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

[Buckskin86]

Jim Tressel trades his sweater vest for a basketball jersey during a charity tournament with Maurice Clarett
By Graham Watson | Dr. Saturday

(@JimTressel5)

This weekend, some fans got a rare glimpse of what former Ohio State coach Jim Tressel would look like in a basketball jersey instead of a sweater vest.

On Saturday, Tressel played in a charity basketball game in Struthers, Ohio for former Ohio State running back Maurice Clarett.

Yes, the same Maurice Clarett that claimed last year that during his time at Ohio State he was ?living the NFL life in college? and ?got paid more in college than I do now in the UFL? all under Tressel?s watch.

Bygones people, bygones.

Clarett?s charity is called The Comeback Project, which was started by Clarrett and his high school friend Nate Ortiz. The money from the game went toward revitalizing neighborhoods in Warrenton and Youngstown.

Tressel, of course, started his head coaching career at Youngstown State.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaaf...-vest-basketball-jersey-during-214629883.html

 

[Buckskin86]

Tressel and Meyer speak at NFF Banquet
ZAC JACKSON |
Published: Wednesday, May 08, 2013

WESTLAKE, Ohio - The new Ohio State coach picked up an award from the old Ohio State coach on Tuesday night.

Though Urban Meyer accepting the Lee Tressel Award from Lee's son, Jim, grabs attention, theirs was a quick transaction made between smiling parties at the Northeastern Ohio Chapter of the National Football Foundation's Scholar-Athlete Awards banquet.

Afterwards, Jim Tressel said it was anything but awkward.

"I've known Urban for a long, long time," Tressel said. "When was a young guy coming up, I was leaving Ohio State just as he was coming in as a graduate assistant. When he was at Bowling Green, I'd see him. When he was at Florida we'd bump into one another whether it was at a convention or recruiting.

"No, there's nothing uncomfortable there. I'm still a Buckeye. I'm always rooting for the Buckeyes."

Like Tressel, Meyer is a Northeast Ohio native, raised in Ashtabula. The late Lee Tressel coached his son at Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea the 1970s.

Tressel said in his introduction speech Tuesday night: "We've always said that winners win, and Urban Meyer has been a winner everywhere he's ever been."

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[Buckskin86]

Tressel knows hindsight is always 20-20
May 18, 2013
By KIM NORTH - Times Leader Sports Writer ([email protected])

Jim Tressel has a lot of fond memories about his days as head football coach at The Ohio State University.

He officially won 94 games in his 11 seasons as the Buckeyes' sideline boss. His 2002 team claimed the BCS National Championship with a hard-earned, double overtime, victory over Miami, Fla., to finish 14-0.

The Cleveland-born Tressel is also second behind the legendary Woody Hayes with eight wins over that team up north, as Hayes, who had twice that many, would refer to hated rival, Michigan. In fact, to take that one step further, Tressel is the only OSU football coach to beat the Wolverines seven straight seasons.

However, according to the 60-year-old, those laurels are secondary to all the relationships he made while in coaching.

"You think back to all the guys that you have coached and coached with. All the fans you met," he said prior to speaking at Ohio University Eastern Friday afternoon as part of Premiere Bank & Trust's College Readiness Program. "Just all the people that you've had the chance to interact with.

"That's what you remember, no matter where you've been," he added. "It doesn't have to be Ohio State. It could be Youngstown State, Miami of Ohio or Akron when I coached there."

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Jim Tressel keynote speaker at Parker's Purpose Dinner Auction

Jim Tressel will be the keynote speaker at the Parker's Purpose Dinner Auction on July 19th in Fremont, OH. Anyone who is interested in attending the event or wanting to doante an auction item, please contact Parker's Purpose at [email protected]. Parker's Purpose give financial assistance to families who have children with a life altering illness or disability. For more information on the foundation please visit www.parkerspurpose.net.

