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

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JimsSweaterVest;1618379; said:
Look around at the coaching world. You see coaches abandoning their players right before the bowl game to go to a bigger and better school. The very players they recruited. What does that say about those coaches as educators and mentors? What kind of principle does it teach the kids?

You see coaches blaming their players, calling them soft, passing on the buck to the players, etc. You see coaches treating their programs as businesses, their players as mere investments. You see coaches breaking the rules (not that the NCAA cares) and employing the sleaziest tactics to recruit star players.

Then you look at Columbus, Ohio. There is a great, great gentleman of tremendous personal integrity coaching our kids. He knows how important winning football games, and he wins a lot of them. He also knows that he is an educator and mentor to his players. He develops them as students, as young men, and as citizens.

He never blames a player. He never usurps the spotlight. The glory, and the blame, are for the entire team, coaches and players.

When Jim Tressel leaves, it is going to be very, very hard for his successors over the next few decades to match up.

Let's be grateful to him while he's here!
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Add me onto that list.

People could learn alot from Jim Tressel he may be the greatest man in all of college football. I mean that when I say it, I read the winners manual and it's truly an uplifting book to read and has helped me get through tough times because God knows I've had alot of them.

Jim cares so much about his players but yet he finds a way to balance his incredibly hard coaching job with family, and faith. He's truly a remarkable man and a great role model for any future coaches espicially on how to handle players.

As you said he never throws players under the bus, and even if you don't agree with everything he does in coaching I can firmly say I wouldn't want any other coach in the world representing The Ohio State University!!!

People could learn alot from this man.
 
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All work, no play? Coaches want mix
Monday, December 28, 2009
By Tim May
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

LOS ANGELES -- Jim Tressel's pre-bowl practices have never been confused with picnics, but when the work for the day is done, he doesn't believe in barricading the Ohio State players in, say, a monastery.

Playing well in the Rose Bowl on Friday against Pacific-10 champion Oregon is important, he said, but so is enjoying the rewards for a fine season.

It's certainly a balancing act: Tressel is all too aware that his program is riding a three-game January losing streak. On the other hand, these Buckeyes might never experience the Rose Bowl again.

"You hope you can prescribe the right preparation, you hope they can experience a lot of things, because most of our guys have never been this far from home, and most have never had these kind of experiences, and you want them to enjoy it," Tressel said. "That's part of why they came to Ohio State, because maybe they'd get to do these things.
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All work, no play? Coaches want mix | BuckeyeXtra
 
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I don't mean to go off the "beaten path" here, but can anyone of you answer a valid question? Quite some time ago Jim Tressel was noticed as wearing a small red wristband with the initials W.W. J. D. I think he still practices this
small tradition of his in a way that it has taken off and used by other teams
and coaches across the country. Was he the 1st person to do something like this? Or did he copy from another with the same idea. Just asking. Thanks.
 
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kippy1040;1626754; said:
I don't mean to go off the "beaten path" here, but can anyone of you answer a valid question? Quite some time ago Jim Tressel was noticed as wearing a small red wristband with the initials W.W. J. D. I think he still practices this
small tradition of his in a way that it has taken off and used by other teams
and coaches across the country. Was he the 1st person to do something like this? Or did he copy from another with the same idea. Just asking. Thanks.
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We got those braclets handed out to us in 4th grade....
 
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Whether or not the Buckeyes return to the summit, their coach remains one of the elite: Bill Livingston
By Bill Livingston, The Plain Dealer
December 29, 2009

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Jim Tressel set expectations at Ohio State sky high after the Buckeyes' 2002 BCS title victory, but he's never seemed to worry that much about his critics, says Bill Livingston.

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- To a coach, December rushes by, like the dwindling pages of the dying year's calendar.

"It's the most demanding month we have," said Ohio State coach Jim Tressel, "and none of them [is] real easy. December is like you're just flying. You're heavily involved in recruiting each and every day and trying to find ways to get a few moments to work on football and then be in there practicing and so forth. So December, honestly, if you're in a bowl game, December's a blur."

