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

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I think Tressel could be an outstanding president at a place like Akron U. I say this as a tenured full-professor at a university you all know and love, Appalachian State University. App State and Akron U are somewhat similar universities - regional comprehensive universities delivering generally competent undergraduate education along with selective graduate programs.

I would certainly take Tressel over the last two Chancellors we've had here at App State. Both had nominal academic credentials (the PhD but weak record of scholarship (indicating a career administrator)). Tressel lacks the PhD, but he's worked in institutions of higher education his entire adult life. He has clearly demonstrated his respect for academics and academicians. He knows what he knows and I think he is self-aware enough that he knows what he doesn't know. But he knows how to hire competent people to do what he can't. And he's been at Akron U long enough to have begun to distinguish the competent for the incompetent in the leadership group.

Tressel has expertise and experience in administration, student relationships, staff and faculty relationships, trustee and booster (donor) relationships, and community relationships. Not sure what he's lacking.

If I was at Akron U, I might be taking up a petition urging him to apply.
 
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HineyBuck;2361770; said:
I think Tressel could be an outstanding president at a place like Akron U. I say this as a tenured full-professor at a university you all know and love, Appalachian State University. App State and Akron U are somewhat similar universities - regional comprehensive universities delivering generally competent undergraduate education along with selective graduate programs.

I would certainly take Tressel over the last two Chancellors we've had here at App State. Both had nominal academic credentials (the PhD but weak record of scholarship (indicating a career administrator)). Tressel lacks the PhD, but he's worked in institutions of higher education his entire adult life. He has clearly demonstrated his respect for academics and academicians. He knows what he knows and I think he is self-aware enough that he knows what he doesn't know. But he knows how to hire competent people to do what he can't. And he's been at Akron U long enough to have begun to distinguish the competent for the incompetent in the leadership group.

Tressel has expertise and experience in administration, student relationships, staff and faculty relationships, trustee and booster (donor) relationships, and community relationships. Not sure what he's lacking.

If I was at Akron U, I might be taking up a petition urging him to apply.
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Nice analysis, and one that has really swayed me to reconsider my initial viewpoint. God knows that I'm no Jim Tressel fan, but as you've laid it out, I could see him succeeding at a university like Akron. Hell, he couldn't do worse than his predecessor, and we could be pretty sure that the badmouthing and backstabbing of Ohio State would cease under his tenure.
 
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HineyBuck;2361770; said:
But he knows how to hire competent people to do what he can't.
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BuckBackHome;2361949; said:
http://www.ohio.com/news/bob-dyer-ua-graduation-rate-is-awful-1.420252

Just for ORD. The numbers are pretty depressing for Action U.
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I've said it before. When the magnitude and full ramifications of Louis Proenza's gross incompetence hit the fan, it will necessitate a significant bailout on the part of the state's taxpayers and may very well lead to the end of the University of Akron as an autonomous campus in the state system.
 
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HineyBuck;2361770; said:
I think Tressel could be an outstanding president at a place like Akron U. I say this as a tenured full-professor at a university you all know and love, Appalachian State University. App State and Akron U are somewhat similar universities - regional comprehensive universities delivering generally competent undergraduate education along with selective graduate programs.
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:lol: I'm guessing ASU won't be asking you to appear in any commercials for them...
 
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MililaniBuckeye;2361951; said:
:lol: I'm guessing ASU won't be asking you to appear in any commercials for them...
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No, and I would not risk any credibility I might have appearing in any such commercial. Remember this effort?

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVENWl8uBeg"]Appalachian State University is HOT HOT HOT - YouTube[/ame]
 
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One issue that's occurred to me should JT get/take this job is how much independence will he truly have. Proenza has clearly spent the last decade turning that campus into his personal fiefdom and will be staying on as a 300K/year professor (on a campus where 61% of the faculty are part-time, 1099 independent contractors lacking even an office to meet students or a health plan for their family).

Is JT being set up to play the Medvedev to Proenza's Putin.......and possibly the convenient scapegoat when all those bills come due? Personally, I wouldn't touch that job unless I had direct, in-person assurances from Kasich himself that I would have both his full support and full autonomy from the current board to do what needs to be done.
 
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ORD_Buckeye;2362034; said:
One issue that's occurred to me should JT get/take this job is how much independence will he truly have. Proenza has clearly spent the last decade turning that campus into his personal fiefdom and will be staying on as a 300K/year professor (on a campus where 61% of the faculty are part-time, 1099 independent contractors lacking even an office to meet students or a health plan for their family).

Is JT being set up to play the Medvedev to Proenza's Putin.......and possibly the convenient scapegoat when all those bills come due? Personally, I wouldn't touch that job unless I had direct, in-person assurances from Kasich himself that I would have both his full support and full autonomy from the current board to do what needs to be done.
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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgaHrG9A_7s"]Well, Good Luck With That - YouTube[/ame]
 
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Tressel back to the classroom
ZAC JACKSON |
Published: Tuesday, August 20, 2013

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Tressel, the former Ohio State coach now serving in an administrative role at the University at Akron, will teach a "General Principles of Coaching" class this fall with former Akron and Walsh University coach Jim Dennison.

The class starts next Wednesday and runs once a week through early December. Tressel has a new title in his day job, too, as Akron's vice president for student success.
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http://www.foxsportsohio.com/colleg...k-to-the-classroom?blockID=931199&feedID=8889
 
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Jim Tressel Talks Coaching, Buckeyes, Braxton And More
Other than his weekly "Moment with Jim Tressel" with WKYC-TV in Cleveland, Jim Tressel hasn't spoken in the media much since his departure from Ohio State. Friday was an exception.

Tressel, now Vice President for Strategic Engagement at the University of Akron, visited with Wills and Snyder on our sister station WTAM in Cleveland Friday morning. He talked mostly about academics, the first day of classes at Akron and the new coaching class he will teach there.

He also went on national radio, joining the Dan Patrick show on our sister station AM 1230, Fox Sports Radio. With Patrick, Tressel spoke more about his departure from Ohio State, this Buckeye team, Braxton Miller and more.

Here are some of the headlines from his visit with Dan Patrick.

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Transcript of the conversation.
 
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