 

[Buckskin86]

CHEERS to former Ohio State University football coach Jim Tressel, who stopped off in Stark County on Tuesday to address Community Services Inc. of Stark County, which operates the Family Living Center ? a temporary shelter for homeless families and single women ? on Lincoln Way E in Massillon. Tressel, whose popularity hasn?t perceptibly waned two years after he resigned as head football coach at Ohio State University under a cloud of controversy, spoke to a full house about teamwork and community. ?We certainly appreciate people stepping outside of what their primary obligations are and having the willingness to help others,? Tressel said. ?It?s important to keep the spirit of collaboration going, because it takes a team to take care of everything and everyone.? Well said, coach!

http://www.indeonline.com/opinion/e...ld-football-coach-and-a-new-Boy-Scouts-policy

 

[Buckskin86]

Watch 'A Moment with Jim Tressel' May 29 edition- video

 

[Buckskin86]

Reflecting on Ohio State's football rebuild two years after Jim Tressel's resignation
Rolling off the The Ohio State University press any fall now: "How to Rebuild a Football Program in Two Years."

Friday marks the two-year anniversary of former coach Jim Tressel resigning amid a cash-for-tattoos scandal involving multiple key players. Tressel announced his resignation on Memorial Day, a move designed to minimize the news. The decision didn't work. The story generated an abundance of headlines, especially considering Ohio State president Gordon Gee didn't fire Tressel.

Almost every football-related move involving Ohio State has worked since Tressel's announcement. Luke Fickell was named interim coach for 2011 and guided a team lacking talent to a 6-7 record. The presence of an interim coach without an ego allowed Ohio State to conduct a thorough, well-funded, national coaching search.

The search yielded Urban Meyer, who won two-time national titles at Florida and cured his coaching burnout by spending 2011 in a broadcast booth. Meyer's Ohio roots and experience running a football program at Florida that doubled as a major business made him the perfect candidate for Ohio State.

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http://ballparkandcampusguy.blogspot.com/2013/05/ohio-states-quick-rebuild.html

 

[Buckskin86]

Tressel elected to YSU Hall of Fame
By WKBN Staff Updated: Tuesday, July 30, 2013, 4:08 pm Published: Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Former Youngstown State University and Ohio State University football coach Jim Tressel on Tuesday was elected to the YSU Athletic Hall of Fame.

Tressel, who won four NCAA Division I-AA national championships for the Penguins and guided the Buckeyes to the 2002 Division I-A national championship, headlines the class of seven inductees.

Tressel?s YSU teams went 135-57-2 in 15 seasons, was a three-time national coach of the year and was YSU?s athletic director.

Tressel?s teams won national championships in 1991, 1993, 1994 and 1997 and played lost in the national championship game in 1992 and 1999.

The new class will be inducted during a ceremony on Nov. 16 when YSU plays two-time defending national champion North Dakota State.

http://www.wkbn.com/2013/07/30/35086-autosave/

 

[Buckskin86]

Could Jim Tressel be the next president of Akron?
By Tom Fornelli | College Football Writer
August 8, 2013

Jim Tressel could be the next president of the University of AkronJim Tressel could be the next president of the University of Akron. (USATSI)

On Wednesday the Akron Beacon-Journal reported that University of Akron president, Luis Proenza, would be stepping down from his position next June. Which is news that currently has you wondering why in the hell Eye On College Football would be writing about it. I mean, it's not the Eye On University Presidents.

Well, there's a reason we bring it up, and it's got nothing to do with Proenza but rather one of the rumored candidates to replace him. When you keep reading the Akron Beacon-Journal's story you find this.

Many rumors suggest that Jim Tressel, the former Ohio State football coach who is UA vice president for strategic engagement, would be named interim president or president when Proenza departs.

?He's probably going to be a candidate, but that's about all we can say at this point,? Pogue said in an interview Monday. ?We're not in any rush.?

And now you know why we bring it up.

