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.

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.

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.