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

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Ok, seriously. What's it take to sue for slander and win?


NBC Sports: Jim Tressel gives first interview since leaving OSU: Is clearly still in denial

?Jim Tressel lives in an alternate universe. He?s pathological,? Brooks told Off the Bench. ?To not even acknowledge the irony of his situation indicates that you?re still dealing with the ultimate confidence man. He?s at best at master manipulator, at worst a sociopath. One has to wonder sometimes, is he even human??
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I'm posting the link per forum rules but PLEASE DO NOT click it. All you need to read is pasted above. SportsByBrooks is just a yahoo w/ a keyboard but NBC is giving him a voice. I'll be emailing their two most prominent sponsors to express by displeasure and refusal to do business with them:
As well as the NBC feedback line - LINK.
 
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Zurp;1975423; said:
He answered the questions very Tressel-like, by not giving many definites. Nothing really surprising was revealed. He said he really isn't thinking much about coaching at any level at this point, and he didn't mention television at all.
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I can't picture JT doing TV. I can see him writing another book, perhaps expounding upon his views of life and, perhaps, lessons learned over the past few years without getting into specifics of incidents. I also see him getting back on the speaking circuit, once the dust settles and especially if he writes another book.

Not sure if we'll see him coach again. Seems more likely he may do it at a smaller school just for the love of the job without the kind of pressures that arise at a major program like tOSU. Coaching Baldwin Wallace someday would seem like a fitting end to that part of his life, should he choose to pursue it.
 
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http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/6891889/dear-coach-tressel


ou are not a respectable man, nor are you a monster. You're a standard late-model male of the species, skillful at one niche enterprise and hapless when it comes to morality. You're like so many of us ? justifying transgressions committed in the name of profit, hoping the line between right and wrong is broad and smudgy and if you stay busy enough, you won't have to ponder it. There are televangelists preying on our grandmothers and folks whose job it is to turn down health insurance claims or market cigarettes, so let us not convince ourselves that a cheating coach is some bloodthirsty demon who ought to be stoned to death on his way into an Outback Steakhouse. Nor, though, should we be unclear about the essence of your Ohio State run, Coach, now that it has come to an end. Now that a couple of months have passed. Now that the blame-Terrelle Pryor/isn't-that-a-shame-about-good-old-Coach T crowd has quieted and come to terms with slogging through the upcoming season with a no-name, lame-duck head man and a quarterback who last year at this time was facing off against the defense of Huber Heights High. What you were doing the past decade, Coach, was not a bit more and not a bit less than your job requires. You were winning almost all of your conference games and getting the best of rival Michigan. Had you not been succeeding in those two endeavors, you would have been fired and forgotten, but since you succeeded you were retained and lauded. Your former job as head football coach at a powerhouse program brings with it much more pressure and longer hours than that of a dolphin trainer, watch designer, or poet, and the compensation for that public and unceasing pressure and those red-eyed hours was the gazillion dollars you were paid. You received money in exchange for games won, so all's fair between you and OSU. They weren't paying you to be a bastion of integrity any more than they were paying you to paint murals or check pH levels at the campus pool. You were paid by a football factory to perform the specific function of outrecruiting the other Big Ten teams and consequently winning the conference.
Coach, you did your job and did it well (until maybe at the culmination of each year, when you ran into a team of equal recruiting prowess and were handed your ass). But here's the thing: If you'd had any interest in doing something that transcended your job description, something that might impress ? rather than your choir of Buckeye faithful, someone like St. Peter, that something you could've done, particularly, would've been taking a kid whose head was ballooning and who was in dire need of tutelage concerning what it means to be a decent person and teammate and who before he ever attended a single college two-a-day was flashing signs of assholehood by ignoring the designated signing day all the other players abide by and waiting until every last ounce of attention was focused on him alone before bestowing the promise of his presence upon Columbus ? taking that kid, Coach, and guiding him away from assholehood. That's what you could have done.
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One of the worst articles I have read on all of the interwebz, and that is saying a lot. I advise not clicking the link.


It's bad when the comments to an article that paints OSU in a bad light are overwhelmingly neagtive.



http://www.facebook.com/Grantland33
 
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Just if you want to know, the guy that wrote the article is this dweeb.
 
