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

[Jake]

I feel like I just found out my dad was cheating on my mom.

Well, now that you mention it, your mom and I have been meaning to tell you something...

 

[Buckskin86]

Tress on Cleveland radio- 5 7 12

 

[MililaniBuckeye]

I feel like I just found out my dad was cheating on my mom.

That's OK, I took care of your Mom for ya...




Hey, you tee it up that high...

 

[Buckskin86]

Jim Naveau: Expect Tressel to come back to coaching
May 12, 2012
Jim Naveau

Maybe somebody should call John Cooper and see if he’s thinking about coming out of retirement.

Last week began with former Ohio State football coach Jim Tressel saying he couldn’t rule out the possibility of returning to coaching someday. And three days later former OSU athletic director Andy Geiger emerged from retirement to become AD at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Cooper is probably having too much fun on the golf course and following the activities of, as he likes to call them, his “grand babies,” to consider a return to the sidelines. Just kidding about that one.

But Tressel’s comments and Geiger’s return, even though his contract is only for one year right now, do lead to some interesting speculation.

Tressel, now the vice-president for strategic engagement at the University of Akron, said on a Cleveland radio station when asked about coaching again, “I wouldn’t sit here today and say it’s something that I want to do but you never know what is out there.

“Three years ago if I was on my tip-toes looking into the future I would have, I’m sure, been surprised that this would be the future. So you never know,” he said.

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http://varsity.limaohio.com/articles/somebody-8772-jim-tressel.html

Jim Tressel- A Decade of Greatness

 

[Buckskin86]

Tressel focused on new role
Former football coach now administrator at University of Akron
May 18, 2012
By ED PUSKAS , Tribune Chronicle sports editor | [email protected]

BOARDMAN - Jim Tressel is no longer Ohio State's football coach, but he is still a major draw in the Mahoning Valley, where his storied head coaching career began in 1986 at Youngstown State.

Tressel, 59, was the featured speaker and guest of honor for United Way's Champions Among Us: An Evening With Jim Tressel on Thursday night at Mr. Anthony's. The event drew hundreds to the South Avenue banquet center and dozens of those on hand also attended a pre-dinner "meet-and-greet" with the former coach.

Tressel, who began his new job as the University of Akron's vice president for strategic engagement on May 1, met briefly with reporters before delivering his keynote speech at the fundraising dinner.

Check that. The former coach, who led YSU to four Division I-AA national championships in the 1990s and led the Buckeyes to a BCS title in his second season in Columbus, said - when asked what he planned to talk about Thursday night - said it wouldn't be a speech.

"I don't give speeches," Tressel said. "I have conversations."

As a coach, he always said his job was about teaching and developing relationships. He said the new job isn't much different.

"We're still helping young people reach their potential, so it's really no different from what we were doing before, except maybe on Saturday," Tressel said. "The job is fantastic. We always had 120 kids at YSU and Ohio State and we're still working with young people at the University of Akron, so I don't think it's as different as one might think. ... Right now, I'm doing exactly what I've always done, which is working with young people."

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http://www.tribtoday.com/page/content.detail/id/571894/Tressel-focused-on-new-role.html?nav=5024

Returning champions
Published: Fri, May 18, 2012
Back in Northeast Ohio, Jim Tressel is content with his new role
By Tom Williams
[email protected]

Boardman

After spending a little more than half a season in the NFL, Jim Tressel won’t rule out a return to coaching in professional football.

But the former Ohio State and Youngstown State coach said it’s unlikely for his immediate future.

“Right now, I would say that wouldn’t be something I would lean towards,” Tressel said Thursday at Mr. Anthony’s where he was the keynote speaker for the United Way Champions Among Us banquet. “I’m really enjoying what I am doing.”

One year after resigning from Ohio State, Tressel is vice president of strategic engagement for the University of Akron.

Asked about his interest in coaching in the NFL, Tressel responded, “Right now, the answer to that is I don’t think so, but I’m old enough to know that you never say never.

“I like to be somewhere and see if you can go for the long haul,” said Tressel who was YSU’s coach for 15 years before spending 10 in Columbus. “I’ve never liked to be someone who goes one year here, two years here, whatever.”

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http://www.vindy.com/news/2012/may/18/returning-champions/?newswatch

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuZK-w9zu8U"]Jim Tressel begins at University of Akron - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Buckskin86]

Stow-Munroe Falls students hear message from Tressel
By Heather Beyer
Special to the Beacon Journal
Published: May 23, 2012 -

STOW: Administrators at Stow-Munroe Falls High School wanted to ?reward their seniors for making a difference.? Their goal was to do something special that the seniors would never forget.

