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

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StoRMinBrutus;1020177; said:
Someone sent this too me inter-office here at Ohio State. I have no idea who it was from so I can't verify but it sure sounds like something he'd do.



A short story about JIm Tressel:

Tyson Gentry is a young man that is from Sandusky Perkins High School . He walked on at OSU as a freshmen for wide receiver. He was doing well, but he went up over the middle for a high pass and was hit and came down wrong and has been paralyzed from the waist on down. Now for the rest of the story.

The following is a true Jim Tressel story you WON'T read about (and that's unfortunate).

A friend of Tyson Gentry (and his family) came to Columbus a few weeks ago and he came away with the following story after spending an afternoon with them:

Gentry works out (rehabs) at the OSU football facility and he spends alot of time on one machine in particular. About a month ago Tressel is walking through the room and stops by to say hello to Gentry. Real small talk type of stuff, Tressel asked him about the rehab, etc... and Gentry mentions things are going well. Tressel asks about some of the exercises that Gentry does and Gentry mentioned that the machine he is presently on seems to do the best for him and that he uses it whenever it is available. Apparently it is a popular machine to use in the facility. After a couple of more minutes of talk, Tressel leaves and that's it.

However, the following week Gentry goes to the doctor's office for a visit, etc.. comes back home and in his garage is a brand new version of that machine...paid for ($6,000) by Tressel himself with a note that says "you'll never have to wait in line to use it again."

No additional comments needed. He's a class guy.
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JESUS CHRIST TRESSEL STOP GIVING ME REASONS TO NOT HATE YOU!!!!
 
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SNIPER26;1021483; said:
JESUS CHRIST TRESSEL STOP GIVING ME REASONS TO NOT HATE YOU!!!!
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hahaha

i think the longer this thread goes on, the more you're going to be faced with that dilemmea.

and if the NCAA feels that they need to punish someone for providing a workout machine to aid a paralyzed former player, let em. Tressel is a class act, and i'd rather him feel that he can do what's right rather than what the NCAA deems "appropriate."

if helping out tyson gentry isn't appropriate, fuck 'em
 
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OSU, Tressel and an AWESOME recruiting statistic!!

Check this out, to see if I am right (and feel free to either agree, or tell me where I erred):

POINT: Every Buckeye football player that Jim Tressel has recruited that either: 1) is currently on the roster; 2) graduated; or 3) left after their junior years (a.k.a. "early Entry") for the NFL ... of all the "long-term" Buckeyes -- ONLY TWO have not had the opportunity to play for the BCS NC Game.

Could that be correct? His first class and his 2002 class were obviously on the sidelines inPhoenix, against Miami ... the '04, '05 and '06 classes were on the sidelines in "The Debacle in The Desert" last January ... and the Class of '07 will be on the sidelines Jan. 7.

That means only the players of the Class of 2003 that left early never got a chance to play in a BCS NC Game -- DONTE WHITNER and ASHTON YOUBOTY.

Could this be correct??? When you weed out the guys like Darius Hiley, Freddie Lenix, Dennis Kennedy, Erik Haw, Chad Hoobler, Walter Dublin, etc. ...

BUT -- Could it be correct to say that every player that Jim Tressel has recruited for OSU who chose to stay with the team "to the end" has been to a national championship game?

Someone ... troubleshoot this assumption. But, if it's correct -- can you imagine? "EVERY" RECRUIT?!?!!?

That is all.
 
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jflinnbuckeye;1027044; said:
Check this out, to see if I am right (and feel free to either agree, or tell me where I erred):

POINT: Every Buckeye football player that Jim Tressel has recruited that either: 1) is currently on the roster; 2) graduated; or 3) left after their junior years (a.k.a. "early Entry") for the NFL ... of all the "long-term" Buckeyes -- ONLY TWO have not had the opportunity to play for the BCS NC Game.

Could that be correct? His first class and his 2002 class were obviously on the sidelines inPhoenix, against Miami ... the '04, '05 and '06 classes were on the sidelines in "The Debacle in The Desert" last January ... and the Class of '07 will be on the sidelines Jan. 7.

That means only the players of the Class of 2003 that left early never got a chance to play in a BCS NC Game -- DONTE WHITNER and ASHTON YOUBOTY.

Could this be correct??? When you weed out the guys like Darius Hiley, Freddie Lenix, Dennis Kennedy, Erik Haw, Chad Hoobler, Walter Dublin, etc. ...

BUT -- Could it be correct to say that every player that Jim Tressel has recruited for OSU who chose to stay with the team "to the end" has been to a national championship game?

Someone ... troubleshoot this assumption. But, if it's correct -- can you imagine? "EVERY" RECRUIT?!?!!?

That is all.
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Pretty good post for a first one! Only fact I didn't know is that Dublin was out.......any details?

BTW, welcome! Lots of good folks on the Planet. You'll have a ball.

