Jim Tressel will never forget it.
Within days of his resignation from Ohio State in May of 2011, Tressel recalls driving down Riverside Drive in Columbus when his phone rang. But perhaps unlike at any point during his 10-year career as head coach of the Buckeye football team, an incoming call didn’t cause Tressel’s stomach to knot up.
“Normally, when my phone rang, something was up,” Tressel said on Chris Holtmann’s More Than Coach Speak podcast last week. “It was the first time in a long time that when my phone rang, I wasn’t thinking, ‘Oh my gosh, I wonder what happened.