?We have a lot of great kids here,? Assistant Principal Anthony Horton said. ?We wanted to reward everybody, not just the superstars.?

When the graduating Class of 2012 arrived at school Wednesday morning for a final gathering with teachers and friends, none knew what was in store.

They learned Assistant Principal Christopher DiMauro had helped arrange for Jim Tressel, vice president of strategic engagement for the University of Akron, to give a keynote address on ?making a difference? to the graduating seniors.

?Making a difference really is a responsibility that you now have even more than you had before,? Tressel said to the seniors.

?It is a tremendous responsibility. You had the opportunity to get that diploma, to take that next step, to commence the beginning of the rest of your life. Remember it is your responsibility, going forward, to make a difference in our world.?

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http://www.ohio.com/news/local-news/stow-munroe-falls-students-hear-message-from-tressel-1.309157

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzhiWBUxeLs"]Jim Tressel speaks to seniors at Stow-Munroe Falls High School - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Buckskin86]

Tressel's end started memorable year
Originally Published: May 28, 2012
By Adam Rittenberg | ESPN.com

Memorial Day typically is one of the least significant dates on the college football calendar.

The spring evaluation period for recruiting is all but over, followed by a quiet period that begins June 1. Spring practice is in the rear-view mirror; fall camp is more than two months away. Aside from the occasional player transfer, off-field misstep or academic issue, Memorial Day comes and goes. Coaches can exhale a bit and fire up the barbecue pit.

Matthew Stockman/Getty ImagesJim Tressel's resignation marked the start of a 12-month period when college football was constantly under siege.

But few in Columbus, Ohio, ever will forget Memorial Day 2011, even if they'd like to. That morning, Jim Tressel resigned under pressure as Ohio State's coach, nearly three months after admitting he had failed to provide information about Buckeyes players receiving improper benefits from a local tattoo parlor owner.

Five weeks earlier, in what turned out to be his final major public appearance as Buckeyes coach, Tressel, known for his trademark sweater vest, wore camouflage pants, desert boots and a camouflage hat during Ohio State's spring game as a tribute to the military. Then, on a day dedicated to U.S. military members who made the ultimate sacrifice, Tressel, one of the nation's most decorated coaches, stepped down from his post in disgrace.

Tressel's resignation marked the start of a 12-month stretch when college football found itself constantly under siege. The sport endured more coach scandals, including quite possibly the worst in its history at Penn State. There were drug problems, booster problems and plenty of work for NCAA enforcement chief Julie Roe Lach and her team. The realignment landscape also continued to shift with multiple programs on the move, including TCU, which was affiliated with three conferences in a span of several weeks (Mountain West, Big East, Big 12).

"The last year has been difficult for collegiate athletics," Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany said May 16, "maybe as difficult a year for us and for the collegiate model as I can recall."

http://espn.go.com/college-football...rted-memorable-year-scandals-college-football

Rob Oller commentary: Tressel’s exit remembered a year later
Monday May 28, 2012

Last Memorial Day, while many of us were buying ice for the cooler and firing up the grill, Jim Tressel lost his job.

Where did the time go? Or maybe it feels to you like Tressel’s forced resignation last May 30 occurred a decade ago? Time is funny that way: One man’s recent memory is another’s long-ago recollection.

Albert Einstein understood this phenomenon:

“When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, you think it’s only a minute. But when you sit on a hot stove for a minute, you think it’s two hours. That’s relativity.”

Tressel’s departure was relative in more ways than one, meaning it related in terms of both enthusiastic magnitude and bitter tumult to three other moments over the past 50 years of Ohio State football.

First is OSU’s’ 27-16 win over Southern California in the 1969 Rose Bowl, which capped a 10-0 season and made the Buckeyes consensus national champions in 1968. Ohio State had not won a national title since 1957 before the Super Sophs stepped up to subdue O.J. Simpson and the Trojans in Pasadena.

Second is the firing of Woody Hayes after the legendary coach punched Clemson noseguard Charlie Bauman late in the 1978 Gator Bowl. “The Punch” remains cemented into the OSU sports vernacular.

Third is Ohio State’s 2002 national championship, won after the Tressel-coached Buckeyes upset the University of Miami 31-24 in double-overtime at the Fiesta Bowl. Like Hayes in 1968, Tressel’s popularity soared and his job security was strengthened so much that only a major scandal, in which he was personally involved, could bring about his downfall.

Like that would ever happen.

