Monday, August 30, 2010

The Coaches

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Jim Tressel
In his 10th season at OSU he is 94-21 (81.7%), with a career record of 229-78-2 (74.4%) in his 25th year of coaching. Under Tressel, OSU is 9-0 in season openers. Tressel has won his last 14 openers as a head coach. At OSU, Tressel is 56-7 at home. He is 15-1 against first year head coaches, with the sole loss against Purdue First Year Head Coach Danny Hope last season.











Doc Holliday
Doc Holliday is in his first year as a head coach. He is a West Virginia graduate, where he was a three year letter-winner as a linebacker from 1976-1978. He started coaching as a graduate assistant at WVU and later was the wide receivers coach, linebackers coach, and the assistant head coach. He was then the associate head coach and receivers coach at N.C. State, when the school broke passing records. Next he was at Florida where he was the associate head coach and safeties coach from 2005-2007. His stint at Florida included the upset of Ohio State in the National Championship game in 2007. His most recent stop was two years at WVU as the associate head coach, director of recruiting, and coach of tight ends and fullbacks.

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