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

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OSUBasketballJunkie;666726; said:
NYPost
TEFLON TRESSEL DELIVERS FOR BUCKEYES

By LENN ROBBINS

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November 20, 2006 --

Troy Smith, who was kicked out of one high school for flagrantly elbowing an opponent in the face during a basketball game and suspended at Ohio State for accepting $500 from a booster.
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Great coaches do more than win games. They build character and improve the lives of young men. Where do you think Troy Smith would be today if it weren't for men like coaches Tedd Ginn Sr. and Jim Tressel. My guess is he wouldn't have a college degree, he wouldn't be in New York next month to accept the Heisman Trophy, and (very likely) he wouldn't be a 1st round NFL draft pick next April getting a multi-million dollar NFL contract.

How do you put a dollar value on that?
 
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http://ohiostatebuckeyes.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/112106aad.html

With little fanfare, The George Munger Coach of the Year Finalists have been reduced to Greg Schiano, Jim Tressel, and Charlie Weis.

For those who did not realize this, it should be noted that the Maxwell Football Club, which selects the Maxwell, Bednarik and Munger award recipients, is chaired by Ron Jaworski, who happens to be a Youngstown State alum. :wink2:

Hmm ... Schiano, Weis, or Tressel ... What would Jaws do? :biggrin:
 
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OSU_Buckguy;671602; said:
carrie underwood


i'd love to see a fark of him that has jabba wearing the hooded NoD pullover.
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wow.. i cant believe i've never seen her before.. i've heard many a stories

lol yeah that would be a good fark.. i was thinking a couple pillows and a NoD (whoever thought this one up here the other day - the NoD is a great one) polo with the hair all nasty and spiked up ehh gross.. i dunno.. i rather be fulmer than weis.. ehh scracth that i'll be a nun again this year
 
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LATEST NEWS: Tressel
causes buzz in Center
By Mike Bires - Times Sports Staff

11/28/2006

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CENTER TWP. _ Jim Tressel, the coach of top-ranked Ohio State, created quite a buzz Tuesday morning when paying a visit to Center High School.

With the Buckeyes off until they play Jan. 9 in the BCS National Championship. 8, Tressel is making his rounds this week, visiting with high school recruits who've verbally committed to Ohio State. One such prospect is Center's Evan Blankenship, a 6-foot-3, 305-pound lineman who'll play guard or center in college.

Due to NCAA rules, Tressel can't talk to the media about a recruit until that recruit signs a national letter-of-intent (the first signing day for the recruiting classes of 2007 is Feb. 7). But Tressel was allowed to visit with Blankenship on Wednesday, primarily to keep tabs with his second recruit from Beaver County in recent years.

Ohio State's starting tight end Rory Nicol, a redshirt sophomore, graduated from Beaver High School.

"Obviously, I can't talk about who, but it's fun when you get a chance to watch a kid grow," Tressel said about his visit to Center. "It's fun to watch kids who work hard and do what they're supposed to do. Then they have an opportunity to come to place like Ohio State or Penn State or Pitt, or wherever, and you can't help but feel good for them."

When Tressel arrived at Center around 11:30 a.m. Tuesday along with Ohio State quarterbacks coach Joe Daniels, he was greeted by a cast of school administrators, faculty and students who wanted to meet the man who's on the verge of his sixth national championship.

Everyone wanted to meet Tressel and pose for pictures with the coach who's won five national titles in his 20 years as a head coach _ four during his 15-year run with NCAA Division I-AA powerhouse Youngstown State, and one at Ohio State in 2002.

"For me, it was like meeting the President of the United States," said Carla Copple, a secretary at Center who's daughter, Dana, is a senior cheerleader at Ohio State. "Because I grew up in Wellsville, Ohio, I've been a Buckeye fan since I was a baby."