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http://www.buckeyextra.com/content/stories/2012/05/28/tressels-exit-remembered-a-year-later.html

 

[MaliBuckeye]

A number of folks in the Buckeye Bloggers Network are taking a look back at Coach Tressel's career and legacy today.

This piece at tBBC is really moving- The Coach I Knew

It is hard to believe how small in Jim Tressel is when you meet him face to face. When I meet someone who has a legacy that is larger than life, I always expect that person to be mammoth and tower over me. I always expected to see Coach hulking over me, rather than standing eye to eye with me.
I remember my first encounter with him at my high school. I had applied to be a student manager during my senior year of high school in the fall of 2001, and my high school coach had arranged for me to come down and meet the man who had just been hired to lead the football team I had idolized since I was a young boy. I personally wasn?t all that crazy about Coach Tressel being hired then. (In my immature 18 year old mind, I had wanted either Glenn Mason or Mike Belotti. It is probably a good thing I wasn?t the AD or I didn?t help Andy Geiger make any decisions back then.) He was visiting all of the high school coaches around the state and introducing himself, which shows how business savvy he was right from the start. I think the one thing I will take away from that meeting was how intently he listened to me and made me feel like I was the only reason for his visit. Coach Tress has always had a way of doing that. He makes you feel like you are the only one in the room, and it seems like he genuinely cares about anyone he meets.

We'll be doing an "interview" with Roy Hall and Billy Brewster later today, and I've got a reflection on his passion for the game around lunch time.

Here's a look at the investment he had/has in our troops-

Coach Tressel knew the importance of his position at The Ohio State University, but he also recognized it as a platform that would allow him to actively seek out opportunities and channels through which he could support our military members, especially the hometown heroes from the great state of Ohio. But his efforts weren't limited to only the state for which he was employed.

And a look back at the day that was-

Memorial Day, 2011 (Monday, May 30th), will always go down as one of the saddest in my many years of participating in, writing about and following sports. Like every other fan of Ohio State football I knew the program was in the midst of a firestorm, and that Jim Tressel's flame resistant clothing had some holes in it. Sports Illustrated had just released a scathing (though not entirely true) article, ESPN was on a witch hunt, and the whole world seemed to be calling for Tressel's head. Still, I admit that I expected him to survive. However, as I drove my mother, wife and daughter to a family reunion in Cynthiana, Kentucky, WLW news out of Cincinnati reported that Coach Tressel had stepped down following a meeting with E. Gordon Gee and Gene Smith. I was shocked, then angry, and finally, numb. Once again, the national media had succeeded in convicting a good man without a fair trial.

 

[BUCKYLE]

A year later, and it still stings. Fuck ESPN, SI, and the NCAA. Fuck them to death.

 

[TresselstillownsTSUN]

I'm not gonna lie, when I woke up last year and found out about Tress I shed a few tears. Damn I still miss him.....

 

[redguard117]

I'm not gonna lie, when I woke up last year and found out about Tress I shed a few tears. Damn I still miss him.....

Only a few? Hater

 

[MaliBuckeye]

Only a few? Hater

I'm guessing that Kyle is using "shed" to mean "hit the floor". Likely, most of the tears were caught in his magnificent beard instead.

 

[Buckskin86]

A year after his departure, Jim Tressel carries no regrets from his time with Ohio State
Published: Tuesday, May 29, 2012
By Doug Lesmerises, The Plain Dealer

Fallout from the fall of Tressel

A timeline of the last year for Ohio State football and former coach Jim Tressel.
May 30, 2011: Tressel is forced to resign after public pressure intensifies nearly three months after his major NCAA violations were made public. Luke Fickell is named the interim coach.
July 7, 2011: Ohio State vacates the 2010 season and admits it ?sought and accepted? Tressel's resignation as part of the self-imposed penalties the school announces, hoping to head off further NCAA sanctions. Officially, Ohio State also converts Tressel's resignation to a retirement and waives his previously applied $250,000 fine.
Aug. 12, 2011: Ohio State's hearing in Indianapolis before the NCAA Committee on Infractions lasts just four hours, a seemingly good sign for the Buckeyes. Tressel enters the hearing with his two lawyers, apart from the OSU contingent.
Sept. 1, 2011: Two days before the season opener, three more Buckeyes are suspended, bringing to nine the number of players out for the first game of the season. The suspensions result from money received at a charity event in Independence, which will yield more trouble.
Sept. 2, 2011: The NFL's Indianapolis Colts hire Tressel as consultant, with his duties including monitoring replays during games.
Oct. 3, 2011: More NCAA suspensions hit the Buckeyes as the result of several players being overpaid by a booster, an investigation that stemmed from the money given out at the charity event. These violations worsen Ohio State's still-pending case before the NCAA.
Nov. 26, 2011: Ohio State ends a 6-6 regular season with a 40-34 loss at Michigan, after reports about Urban Meyer taking over as the next head coach engulfed the rivalry week.
Dec. 3, 2011: Meyer is officially introduced as Ohio State's 24th head football coach.
Dec. 20, 2011: The NCAA announces its penalties for Ohio State's violations, including a one-year bowl ban, the loss of nine scholarships over three years and a five-year show cause penalty for Tressel.
Jan. 2, 2012: Ohio State loses to Florida, 24-17, in the Gator Bowl to finish 6-7, its first losing season since 1988.
Jan. 17, 2012: The Colts fire head coach Jim Caldwell and in the following days do talk to Tressel about their head coaching job, but he is not hired.
Feb. 1, 2012: Ohio State signs 25 players in a top-five recruiting class 65 days after Meyer's hiring.
Feb. 2, 2012: Akron hires Tressel as its vice president of strategic services, at a salary of $200,000, to work with students and in the community.