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It cracks me up how ignorant douche bags like this guy make statements regarding Tress's lack of success in bowl games. Going 5-3 in BCS games isn't good enough? HA!

I'm in Baton Rouge right now and although I hate the SEC arrogance, I'm impressed with their football knowledge. Many have stated that OSU is getting mistreated and that their little brawl issue is being handled much more under-the-radar than the Buckeyes recent issues. They also recognized that the bucks have been winning bowl games lately. To be honest, I don't think I could put together a history of LSU's bowl games as well as they remember OSU's.
 
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New mural in football facility honoring Jim

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Ohio State honors Jim Tressel with tribute wall in football facility
Published: Tuesday, August 30, 2011
By Doug Lesmerises, The Plain Dealer

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The Jim Tressel tribute wall at the Ohio State football facility.

COLUMBUS, Ohio - One of the most complicated breakups in sports added another layer last week.

Ohio State continues to simultaneously isolate and embrace Jim Tressel.

Last Thursday, Ohio State finished a wall mural honoring Tressel inside the Woody Hayes Athletic Center. The wall is in the main hallway of the OSU football facility, where other wall designs honoring Woody Hayes, listing the Big Ten teams, recognizing OSU All-Americans, etc., are prevalent.

In a lot of ways, the Tressel wall fits. He's a major, successful part of Ohio State's football history.

But he's also a major part of Ohio State's messy present. With the NCAA more than a month away from ruling on Ohio State's NCAA case, already honoring the coach at the heart of those violations is interesting.

Ohio State's basic case to the NCAA is that the responsibility for the violations committed within the football program lies with Tressel. Ohio State made the point to the NCAA that it forced out Tressel, and it views that resignation as one of the main penalties already suffered by the school. When Ohio State appeared before the NCAA in Indianapolis, the OSU crew went into the meeting room as a group, and Tressel went in by himself, accompanied only by his two lawyers.

Jim Tressel tribute wall Jim Tressel tribute wall Ohio State last week put up a wall tribute in the Woody Hayes Athletic Center honoring former coach Jim Tressel and his accomplishments. This is a video of the wall on Aug. 30, 2011. Watch video

Yet 13 days after Ohio State's NCAA hearing before the Committee on Infractions, the Tressel wall went up.

It's not hard to imagine Ohio State honoring the Tressel legacy. The guy won seven Big Ten titles, one national championship and went 9-1 against Michigan. That can't be ignored.

But to put a tribute like that up before the first play without Tressel at the helm takes place? Fascinating. And that wall reflects how the past must be remembered by the Buckeyes. The record listed for Tressel is 8-1 against Michigan. The Big Ten titles won are six. The overall record with the Buckeyes is 94-21. Because everything that happened in 2010, including Tressel's 100th win at Ohio State, can't be recognized.

The 2010 season was vacated. The wall mural of Big Ten championships down the hall from the Tressel wall doesn't include 2010. The reason that season was vacated is the same reason Tressel isn't still walking down that hallway in the flesh.
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http://www.cleveland.com/buckeyeblog/index.ssf/2011/08/ohio_state_honors_jim_tressel.html
 
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Yertle;1977477; said:
It cracks me up how ignorant douche bags like this guy make statements regarding Tress's lack of success in bowl games. Going 5-3 in BCS games isn't good enough? HA!

I'm in Baton Rouge right now and although I hate the SEC arrogance, I'm impressed with their football knowledge. Many have stated that OSU is getting mistreated and that their little brawl issue is being handled much more under-the-radar than the Buckeyes recent issues. They also recognized that the bucks have been winning bowl games lately. To be honest, I don't think I could put together a history of LSU's bowl games as well as they remember OSU's.
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The thing that irks me, is that while the 5-3 BCS bowl record is impressive itself it's the opponents we've faced that make it even MORE impressive.

Our 3 losses? National Champ, National Champ, Texas that should have been playing IN the National Champ game.

Wins? Miami, Kansas St, Notre Dame, Oregon, Arkansas. Every one of them Top 10 teams. 2 of which either played for the NC the year before/after.

We haven't scored wins against any "mighty' BigEast teams (current ones at least) and haven't played any against Non-AQ conference teams.
 
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