WHAt YOU MAY NOT KNOW- JIM TRESSEL

BEFORE JIM TRESSEL REACHED SUCCESSFUL HEIGHTS WITH YOUNGSTATE STATE AND OHIO STATE AS A HEAD COACH HE HAD TO WORK HIS WAY TO GET TO THAT POINT. HE PLAYED QUARTERBACK FOR HIS FATHER FOR 4 YEARS AT BALDWIN WALLACE. AFTER GRADUATING COLLEGE, HE BECAME A GRADUATE ASSISTANT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON. HE WORKED THERE COACHING QUARTERBACKS, RUNNING BACKS, AND RECEIVERS. IN 1978 HE LEFT THERE TO BECOME THE QUARTERBACKS AND RECEIVERS COACH AT MIAMI UNIVERSITY IN OXFORD OHIO. BY 1981 HE LEFT TO BECOME THE QUARTERBACKS COACH AT SYRACUSE. IN 1983 HE RETURNED TO OHIO TO BECOME QUARTERBACKS AND RECEIVERS COACH AT OHIO STATE. THEN IN 1984 HE WAS GIVEN THE ADDED RESPONSIBILITY OF COACHING THE RUNNING BACKS. THAT YEAR THE BUCKEYES BECAME BIG TEN CHAMPS, PLAYED IN THE ROSE BOWL AND HE HELPED KEITH BYERS ON HIS WAY TO FINISHING SECOND IN THE HEISMAN TROPHY VOTING. HE THEN LEFT THERE AFTER THE 1985 SEASON TO GET HIS FIRST HEAD COACHING JOB AT YOUNGSTOWN STATE.