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obie7661
12-15-2007, 10:20 PM
http://www.sportingnews.com/blog/JDIN827/124523

...Just what are this man's Buckeye roots? His father, Lee Tressel played for Ohio State. His dad won 34 consecutive high school football games, and also coached the famous Massillon, OH Tigers... a/la Paul Brown. His dad was a legendary coach at Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, OH. When Tressel was growing up, he "shagged" balls for Hall of Famer, Cleveland Brown Lou "The Toe" Groza, who was also a Ohio State Buckeye. Tressel played football for his dad and won 4 letters. He graduated from Baldwin Wallace College in 1975. Tressel then became a graduate assistant at Akron U. He then went to Miami of Ohio for 2 years...(The famous "Cradle of Coaches"). He left Miami in 1981 to become QB Coach at Syracuse. He then returned "home" in 1983 to Ohio State as a QB/receivers coach and worked under Earle Bruce. Then, history began, both at Youngstown State and Ohio State....

austinsm11
12-23-2007, 08:57 AM
http://www.cantonrep.com/index.php?ID=392609&Category=17&subCategoryID=0

Gee tuned in to local sports radio, ready to hear fans gripe about Head Coach Jim Tressel. That usually happens when any major college football program loses, especially after an upset at home.

But Gee listened and learned.

“No one after the Illinois game was ready to throw him overboard,” said Gee, Ohio State’s president. “They realize how fortunate we are to have him.”

Tressel made $2.4 million in 2007, hardly pennies. He gets personal use of the university’s private jet and can use it for recruiting trips. He signed an extension earlier this year that keeps him at Ohio State through 2014.

But Bob Stoops ($3.6 million), Nick Saban ($3.5 million), Urban Meyer ($3.38 million) and Kirk Ferentz ($3 million) dwarf Tressel’s contract. LSU’s Les Miles is set to become a $3 million man...
Tressel has changed the culture of OSU’s program. Smith has noticed. The team’s grade-point average is above 3.0, which triggers another bonus that Tressel donates back to the university


He at a minimum should be the highest paid coach in the Big Ten. But I guess if he is donating part of his bonuses he earns back to the school, he probably doesn't really care.

warren1st
12-23-2007, 11:03 AM
He and his wife and in-laws donated $1 million to YSU a few months ago.

Jim is ALL class.