THAT’S PROFESSOR TRESSEL TO YOU
From your offseason “Has Jim Tressel Lost His Ability To Swing It Like A New Jack” article of the year, please see this intriguing detail from his contract:
Tressel, 56, continually swats aside questions about how long he’ll coach. Yet his new contract—which goes through the 2012 season—has an interesting addition: If he decides to retire, the university can keep him on as a professor for up to five years.
Like Woody Hayes before him, he would be “Professor Tressel.” Oh, the possibilities.
–”Michigan Real Estate: Owning It And How To Keep It for Half-Decades At A Time.”
–”Menswear for Caucasians: Theory and Practice.”
–”Don’t Call It A Quagmire: American Victories In Vietnam”
–”Coach Tress’s Gymnastics for Late Bloomers.”
–”Handling Radioactive Materials Safely and Easily With Everyday Objects Found In Your Home and Office.”
–”Paradise Lost: Herbert Hoover’s America.”
–”Special Seminar on Pyongyang: Come for the Women, Stay for the Women”
In quasi-related news, Professor Tressel is doing swimmingly on the recruiting trail, and may bring in the number one recruiting class if Ramgod dictates that Rueben Randle goes somewhere else other than LSU. Ohio State has 16 four star recruits, with an emphasis on getting game-breakers at the edge like Duron Carter, who has speed to burn according to Scout.com!
He’s not a burner, though, and won’t make many guys miss.
Or not! To be fair, James Jackson is in there, too, though, a 4.31 guy as clocked by the obligatorily generous stopwatch guy who inhabits all recruiting boards slashing tenths off seconds. Also, Carter is a legacy, as he is the son of Cris Carter, who will now stalk the Ohio State sidelines berating Jim Tressel on-camera anytime his son is not on the field for any reason. BUT HE’S WORKING ON THE SPEED THING, CITIZENS OF UZBUCKISTAN. And that is your lesson for the day.
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yoyofutbawl says:
One he won’t teach:
“Winter Heimlich Maneuver for Football Coaches: How to Prevent Choking in January”
February 3rd, 2009 at 2:15 pm
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Crabapple Buck says:
I would like to think that JT is our coach in perpetuity, as long as he doesn’t abuse the privlege like JoePa.
Yoyo – Terrelle Pryor will ruin the January of the rest of CFB soon enough. Enjoy our misery while you can. BTW – Tress is 4-3 in BCS games, so I would just say he is streaky.
If Duron Carter posesses even half of the talent that his father did, he will be great. If his genes are to catch anything thrown to him and out leap DB’s, I like his chances for playing time. Cris had to catch passes from Mike Tomczak and Jim Karsatos at tOSU. Terrelle Pryor has to throw a better ball than either of them.
February 3rd, 2009 at 2:27 pm
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NativeSon says:
@2
We do enjoy your misery. We all do.
Since JT’s BCS winning streak lasted 4 years, have you already laid money on tOSU screwing the pooch again this January? You know – so the skid marks are as long as the “peeling out” marks left at the starting line from so long ago?
February 3rd, 2009 at 2:47 pm
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yoyofutbawl says:
CB-
I’d settle for about 20% of the Bucknuts’ success at Starksville. (OK, 10% would be just fine).
I would think that JT has seen the necessity of ess-eee-cee speed at all positions. The important thing Croom did was make us faster. It took a REAL MAN OF GENIUS in Woody McCorvey to screw it up. Watch what Lil’ Urban Mullen does next year with about the same talent.
BTW, it took Tom Osborne about 15-20 years to figure it out, so JT appears to be on a faster learning curve.
February 3rd, 2009 at 3:21 pm
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poguemahone says:
Player speed is not the issue in Columbus – Santonio Holmes, Ted Ginn, Anthonly Gonzales and a host of other burners were all Jim Tressel recruits; the issue has been and continues to be scheme.
[/pointless short rant]
February 3rd, 2009 at 3:30 pm
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Terry Tate, Office Linebacker says:
Sociology 318: “Unicorns, Big Foot, Narnia, National Championships, and Other Things that You’ll Never See”.
Taught by Guest Professor, Jim Tressel
February 3rd, 2009 at 3:48 pm
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Crabapple Buck says:
Tress is 84-19 and 5 of those losses were in his first year. So in the next 7 years we only average 2 losses. There are some high expectations at tOSU. I know we’ve been spoiled and the future is very bright. He has had more guys leave for the NFL and still produces a winner every year. The only teams that wouldn’t trade places with tOSU recently are Florida, USC, LSU and maybe Texas.
LSU may be finding out that Lester’s hat is too tight if he doesn’t return them to prominance.
USC would have liked to have at least made it to at least one championship game in the last three years, now a window may have closed. Pete is the only coach with a better record over the same time.
Texas has an easier non-con schedule next year than any team in D-1 to start the year. We’ll see if they can do it with a senior QB after losing some key guys, like Orakpo.
Florida after Tebow leaves will be the true test. If Urban doesn’t decide to coach ND after Tebow, he could be the one to equal or better what Tressel has accomplished.
February 3rd, 2009 at 3:50 pm
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yoyofutbawl says:
CB-
What do you think your record would be against the same schedule that the gayters (or gawga, eellisewe, etc.) play year in & out? 1 or 2 more losses/year? Same? I’d hazard that Croom would have been a consistent 7-5 or 8-4 team with yours the last 2-3 years.
Just curious, want your input, which I will get tomorrow AM. Providence Road Sundries & the Popov/Bud Hour approaches.
February 3rd, 2009 at 4:36 pm
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MikeLew says:
Yoyo…..I’d venture that it’d be the same. For all the bad-mouthing of the Big Ten and all the knob-polishing of the Ess Eee Cee, the overall bowl record between the two since the BCS started is like 15-16. If you look more recently than that, it’s just about the same.
February 3rd, 2009 at 5:37 pm
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justanotherbuckeye says:
yoyo,
big difference between 4-5 losses a year and 1-2…………just sayin’
February 3rd, 2009 at 6:20 pm
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Cob says:
@6, fail
February 3rd, 2009 at 6:36 pm
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Steve says:
Second the fail for # 6.
Fiesta Bowl. 31-24. I don’t even like tOSU but let’s not deny facts.
February 3rd, 2009 at 8:42 pm
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yoyofutbawl says:
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Yes there is, agreed on that. I wish we were the only big dog in a state of 10+MM people. Instead, we have to fight it out with two others in a state with <3MM (yes, USM picks off a few every year). Not to mention wolves on all sides.
February 4th, 2009 at 7:35 am
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Crabapple Buck says:
yoyo –
I am biased, but I believe tOSU would fare rather well. If you look back, the SEC hasn’t always been on the run they are on now and the Big 10/11 hasn’t been this down.
That said, if the SEC named every conference game that we played a bowl game, we would have lost them all.
February 4th, 2009 at 7:54 am
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A Wide Open Santonio Holmes says:
RE: #6…I interpret TT’s post as describing the unlikely prospect of removing the “M” in MNC with a Division I playoff, and not his ignoring of the ‘03 Fiesta Bowl MNC Game, or the Steeler-esque 5-minutes-after-the-game-was-over pass interference call therein.
Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong though.
February 4th, 2009 at 10:23 am