24-10 with momentum clearly on our side. If we got a stop there I know that Tressel would have tried to pound it out and get some sort of score and take more time off of the clock. I think that then the game would have turned out something like 34-17.
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I think he almost blew the game by going too conservative. It was part Iowa luck, part poor execution, and part questionable playcalling. W is all that matters though.
 
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Very conservative, but I agree, take away the KO return, and even the miss on the FG after the KO return and the game may have looked like a nice comfortable Tressel type 10-14 point win. I may not always like that it seems like he coaches not to lose sometimes, but [censored] the results are usually awfully nice.
 
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OregonBuckeye;1594451; said:
I think he almost blew the game by going too conservative. It was part Iowa luck, part poor execution, and part questionable playcalling. W is all that matters though.
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Iowa luck had a big part in it as well. Nate Williams doesn't jump and we are up 31-17. Chekwa and Rolle don't tackle each other (or at least just bat the ball down rather than up to Moecki) and we take over and take the air out of the ball and grind it out.

This was just one of those games destined to go the distance it seemed, Heacock called some great plays in overtime.

W is a W is a W...Fuck Michigan!
 
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GrizzlyBuck;1594457; said:
Very conservative, but I agree, take away the KO return, and even the miss on the FG after the KO return and the game may have looked like a nice comfortable Tressel type 10-14 point win. I may not always like that it seems like he coaches not to lose sometimes, but [censored] the results are usually awfully nice.
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You take the good, you take the bad, and there you have... Tresselball, Tresselball.

Frustrating at times, but as you said.. results.
 
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OregonBuckeye;1594451; said:
I think he almost blew the game by going too conservative. It was part Iowa luck, part poor execution, and part questionable playcalling. W is all that matters though.
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Agreed. Dodged a huge bullet here by pulling out the W.

OregonBuckeye;1594463; said:
5 straight Big-10 championships is mind blowing to me. The Big-10 is solid this year. This was not '07. And Tress won it with a true soph QB, banged up OL, and a senior-deprived team.
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+1 This is really a "rebuilding" year, and yet he got his team to win the Big Ten and a spot in The Rose Bowl. :osu:
 
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To be honest I didn't feel like the offensive playcalling was conservative compared to last week, I really thought he called a pretty good game. My issues with playcalling are more on the defensive side... not his domain.

Congrats to the Vest for taking us to another BCS game, one that I think we've all wanted to be in for quite awhile. Here's to hoping he can get his annual win over Michigan, and a bowl win! :oh:
 
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I was fine with the playcalling. You know what? It was working. If not for some bad luck and poor special teams they probably win by 2-3 scores. The run game was effective at worst and dominating at times.

I'm not ascribing this to any particular poster - just an attitude I sense among fans sometimes: It seems that some people think that if a conservative offense is working that at more open offense would work EVEN BETTER.

Iowa has had a pretty good pass defense this year, and they did it without getting too many sacks. They have a good, disciplined secondary and they got a lot of picks this year.

When Ohio State did choose to pass, plays got extended due to the coverage and Pryor ended up scrambling and/or checking down. He did a very good job of that, and that's one thing that kept the chains moving. He's definitely made progress in that regard. I think Tressel was smart to not put him in that position more than he did though, especially with the way they were running the football all night.
 
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