The Coaches

Jim Tressel
In his 9th season at OSU he is 84-20, with a career record of 219-77-2 in 23 years of coaching.












Tim Beckman
In his first season as a head coach and at Toledo he is 1-1. He graduated from Findlay, where he played football. His coaching career started at Auburn as a graduate assistant and he later was an assistant under Urban Meyer at Bowling Green. He was the cornerbacks coach at Ohio State in 2005 and 2006. For the last two seasons he was the defensive coordinator at Oklahoma State. Beckman's father Dave played for Jim Tressel's late father Lee at Baldwin Wallace. His father passed at the start of his college career, and he credits Tressel with helping him get his career started as a coach.