:gobucks3::osu2::gobucks4:
 
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jflinnbuckeye;1027044; said:
Check this out, to see if I am right (and feel free to either agree, or tell me where I erred):

POINT: Every Buckeye football player that Jim Tressel has recruited that either: 1) is currently on the roster; 2) graduated; or 3) left after their junior years (a.k.a. "early Entry") for the NFL ... of all the "long-term" Buckeyes -- ONLY TWO have not had the opportunity to play for the BCS NC Game.
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True. There is an article about that very point on here somewhere...
 
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First off, welcome to BP.

This should lead to some pretty good discussion.

One minor detail: I'm not sure I would include Freddie Lennix and Dennis Kennedy in your list of examples. If I remember correctly, neither of them were able to clear admissions, so they were never on the team. To suggest that they didn't stick it out to the end is kind of deceiving, since neither ever really got started.
 
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pianobuck46;1027053; said:
Pretty good post for a first one! Only fact I didn't know is that Dublin was out.......any details?
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See post 274 (second-to-last-page) in this thread. For everyone's info, this was easily located by typing 'Dublin' into the title area of the 'search' drop-down box at the top of the screen.

BP.Dublin

And please make any comments about Dublin in that thread.
 
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The story about JT buying the machine for Tyson Gentry wasn't true.

cantonrep.com

Canton company donates machine for paralyzed Buckeye
Thursday, December 13, 2007
BY Todd Porter
REPOSITORY SPORTS WRITER

CANTON No one at Fitness Quest headquarters has ever met Tyson Gentry. No one had to meet the paralyzed former Ohio State punter and wide receiver.

All they had to do was hear that Gentry needed one of their products, and now he has one sitting in the Woody Hayes Athletic Center. Gentry was paralyzed during a 2006 spring practice when he caught a ball and the right side of his head hit the ground, snapping his neck and breaking the C-4 vertebrae. A donation from the Canton company?s community fund is making therapy a little easier.

?We?re thrilled we?re, in a small way, a part of this kid?s road to recovery,? Fitness Quest marketing director Stephen Spinner said. ?What Tyson Gentry has to deal with and go through on a daily basis is much more than any of us have to.?

The product that Gentry uses is the BioForce, a strength-training machine that uses resistance force instead of weights. It allows Gentry to change the amount of weight he is lifting simply by moving a resistor.

An e-mail nearing urban legend proportion that is circulating the Internet has given Gentry?s story a life of its own. That version has Ohio State Head Coach Jim Tressel buying Gentry a $6,000 machine. Never happened. It also has the machine in Gentry?s apartment. Again, Gentry said, not true.

?Pretty much everything in that e-mail that?s going around isn?t true. The only thing that?s true is I?m from Perkins,? Gentry said. ?I don?t know where it came from or why, but it?s a little irritating.?
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This was the post that started that talk in this thread, but it was just a false rumor.

Someone sent this too me inter-office here at Ohio State. I have no idea who it was from so I can't verify but it sure sounds like something he'd do.

A short story about JIm Tressel:

Tyson Gentry is a young man that is from Sandusky Perkins High School . He walked on at OSU as a freshmen for wide receiver. He was doing well, but he went up over the middle for a high pass and was hit and came down wrong and has been paralyzed from the waist on down. Now for the rest of the story.

The following is a true Jim Tressel story you WON'T read about (and that's unfortunate).

A friend of Tyson Gentry (and his family) came to Columbus a few weeks ago and he came away with the following story after spending an afternoon with them:

Gentry works out (rehabs) at the OSU football facility and he spends alot of time on one machine in particular. About a month ago Tressel is walking through the room and stops by to say hello to Gentry. Real small talk type of stuff, Tressel asked him about the rehab, etc... and Gentry mentions things are going well. Tressel asks about some of the exercises that Gentry does and Gentry mentioned that the machine he is presently on seems to do the best for him and that he uses it whenever it is available. Apparently it is a popular machine to use in the facility. After a couple of more minutes of talk, Tressel leaves and that's it.

However, the following week Gentry goes to the doctor's office for a visit, etc.. comes back home and in his garage is a brand new version of that machine...paid for ($6,000) by Tressel himself with a note that says "you'll never have to wait in line to use it again."

No additional comments needed. He's a class guy.
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The two essentials of the story that were the farthest off base:
  • Who Paid For It (the machine)
  • Where It Is
were the two parts of the story that sounded "off" to me from the beginning, and I said as much in post #882.

I'm not pointing out that I predicted it... It is well known that I'm not the brightest pumpkin on the porch when it comes to such things. If anything, this just proves how transparent that story was to begin with.

Even as transparent as it was, it had legs because of JT's reputation. It is best that it was dispelled relatively quickly though.
 
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Jim Tressel's office. It sure beats the office of fictional Big Ten coach Hayden Fox in the TV series Coach.

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