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

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OregonBuckeye;1214033; said:
Tom Dienhart has to be my least favorite contributor on rivals. He constantly exaggerates in his articles.

Rivals.com College Football - Tressel still answering title game questions
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Total hack job. I'll bet you he had most of the article written before the press conference, and just plugged in the Tressel quotes to make it seem relevant. What are these suck-job "journalists" going to do when the Buckeyes run the table, and they have to find something new to write about for the first time in two years?
 
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OSU Insider: Tressel uses old 49ers to drive home championship point to Buckeyes
Posted by Doug Lesmerises July 24, 2008

Chicago -- Ohio State was named the preseason favorite to win the Big Ten by conference media on Thursday. You think Jerry Rice and Ronnie Lott would be impressed?

It was no shock that the three-time defending conference champs were picked for a four-peat. Since spring practice, OSU coach Jim Tressel has been wary of boring his veteran Buckeyes with things they've heard and done before. So during the summer doldrums, Tressel decided to blind his players with Super Bowl rings, bringing in former San Francisco 49ers Rice, Lott, Joe Montana and Roger Craig to talk to the team. Tressel knows former 49ers owner Ed DeBartolo Jr., a Youngstown native.

"Coaches might come in and talk to you," senior left tackle Alex Boone said recently, mentioning a visit by Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops. "But when people come in who have been in our shoes, you tend to listen more.

"You might get bored with summer conditioning and [preseason] camp is so close but so far away, and then they talked to us and re-energized us."


"The room was quiet," quarterback Todd Boeckman said Thursday. "You could hear a pin drop the whole time they were talking because everyone was focused on them."

Those four players collected 14 Super Bowl rings in San Francisco. But while the 49ers won five Super Bowls between 1981 and 1994, they also lost in the NFC Championship four times, solace for the losers of consecutive national title games.

"They said they couldn't remember how many times they lost in the championship game. So they've been through it all," OSU linebacker James Laurinaitis said. "They had a lot of stud players on their team that accomplished a lot. And I feel like we have a lot of star players so to speak. Hopefully we can accomplish the success they had."
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Tressel: Michigan game is 'absolutely' more important than matchup with USC
By MARK SNYDER • FREE PRESS SPORTS WRITER • July 25, 2008

CHICAGO – While Rich Rodriguez was busy dodging questions about his tumultuous offseason, Ohio State coach Jim Tressel was calmly answering questions – about Rodriguez and Michigan at the Big Ten media day.

“Anytime there’s a change, change becomes exciting in its own way,” Tressel said away from the podium Thursday when asked about the new spice to the rivalry with a new Michigan coach. “The wonder of what is this going to look like. That change and that mystery. not that you have to add a whole bunch more to the Ohio State-Michigan game but it adds a little bit.”
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http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080725/BLOG14/80725003/1054/SPORTS06
 
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MorningJournal

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Jason Lloyd/Journal Register News Service

07/27/2008

http://www.news-herald.com/site/printerFriendly.cfm?brd=1698&dept_id=21848&newsid=19873579

Q&A with Ohio State coach Jim Tressel


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In seven years at Ohio State, Jim Tressel has won four Big Ten titles and appeared in three national championship games. With 20 starters returning from last year, the Buckeyes seem poised to make a run at a third straight national championship game appearance.
Tressel sat down recently for a Q&A on this season, the disappointment over two straight defeats in the national title game, how much longer he plans on coaching and his correspondence with Maurice Clarett.
Question: Given your stance that projected first-round picks should leave early, were you surprised that James Laurinaitis and Malcolm Jenkins both decided to return for their senior years?
Answer: From a business standpoint, I've always felt that way. But these guys happened to make decisions that, in their eyes, were more valuable than business. So am I surprised? No. Would I have been surprised if they said, "We've evaluated and think it makes the best business sense to go." I wouldn't have been surprised at that, either. I think I clearly understand why they came back, and it had nothing to do with "I'll up my draft status, I'll make my money later." It was, "I value this experience."