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- On Memorial Day this year, Jim Tressel's plan was golf -- on the links for the first time in 2012, playing nine holes with his wife, Ellen.

"I'll probably shoot 120," Tressel said Monday morning.

He could take to the course with his golf bag, but, as he explained during an interview with The Plain Dealer, no baggage.

Today is the one-year anniversary of Tressel's forced resignation from Ohio State. On May 30, 2011, the football coach's 10-year run with the Buckeyes ended over his major NCAA violations and the public criticism they created.

Tressel lost his job last Memorial Day. In February, he was hired by the University of Akron as its Vice President of Strategic Engagement, and he says he didn't lose his joy for what he does now, or what he did for 25 years as the head football coach at Youngstown State and Ohio State.

"It was going to end one day, in one way or another, and that wasn't the way we wanted to end it," Tressel said.

"Wow, a lot happens in a year, a lot that you don't know is going to happen. But I don't feel scarred or disappointed or mad. I just don't feel that way. The people at Ohio State have always been great to me, and things end up the way they do, and you go on to the next play or the next day, and that's always been the way I look at things."

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http://www.cleveland.com/osu/index.ssf/2012/05/a_year_after_his_departure_jim.html

Jim Tressel's legacy may be tarnished, but he remains an Ohio icon: Bill Livingston
Published: Tuesday, May 29, 2012
By Bill Livingston, The Plain Dealer

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Jim Tressel, when introduced at a banquet this month in Westlake, said, "I'm happy to be here. When you've been fired twice in one year, you're happy to be anywhere."

He now holds an administrative job at the University of Akron. A year ago, he resigned under fire after a decade as the most successful Ohio State coach since Woody Hayes. The second dismissal came when the NFL's Indianapolis Colts, in the wake of a 2-14 season, fired coach Jim Caldwell and his staff, including Tressel, who had worked for the final 10 games as an instant-replay adviser.

Tressel's fall at Ohio State shook most of the state as it had not been shaken since Woody Hayes threw a punch in the Gator Bowl in 1978. Fans in Cleveland reeled from Tressel's ouster more than most. In a city starved for victory, Tressel was the local guy -- born in Mentor, raised in Berea -- who won it all.

Before Tressel, Cleveland was divided in three parts among major-college loyalties. Ohio State claimed a majority of fans, with Notre Dame and Michigan trading spots as the second and third favorite, depending on their fortunes on the field.

After Tressel, Cleveland is the northernmost outpost of the Buckeye Empire. Everyone saw that in 2011 when Ohio State's men's basketball team played the second and third rounds of the NCAA Tournament at The Q, before adoring crowds in a scarlet madhouse.

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http://www.cleveland.com/livingston/index.ssf/2012/05/jim_tressels_legacy_may_be_tar.html

What will Jim Tressel?s legacy be?

By Evan Speyer
[email protected]
Published: Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Jim Tressel coached at Ohio State for 10 years. For 10 years he made his case as one of the greatest coaches in the history of an illustrious football program. He spent a decade building his legacy ? a legacy that came to an end exactly one year ago.

Months after news broke that Tressel knowingly played ineligible players, OSU athletic director Gene Smith asked Tressel to resign from his post as football coach. An NCAA investigation found that six players had received improper benefits in the form of tattoos and money in exchange for memorabilia. All of those players, including former quarterback Terrelle Pryor, have either graduated, transferred or left the university. Pryor, running back Daniel ?Boom? Herron, wide receiver DeVier Posey, lineman Solomon Thomas, lineman Mike

Adams all received 5-game suspensions as a result of the December 2010 scandal. Linebacker Jordan Whiting received a one-game suspension and has since transferred to Louisville.

