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

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I know I'm preaching to the choir, but I'm surprised at how often I have to defend Tressel. In 9 seasons, he has 6 Big Ten championships. 6! In 28 seasons, Woody had 12, and is remembered as a great coach. Coach Tressel hasn't coached for 1/3 as long as Woody at Ohio State, and already has 1/2 of the Big Ten championships. And for the first time in Ohio State history (maybe even Big Ten history?) they've won 10+ games for 5 consecutive years.

Of course, Woody had 5 national championships. And, to be fair to Woody, he often had only 10-game seasons, so a streak of multiple seasons over 10 wins was a lot more difficult for him.

As for play-calling, since when was a running play a bad thing? In the Iowa game, every time Ohio State ran the ball, fans around me were yelling at Tressel, unless it gained a first down, which was more often than these fans would believe. But the moment the play only gets them 1 yard, "BOOOO!" And it seemed as though Iowa was specifically trying to keep the long pass away from Ohio State - they had 2 deep safeties most plays. The running plays were open and working, the short passes were open and working - why complain that there are no deep passes?

All this complaining about the complaining is just making me want to complain more. Anyway, my closing thoughts: Would you rather have a Jim Tressel who wins games, or a Rich Rodriguez who doesn't?
 
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Buckeye86;1603706; said:
These are the conference records for all of the coaches in the Big Ten with a tenure of longer than a year (with Danny Hope thrown in) since Tressel took over.

The coaches who have won the Big Ten coach of the year are in bold.

.819 Jim Tressel: 59-13 (9 years)
.786 Lloyd Carr: 44-12 (7 years)
.639 Kirk Ferentz: 46-26 (9 years)
.625 Brett Bielema: 20-12 (4 years)
.569 Joe Paterno: 41-31 (9 years)
.542 Mark Dantonio: 13-11 (3 years)
.500 Barry Alvarez: 20-20 (5 years)
.500 Danny Hope: 4-4 (1 year)
.484 Joe Tiller: 31-33 (8 years)
.469 Pat Fitzgerald: 15-17 (4 years)
.425 Randy Walker: 17-23 (5 years)
.417 Glen Mason: 20-28 (6 years)
.375 Ron Turner: 12-20 (4 years)
.375 John L. Smith: 12-20 (4 years)
.300 Ron Zook: 12-28 (5 years)
.250 Tim Brewster: 6-18 (3 years)
.250 Terry Hoeppner: 4-12 (2 years)
.208 Bill Lynch: 5-19 (3 years)
.188 Rich Rodriguez: 3-13 (2 years)
.125 Gerry DiNardo: 3-21 (3 years)

Interesting results.

So basically the coach of the year award is the "who didn't get their ass whooped by Ohio State or Michigan as much as we thought they would" award.

Pretty lame.
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Its funny to look back and see the coaches that won the Big Ten Coach of the Year award and see where they are now. I cant believe John L. Smith won one
 
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Wow, never knew JT never won a B10 coach of the year award..

Years where I think he possibly should have won it:
2002, for obvious reasons (question: what other coach in CFB would have won a nat'l championship with that team? answer, IMO: none)

2006 (if the award is given out before the NCG, which I think it is), for reloading the defense

2007, for making it to the NCG when most of us were expecting a 3rd-4th B10 finish.

2009, for yet another outright B10 title in a rebuilding year.
 
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bucknut11;1604084; said:
Well, another year, another Big 10 title, and yet still no Coach of the Year award. Ferentz gets it. Dunno what JT needs to do to get it, but I guess if I had to choose, I'll keep with the titles :biggrin:
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I can understand throwing the other coaches a bone here and there for having a season that far exceeds expectations. But the fact that the coach who has won 6 of the last 8 conference titles has never won this award is nothing short of a travesty.
 
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xcrunner;1604063; said:
Years where I think he possibly should have won it:
2002, for obvious reasons (question: what other coach in CFB would have won a nat'l championship with that team? answer, IMO: none)
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This is what always baffled me. I mean he won National Coach of the Year honors but not Big Ten Coach of the Year. That's almost comical.
 
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UpNorthBuckeye;1604141; said:
it's hilarious that Rich Rod has already lost more conference games than Lloyd did (13 to 12)!! holy crap!!!

Please, University of Missagain, don't fire Rich Rod!!!
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Those are coaching stats since 2001, not Carr's overall Big Ten record.
 
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Kirk Ferentz wins the B10 coach of the year again. :roll2:

It is officially the coach who gets their ass whooped the least by OSU award now. No doubt about it. I'm shocked they didn't give it to the 'stache from Purdue.
 
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Zurp;1603903; said:
As for play-calling, since when was a running play a bad thing? In the Iowa game, every time Ohio State ran the ball, fans around me were yelling at Tressel, unless it gained a first down, which was more often than these fans would believe. But the moment the play only gets them 1 yard, "BOOOO!" And it seemed as though Iowa was specifically trying to keep the long pass away from Ohio State - they had 2 deep safeties most plays. The running plays were open and working, the short passes were open and working - why complain that there are no deep passes?
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It's ESPN highlight culture. Football is no longer about winning and losing; it's Dancing With the Stars. A play only counts if it causes the latest no-talent SportsCenter desk jockey to wet his pants and call it the greatest play he's ever seen in his 2.5 years of watching sports, and if Bruno, Len and...oh, sorry -- Herbie, Corso and Fowler give it a '10'.

Tress is just going to have to put a little more sexy in his salsa to keep the C-deck rubes who are 24oz away from reason happy.

The thinking fan will simply say 'Thank you Coach, for running the best program in the nation over the past decade'.
 
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