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Coach Tressel themed Firefox browser

Found this on Buckeye Commentary | An Ohio State Sports Blog

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Actually, Brand Thunder has a solution for you: the Coach Tressel browser theme. Brand Thunder is a local start-up founded in April 2007. They have many cool products but the most compelling is the Tressel theme. And, Coach Tressel is now the first NCAA football coach with a customized web browser.
 
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OSUBasketballJunkie;1215787; said:
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Q: Eugene Clifford was recently granted his release, but he really wasn't kicked off the team. You have had ample opportunities over the years to kick guys off the team for various infractions, but you always resist. Why?
A: I'm not exactly sure what kicking off means. We've had discussions with guys over what's best down the road for various reasons, whether it be social reasons or academic reasons. We're pretty honest with kids. And patient. If anything, we err on the side of patience. And that's OK.

Q: Do you ever hear from Maurice Clarett anymore?
A: I got a letter from him, then I got a phone call from him in April. It was weird, because every so often a recording would break in on the line and say, "This phone call is being recorded by ..." But he's doing well. He said when he gets out, he wants to talk to kids about making an impact and making a difference in their lives. He said he will never gain another yard for Ohio State, but he hopes the impact he has now will be even greater than on the field. That's where his mindset is now. I hope he makes it. I hope he can do it.

I was just searching few articles about Coach Tressel.. and this one when he was hired.


User feedback: Is Tressel the right man for the job?

http://espn.go.com/ncf/s/2001/0118/1024051.html
 
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:slappy: Dave, are you still giving your season tickets away? Cause I'd like 'em.

Who is Jim Tressel anyway?

What a joke! First you hear about Holtz, Harris, Moeller, Gruden, and Belloti. Then you hear of some other names that aren't so well known. All of them would be better than Tressel. He's a I-AA coach with only a decent record at that level in recent years. All these OSU fans start talking about how any move to OSU would be an upward move. The Buckeyes stink and have stunk for a long time. As a long time Buckeye I was incredibly disappointed with the selection. We pulled a UNC (basketball - Roy Williams and others) and got stuck with a joke. I am turning in my season tickets!

Dave M. Barrett
Youngstown, Ohio
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rocketman;1217350; said:
:slappy: Dave, are you still giving your season tickets away? Cause I'd like 'em.
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what's even funnier is that is probably the same reaction to Tressel being hired that a lot of us had in the beginning. "a d-1aa coach?!? why don't we just hire gerry faust and complete the humiliation?"

i honestly thought glen mason was going to get it. really glad he didn't.
 
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I wish 1460TheFan would release some of the archives from the call-in shows during 2001.

Most of them were along the lines of:

"This Tressel-guy is a joke. Seems like a decent enough person but he doesn't know anything about Xs and Os or special teams!!!"
 
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I grew up a little south of Youngstown and remember when he got hired I was extatic, Hell YSU had just been to the D-IAA Nat'l Champ game like 2-3 years before and I thought it was a great choice... and as a bonus my best friend who was a Penguin and a scUM fan saw the light
 
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I want to meet this guy and shake his hand. that was a good call man.

Jim Tressel showed Buckeye fans and college football fans everywhere what type of a coach Ohio State has found. The press conference displayed his expectations of high academic success and his demand for players to respect the team and OSU. Coach Tressel will bring back academic and athletic success to the football program, as well as Ohio State as a whole. He will bring discipline back to OSU and he will bring a national championship back to Ohio.

Jason Sarver
Columbus, Ohio
 
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Jim Davidson's 7/25 OZone/Youtube interview with Coach on 'the spread' was IMO thee most revealing public commentary on offense i've heard of/seen in...a long time. I'd like to compare Coach's comments with fact and tactics to discuss how this latest input of Coach's thinking might affect our ... offense. But...i first must listen to the posters' comments regarding my participation here, in the Sound Off thread....
 
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