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

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Tressel is homebody during vacation season
Thursday, July 31, 2008
By Tim May
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

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JAMES D. DECAMP | THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
"I like to spend any free time I have being at home," OSU football coach Jim Tressel says. "I'll read a little bit. Work out. Relax."

August is just a day away, but the summer vacation season has already come and gone for Ohio State football coach Jim Tressel.

That doesn't matter to him, because he thinks this is when the fun begins, with preseason camp opening Sunday.

His idea of vacation is an occasional weekend away with his wife, Ellen, and/or his family, or just chilling for three or four days at home.

Tressel has encouraged his assistant coaches to get away for a week or two in the summer, but he said he doesn't need a similar break, even though he is entering his eighth season running one of the country's highest-profile football programs.

"I've never felt uncharged," Tressel said. "I really don't know what that feels like. If I didn't have to, I wouldn't take a vacation. As I've said, one of the difficult things about coaching is the work is more fun than fun. That's the way I feel. I don't have a need to get recharged."

To the untrained ear, Tressel might sound like a classic workaholic -- but not to Tuck T. Saul, a psychologist and life coach near Worthington.

"You are really talking about the ideal situation that most people strive for," Saul said. "And that is, what they do (for work) is really consistent or congruent with what their values and interests are. When we find that, then it no longer becomes work in a negative sense."

For a man such as Tressel, "It's not like it somehow takes effort in the morning to get going and get to work, because that work is something that person truly looks forward to," Saul said.

It's not as if Tressel eats and sleeps in the Woody Hayes Athletic Center. He enjoys his time away, and he must be able to flip the mental switch because as he has often said, he never has a problem sleeping, even during a season.

"Ellen and I will get away for a weekend or two," Tressel said. "But you know what I like to do when I take a couple of days off? I just like to go home."
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Christian Publishers Offer Tales of Gridiron

By JULIE BOSMAN
Published: July 29, 2008
Tyndale House Publishers, a Christian company that was founded in 1962 to print a more reader-friendly version of the Bible, has had one of its biggest successes in the last year with a string of books on a slightly less religious topic: football.
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Jim Tressel, Ohio State University?s head football coach and the author, with Chris Fabry, of "The Winners Manual."

First Chapters

"The Winners Manual" by Jim Tressel (pdf)

"Don?t Bet Against Me!" by Deanna Favre (pdf)

"Quiet Strength" by Tony Dungy (pdf)


"Don?t Bet Against Me!" by Deanna Favre was published in hardcover last September, and sold more than 75,000 copies.



Next Sunday Tyndale will have its third football-related book in a year reach the New York Times best-seller list, No. 3 on the ?advice, how-to and miscellaneous? category ? unusual for a publisher whose most profitable non-Bible product until now has been the ?Left Behind? series of apocalyptic novels.
The book, ?The Winners Manual,? is a guide to applying lessons learned in football to everyday life, written by Jim Tressel, Ohio State University?s head football coach, with Chris Fabry.

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The Business Of College Football
The Best (And Worst) College Football Coaches For The Buck
Peter J. Schwartz 08.13.08

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Jim Tressel

No. 1 Most Underpaid

Ohio State University, Buckeyes

Conference: Big Ten

Score: 122

Record since 2005: 33-5 (1-2 in BCS bowl games)

His teams have finished ranked in the top five in five of the past six years, while his $2.6 million salary was lower than eight of his peers last season
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To measure bang for the buck, we developed a metric that compares a coach?s 2007 salary with his team?s performance over the past three years. Bonus points were awarded for winning any of the five prestigious Bowl Championship Series (BCS) bowl games. A score of 120 means that the coach achieved 20% more victories per dollar of pay than the average coach.

To draw a fair comparison, we included only the 65 coaches from schools in the six major conferences, which took in a collective $1.7 billion last year and accounted for 87% of total college football revenue, as well as independent powerhouse Notre Dame (college football?s most valuable team). Coaches who negotiated new deals for more money during the most recent off-season were excluded.

By our count, Carroll delivered more than his money?s worth. He has led USC to a 34-5 record since 2005 (including the 2007 and 2008 Rose Bowl titles), a record that is 54% better than the median coach in our analysis. As a result, Carroll scores a 114, meaning college football?s highest earning coach was 14% underpaid.

But the best bargain was Ohio State?s Jim Tressel, who scored a 122. Tressel has led the Buckeyes to the last two national championship games (losing to Florida in 2007 and Louisiana State in 2008) and was paid $2.6 million last season, less than eight of his peers.
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The Best (And Worst) College Football Coaches For The Buck - Forbes.com
 
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Bob Hunter commentary: Hard to argue with Tressel being No. 1 on underpaid list
Sunday, August 17, 2008
By Bob Hunter
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

The man Forbes magazine named the most underpaid coach in college football knew nothing about it until it was mentioned to him.

