Football Coach at Ohio State is again Jim Tressel
During the No. 2 Buckeyes’ primetime game against No. 5 Notre Dame at Ohio Stadium, the former Ohio State head football coach will be recognised alongside the rest of the 2002 national championship-winning squad.
Here are four things you should know about Tressel.
Jim Tressel is the third most successful Football Coach at Ohio State in Ohio State history.
Tressel was named Ohio State’s head football coach prior to the 2001 season, succeeding John Cooper, after spending 15 seasons as the head coach at Youngstown State.
Tressel led the Buckeyes to three national championships, winning one in 2002 against Miami, and 94 wins in 128 games from 2001 to 2010. In 2002, he was named AFCA Coach of the Year, Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year, Paul “Bear” Bryant Award, and Woody Hayes Trophy winner.
Ohio State won 59 of its 73 Big Ten games under Tressel.
In 2002, Jim Tressel led Ohio State to its first undefeated season since 1973.
Following a 7-5 season in 2001, Tressel led the Buckeyes to a 14-0 season in 2002, defeating Miami in the Fiesta Bowl for the program’s seventh national championship.
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Prior to that, Ohio State’s last undefeated season was in 1973, when the Buckeyes went 10-0-1 under Woody Hayes and won the Rose Bowl against USC.
In 1968, Ohio State won all 10 of its games, finishing 10-0. In 2012, Urban Meyer led the Buckeyes to their last undefeated season.
Jim Tressel was a position coach at Ohio State before becoming head coach
Tressel was an Ohio State position coach prior to his 15-year tenure at Youngstown State.
Tressel joined Earle Bruce’s staff in 1983 to coach quarterbacks and wide receivers before taking on running backs in 1984-85.
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Tressel began his coaching career as a graduate assistant at Akron before moving on to coach quarterbacks and wide receivers at Miami (Ohio) from 1979 to 1980 and quarterbacks at Syracuse from 1981 to 1982.
In 2011, Jim Tressel resigned as Ohio State’s head coach
After it was discovered that former Buckeye football players were exchanging memorabilia for tattoos, Tressel resigned from his position as head coach of Ohio State’s football team on May 30, 2011.
Tressel was given a two-game suspension prior to his resignation for withholding information from the NCAA and failing to report the incident.