Now, Tressel has been working at Akron as the vice president for strategic engagement since February 2012, and he also got his master's degree from the school back in 1977. Still, school presidents are generally the academic types, not the former football coach type. But one of the functions of a school president is to help raise money for the school, and you have to think it wouldn't be all that hard for Jim Tressel to do that in the state of Ohio.

So even if it sounds strange, it could certainly happen.

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefoo...ld-jim-tressel-be-the-next-president-of-akron

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

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What a complete and utter joke of a clown college that place will be if they name a football coach as President.

The silver lining in all of this is that when Proenza's financial bubble bursts, it will finally be time to undo the stupidity (and enormous waste of resources) of creating two four year public universities of similar academic profile 35 miles apart. It will finally be time to merge AU and KSU, which is what should have been done 45 years ago.

 

[BigWoof31]

What is the academic administration equivalent of Tresselball?

 

[JBaney45]

He'd do a better job then Holbrook..

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

He'd do a better job then Holbrook..

You have no idea what you're talking about. Holbrook made mistakes, but the university continued to move forward and thrive during her tenure. Plus, she was qualified for the job. Jim Tressel or any other football coach is no more qualified to be President of a university than Gordon Gee was qualified to coach football.

 

[NJ-Buckeye]

What a complete and utter joke of a clown college that place will be if they name a football coach as President.

The silver lining in all of this is that when Proenza's financial bubble bursts, it will finally be time to undo the stupidity (and enormous waste of resources) of creating two four year public universities of similar academic profile 35 miles apart. It will finally be time to merge AU and KSU, which is what should have been done 45 years ago.

Could not disagree more

Do you know anything about UofA ??

This would be a fantastic move... the alumni and corporate backing of UofA would go nuts over this... have you seen the campus? I assume not.. downright impressive

and to merge the two would combine two universities that EACH have a student population of 27,000 .. which I believe would make it #4 of the largest universities in the world (almost equal to #3 THE OSU).. and with vastly different academic profiles.. one engineering, IT and business.. other being teaching, liberal arts.. dramatically different student populations and focuses

Kent started over 100 years ago... and Akron is much older than that...

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

Could not disagree more

Do you know anything about UofA ??

This would be a fantastic move... the alumni and corporate backing of UofA would go nuts over this... have you seen the campus? I assume not.. downright impressive

and to merge the two would combine two universities that EACH have a student population of 27,000 .. which I believe would make it #4 of the largest universities in the world (almost equal to #3 THE OSU).. and with vastly different academic profiles.. one engineering, IT and business.. other being teaching, liberal arts.. dramatically different student populations and focuses

Kent started over 100 years ago... and Akron is much older than that...

I know quite a bit about all of the public universities in Ohio, and I know that Louis Proenza has virtually bankrupted that place. He's thrown money at pretty buildings while the what is in those buildings has actually become worse under his tenure. On the financial side, AU's credit rating has been downgraded. They're facing a 7-8 percent decline in enrollment, and under the new performance based state funding model, they're looking at a significant reduction in state appropriations. On the academic side, those pretty buildings house a university with the lowest student success rates among Ohio public universities--even non-residential campuses like YSU and CSU are doing better than Akron right now. They house a university where 61% of the classes are taught by part-time, adjunct faculty. Akron under Louis Proenza has become the very definition of a Potemkin University.

As for student populations, Kent is a slight bit more selective, but the two are essentially equivalent in both undergraduate and graduate student profiles. The very fact that Kent has more focus on arts and humanities and Akron on engineering sciences makes them ideal candidates to merge into one university. They would bring complementary components to the mix. It would give NE Ohio a solid public research university along the lines of Cincinnati rather than two mediocre schools constantly wasting resources and effort competing against each other.

Akron should never have been saved by the state in the first place when there was a perfectly good four year public university just down the road. It is the very epitome of the redundant, resource diluting university system that Rhodes put into place and when Louis Proenza's financial bubble bursts, it will be the exact right time to undo that mistake. Kent and Akron might need to be dragged kicking and screaming to the merger, but it will be the right thing to do for the taxpayers of Ohio and even the universities themselves.