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Lehigh Football Nation
June 2nd, 2011, 02:02 PM
http://www.collegesportingnews.com/content.php?495-Tattoo-U.


For all of his success as a football coach, Jim Tressel had always struck me and many others as a shadowy figure.

He managed to lead the Youngstown State program to three Football Championship Subdivision titles in four years from 1991-94 and added another national crown in 1997 as the Penguins reached the title game six times during the 1990s.

But there were always whispers from his peers about how Tressel's teams had reached the top.

http://lehighfootballnation.blogspot.com/2011/06/tressels-con-in-plain-sight.html


In retrospect, Jim Tressel was just an actor. Just like Bill Cosby, or Randy "Macho Man" Savage - an actor, playing a part.

Wrestlers, of course, create bigger than life personas inside the ring of simplistic good-or-evil characters, often designed to deflect, like an illusionist, the reality behind what people were seeing.

And Tressel - seen here, back in his days as a I-AA national championship winner with some of his dominating teams at Youngstown State - was no different.

Two takes on the shadiness of the Tressel era - from his time at Youngstown State to his time at Ohio State.