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

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FWIW, JT was on the 6 o'clock SportsCenter last night, although much later in the show since it was an extended SC leading up to the All Star Game. Of course, JT spent the whole day in Bristol, doing First Take, then Cowherd, a SportsNation online chat, then Rome, followed by SportsCenter, plus likely taping what spot they needed for CFB Live! which airs next week.

Anyway, Jay Harris conducted the interview for the SportsCenter segment, all of which was standard stuff and a rehash of things JT had been asked by other people earlier in the day. Towards the end, though, Jay says, "So, how many days until the Michigan game?" to which JT says, "Well, it was 130 when I got here, but I've been here so long today that by now it's probably 129-1/2."
 
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Jim Tressel: I think keeping the young person and their needs in mind has to take center stage. Sometimes it's easy to get angry and go do something that makes you feel better, but every move we make has to have that young person in mind as well as the rest of the team and a little of the feeling of the history of that person up to that point.
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Wow - if I didn't know better I would swear that was RR talking.
 
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Football
Tressel Drawing Large Crowds at Book Signings
By John Porentas
OSU Head Coach Jim Tressel book signing tour is in progress and the coach is drawing big crowds wherever he goes.
Tressel's first signing took place on Tuesday at a bookstore called Bookends in Ridgewood, New Jersey, a place you would not really expect to be a hotbed of Buckeye fervor, but according to Tyndale Press public relations representative Todd Starowitz the crowds were impressive in New Jersey.
"We really didn't know what to expect," said Starowitz. "We arrived at the bookstore and there were about 500 people there. The store in New Jersey has a lot of big signings and they were absolutely blown away by the signing yesterday," Starowitz said.
The store in New Jersey had ordered 500 books for the signing and sold them all the day Tressel was there. Tressel's first signing event in Columbus took place at the Kroger store at Northwest Boulevard and Chambers not far from the OSU campus. As you might expect, the crowd was impressive. Fans lined up outside the store hours before the 11:00 AM start of the signing. The line went the entire length of the north side of the store, wrapped around the east end and then extended out into the parking lot.
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During the interview with JT on ESPN's College Football Live today, he was talking to Jesse Palmer (IIRC), who said that Malcolm Jenkins stated that despite his buttoned-down image, Tressel was a big jokester, and Palmer asked JT about his Inspector Clouseau impression.

JT (paraphrasing) said that Malcolm lets out too much dirty laundry, but that JT's wife gets a kick out out of it when he says: [PeterSellers] "Does your dog bite? [/PeterSellers]. It was somewhat surprising to see him do the accent on a TV interview. It doesn't seem to be on youtube yet.

I think Palmer got his info from this Rob Oller column in January.

dispatch.2008/01/06
 
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BB73;1210693; said:
During the interview with JT on ESPN's College Football Live today, he was talking to Jesse Palmer (IIRC), who said that Malcolm Jenkins stated that despite his buttoned-down image, Tressel was a big jokester, and Palmer asked JT about his Inspector Clouseau impression.

JT (paraphrasing) said that Malcolm lets out too much info, but that JT's wife gets a kick out out of it when he says [PeterSellers] "Is that your dog" [/PeterSellers]. It was somewhat surprising to see him do the accent on a TV interview. It doesn't seem to be on youtube yet.

I think Palmer got his info from this Rob Oller column in January.

dispatch.2008/01/06
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That was funny. I was surprised. He came off as charming, and funny. As has been stated in this thread many times.....We are lucky to have him as our coach!
 
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OregonBuckeye;1209321; said:
Maybe last year's NC game but the Florida game is old news.

They've been releasing excerpts from Tressel's book on coachtressel.com.

Ohio State Football: The Winners Manual Excerpt - July 9
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I'm not sure of that. A team/coach that has lost the last two BCSNCG's back in the race for a third chance seems like a pretty legit story to me...like it or not.
 
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