Better coaching job: OSU in 2001, or OSU in 2011?

• thedynasty1998

  

  Scarlet_Buckeye;824710 wrote:I don't know how anyone can say 2011 is a better coaching job than 2001. The program is in shambles right now. Tressel won a national championship just 2 years in after 2001. Things must not have been THAT bad [in 2001]. No one will be winning a national title for awhile at OSU. This is a no brainer.

  
  Cooper arguably faced a much tougher schedule in his day and always had elite talent. Tressel certainly walked into a great situation because expectations weren't as high as they are now.
• Scarlet_Buckeye

  

  dwccrew;824980 wrote:LOL at the program being in shambles. Let's wait and see what the NCAA comes down with as punishment. I highly doubt this is going to limit OSU for more than a season or two.

  
  I'll concede shambles is poor choice of words, but anyone who thinks OSU is not in some mud right now is fooling themselves.
• Cleveland Buck

  

  It's a tough call. Ohio State has always been a premier job in the country, but Tressel has increased the program's prestige with the national success his teams had over the last 10 years. Still, Cooper left a roster full of NFL players behind for Tressel, where now you have players suspended, transferring, and decommitting. I would say if you weigh everything out it is about the same. Still a top 3 job in the country, unless the NCAA gets ridiculous in their punishment.