jim-tressel Stories - The Daily Gopher
A Remembrance of Things Past, and a reminder that things don’t last
I wrote the following in the Jones Top Ten this week: Texas and Florida are headed to the same place for very different reasons. While I fully believe that Urban Meyer has lost his passion for the game, in Mack Brown’s case, the evidence mounts that the game has simply passed him by....
TheeOSU: A Look Into The Two Year Terrelle Pryor Window
Much has been made about tOSU and their chances of making it back to the BCS championship game after a brief hiatus. The talk centers around two things, their Germans marching in the shade trees of the French countryside schedule, where their only real road test is taking on Wisconsin at Camp...
Around the Horns robbing from the Sweatervest
Football/Recruiting Well that went about as well as Texas fans could've hoped for. Most of the credit is going to Muschamp for closing strong and while I'm not in the war room with the staff the correlation between Muschamp's arrival and Texas closing hard on national recruits and OOS guys makes a...
Opinion: Meyer and Ohio State a Perfect Fit
In January 2001, Jim Tressel was the man called upon to clean up Ohio State's image. It was tattered and badly in need of repair after mediocre performances ravaged the program on and off the field. Though Tressel's slightly-out-of-left-field hire wasn't immediately coined a home run by the...
BCS Programs Making Coaching Moves While Boston College Stands Still
Brian: It has been a big, big year for the college football coaching carousel. To date, a total of 24 Division I-A programs will be breaking in new coaches in 2012, including 11 from BCS AQ conferences. Within the conference, North Carolina just hired Southern Miss's Larry Fedora to replace the...
Jim Tressel And NCAA Violations, The Early Years
One of the side effects of UCLA jumping on the coaching carousel, along with Chianti Dan's mismanagment of the search, is that with every passing day there is a new rumor regarding which coach is considering UCLA and/or Dan is hoping to lure to Westwood. One of the latest that has spread throughout...
UCLA Coaching Hot Stove: Rumors of a Jim Tressel Sellout In The Lull
So yesterday was a brief lull in the storm for U.C.L.A. football. Things were quiet around Spaulding with the players having this week off to concentrate on finals before resuming practice and preparations next week for the Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl on December 31. Things were quiet from a news...
Jim Tressel Comments On Urban Meyer and Ohio State
Former Ohio State head coach Jim Tressel spoke with WTVN's Bob Conners about his replacement, Urban Meyer, and Ohio State's future under the former Florida Gators head coach. Tressel, who has largely avoided interviews following his retirement from Ohio State on Memorial Day, broke his silence and...
Urban Meyer's Ohio State Move Leaves His Florida Legacy in Flux
Urban Meyer did not leave the University of Florida to take the head coaching job at Ohio State. It may feel that way to some disillusioned Gator fans, but no one knew last December that the scandal just then unfolding in Columbus would lead to Jim Tressel's ouster. Had Meyer stuck to his 2009...
Joel Penton, The Ohio State University
Five years ago this November 18th, in the real Game of the Century, Joel Penton hunched down into his 3-point stance, his fingers scratching the torn sod of Ohio Stadium. At Chad Henne's bark, Penton would explode from his stance and slip through a maize-and-blue line, leaping toward Henne and...
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