It makes sense. If you're truly a bargain to your school at $2.6 million a year, you probably should be too immersed in your players and your team to worry about either your high salary or what people are saying about you.

"Is that right?" Jim Tressel said. He shrugged and smiled. "I'm not sure that's true. I was a better bargain when I was at YSU."

That much is difficult to dispute. The Ohio State coach was earning in vicinity of $200,000 per annum in his last year at Youngstown State (2000), where he was winning football games and serving as athletic director. Last year, he earned 13 times that for one job.

What's ironic is that he also doesn't agree with the methodology of Forbes' rating system. It's based on a metric that compares coach's wins (with a bonus for BCS bowl victories) for the past three years to the average in wins and salary, and Tressel doesn't believe that a coaches' success should be solely based on winning. His late father, Lee, was a winning football coach at Baldwin-Wallace and Tressel said he never saw his dad in those terms.

"The way I saw it, living with him, was that his success was the difference he made in lives," Tressel said. "And that's what we hope we can do. And we take it seriously."
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BuckeyeXtra - The Columbus Dispatch : Bob Hunter commentary: Hard to argue with Tressel being No. 1 on underpaid list
 
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CollegeFootballNews.com - "Ranking the 2008 Head Coaches - No. 1 to 60"

Tress getting some well deserved love, coming in at No. 3 (PC #2, Meyer #1)

3. Jim Tressel, Ohio State ? When the Buckeyes plucked Tressel from Youngstown State seven years ago, few envisioned this much success. Ohio State has won or shared the last three Big Ten championships, leaving the rest of the league in its wake. Although there?s fallout from losing the last two BCS title games, about 110 schools could only dream of playing in back-to-back BCS title games.
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Side Note: four of the top 5 coaches on this list have hailed from Ohio or coached at OSU!
 
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Tressel anxious to begin
By MATT MARKEY
BLADE SPORTS WRITER
COLUMBUS ? Saturday will bring the 23rd season-opening game of Jim Tressel?s career as a college football head coach, but this one will not be completely routine. Tressel goes into Ohio State?s match-up against Youngstown State eager and filled with a little more anticipation than usual since he expects it to provide him the opportunity to see a number of his prime recruits in live game action for the first time.


Tressel said he plans to play many of the freshmen on his roster on Saturday, including quarterback Terrelle Pryor, receivers DeVier Posey and Lamaar Thomas, offensive linemen Mike Brewster, J.B. Shugarts, Mike Adams, linebackers Etienne Sabino and Andrew Sweat, and defensive end Keith Wells, and he knows Ohio Stadium packed with close to 105,000 Buckeyes fans might be a little intimidating for them the first time around.


?I?m anxious to see all of those young guys out there,? Tressel said. ?Sure they?ll be nervous, but I like watching any guy when he goes into that stadium for the first time. It?s fun to see their eyes in that first game.?


The Buckeyes, who are the three-time defending champions in the Big Ten Conference, defeated the Penguins 38-6 here in the first game of the 2007 season. Tressel spent 15 years as head coach at Youngstown State before coming to Ohio State for the 2001 season. He won four Division I-AA national championships there, and took the Penguins to the playoffs 10 times.
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Jack Looks Back
Tressel's 7-year record at Ohio State unmatched by previous Buckeyes coaches
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
By Jack Park

The Ohio State football team will open its 2008 season Saturday against Youngstown State. Expectations are extremely high for the Buckeyes, who will be aiming for their third consecutive appearance in the BCS national championship game. They also hope to win their third straight outright Big Ten Conference title -- a feat unprecedented in league history.

Jim Tressel enters the 2008 season with a record of 73-16 in his seven years at Ohio State. That computes to an overall winning percentage of .820, highest of anyone who has coached OSU for seven or more seasons. He also is the first head football coach in school history to average 10 or more victories a season after his first seven years.
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BuckeyeXtra - The Columbus Dispatch : Tressel's 7-year record at Ohio State unmatched by previous Buckeyes coaches
 
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Well deserved raise for Coach Tressel

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Tressel to become top-paid coach in Big Ten
Agreement reached on revised contract
Friday, August 29, 2008 10:36 AM

Jim Tressel will be the highest-paid coach in the Big Ten after agreeing to a revised contract, Ohio State athletics director Gene Smith announced this morning.
The increase will be phased in this year and will be $3.5 million next year, more than $1 million annually than the previous agreement, OSU said. He will receive annual increases of 3 to 4 percent during the remainder of the term. Tressel is under contract until Jan. 31, 2013.

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Tressel gets big raise with revised deal................
 
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