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    Re: Would Tressel ever leave the Bucks to coach the Browns (PD article says he might)

    Quote Originally Posted by Caseyfan21 View Post
    I don't think it's a done deal. I talked to someone familiar with the search committee last week and although I didn't ask about specific names they gave the impression the committee still had not made any decisions.

    That being said, I still think she will end up here and will start wrecking the OSU athletic programs soon enough.

    She'll probably run Jim Tressel out of town and then he can go take the Browns job.
    Well, lets see. ESPN did its level best to wreck the OSU athletic programs, and it lost. Jim O'Brien tried, and it seems that things turned out ok, well better than ok, more like outstanding, Maurice Clarett finds himself in a jail cell among his many tricks which included telling all that was supposedly going to take down the football program. So, I'm pretty sure there is no incoming President that is bigger than OSU athletics either. Not sure if I'm necessarily proud of that fact as an alum, but OSU athletics is quite the gargantuan and has been able to withstand NCAA investigations with modest damage to the program.

    Plus, if Zimpher was on her way, do you think that the topic of what happened at UC might just have come up in the discussions? Unless she has supernatural powers that allow her to wield her wicked spells once she is inside of an organization, I don't think any dramatic effect would be felt on the athletic programs.

    Plus, Holbrook has already left her legacy for raising standards for incoming athletes, and look at the condition of the two high-profile programs. They are led by coaches with track records of integrity and are recruiting highly ranked recruits to put the programs on top that put them at the top on a national scale.


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    Re: Would Tressel ever leave the Bucks to coach the Browns (PD article says he might)

    Quote Originally Posted by Caseyfan21 View Post
    That being said, I still think she will end up here and will start wrecking the OSU athletic programs soon enough.

    She'll probably run Jim Tressel out of town and then he can go take the Browns job.
    Even if this woman was to get the job, there is no way they are going to allow her to wreck the athletic program. Not with the storied tradition at OSU. The athletic program brings alot of loot to the university.

    Columbus is not Cincinnati. She would not be able to show her face around town.
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    Re: Would Tressel ever leave the Bucks to coach the Browns (PD article says he might)

    The next coach in Cleveland will need some experience at a head coaching level. That's probably the only way its going to work.
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    Re: Would Tressel ever leave the Bucks to coach the Browns (PD article says he might)

    Quote Originally Posted by GAC View Post
    Even if this woman was to get the job, there is no way they are going to allow her to wreck the athletic program. Not with the storied tradition at OSU. The athletic program brings alot of loot to the university.

    Columbus is not Cincinnati. She would not be able to show her face around town.
    I'm sure that the "riot act" as been written. The people that I know that are affiliated with OSU say that the 3 hours on Saturday give the University free advertising and that it only helps the academia of the University.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Heath View Post
    The next coach in Cleveland will need some experience at a head coaching level. That's probably the only way its going to work.
    I wondering if the Browns might now try to find a "home" for newly fired Jim Fassell? Yuck!
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    Re: Would Tressel ever leave the Bucks to coach the Browns (PD article says he might)

    Quote Originally Posted by GAC View Post
    Even if this woman was to get the job, there is no way they are going to allow her to wreck the athletic program. Not with the storied tradition at OSU. The athletic program brings alot of loot to the university.

    Columbus is not Cincinnati. She would not be able to show her face around town.
    I agree, Columbus is pretty much defined by OSU. UC is just a small part of Cincinnati.

    But did anyone think Nancy could run Hugs out of town when she got that job? If I remember correctly (and I'm not a huge UC follower) Huggs was pretty popular in Cincinnati and although he had his opponents I don't think anyone thought he could be taken down until he decided to retire.

    Tress and Matta are both squeaky clean but I just wonder if they make a mistake (like Huggs) will the same thing happen to them?

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    Re: Would Tressel ever leave the Bucks to coach the Browns (PD article says he might)

    Quote Originally Posted by GAC View Post
    I wondering if the Browns might now try to find a "home" for newly fired Jim Fassell? Yuck!
    If the Browns are patient, I think Art Shell and Denny Green may be available after the season.

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    Re: Would Tressel ever leave the Bucks to coach the Browns (PD article says he might)

    Huggins was much more vulnerable to being deposed than Tressel is.

