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

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Tressel is the only major-college football coach to teach a class during the season and, naturally, it's all about X's and O's
Friday, November 12, 2010
By Rob Oller
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

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Ohio State football coach Jim Tressel teaches Theory and Practice of Football Coaching, a three-credit-hour course. Staff assistants provide a lot of help, and two former OSU head coaches pitch in, too.
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One of the 50 students takes notes. Some of the students knew little about football coming in, and no players are in this class.
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Doral Chenoweth III | DISPATCH
Former OSU head football coach John Cooper demonstrates a blocking technique. ESPN filmed part of the class on Wednesday for a segment to air this weekend.

A few minutes after 7 on a chilly Wednesday morning, bleary-eyed students began filing into the Woody Hayes Athletic Center, lugging book bags and wearing Ohio State colors. Or else.

"That's not Notre Dame Irish," Jim Tressel said in mock disapproval to Grace Miller near the team meeting room that twice a week doubles as a college classroom.

Miller recoiled for an instant; the OSU senior and Dublin Scioto High School graduate was unsure whether the most famous professor on campus was kidding about the cursive Irish, her high school's nickname, stitched across her sweatshirt.

He was. Sort of. But it was hard to tell that early in the morning. The Buckeyes' head football coach began his 7:30 a.m. class promptly at 7:28 because "everything is a race against time," he reminded his students.

And so began Theory and Practice of Football Coaching, a three-credit-hour course taught by Tressel, with much help from football staff assistants, as well as former OSU head coaches John Cooper and Earle Bruce. It meets on Mondays and Wednesdays in the fall, with a "lab" on Fridays that sends students out to scout high-school football games. The course includes pop quizzes and a midterm heavy on football history. And students must design a high-school-level training program for a position of their choosing.

"There's a lot more work than you would expect," Miller said.

Tressel, the only coach in all of major-college football to teach an academic course during the season, was dressed Wednesday in a scarlet-and-gray short-sleeved nylon shirt - no vest. He immediately began the roll call for the 50 students (no football players), who come not only for the novelty of being taught by Tressel but also to learn about X's and O's.

Some students, such as Miller, knew next to nothing about football when class began in September.

"Now, I can watch it and actually know what's going on," the molecular-genetics major said.
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Tressel and OSU staff member Bob Tucker where honored with the Patrick Henry Award from the National Guard Association of the United States for their support of the guard over the years.

"Patrick Henry said 'Give me liberty or give me death.' I say, 'Give me no turnovers or give me death,'" Tressel said after being given the award.

Maj. Gen. Gregory L. Wayt, Ohio adjutant general, handed out the awards today, and told a story about visiting Iraq soon after Tressel was there on a college football coaches tour in 2009. He said the soldiers he spoke with said Tressel was the most popular coach among the military personnel.
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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlKDG82CC2M"]YouTube - Jim Tressel Wins Patrick Henry Award[/ame]
 
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Ohio State football coach Jim Tressel linked with two coaching legends this week
Published: Saturday, November 13, 2010
Doug Lesmerises, The Plain Dealer

COLUMBUS, Ohio ? In the mid-1980s, a football recruit sat in an office at St. John Arena with two Ohio State football coaches. Woody Hayes in one chair. Jim Tressel in the other.

"When I was here as an assistant, he would come around a little bit," Tressel said Thursday, recollecting his interactions with the legend to whom he would eventually draw comparisons. "I remember him talking to a recruit one time in my office, and he had him look out the St. John Arena window toward the stadium and said, 'Young man that stadium was built from 1920 to '22. There's been a lot of changes in the world from that point until now, and if you come to Ohio State in the next four years, there will be more changes in those four years than there were in those 60 years.'

"That was a different type of recruiting pitch. I don't know if it was a recruiting pitch or if it was just something he was thinking about. At that time he was really talking about the age of computers was really going to take off. It was a hunch he had.

"The funny thing is I don't even remember who the recruit was. I probably gave the recruit no attention because Woody was there. I thought Woody was talking to me."
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Bob Hunter commentary: Coach strikes the right tone
Sunday, November 14, 2010
By Bob Hunter
The Columbus Dispatch

After a game that could have virtually flushed the season, there was a lot of talk about turning points.

Coach Jim Tressel did everything but use neon arrows to direct attention to a fourth-down stop the Ohio State defense made at the 20-yard line with 1:41 left in the first half, one that kept the Penn State lead at 14-3.

The play was huge, but it pales in comparison with what happened in the locker room at halftime, when the ghost of Woody Hayes seemed to have possessed Tressel and given an emotional speech that stunned his players.

"Coach Tressel was fired up; that was the most I've ever seen him fired up," senior cornerback Devon Torrence said. "Normally, coach Tressel is a calm, passive, relaxed guy. He never yells in practice. But when he came in that locker room, I saw something in him that I've never seen. I didn't even know it was there."
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Veterans Day celebration gives Ohio State Buckeyes a new perspective: Bill Livingston
Published: Saturday, November 13, 2010

Columbus -- Before the game, jets from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton had made their flyover with a roar that filled 105,466 pairs of ears in the Horseshoe.

In the third quarter, Ohio State tailback Dan "Boom" Herron shook hands with several military veterans, in whose shadow he stood as they lined the end zone during a salute.

Then the Buckeyes drove 96 yards for a touchdown to get back into a game Penn State had dominated for 30 minutes. Ohio State came back to win easily, 38-14, scoring five straight second-half touchdowns.

Afterward, coach Jim Tressel, who had left his players' ears ringing in a strident lecture at halftime, as much as said it was more about Ohio State than it was about Penn State.

"You know, it's a four-quarter game," said Tressel, "and our guys kept coming. We heard a lot this week from folks during Veterans Week about the fact that you just keep going, you know, and you lay it on the line for your teammates, and I thought that's what our kids did today."
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