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3 unusual facts about Jim Tressel


Ada, Ohio

Lee Tressel, Father of former Ohio State University Football Coach Jim Tressel.

Keith Byars

His running backs coach that year was a young Jim Tressel, who would later become the Buckeyes' head coach.

Youngstown State Penguins

The program started in the 1930s and is one of the leading programs in NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (formerly known as Division I-AA), YSU has won four I-AA National Championships, second only to Georgia Southern (6), with all of them coming under former head coach Jim Tressel.



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2002 Ohio State Buckeyes football team

The following Tuesday, in his weekly luncheon with the media, Coach Jim Tressel revealed that Clarett had suffered a knee injury during the game, had already undergone arthroscopic surgery, and would miss the next game.