Where is jim tressel coaching now

He coached the quarterbacks, receivers , and running backs , while earning a master's degree in education. In , he left to become quarterbacks and receivers coach at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. By , he had left to become the quarterbacks coach at Syracuse.

In , he was hired at Ohio State to be the quarterbacks and receivers coach. That year, OSU had a 9—3 record, including a 28—23 victory over Pittsburgh in the Fiesta Bowl ; a yard pass from quarterback Mike Tomczak to wide receiver Thad Jemison clinched the win with 39 seconds remaining in the game.

In , he was given the added responsibility of coaching the running backs. In Tressel's first season as coach, Youngstown State finished with a 2—9 record. In his second season, Youngstown State finished the season with an 8—4 record and won the Ohio Valley Conference championship.

In , Tressel won his first national championship, defeating Marshall ; the victory made him and his father the only father-son duo to win national championships in college football.

Youngstown State won two more national championships in the following three years: against Marshall in who had defeated them in and Boise State in He earned his th win against Indiana State. Tressel's overall record at Youngstown was —57—2.

In , Tressel's reputation was tarnished when it emerged that Ray Isaac, quarterback on his first national champion, admitted to accepting massive benefits from Mickey Monus, the founder of Phar-Mor and former chairman of the Youngstown State board of trustees. The NCAA had been tipped off about the violations in , but dropped its inquiry after a cursory internal investigation by Youngstown State. The nature of the violations only came to light when Isaac admitted to tampering with a juror in Monus' first corporate fraud trial.

It later emerged that Tressel had never met with Isaac during the initial investigation. Monus subsequently testified that when Isaac initially came to Youngstown State in , Tressel called Monus and asked him to work out a job for Isaac. Youngstown State subsequently admitted to a lack of institutional control and docked itself scholarships, but the NCAA cleared Tressel of wrongdoing. Youngstown State was also allowed to keep its title since the NCAA's statute of limitations had run out.

The facility is scheduled to open by the end of the calendar year. Jim Tressel and team at halftime of the game at Texas. John Cooper was fired as Ohio State's head football coach following a loss to unranked South Carolina in the Outback Bowl , and Tressel was hired to replace Cooper. While addressing the Ohio State community during halftime of a basketball game just after being hired as head coach, Tressel declared, "I can assure you that you will be proud of your young people in the classroom, in the community, and most especially in days in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on the football field.

Tressel coached the Buckeyes to two game winning streaks, one in the — season and the other in — Tressel's winning percentage at Ohio State of Eckstorm for the second best in school history, behind only Carroll Widdoes' As Ohio State's head coach, Tressel is known for a conservative style of play calling dubbed "Tressel-ball" , winning games with just enough scoring, strong defense, and "playing field position.

He was supposed to tell his superiors or the compliance department about any potential NCAA rule violations but he never did. Tressel then officially resigned in May In September , the Indianapolis Colts hired Tressel as a consultant.

His job was to help determine when the team should challenge plays. Shortly after that, though, he returned to Youngstown State University. It looks like he has had a lot of success there too. Being in such a high-ranking position, Tressel is still, of course, in the news a lot. The NCAA hit Tressel with a five-year "show-cause" penalty at the time, which would put the burden of proof on any school that hires him to avoid receiving sanctions—to "show cause" that they don't deserve it.

Tressel is currently a finalist for the presidency at Youngstown State University—where he coached for 15 seasons and won four Division I-AA national titles before heading to Columbus—and the University of Akron. He has worked at Akron for the past two years as the executive vice president for student success, although he was also called in to consult with the Indianapolis Colts after his suspension in Replacing a president so quickly is an expensive proposition for the school, delays fundraising and academic projects, and is generally a mess.

Having to do it twice in such a short period of time would be a huge hit. Tressel cares about this stuff. He's from Mentor, less than an hour and a half away from YSU. He coached at Youngstown State, raised funds for Youngstown State, has an athletic center named after him, and is revered by the school and the town. He's Northern Ohio to the core, and knowing the damage he'd do to the school and the community by leaving so quickly, he wouldn't torpedo all of that goodwill to coach somewhere out of state.

You can critique a lot of things about Jim Tressel, but you can't say he isn't loyal. There are certain things that people do when they're not coaching, but want to get back into coaching. Maybe they take a high profile TV job. They hang around other coaches during fall and spring camps. They talk to the press about wanting to get back into the game.

We all have a pretty good idea about who would be open to a job if it opening see: Nutt, Houston. Jim Tressel hasn't done any of that. Outside of a brief consulting gig with the Colts, Tressel has been mostly absent from the football world.