I don't know how much longer they'll keep him around now. He's a great coach, but the bottomline is they haven't got it done in quite awhile. OSU has more pride in there football team than any school I've ever seen, but they also refuse to suffer mediocrity. And especially since they spend the most $$ on sports than any other school in the NCAA.
Aaron
I'm sorry, is the ND fan suggesting the removal of a coach for poor results?
You're claiming mediocrity? OSU has had a share of the conference title for 4 straight years and went to 4 straight BCS bowl games for a total of 6 under Tressel. That's 17million a year for each of the last 4 years that Tressel has brought into the school and conference (OSU gets a lump off the top in addition to the shared funds). Tack on the fact that he's beat Michigan for the last 5 years in one of if not the biggest NCAA rivalries and I just can't swallow your claim of "mediocrity".
BTW Charlie Weiss brought in just under 400k for playing in the Hawaii bowl, OSU gets almost 5 times that much right off the top of this year's Fiesta bowl appearance.
Not saying I don't believe you, but where'd you get the "spend more money on sports than any NCAA school" factoid?
With the exception of Iowa's convincing win and NWU's close loss every team in the Big 10 got blown out in embarrassing losses during bowl week. OSU came in and played the number 3 ranked team in the country to the last 0:16 seconds of the football game. They held them to a field goal in the first half and ran all up and down the field. And even after Texas came out firing in all cylinders in the third quarter it wasn't without substantial resistance from the OSU defense, case in point Colt McCoy getting the He-Man of the day award for taking all those hits in stride. If the #1 and #3 teams in the Big 10 get blown out by opponents from the Pac 10 and SEC, surely OSU's loss to a #3 ranked Big 12 team has to be considered the best Big 10 performance of the Bowl season. What team in the Big 10 deserves more respect than OSU right now?
There is no argument that the Big 10 isn't down, in fact I'd have to think long and hard about whether I think they deserve to keep the #4 spot or if the ACC was the #4 conference this year. But being on top of a lowly conference is better than being in the middle of a great one. For instance, the big 10 and sec both sent their #4 teams to the outback bowl and Iowa came out on top.