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I live amongst Hawkeye and Illini fans, and most are jealous of our Coach. Iowa fans like Ferentz but they've told me JT is the Gold Standard for what a College Coach should be.He's committed to doing it right,(treating the game with respect) . He doesn't run upthe score,or try to find every camera or microphone. And since he relieved the recruiting coordinator and took over those duties tOSU will have young men everyone will be proud of.He has earned the respect of opposing fans around here that speaks volumes about JT.
 
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I'm sure I speak for all buckeye fans when I say this...but extend Coach Tressel's contract as far as you like...and pay the man as much money as you want/need to. He IS Ohio State Football. I can think of no man alive that would be better at coaching the Buckeyes than Jim Tressel. NOBODY!!!
 
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Onebuckfan said:
I live amongst Hawkeye and Illini fans, and most are jealous of our Coach. Iowa fans like Ferentz but they've told me JT is the Gold Standard for what a College Coach should be.He's committed to doing it right,(treating the game with respect) . He doesn't run upthe score,or try to find every camera or microphone. And since he relieved the recruiting coordinator and took over those duties tOSU will have young men everyone will be proud of.He has earned the respect of opposing fans around here that speaks volumes about JT.
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It surprises me that other fans in the country respect Tressel. Every time I listen to Jim Rome (which is very infrequent), and he has a caller who mentions either Tressel or Ohio State Football, the caller has to say, "That cheater in Columbus," or something like that. It gives me the impression that most of the country believes that ESPN and MoC were right, and that tOSU and the NCAA struck a deal to keep tOSU out of trouble.
 
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JonathanXC said:
I'm sure I speak for all buckeye fans when I say this...but extend Coach Tressel's contract as far as you like...and pay the man as much money as you want/need to. He IS Ohio State Football. I can think of no man alive that would be better at coaching the Buckeyes than Jim Tressel. NOBODY!!!
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I agree that JT is Ohio State Football right now. But only because he does not act like he is.

Here in Tallanasty, folks are getting fed up with the man whose statue already stands at the stadium whose field was named in his honor. Bobby Bowden USED TO BE FSU football, but then he started acting like it. It's not that people here want him fired. They just wish he'd shut up (and fire his son).

JT will have to get very, very senile before he starts acting as arrogant as Bowden has become. That is a very, very long way off. And for what it's worth, I doubt that JT will ever act like Bowden no matter how senile either of them get.

Class
Humility
Integrity
Excellence
Fidelity

His name is Jim, but you can call him CHIEF.
 
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1/22/06

Ohio State AD expected to pick up Tressel’s contract extension

Sunday, January 22, 2006

<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD>[FONT=Verdana, Times New Roman, arial, helvetica, sans-serif]SUNDAY SPECIAL BY TODD PORTER[/FONT]



When Gene Smith comes to lunch Monday at Four Winds restaurant, his meal will be on the Pro Football Hall of Fame Luncheon Club.

But the Ohio State athletics director knows he is about to open the university’s wallet to extend Head Coach Jim Tressel’s football contract.

Tressel’s impending contract extension is sure to get a great deal of attention from the audience during Smith’s visit. Ohio State is not in danger of losing Tressel, who’s deal runs through the 2008 season.

That contract, which was redone after Ohio State won the 2002 national title, was a six-year deal that paid him $1.3 million in the first year and tops out at $1.87 million in the final year. There are other incentives, but the only bonus Tressel has met is that of his team’s academic performance.

That money is earmarked for scholarships, though Tressel decides where it goes. The only on-field incentive is a $200,000 bonus if Ohio State plays for a national title. Tressel also is due $1.5 million in deferred compensation if he remains at Ohio State during the duration of this contract.

The extension, signed in 2003, has a provision for a three-year extension through 2011 provided Tressel and the university agree by March.

Smith has made it known he plans to exercise that option, if not go beyond it. Don’t be surprised to see an extra three-year extension added, keeping Tressel at Ohio State until 2014.

The new contract probably will pay Tressel more than $2 million per season. That’s still a bargain by major college football coaching standards.

During the last negotiation, Tressel opted to increase his coaching staff’s salaries as well, which took money from his pocket and put it in theirs.

Notre Dame Head Coach Charlie Weis signed a 10-year contract that pays him between $40 and $50 million. Tressel’s pay is equivalent to that of Michigan State’s John L. Smith, Iowa’s Kirk Ferentz and Minnesota’s Glen Mason.

A raise to $2.5 million per season would match Florida State’s Bobby Bowden and pay Tressel more than Virginia’s Al Groh, who raked in $1.7 million this year. Groh went 7-5 and beat Minnesota in the Music City Bowl.

Smith wants to start working on a new contract for Tressel after national letter of intent signing day Feb. 1. Not many insiders expect there to be a problem.

Tressel is scheduled to be at the Luncheon Club on March 13. By that time, he could pay for lunch.

PERKS FOR TRESSEL
In addition to his base salary, Tressel receives a couple of nice perks. He and his wife, Ellen, are provided cars. Tressel also gets 10 hours per year of personal use of the school’s private plane, and the school has to fly him to university-related business 200 miles or more away. He also has the option of flying to all out-of-state recruiting trips.

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I believe that Jim Tressel should get paid what he is worth and, if Weis is worth $4-5 million, then so it Tressel. I know that he won't get that from Ohio State, but he should be getting more than $2 million a year.

Jim Tressel is a good man with the right stuff. As our coach, he exposes young Buckeye football players to the right values. He teaches them more than techniques or football theory, he teaches them about life.

We will find no better exemplar of Ohio State football tradition and he deserves to be paid what he is worth. Period.
 
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I think college coaches make just about what they should. 2 million a year is a far cry from what it use to be. We can just take Charlie out of the equation, b/c there is no way he is worth 4-5 million per year.,

That being said, I wouldn't trade Tressel for any of the late greats.
 
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I have the feeling that if they wanted to give JT a healthy raise, he'd ask that they use most of the money to increase the salary of the assistants. He's a class act all the way.
 
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Tressel reminds me more of Woody everyday. Focusing on grades of his players. Never giving up on a player(i.e. hoping the best for Clarett and his pro career, even with Clarett being a ass). And passing along pay increases to his assistants to give them more.

The $2.5 million he's going to get is a far cry from the $25,000 Woody made a year. But it shows that he cares about his assistants, in that he's making sure that there is a clause in his contract that his assistants get increases also.
 
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