Tressel inducted into College Football Hall of Fame
Former Ohio State head football coach Jim Tressel was among the 2015 class inducted Tuesday night into the College Football Hall of Fame. Ceremonies took place at the annual National Football Foundation dinner in New York. At a press conference held earlier in the day, Tressel described his feelings about the event:
Being here as the only father and son who have ever been inducted, it’s mind-boggling. And there’s so many emotions that are rolling through all of our minds right now. I watched Bill Snyder do, I think, the finest coaching job in my coaching lifetime I’ve ever seen. And here I have a chance to be inducted with him. But, as Bill said, when you’re inducted as a coach, it’s a lot different than when you’re inducted as a player. You’re inducted as a coach because of what everyone else did and created those extraordinary teams and accomplishments and so forth. And you think about those players and coaches and families and those equipment managers and those academic advisors and those fans and everyone else and to be sitting here brought by others is quite humbling and to sit here where my dad is enshrined is very special.
Jim Tressel’s father was Lee Tressel…the longtime head football coach at Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, Ohio. He was posthumously inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1996.
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