One year ago ? on May 30, 2011, Tressel officially submitted his resignation to Smith.

?I am sorry and disappointed this happened. At the time the situation occurred, I thought I was doing the right thing,? Tressel said. ?I understand my responsibility to represent Ohio State and the game of football. I apologize to any and all of the people I have let down. I will grow from this experience.?

One year removed from the largest football scandal in school history and OSU has a new coach, Urban Meyer. With the semi-crazed OSU fanbase looking forward to 2012 and putting the scandal behind them, what will Tressel?s legacy be?

Tressel won seven Big Ten Championships during his time at OSU. His 9-1 (8-1 after one was vacated) record against the University of Michigan is the best percentage in school history. But so often in the world of sports, players and coaches are remembered best by their final act. Tressel?s final act, his resignation in the midst of NCAA violations, still resonates in the minds of some Buckeye fans.

?His involvement in the tattoo scandal was surprising because he was known as a conservative guy that kept things close to the vest,? said Ethan Rutman, a third-year in logistics management. ?Reports kept coming out about his involvement and it become more and more disappointing.?

In many ways Tressel and former coach Woody Hayes had similar coaching careers. Both coaches possess winning records against Michigan. Hayes and Tressel account for more than half of OSU?s Big Ten titles and are two of the three coaches in program history to win a National Championship. Both coaches ended their careers at OSU in controversy.

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http://www.thelantern.com/campus/what-will-jim-tressel-s-legacy-be-1.2875055#.T8YB5cX4Io4

 

[JBaney45]

Found out that Coach Tressel got a seat on the board of directors of the bank I used to work for..



http://www.crainscleveland.com/article/20120521/SUB1/305219988&template=mobile

Tressel suits up for board membership

One new board director of Ohio Legacy Corp., the parent company of Premier Bank & Trust in North Canton, has quite the familiar name: Jim Tressel.

That's right. The former Ohio State University head football coach has been elected to the banking company's board in what Ohio Legacy president and CEO Rick L. Hull said is Mr. Tressel's first foray into public company directorship.

Mr. Hull approached Mr. Tressel, whom he'd met when Mr. Tressel still was the coach at Youngstown State University.

?We're pushing much more into the Akron market ... and we were looking for someone who could assist us in that market,? Mr. Hull said. ?Jim really is that guy. People will take his call. They just will.?

 

[Buckskin86]

Former Ohio State coach Jim Tressel relishes new role at University of Akron, which allows him to remain strong promoter of student success
Published: Saturday, June 23, 2012
By Karen Farkas, The Plain Dealer

Lisa DeJong, The Plain Dealer"Student success is Job 1 for everyone," says Jim Tressel, a new vice president at the University of Akron. "Ultimately we will attract students who want to be successful and help them succeed. We need to make sure they are engaged with their school."

AKRON, Ohio ? Jim Tressel says he has transferred his passion for student success from 100 football players to the 30,000 enrolled at the University of Akron.

And those who work with the new vice president for strategic engagement say he is more than up to the challenge.

"He is a part of the fabric of the place already," said Stacey Moore, assistant vice president for student development. "I think he is doing great. He is so energetic, incredibly intelligent and fun. He is focused on the students and so easy to work with."

The former Ohio State University football coach, who resigned in May, 2011 amid an NCAA investigation of rules violations, said he relishes his new role.

"It is no different than anywhere else I have started," he said. "The first thing is to develop relationships, find out what they are passionate about, what the roles are and how you fit into the blueprint. It's been fun."

Tressel, 59, earned a master's degree in education at the university in 1977 and did his first coaching there. He left in 1978 to begin his career in football. His Akron job, which pays $200,000 a year, much less than the $3.5 million he made during his last year at OSU, was created by President Luis Proenza. It was announced at a lavish news conference on Feb. 1.

Tressel, who officially began April 30 but arrived on campus April 4 to get a head start, is reluctant to step into the limelight again. He agreed to allow a reporter to spend part of a day with him at the request of university officials but would only allow photographs to be taken in his office.

"I'm trying to be one of the folks," he said. "I'm one of hundreds of workers here and don't want to attract attention."

But he does.

"A secretary said, 'I don't think he realizes he's Jim Tressel,' " Moore said with a laugh.

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http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2012/06/jim_tressel_relishes_his_new_r.html