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

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  • Jim Tressel – The former head coach of the Ohio State Buckeyes, Tressel was forced to resign three months before the start of the 2011 season for lying to the NCAA about student athletes receiving tattoos and cash for signed memorabilia. According to the NCAA, he had four chances to tell the truth and failed to do so. For this, he was given a five-year show-cause penalty (until December 19, 2016). If he gets another head coaching job before then, he will have to sit out the first five games of the first regular season of his return, as well as any postseason games (including conference championship games and bowl games).[2]
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If he has to sit five games and any postseason games for two years I don't see that from keeping some schools interested in making a splash. If it's a down program that gives them two years to recruit and develop a team capable of reaching the postseason under Tressel. Hire him before the show cause expires and you don't have to worry about it when you are actually eligible for postseason play.
 
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Jim Tressel bids farewell to his favorite pen pal
By Marla Ridenour Published: October 12, 2013
Jim Tressel has lost his best pen pal.

The former Ohio State football coach, now vice president for student success at the University of Akron, stopped by InfoCision Stadium Saturday to pay his condolences to the family of “Buckeye Bebe” Webner, 86, who passed away Sept. 8.

Family responsibilities kept Tressel from attending the celebration of Webner’s life on the stadium’s club level. But he visited Webner at her Akron home 10 days before she died.

I told Webner’s story in the Beacon Journal on Dec. 2, 2006. A Buckeye fan for then-60 years, she had corresponded with Tressel since he became Ohio State’s coach in 2001. OSU was ranked No. 1 going into the Nov. 18 game against Michigan and Webner feared the Wolverines would use the Statue of Liberty play to pull the upset, a trick play they’d burned the Buckeyes with in the past.

So she wrote Tressel a note to warn him.

Tressel not only read the note, but called the play himself. It resulted in a 26-yard run by Antonio Pittman in the Buckeyes’ game-winning drive. The 42-39 triumph sent OSU to the BCS title game.

Tressel told Austin Murphy of Sports Illustrated the play had come from an older lady named Bebe from Akron who wrote to him about every three months. That landed Webner – last name unknown – in the Nov. 27 issue of SI. Murphy later wrote a book on the 2006 college football season called “Saturday Rules,” and included Webner (and me, using a few nuggets I’d written about her) in Chapter 14. I’d been tipped off to her identity by an email from her brother-in-law, attorney Mack Webner, who told me how to get in touch. (Bebe made sure everyone received a copy of “Saturday Rules.” Mine was a former resident of the Cleveland Public Library.)

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http://www.ohio.com/blogs/marla/mar...ids-farewell-to-his-favorite-pen-pal-1.436441
 
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I always thought about this Idea. Now that we have Urban Meyer as head coach, what would Ohio State
look like, if we had Jim Tressel as the Athletic Director. Would it be a good fit to have Jim and Urban in the same boat or would there be conflicts?
 
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kippy1040 said:
I always thought about this Idea. Now that we have Urban Meyer as head coach, what would Ohio State
look like, if we had Jim Tressel as the Athletic Director. Would it be a good fit to have Jim and Urban in the same boat or would there be conflicts?
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Ohio State would look like assholes for hiring a man who lied to the NCAA to run the athletic department.

 
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I know the popular prediction is that JT will coach again, but I just do not see it. He seems happy working on the academic side. No way a program like Nebraska goes after Tressel. I really think if Bo is done there, they turn to a guy with Nebraska connections like ND's Craig Bohl. He could be their "Tressel." The guy's an alum, their former DC, and could be on his way to his 3rd straight FCS title and is 38-1 since 2011.
 
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NFBuck said:
I know the popular prediction is that JT will coach again, but I just do not see it. He seems happy working on the academic side. No way a program like Nebraska goes after Tressel. I really think if Bo is done there, they turn to a guy with Nebraska connections like ND's Craig Bohl. He could be their "Tressel." The guy's an alum, their former DC, and could be on his way to his 3rd straight FCS title and is 38-1 since 2011.
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honestly UNL would be stupid not to throw the bank at Bohl
 
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