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

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Have you ever wondered if JT is a member of this board incognito; how awesome that would be? I for one would watch my language if I were you. But I'm not you, I'm someone you don't even know :wink:

Just something I've been wondering about. I'm sure stranger things have happened...
 
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kentuckbuck;1840932; said:
Have you ever wondered if JT is a member of this board incognito; how awesome that would be? I for one would watch my language if I were you. But I'm not you, I'm someone you don't even know :wink:

Just something I've been wondering about. I'm sure stranger things have happened...
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Bob Hunter commentary: Tressel quitting? No chance
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
By Bob Hunter
The Columbus Dispatch

It was a strange way to start a day-after-Christmas party in a Cincinnati suburb.

Two steps through the back door and into the kitchen, I was surprised to see the hostess shoot out of her seat and bear down on me like a heat-seeking missile.

"Hi, Bob," she said. Before I could return the greeting, her simple hello became the tail of a run-on sentence.

"OK, so we've got to know, there's a report out of Chicago that Jim Tressel is going to resign after the Sugar Bowl. Do you think it's true?"

My holiday-muddled mind tried to process the sentence, attempted to sort through the words and find the "Merry Christmas" greeting that should have been in there, and failed. But I understand the alarm this kind of junk raises among Buckeyes fans, particularly those who believe the current Ohio State football coach is the second coming of Woody Hayes.

This could be a major crisis. Christmas parties are nice, but it's difficult to eat nacho chips and buffalo-chicken dip in the middle of a major earthquake.

"No, I can't imagine there is any truth to that. I mean, why would ... "

She didn't wait for me to finish the sentence.

"Well, I thought, 'Why would someone know that in Chicago first?' I mean, how would he know? I think a blogger reported it and ..."

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http://www.dispatch.com/live/conten...12/28/tressel-quitting-no-chance.html?sid=101
 
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Ohio State's Jim Tressel boasts one impressive resume
Published: Friday, December 31, 2010
Ted Lewis, The Times-Picayune

Among college head coaches who have been in their current job the past 10 years, Jim Tressel?s record of 105-22 at Ohio State is the best in the nation.

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Ohio State Coach Jim Tressel looks over his Buckeyes during practice Thursday at the Superdome. Tressel is 105-22 at Ohio State.

Tressel?s r?sum? with the Buckeyes includes one national championship, two other BCS title game appearances, seven Big Ten championships, including six in a row, and a run of six straight BCS bowl berths, including Tuesday?s Allstate Sugar Bowl against No. 8 Arkansas (10-2) in the Superdome.

Yet Tressel has never been Big Ten Coach of the Year.

?Really?? said Saints defensive end Will Smith, who played for Tressel in his first three seasons (2001-03). ?If that had been a trivia question I would have missed it, because I would have thought he would have won it at least a couple of times.?

He hasn?t, not even in 2002 when the Buckeyes were 14-0, including the double-overtime victory against Miami in the Fiesta Bowl that gave Ohio State its first national championship since 1968.

Kirk Ferentz of Iowa won the Big Ten honor that season, as he has two more times since. Joe Paterno of Penn State has won it twice in the past decade. This season?s winner was Mark Dantonio of Michigan State, whose team didn?t play the Buckeyes.

But if Tressel feels slighted, he doesn?t let it show.

?I think we?re expected to be at the top,? he said. ?So if we wind up there, then that?s not extraordinary. And I?ve got many plaques and trophies in my office, so that doesn?t blow my mind.?

Among those trophies is one for national coach of the year in 2002.

?When you talk about the best coaches in the country, Jim Tressel has to be right up in there,? said ESPN commentator and former Ohio State quarterback Kirk Herbstreit. ?Naysayers might point out that he has lost a couple of national championship games, but his achievements speak for themselves.?

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http://www.nola.com/sugarbowl/index.ssf/2010/12/ohio_states_jim_tressel_boasts.html
 
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I just listened to the press conference with Jim Tressel from Pat O'Brien's in New Orleans.

What a class guy.

He's a credit to the profession, your university, your state and your football program.

Just a first rate human being.

I could go on and on, but you guys already know.
 
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SmoovP;1847201; said:
I just listened to the press conference with Jim Tressel from Pat O'Brien's in New Orleans.

What a class guy.

He's a credit to the profession, your university, your state and your football program.

Just a first rate human being.

I could go on and on, but you guys already know.
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Yep, Buckeye fans have been spoiled. Ohio State better have a plan for a suicide hotline for when he decides to retire.
 
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