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

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Poe McKnoe;2273727; said:
I actually like Bleacher Report.



As something to print out and poop on.
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If we're not #1 on the list I don't read it.

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VBSJ;2273709; said:
Jim Tressel has impacted and influenced more lives than somebody on Bleacher Report.

There's a reason people are on Bleacher Report, so it's not even worth the time to respond to the contributor.
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I was thinking about this while watching the YouTube videos posted earlier from the 2002 celebration banquet. Maurice Clarett, given his upbringing and life-trajectory, is probably some never-will-amount-to-anything dead kid in the streets of Youngstown without a Jim Tressel. Even with JT, there were still four or five turbulent years for Maurice, but whatever ... after all the bullshit, for him to sit directly to JT's left, amongst his former teammates, and be welcomed and laugh about games that we all cling to like they are life and death, wasting so many message board words and hours, it really is something to behold.

Is Lawrence Phillips sitting next to Tom Osbourne at any reunion banquets? (Not a slight at Dr Tom or any of our Nebraska friends that are members here ... honestly it's just the first counter-example that popped in my head).

JT reaching a kid like MoC is worth vacating 100 wins. Who won or lost a football game just isn't that important in the grand scheme of things.

This is what coaches are supposed to do. JT is now toxic because of it, but it's what coaches are supposed to do. He made an egregious error in judgement to protect five players that had run afoul of NCAA rules, but I don't believe he did it because he'd succumbed to some stupid legacy or need to win. I refuse to. His own former players, who know him better than I ever will, still believe in him and think he did it because he needed to protect 'his kids' from harm. That's good enough for me.

He deserved to lose his job because those are the rules. But I won't ever think any less of him, even if it means a title in 2002 is somehow tainted by his presence, or a title in 2012 isn't possible because of it.

One of the most powerful moments in any movie I've ever watched was the first time I saw the scene where Ricky is gunned down running through the alley in Boyz N The Hood. MoC is Ricky, and he outran the shotgun shell only because he had a coach like Jim Tressel.
 
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Dryden;2273824; said:
I was thinking about this while watching the YouTube videos posted earlier from the 2002 celebration banquet. Maurice Clarett, given his upbringing and life-trajectory, is probably some never-will-amount-to-anything dead kid in the streets of Youngstown without a Jim Tressel. Even with JT, there were still four or five turbulent years for Maurice, but whatever ... after all the bullshit, for him to sit directly to JT's left, amongst his former teammates, and be welcomed and laugh about games that we all cling to like they are life and death, wasting so many message board words and hours, it really is something to behold.

Is Lawrence Phillips sitting next to Tom Osbourne at any reunion banquets? (Not a slight at Dr Tom or any of our Nebraska friends that are members here ... honestly it's just the first counter-example that popped in my head).

JT reaching a kid like MoC is worth vacating 100 wins. Who won or lost a football game just isn't that important in the grand scheme of things.

This is what coaches are supposed to do. JT is now toxic because of it, but it's what coaches are supposed to do. He made an egregious error in judgement to protect five players that had run afoul of NCAA rules, but I don't believe he did it because he'd succumbed to some stupid legacy or need to win. I refuse to. His own former players, who know him better than I ever will, still believe in him and think he did it because he needed to protect 'his kids' from harm. That's good enough for me.

He deserved to lose his job because those are the rules. But I won't ever think any less of him, even if it means a title in 2002 is somehow tainted by his presence, or a title in 2012 isn't possible because of it.

One of the most powerful moments in any movie I've ever watched was the first time I saw the scene where Ricky is gunned down running through the alley in Boyz N The Hood. MoC is Ricky, and he outran the shotgun shell only because he had a coach like Jim Tressel.
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I copied part of an email my son received from the University of Akron. I wish you had posted this earlier. I would have had my son attend just to wish him an early birthday from the folks at BP:



Learn about UA and the College of Business

Join us on Dec. 4! We invite you to learn more about what a degree from the College of Business Administration at UA can do for you.

Tuesday, Dec. 4, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
The University of Akron
Taylor Institute, Polsky Building, 5th Floor
225 S. Main Street, Akron, OH 44325

Please RSVP to Chrissy Cooney at [email protected] or 330-972-6647.

Special guest Jim Tressel, Vice President for Strategic Engagement
Hosted by Dr. Ravi Krovi, Dean, College of Business Administration
Hors?d oeuvres and refreshments will be served.
Find your major in the College of Business.
 
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Dryden;2273824; said:
I was thinking about this while watching the YouTube videos posted earlier from the 2002 celebration banquet. Maurice Clarett, given his upbringing and life-trajectory, is probably some never-will-amount-to-anything dead kid in the streets of Youngstown without a Jim Tressel. Even with JT, there were still four or five turbulent years for Maurice, but whatever ... after all the bullshit, for him to sit directly to JT's left, amongst his former teammates, and be welcomed and laugh about games that we all cling to like they are life and death, wasting so many message board words and hours, it really is something to behold.

