The search to replace John Cooper as Ohio State head football coach dragged on longer than you probably remember. Cooper was fired on January 3, 2001, just two days after the Buckeyes no-showed the Outback Bowl against a not-very-good South Carolina team. With the benefit of hindsight, it’s obvious that Jim Tressel was the best…
February 3, 2005 | Recruiting is an ever-evolving beast, and it grows bigger every single year. Gone are the days of an assistant coach being in charge of recruiting. They have given way to entire departments. This allows a school to cover more ground — figuratively and literally — in the search for recruits. Nowadays, if a recruit takes an…
December 27, 2001 | This story comes from John Porentas in the days leading up to the 2002 Outback Bowl, which was also a rematch of the 2001 Outback Bowl. Holtz had the privilege of coaching against John Cooper in his final game the year before, and then the privilege of coaching against Jim Tressel in Tressel’s first bowl game.
Chances are you probably have that guy (or girl) in your office. You know the one. Grew up in Ohio, parents are from Ohio, and everyone they know and associate with loves and roots for Ohio State. At some point in their life, probably in the mid-90s, if I were to guess, they decided to be a contrarian and root for Michigan.
Minnesota head coach P.J. Fleck was only at Ohio State for a year, but the lessons he learned are still part of what he teaches today. Fleck’s story is an interesting one, and only a brief moment of it involves Ohio State, but lessons don’t need to be long in order to be lasting.Speaking with the assembled Minnesota Gophers…
Despite what your neighborhood Michigan fan friend said would happen, Urban Meyer is still coaching at The Ohio State University. This season marks his longest coaching stretch at any school, topping his 6-year stint at Florida. The 2018 season will be his seventh go-round as the head coach of the scarlet and gray.
James Vogel recently wrote an article about former Ohio State head coach Jim Tressel that accomplished two things simultaneously. As Tony Gerdeman accurately predicted, the article by James made me feel very old. The second made me positively reminisce about the Tressel years, even as Ohio State fans are basking…
Eighth grade me left the party in the basement and walked up the stairs to watch the final minutes of the 2011 Sugar Bowl alone. The nerves and pressure of an Ohio State loss weighed too much on me, so I watched the game in the living room so I could pace, cuss freely, and get overly emotional where no one could see or judge me.
