(EDIT) OT: Jim Tressel, Molder of Young Men's Minds

My buddy who went to tOSU tried to get into that class:  impossible, harder to get into than John U. Bacon.  And that class was pretty awesome.

I don't care much for the vest, but if Rodriguez or Gerg or McGee taught coaching college football, you bet I'd find a way to get in within my four years at school.  I would love to see Coach Rod give a winter semester class on the finer points of the spread option.  

there was a blip about this last year during "the game."  i didn't understand why this didn't count as practice time.  couldn't UM have a class taught be Barwis called "20 minute stretching?"

Apparently all one has to do is wear a sweater vest and the media will embrace anything you say or do as a positive.

You really think Tressel's staying up prepping syllabi, building lesson plans, even assessing papers, etc.... I'll tell you all right now, that's the work side of it all, and it's never fun.  You may love history, or art, or coaching football, but no one loves all of that crap.

Naturally he has a team of assistants or grad students that do all of the facilitation, and he just goes in and talks some ball, and leaves it to them to mold it into a cohesive learning experience.  Don't buy the fluff-- it's not the dedicated academic pursuit that we're being led to believe.

Granted, he's still gotta run a football program, so I'll give him that.  He's got another job to do, and that's taking care of all those well-paid I mean student athletes that need his attention every day.  Plus it's a well-calculated move to follow in Woody's footsteps (he also taught) to build up his homer Buckeye legend. 

Gotta run-- gotta study for a big test  this week on choosing the right sweater vest.

Let's just be real. Tressel is a stand up guy. If he was our coach he would be revered (we might be frustrated with him like we were with Carr because he is generally ultraconservative). I would be one of the students on a waiting list for that class for sure. I hate everything about Ohio State and especially it's fans, but I respect the Vest and he looks like he would be a nice Grandpa.

Ray Bentley said he tried to interview Tressel and he was a real jerk until the cameras turned on. Then he was all smiles. Figures.

Bo taught a class like this for the football players at UM, it was unlisted so it was hard to get in to. I know this because a faimly friend in the electrical engineering department at UM took the class in the 1970's. He was the only non football player in the class and the text book for the class was the Michigan play book so he had to do the entire class without the text book. The class covered everything about designing an offense and defence and had plenty of value for anyone who intended to go into coaching at any level after graduation. I would assume OSU's class was something like this.

I think you're kind of looking for something that's not there. (Some people are calling for NCAA investigations? For what, exactly?) So what you're saying is that Tressel, the football coach at a school, has decided to teach a class about football?  Who cares?  Did you ever think that maybe he just likes teaching? I've taught some college classes, and it's really enjoyable.

Jim Harrick got in big trouble for having a class like this and giving his BBall players A's even though they didn't attend.  It's probably not a good idea to have players attend.  Otherwise, I don't care how OSU separates its academic programs from continuing learning centers.

I would ask people to leave Tressel out of threads unless there's something particularly egregious.  That way I can just quietly hate his guts without having to defend the view publicly or reconsider it introspectively.

Plus, it's Sparty week.  C'mon, how about a rehash of how MSU avoided crushing everyone in the Fulmer Cup on a technicality?

It's too bad he can't teach them how to read.

Peter King, IMHO, is the most full-of-crap sports commentator on the planet.  He loves spewing this kind of nonsense.  This is part of his strategy to kiss up to the Tressels of the world to get more access.  Don't misread this, I think Tressel is far less obnoxious than the Danny Hopes of the conference - he has said next to nothing negative about us - he knows better.

Jim Tressel, Molder of Young Men's Minds

I'm not sure how OSU can rationalize their head football coach teaching a course that results the decaying, or crumbling to dust, of young men's minds.  That is an astounding level of neglience, and possibly maliciousness, on the part of OSU's administration.