Friday, the blur resolves into the sharp focus of a game that once was his heart's desire. Friday, Tressel will be on the sideline in his first Rose Bowl as OSU's head coach. The game used to be the be-all and end-all in the Big Ten. Incredibly, despite appearances in three national championships under Tressel, the Buckeyes have not been to a Rose Bowl in 13 years.

"It's something that, if you coach in the Big Ten or the Pac-10, it's certainly in front of you every day," Tressel said. "It's a goal that you want to be part of the Rose Bowl. Would there be something missing if you never got to go? I guess so, but I don't think too much about what's missing. I like to relish the good fortune we've had."

To a coach, December is about the journey as well as the destination. Did the team improve, plateau or regress as the season wore on? Did promise bloom or wither? Will the shorter layoff sharpen the team or fluster it?

Tressel is 57 now, the last nine spent in the pressure cooker of Ohio State football. Yet he has never forgotten his Cleveland roots or his long proving ground in the wounded city of Youngstown.
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Whether or not the Buckeyes return to the summit, their coach remains one of the elite: Bill Livingston | Bill Livingston: Plain Dealer Sports Columnist's Blog - cleveland.com - - cleveland.com
 
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Shared traits
Despite a different persona, Jim Tressel has much in common with his legendary predecessor, Woody Hayes
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
By Rob Oller
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

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The Ohio State fan entered the church wearing his theology on his shirt. "Woody isn't dead ..." appeared on the front, in white letters on red cotton fabric. The belief statement continued on the back: "... his name is Tress."

Some might consider such doctrine blasphemous. There was only one Woody Hayes - and he wore a white shirt without a vest. Others might take offense to comparing Jim Tressel, the epitome of self-control, with Hayes, who demanded discipline from others but often failed to display it himself.

It's true the two men come off as bombast vs. balance, but they also share similarities of values and circumstance that make for compelling comparison. Among other connections, Hayes cared deeply for his players, as does Tressel. Both wrote books defining their philosophy - Hayes' You Win with People and Tressel's The Winners Manual - and both traveled overseas to support the military.

"I knew Woody and I knew Lee Tressel," said Dick MacPherson, the former Syracuse coach who hired Jim Tressel as an assistant in 1981. "I see in Jim a mix of his father (Lee) and of Woody. Who was going to change Lee Tressel? No one. Who was going to change Woody? Nobody. And we go to the next generation and here it is again. With both (Hayes and Jim Tressel) it's, 'This is the way they want to do it and the way it's going to be done.' There is no better way to win than to copy those two guys."

MacPherson recalled what transpired when Syracuse played at Illinois in the third game of the 1981 season.

"Jimmy is coaching the quarterbacks and calling the plays and we ran five or six straight draws to open the game," he said. "We marched down and scored. Then we stopped them on defense and come back out and our first play is another draw. I say to Jimmy, 'Don't we have another play?' And he says, 'Yes sir. And as soon as they stop this one I'll call it.'"

Compare that anecdote with one by Florida State coach Bobby Bowden, who knew Hayes and knows Tressel.

"In 1964 I was an assistant at Florida State ... and we ran a pro passing attack," Bowden said. "Everybody said, 'That won't work in college, you gotta run the football.' But we were successful doing it, and Woody comes down and spends two days with us that spring. I was coaching the receivers, so on the blackboard I'm diagramming this route and going over the passing game. Next year when the season opened, I can't wait to see what Woody is going to do, and sure enough he runs the split-T. Hammer, hammer, hammer. He ain't going to change his style. Just like Jim. That's the Ohio mentality."
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Said by JT on ESPN's postgame Bowl special; On Oregon fans downing shots of tequila after every Oregon score. "I guess they're all sober tonight!" Keep 'em comin' JT! :)
 
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