OT - Tressel Interviewed by Colts for Head Coaching Position

An opportunity for the NFL to sell sweatervests. They'd be big in fashionable Indiana.

Colts fan here. not happy at all with this development. irsay for some reason really likes tressel. even if he doesn't get hired he's supposed to be kept on by any new staff that comes in. irsay should turn over the reins to grigson like any good owner.

I'm from Indianapolis, and I mostly don't like the place. But Hoosiers, like any people, anywhere, hate liars--part of the reason that they put up with Bob Knight as long as they did was because they believed he didn't pretend to be something that he wasn't. I predict that hiring Tressel won't go down well in the part of the sports community that cares about things beyond winning.
<br>And since we're talking about Indiana, I'll point this out: at least it's not an important job, like coaching the North Central High School basketball team.

It'll be a completely different era for the colts under Tressel, than under the Polian's. For instance, the Polian's would never over pay for a player, whereas Tressel has NO problem over paying players. Sadly though, Tressel will have to get used to a hard salary cap, they didn't have a cap at Ohio.

Didn't the NFL prevent Pryor from playing for several games (five?) because of an NCAA ruling?  After their action with Pryor, would the NFL really allow a guy to coach in the NFL who is banned for a number of years from coaching college football for lying?  Seems a bit strange to me, but who knows.

While I would love to see the Colts hire Tressel to feed my hunger for Schadenfreude, I think it would be a terrible hire. They're getting an awesome quarterback in Andrew Luck, and they're going to hire a run happy coach? That doesn't make a lot of sense to me. If I'm the Colts, I bring in someone who has the ability to get the most out of Luck, not someone who is going to waste his talent. Hire John Gruden or someone like that.

I don't think the Colts should hire him, but I don't like them anyway, so if they do, I hope they don't sniff the playoffs while he's there.

I dont' care about the Colts.  That said, Andrew Luck would be stupid to go to any team with Tressel as head coach. 

all at once--that's hitting for the trifecta, and I approve. NFL players already have all the paid sex and trinkets that they have time for, and won't be lured by Tressel's cheap tricks. Sanctimonious religiosity lures in a certain kind of naive parent, places a patina of wholesomeness over the money machine NCAA football has become, but a hustler like Tressel won't be able to put that over in the NFL, either. Two years max, if he gets the job at all.

Tressel is a master manipulator so it is no surprise to me that he has Irsay buying in to his bullshit.  He probably was sitting in on offense and defense meetings and then going back and reporting to Irsay.

it's a holy roller thing.  Sad. 

While I'm absolutely NO fan of Jim Tressel would his hire be that big of a reach really?  Look at the list of recent head coaching hires and tell me Tressel is worse than Jason Garret OR Chan Gailey OR Romeo Crennel (God help me) OR Joe Philbin (never a head coach anywhere before OR Mike Mularky OR  Leslie Frazier OR  Norv fucking Turner?  And dont forget that the Raiders and the Bucs also have vacancies at the top right now as well.

And I saved the best for last.  I'm a Brown's season ticket holder and without question Pat Shurmer is more over his head in this job than anybody else on the list including Tressel.  In his one glorious year with the Browns so far he single handidly managed to lose at least three games, piss off our best player and fan favorite Peyton Hillis and somehow miss his starting QB getting absolutely killed by Jerome Harrison thereby setting the stage for putting a badly concussed QB back in a contested game just two plays after the hit.

Is Tressel a reach?  You bet but he's certainly no worse than the guys listed above.  

 

There should be a gentleman's agreement between college and the pros. Whatever happens in college should be upheld by the pros. If Tressel can't be hired for 5 years in college due to indiscretion, there should be an understanding with the NFL that they will honor that. If a kid gets kicked off a team or suspended for violations, there should be an understanding that the NFL won't pick them up until the duration of the penalty has passed. The NFL shouldn't be a loophole for everyone with no character or accountability to slip through.

No way his act is going to work with pampered millionaire pro athletes. Not to mention and much more important to the discussion- he is 59, a career college coach and has no NFL experience. Just can't see making that move with a rookie franchise qb coming in.

But most players in the NFL already have tattoos and nice cars, so I'm not sure what Tressel brings to the table.

All kidding aside, I question this choice more from a football standpoint than as a character concern.  Tressel was notorious for relying heavily on his defense and playing a conservative offense; the Colts are likely to draft Andrew Luck in next month's draft and have always been an offensive powerhouse with Manning.  That defense does not have much in the way of playmakers after Freeney and, to a lesser extent, Mathis, and neither are truly dominant anymore.  So Tressel would step in, with no real professional experience, and try to install a program with the wrong players in place and little immediate help on the horizon.

And for all the talk about "Harbaugh did it", he inherited a team with a very good defense and offense that had underperformed under previous coaches.  Yes, Harbaugh deserves credit for finally turning that talent into wins, but tha talent disparting between Indy and SF is vast.

Tress knows how to cater to free agents. He'll wine and dine them and bring in some major talent

I only came into this thread to say that it is pointless. Tressel is a lying piece of shit and I hope he goes bankrupt.

Any word from Rob Lowe?