Former Ohio State coach Jim Tressel will be inducted formally in the school’s athletic hall of fame this weekend, and current coach Urban Meyer indicated Wednesday the honor is deserved.
“Coach Tressel ran the premier program, or if not the premier, one of the premier programs in America, and I always admired it,” Meyer said of Tressel, who coached from 2001-10 and won a national championship in his second season. “When I was at Bowling Green (as a first-time head coach in 2001 and ’02) I came down and studied" the OSU program.
Tressel will be introduced to the Ohio Stadium crowd in the first quarter of the Buckeyes’ game with Northern Illinois on Saturday.