Jim Tressel
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"James Patrick "Jim" Tressel" is an American college administrator and former college football coach who served as head coach of the Youngstown State Penguins football/Youngstown State Penguins from 1986 to 2000 and the Ohio State Buckeyes football/Ohio State Buckeyes from 2001 to 2011, winning five national championships between the two schools. Tressel is currently the president of Youngstown State University (YSU).

He was born in Mentor, Ohio and attended Baldwin Wallace University/Baldwin–Wallace College, where he played football as quarterback under his father. He was hired by the Ohio State University prior to the start of the 2001 season to replace John Cooper (American football)/John Cooper. During his tenure as Ohio State's 22nd head football coach, Tressel's teams competed in three BCS National Championship Games, and his 2002 Ohio State Buckeyes football team/2002 squad won a NCAA Division I FBS National Football Championship/national title, achieving the first 14–0 season record in major college football since Penn Quakers football/UPenn went 15–0 in 1897.

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Teddy Ginn is a guy we try to have touch the ball as much as possible. I don't know if we'll ever limit ourselves.

I don't know that it will be much more than he did -- I don't know how many touches he had in the last game. So it probably won't be more than that.

They all are blessed with physical abilities, but I think their strength in large part lies in their intellect. They work together like they're on a string.

That's a pretty high standard to meet, but I guess because this group is a little fresher in my mind they seem extra special.

I don't know if I'd use the word 'sandlot' (about Ginn), ... or maybe it's a good word. It's just, you know, fun. Every play can be a touchdown.

That's what a top-5 team should look like.

If it's the last game you'd ever want to see in your life, it might be these two teams, and that makes it special. Two great football states, two great schools, two of the largest alumni in the world. The interest level is tremendous.

I think people want to follow humility and they want to follow production, and A.J. gives you both of those things. On the field he just has a sense to diagnose what's happening and then do the right thing.

I don't ever like to squash one's creativity.