Ohio State clinched its spot in the BSC Championship by beating archrival Michigan, 42-39 on Nov. 18 in a classic showdown between the No. 1 and No. 2 ranked teams in the country.
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ABJ

Thanks to warning by `Buckeye Bebe' about Wolverines,

Tressel turns tables on play

OSU coach credits Akron woman in SI

By Marla Ridenour

Beacon Journal sportswriter

Bebe Webner has been corresponding with Jim Tressel since he became Ohio State's football coach in 2001.
During the season, however, ``Buckeye Bebe,'' as the OSU flag hanging over her condominium's balcony proclaims, waited until after bowl games to send her notes.
This year, Webner worried that Michigan would pull out the Statue of Liberty play to upset the top-ranked Buckeyes on Nov. 18. In 60 years of following OSU, she had seen the Wolverines use the trick to win. Although she never had gotten technical in her jottings to Tressel before, she figured she'd better warn him.
That warning landed Webner, 79, in Sports Illustrated.
After Ohio State's 42-39 victory sent the Buckeyes to the BCS national championship game, Tressel told SI about an older lady from Akron named Bebe who writes him about every three months. Tressel credited Bebe with the idea to call the play, which resulted in a 26-yard run by Antonio Pittman during OSU's game-winning, fourth-quarter touchdown drive. Writer Austin Murphy put Bebe -- last name unknown -- in his story in the Nov. 27 issue.
``I was so thrilled; it was unbelievable,'' she said of Tressel mentioning her in the magazine. ``I was so shocked it was unbelievable.
``I told Jim that was a play they used to pull on us, and he turned around and ran it.''
Since the magazine came out, Webner has received calls from five states. That's not counting Ohio, where she grew up in Shaker Heights while her father, Henry Green, who played professional baseball under Connie Mack, ran Ascot Park racetrack.
She lived in the same house in Akron for 50 years -- 30 with her now-deceased husband, Tony -- until moving a year ago. Tony Webner worked as a newspaperman in Franklin in public relations, including as director of racing for Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., and as a stockbroker.
Although Bebe and Tony Webner attended Ohio Wesleyan, they went to three or four Ohio State games a season, including the infamous Snow Bowl against Michigan in 1950.
In a home with something Buckeyes in probably every room, Webner shows off autographs from coaches Woody Hayes, Earle Bruce and Tressel -- an autographed picture of him hangs next to the family photos in her bedroom. She never has met any of them.
Her attachment to Tressel began with his mother, Eloise. A friend knew Eloise, and when Tressel became the OSU coach, Webner sent her some of her Buckeyes earrings, because she thought all Eloise would have were some from Youngstown State. Webner received a nice reply, and the two were supposed to meet, but Eloise Tressel died in August 2001 before her son's first OSU game.
That's when Webner decided to begin writing Tressel, mainly to thank him for beating Michigan. She still has the four or five notes he sent in reply.
Her closest contact came three years ago, after she suffered a heart attack. While she was in the coronary care unit at Akron City Hospital, a family friend arranged for Tressel to call her room.
``I kept saying, `It's not you,' '' she said. ``I thought it was one of my friends kidding me. Then he started talking about his mother, the earrings I had given her. I said, `Oh, no, it is you.' I blew it. All that time I could have been talking to him. I think my blood pressure went sky high.
``That's the kind of guy he is. I've never met him, except in my dreams.''
Webner's brother-in-law, Mack, a lawyer in Savannah, Ga., said Bebe likes baseball, basketball and football. Each year, she records every college and professional football score in a volume called ``Mack Lawrence's Playbook and Log Book,'' staying up until after midnight on Saturdays to catch the late ones on ESPN.
``She's a great sports junkie,'' said Mack Webner, 65. ``If she were so inclined, she'd be a great bookie.
``When I was younger, she'd take me out to the basketball hoop and beat me. It was embarrassing enough with two older brothers, but my sister-in-law would do the same thing.''
The first time Webner saw an Ohio State game was at Michigan. While on a visit to her grandmother's in Detroit, her father put Bebe and her brother Bob on a train that went straight to Michigan Stadium.
``Tom Harmon was their star. He ran all over Ohio State, and they tore his jersey off,'' she said. ``That's the only time I ever cheered for that team up north.''
Now there's no doubt where her allegiance lies. Even Tony Webner might not mind that Tressel is Bebe's man now.
``He's like a son; he's two years younger than my son,'' she said of Tressel. ``I've adopted him, but he doesn't know that.''
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Tressel, interviewed by ESPN after USC lost.

paraphrased - "I told Steve Snapp, our SID, that I don't feel comfortable submitting a ballot. We'll have to play one of those teams, and I don't want to vote either one of them #3 and make them mad at me."
 
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