Report: Tampa Bay Buccaneers Interested in Jim Tressel
by Sander on Jan 2, 2012 11:50 AM EST
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Sports by Brooks is confirming (I don't know who originally reported this) that 3 teams are interested in Jim Tressel: the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the Indianapolis Colts and the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Until this season Tressel was the head coach at Ohio State, serving in that capacity since 2001. He has a career 94-22 record with Ohio State, and has won 5 bowl games during that time: 3 Fiesta Bowls, one Rose Bowl and one Alamo Bowl. Including his time at Youngstown State the experienced college coach has won five national championship: four NCAA Division I-AA championships at Youngstown State, and one National Championship at Ohio State.
Tressel's background is as an offensive coach, spending time as quarterbacks, wide receiver and running backs coach in college. He has no real NFL experience, outside of serving as a consultant for the Indianapolis Colts this season after leaving Ohio State.
Tressel left Ohio State this past offseason after NCAA violations came to light, and it became clear that Tressel had lied to NCAA investigators in the matter. This came months after Tressel had blackmailed players into staying at Ohio State, by threatening to sit them out of the 2011 Sugar Bowl (which was eventually vacated) if they declared for the 2011 NFL Draft.
Despite his massive success as a head coach in college, I am not a fan of Jim Tressel. I am mostly not a fan of him because of what he did at the end of his tenure. Essentially blackmailing your players to keep them on the team - that does not sit well with me.
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No,just no
Rahdumb the clown and the not ready for prime time players are the worst team in Buc history, the 1976 squad gets a pass cause they were an expansion team, there is no excuse for this garbage!
by bucfanlostiniowa on Jan 2, 2012 11:57 AM EST reply actions
Hell no!
Like you said what he did at the end of his tenure was sleezy
by Carlitin1988 on Jan 2, 2012 11:59 AM EST via Android app reply actions
AS an OC - perhaps
but no more HC gambles – PLEASE!
by Cracker Ball on Jan 2, 2012 12:01 PM EST up reply actions
Are you kidding?
If he was our OC, as an Ohio State Buckeye fan, I would be pissed. We would be calling for Olson within the season.
"We've got to find a way to win. I'm willing to start cheating."
--Marv Cook
the players he treatened
were the guys who said they would come back and serve their 5 game suspensions, guys like terelle pryor. he was trying to push them towards honoring their word. all that being said, i’m not a fan of tressel as an nfl hc, good college coach, but all the talent at osu and they won a diputed game for the national championship over miami. and in college you can have 10 first round draft pick come into your system every year, in the nfl you usually only get one.
then you must
not like any college coach at all. they all do it.
someone with no morals or ethics.
The exact opposite of what we need here.
East Coast Fan
by Bucfan on Jan 2, 2012 1:09 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
I will boycott 2012 if they hire this bum....
East Coast Fan
by Bucfan on Jan 2, 2012 12:50 PM EST via mobile reply actions
I see the Colts hiring him
because the Polians want a puppet and yes man
Well since they were both canned today, don't see that happening now.
Raheem was the DREAM that turned into a NIGHTMARE..
Unlike a 4-11 season, I will never watch the Bucs again if this happens.
Thanks for inviting me out today. I really needed some time to stop worrying about my love life.
--Well, you know, that's why God gave us baseball..... And war.
by El Soro on Jan 2, 2012 1:14 PM EST via mobile reply actions
No.
Hopefully the Colts get him.
No matter how much they are hyped, my teams always find a way to disappoint.
Essentially blackmailing your players to keep them in a bowl game – that does not sit well with me.
Ha, yes, that’s what happened.
You’re making too much out of the move. It was a token gesture to see whether the players already had their heads in the NFL or not. There are plenty of reasons to be wary about a potential Jim Tressel move to the NFL—Steve Spurrier, Nick Saban precedent, lack of NFL familiarity, could he delegate?—-but any White Knight, moral concern is a silly one.
He forced them to sign a contract not to enter the draft if they wanted to play in that bowl game
It’s a sleazebag move, and worse, it doesn’t actually do anything for him or help him win that bowl game (which, of course, was lost – and later vacated because those players played). It’s basically a move to screw over those players, which is not something you can ever do as a head coach and still be credible in my opinion.
Uhh, no. The stipulation came into being only after the Sugar Bowl committee and Ohio State petitioned the NCAA to allow the players’ participation—Tressel wanted to sit the players for the bowl game and begin their suspensions immediately.
Furthermore, calling it “blackmail” is about the biggest stretch you could make. The agreement had no authority behind it and was simply made on good faith. Tressel asked the players to sign an agreement, because he was concerned they would play in the game and then jump to the NFL, thus circumventing their suspensions. Following the game, the players were free to do as they wished.
He made them sign an agreement not to jump to the NFL, or they wouldn't be allowed to play
That’s what happened. To me, that sounds like he tried to screw those players. That’s why I have a problem with him.
If that agreement carried no legal weight, that only makes things worse. It means he’s either incompetent, not realizing he can’t enforce that, or he tried to deceive those players.
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