Is Lawrence Phillips sitting next to Tom Osbourne at any reunion banquets? (Not a slight at Dr Tom or any of our Nebraska friends that are members here ... honestly it's just the first counter-example that popped in my head).

JT reaching a kid like MoC is worth vacating 100 wins. Who won or lost a football game just isn't that important in the grand scheme of things.

This is what coaches are supposed to do. JT is now toxic because of it, but it's what coaches are supposed to do. He made an egregious error in judgement to protect five players that had run afoul of NCAA rules, but I don't believe he did it because he'd succumbed to some stupid legacy or need to win. I refuse to. His own former players, who know him better than I ever will, still believe in him and think he did it because he needed to protect 'his kids' from harm. That's good enough for me.

He deserved to lose his job because those are the rules. But I won't ever think any less of him, even if it means a title in 2002 is somehow tainted by his presence, or a title in 2012 isn't possible because of it.

One of the most powerful moments in any movie I've ever watched was the first time I saw the scene where Ricky is gunned down running through the alley in Boyz N The Hood. MoC is Ricky, and he outran the shotgun shell only because he had a coach like Jim Tressel.
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Bravo! Truth and grace.
 
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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpCL8d_XuiU"]Jim Tressel - Community Concern Interview - Part 1 - YouTube[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUSp0bkjlNI"]Jim Tressel - Community Concern Interview - Part 2 - YouTube[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1Q2Dcig2Jw"]Jim Tressel - Community Concern Interview - Part 3 - YouTube[/ame]
 
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Jim Tressel speaks to FAU football team
By Dieter Kurtenbach
February 4, 2013

FAU's off-season workout had a visitor Monday, former Ohio State coach Jim Tressel.

Tressel, who knows FAU coach Carl Pelini from their Youngstown State days, was in South Florida and opted to drop by FAU to see the coach. He then spoke to the Owls for roughly 20 minutes, sharing some of his secrets to success.

Tressel won five NCAA National Championships, one BCS Cnational Championship at Ohio State and four I-AA championships at Youngstown State.

Tressel resigned from Ohio State in 2011 amid a player-booster scandal.

The visit was a pleasant surprise for a few FAU players and coaches.

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http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/...to-fau-football-team-20130204,0,5454858.story
 
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Tattoo-Gate wounds healing for Tressel, Ohio State 2 years later
By Dan Hope
[email protected]
Updated: Thursday, April 11, 2013

The outlook for the Ohio State football program is positive heading into Saturday?s LiFESports Spring Game. Entering his second season at the helm of the program, coach Urban Meyer has yet to lose a football game, and, with the team?s postseason ban from last season no longer in place, the Buckeyes are expected by many to be national championship contenders coming off a 12-0 season.

However, the future of OSU football didn?t look so bright on May 30, 2011, when Jim Tressel, who compiled a 106-22 record over 10 years as OSU?s coach and led the Buckeyes to a national championship in his second season at the school, resigned as coach.

Tressel?s resignation came following an improper benefits scandal that gained national publicity, and has since been dubbed as ?Tattoo-Gate.?

?Unfortunately we needed to move on, but obviously you would not have created the end of our tenure there the way that it happened,? Tressel told The Lantern in an exclusive interview Friday.

On Dec. 23, 2010, the NCAA suspended quarterback Terrelle Pryor, running back Dan Herron, receiver DeVier Posey, offensive tackle Mike Adams and defensive end Solomon Thomas ? all of whom played for the Buckeyes at the time ? for the first five games of the 2011 season for selling memorabilia and receiving improper benefits from Eddie Rife, owner of Fine Line Ink tattoo parlor. Linebacker Jordan Whiting also received a one-game ban.

Tressel was initially suspended for two games by OSU on March 8, 2011 and fined $250,000 for failing to report the violations committed by his players. His suspension was increased to five games nine days later, but his fine was waived following his resignation.

It got worse for OSU. On Dec. 19, 2011, the NCAA sanctioned the OSU football program with a one-year postseason ban, which kept the team out of the Big Ten Championship Game and a bowl game last season, and a nine-year scholarship reduction over three years. Those sanctions came just three weeks following Meyer?s hiring as coach on Nov. 28, 2011.

Although it might have ultimately cost Tressel his coaching career ? he also received a five-year show-cause penalty in the NCAA?s sanctions, which would result in penalties for any NCAA school that hires him as coach within that time window ? he did not express regret for failing to report his players? violations.

?If my fault is on the loyalty side, I?ll take it,? Tressel said.

Tressel said OSU?s violations were a result of ?personal decisions? made by his players.

?Sometimes they?re the right decisions, and sometimes they?re the wrong,? Tressel said.
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http://www.thelantern.com/campus/ta...io-state-2-years-later-1.3025262#.UWanxVexu3M
 
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