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

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http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/sports/stories/2010/10/09/1009-bob-hunter-column.html?sid=101
 
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Milestone in Tressel's rearview mirror
BY JON SPENCER ? October 10, 2010

Everybody in the interview room thought Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith had screwed up Saturday. Actually, he was just very good at reading his head football coach's mind.

When Smith unveiled the trophy-like tribute to Jim Tressel's 100th victory with the Buckeyes -- a resoundingly-easy 38-10 romp past previously explosive Indiana -- he had turned it backward.

Instead of 1 0 0, the large scarlet numbers sitting on top of an artificial turf-wrapped base read 0 0 1.

Just the way Tressel would prefer it.

"To be honest with you, knowing him the way I do, I'm sure he's locked in on Wisconsin," defensive coordinator Jim Heacock said, referring to next Saturday night's showdown with the Badgers in Madison. "It (the milestone) is a great thing, but he's locked in on that trip and what we have down the road."

One reporter asked Tressel to look way down the road, to 2020 and beyond. Could he see himself replacing that 1 next to those two block Os with a 2 or 3?

Realizing such a feat would, age-wise, put him in Joe Paterno territory, the 58-year-old Tressel quickly dismissed that idea.

"The one (zero) on the far side, I want to replace it with a one."

That's as far as you're thinking?

"Right."
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http://www.lancastereaglegazette.com/article/20101010/SPORTS/10100322

No. 100 breeze for Tressel
OSU coach anxious for 101st win
October 10, 2010 - By DANA SULONEN Tribune Chronicle

COLUMBUS - For a split second, it looked as if Ohio State coach Jim Tressel was actually going to break from his famous "coach speak" and reflect on his 100th victory with the Buckeyes.

Not so much.

"I'm just worried about getting to 101," Tressel said.

Classic Tressel-speak.

Those types of answers and his one-game-at-a-time approach have been around since his first victory for the Buckeyes - a 28-14 victory against Akron on Sept. 8, 2001.

Ninety-nine victories later out of 121 games, Tressel is the third-fastest coach in college football history to win 100 games.

The only coaches to do it in less time, Michigan's Fielding Yost and Bo Schembechler, reached 100 victories in their 119th games.

"I've been here a long time," Tressel said. "Earle (Bruce) said something to me this week, he said, 'I don't know why everybody wants to talk about this 100-win thing. What took you so long?' No he didn't say that, but he would.

"But no, it's exciting every time you win and we've had a lot of awfully good players here and our coaching staff has been outstanding and a lot of those 100 wins have been here at home and we've got great fans so this is a place that if they let you stay long enough, you should win 100."
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http://www.tribtoday.com/page/content.detail/id/548083/No--100-breeze-for-Tressel.html?nav=5024


OSU NOTES: Tressel reminisces on win No. 100, OSU heritage
Published: Sunday, October 10, 2010
By JOHN KAMPF
[email protected]

Ohio State Jaamal Berry runs up the middle between two Indiana defenders for the first down in the fourth quarter of Ohio State's 38-10 win at Ohio Stadium in Columbus Saturday afternoon.

COLUMBUS — Presented with a trophy-like monument with the number 100 played up prominantly, Ohio State coach Jim Tressel smiled when asked about adding numbers to the list.

With the Buckeyes’ 38-10 win against Indiana on Saturday, Tressel secured his 100th career win at Ohio State against only 21 defeats. He started his postgame press conference as he always does, but the football talk came to a quick end when athletic director Gene Smith and Tressel’s wife, Ellen, approached the stage to do the trophy unvailing.

Would he be around to add a two or a three to the trophy?

“Probably not,” he said, putting to rest thoughts he might coach the Buckeyes another 10 or 20 years to reach 200 or 300 wins at OSU. “The one on the far side, I want to replace it with a one.”
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http://www.morningjournal.com/articles/2010/10/10/sports/doc4cb12ff101f99801318192.txt


BILL TILTON: Consistency is Tressel’s approach
Published: Sunday, October 10, 2010
By BILL TILTON
Journal Register News Service

Ohio State fans congratulate Ohio State head coach Jim Tressel on his 100th win with the team's 38-10 victory over Indiana at Ohio Stadium in Columbus Saturday afternoon.

Jim Tressel’s place in Ohio State history and his rank among the Big Ten’s all-time greatest coaches might be up for debate, but there’s no arguing one thing when it comes to the man in the sweater vest.

Consistency.

Not just the consistency of his weekly game-day attire, and not just the consistency of winning each and every one of his 10 seasons in Columbus. But it is the consistency with which he remains focused on the big picture and the next task at hand without exception that will forever define Tressel’s time with the Buckeyes.
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http://www.morningjournal.com/articles/2010/10/10/sports/doc4cb135a858496791272881.txt
The elder Tressel attended Ohio State as a freshman in 1943 and was the best player in the spring game that year, before duty called during World War II. A Division III national championship and 157 wins resulted in his induction into the College Football Hall of Fame.

“You know, I thought a little about it,” he said. “We had a lot of time to think in that second half — I was like, when’s this going to be over? — and I thought a little bit about the fact that my dad came here in 1943 and chose to, after spring ball, to go serve his country.

“And this was always his team, you know, no matter where he coached in high school or college, Ohio State was very special. Paul Brown was very special to him for recruiting him here. So I did reflect on that for a minute.”

Tressel’s post-game press conference was interrupted as Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith, and Ellen Tressel, presented him with a trophy of sorts — a “100” in gray numbers atop a base of artificial turf.

He got it in fewer games — 121 — than either Woody Hayes (144 games) or John Cooper (138) — who was, as always, at the stadium.
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http://www.vindy.com/news/2010/oct/10/tressel-reflects-on-family-legacy/
 
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Three years ago, Terrelle Pryor was a high school phenom who nearly every major college football program recruited as a spread-option rushing quarterback. This past Saturday, Pryor completed 80% of his passes for 334 yds, 3 TDs, and 0 INT (with no designed run plays called). I can't think of a more fitting way for Coach Tressel to reach his 100th win at OSU.

To paraphrase a Buckeye Legend, "He's a better educator than he is a football coach, and he's the best damn football coach I've ever seen!"
 
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Tressel all alone in one winning category

By TIM MAY
The NCAA confirmed for OSU officials that Tressel is now the first coach to win 100 games or more at two Division I schools. He had a record of 135-57-2 in 15 seasons at Youngstown State which included four I-AA national titles, before taking over at OSU in 2001. With the victory over Indiana last week became the third-fastest coach to reach 100 wins at a Big Ten school (121 games), trailing only late former Michigan coaches Fielding Yost and Bo Schembechler, who both did it in 119.
Tressel (235-78-2) is the second-winningest active Division I coach, but is well behind Penn State?s Joe Paterno (397-132-3).
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http://blog.dispatch.com/buckeyesblog/2010/10/tressel_all_alone_in_one_winni.shtml
 
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