    Huggins had a track record of recruiting borderline players, took a lot of heat from national media for a reputation of thuggery and low graduation rates, many UC players had lots of off-court antics, and his DUI (and his assistants) certainly didn't help. It was conceivable that a university president could take him down.

    Tressel currently runs a clean and very successful program. He wears a sweater vest, the team sings "Carmen Ohio", and things are just peachy. It would take a long string of splattering mud on the fenders of the current OSU platinum Mercedes of a program for him to be vulnerable.
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    Re: Would Tressel ever leave the Bucks to coach the Browns (PD article says he might)

    Quote Originally Posted by Caseyfan21 View Post
    Tress and Matta are both squeaky clean but I just wonder if they make a mistake (like Huggs) will the same thing happen to them?
    Yes, if one of them did something that threatened the "golden goose", OSU would get rid of them. Just as GAC is implying above, sports at OSU is "big business" and they are not going to let someone, the lady in question or a coach trash their money machine.

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    Re: Would Tressel ever leave the Bucks to coach the Browns (PD article says he might)

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    I agree, Columbus is pretty much defined by OSU. UC is just a small part of Cincinnati.

    But did anyone think Nancy could run Hugs out of town when she got that job? If I remember correctly (and I'm not a huge UC follower) Huggs was pretty popular in Cincinnati and although he had his opponents I don't think anyone thought he could be taken down until he decided to retire.

    Tress and Matta are both squeaky clean but I just wonder if they make a mistake (like Huggs) will the same thing happen to them?
    Hugg's DUI made her job easier.

    And Maurice Clarett, and his accusations, couldn't derail Tressell and his program.
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    Re: Would Tressel ever leave the Bucks to coach the Browns (PD article says he might)

    Why exactly is there so much Zimpher hate? Is it just because she dumped Huggins, or is there more?

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    Re: Would Tressel ever leave the Bucks to coach the Browns (PD article says he might)

    Quote Originally Posted by Danny Serafini View Post
    Why exactly is there so much Zimpher hate? Is it just because she dumped Huggins, or is there more?
    Academia Arrogance. She felt that since she was the University dictator...errrr...president that she was going to be the point person of all things university, and that no basketball coach was going to run HER university.
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    Re: Would Tressel ever leave the Bucks to coach the Browns (PD article says he might)

    Quote Originally Posted by Danny Serafini View Post
    Why exactly is there so much Zimpher hate? Is it just because she dumped Huggins, or is there more?
    What Heath said.

    She's also insulted alumni by implying degrees obtained before her arrival are worthless, run off the deans of UC's most respected colleges, and given executive level jobs to her friends who are totally unqualified for them. One, Monica Rami, is the VP in charge of UC's finances. She has no financial experience at all; she has a law degree, and practiced law in Ohio for months without a license. She was on the verge of being called before the Ohio Supreme Court for it, but then Nancy gave her this VP slot. UC has a tough financial road ahead of it; to have someone with no financial management experience at all running the show is STUPID.

    On top of that, she's a walking PR nightmare. She is an elitist to the core and if you ask a question she doesn't like she'll have you thrown out of the building and escorted off campus. She has armed bodyguards everywhere she goes. I know at Shoemaker when she'd go to basketball games her goons would be out in front of her box, if anyone yelled anything up to her, or had a sign or something, she's send them down to take it and have the people kicked out.

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    Re: Would Tressel ever leave the Bucks to coach the Browns (PD article says he might)

    Back to the Tressel leaving OSU discussion: not happening. He's got a sweet gig in Columbus and there's no way that sweater vest plays in the NFL.
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    Re: Would Tressel ever leave the Bucks to coach the Browns (PD article says he might)

    I think that poses an interesting delimma for people who are Browns and Buckeyes fans. Would you rather have Tressel move to the Browns in hopes that he might be able to right the Browns ship, knowing that it could likely weaken the Buckeyes program. Or would you rather Tressel stay put at Ohio State and continue seeking National Championships and have the Browns seek out the next hot coordinator from the pros?

    As a Bengals fan, the decision is easy. I'd rather Tressel stay at Ohio State because:

    1. I enjoy watching Ohio State under Tressel (as opposed to John Cooper and his "deer in the headlights" look every time they played Michigan).
    2. If Tressel does not succeed in Cleveland, the end result is that one of Ohio's premier football programs has been weakened for the sake of an underacheiving pro team (It's not easy to find quality head coaches at Ohio State's level).
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