COLUMBUS, Ohio – No sooner had the ink dried on Jim Tressel’s resignation than speculation had already started about a successor as Ohio State’s coach.
It’s got to be Urban Meyer, right?
The Stoops brothers — Bob at Oklahoma and Mike at Arizona — are both Ohio natives. They’d love to have the job.
Then there are others with a Buckeye pedigree: Nebraska coach Bo Pelini, who used to be a defensive back at Ohio State; or maybe former NFL coach Jon Gruden, also an Ohio native.
Let the carousel begin.
Someone joked that it would be perfect symmetry if Ohio State President E. Gordon Gee — the man who mocked the BCS hopes of Boise State and TCU — hired one of their coaches, either the Broncos’ Chris Petersen or the Horned Frogs’ Gary Patterson. Little Sisters of the Poor, indeed.
Tressel’s startling departure from Ohio State on Monday, propelled by an NCAA investigation for
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