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+1, about like how Saine was mis-used.

I completely agree. I told a buddy of mine from Pa. before the game against PSU started "the ony way we win is if Krenzel gets hurt" (was not wishing bad, so don't go down that route) sure enough, OSU goes down early, offense was ridiculously bad. Mcmullen comes in and leads us to a come from behind victory. Mcmullen was a better playmaker for a team that had absolutely no running game. Krenzel , on the other hand, did extremely well when he did have a running game (at least the threat of a running game).
Mcmullen would've thrived in a pass happy system.

Almost forgot a couple assistant coaches
Spencer - former RB coach that had been the RB coach of the Chicago Bears
B.Conley - former recruiting coordinator that was once rated the best recruiter in college football. Yeah Briguy we had to have some recruiters for the future 1st round draft picks Tressel had
By the way on Schiano... He took over for Daniels during the illness that Daniels had (cancer) It may originally had been on an interim basis since Daniels was being treated with the hope of going back to his duties. I am sure Tressel pulled strings to keep Daniels employed and Daniels probably still assisted with coaching Qb's even though Schiano was the labeled QB coach.
This enabled Daniels to keep an income and his insurance. I would suspect it may have been difficult to hire another Qb coach with Daniels optimistic of a return to duties.. I could be wrong however this is another weakness of Tressel and his biggest, LOYALTY.
A good coach like Meyer should have said I got a team to run so lets get a good Qb coach and whatever happens with Daniels happens.
Still waiting Briguy on your rebuttal concerning players of the Tressel era and assistant coaches

Yes, another Tress bashing, and well deserved! Nice guy and that about wraps it up!

You won't get much argument from me or many others here--esp those of us who're knowledgeable about the past decade here under the Tressel regime.
HOWEVER, what you miss is the fact that after the 2003 season, things began to decline gradually in the assistant coaching ranks.
Between then and the end of the '05 season, Tressel had the task of making new hires to replace the outgoing Conley, Jr., Spencer, Dantonio, Tucker, Butch Reynolds, Joe Daniels (later exit BTW), etc.
To show you what I mean, he replaced Tim Spencer with his brother whose experience was at Hamline College--a place I'm not even sure a good many native Minnesotans are even aware of. Replaced Conley Jr with John Peterson. Replaced Daniels with Nick Siciliano. The only comparable replacements for Tim Beckman were the Johnson/Hanes combo hires.

I could go on and on about this, however the main point in all of this is that Tressel showed that he was still very much a D-IAA level coach at best. He never wanted to coach a big-time program and these decisions proved why he preferred to remain at YSU or some other small school like his father had.
He wasn't accustomed to making such hires which is why he hired those he felt he could (a) be superior to (b) those he was most comfortable or familiar with or (c) those who'd never challenge or question his authority.
By doing this, he undercut his ability to become not only a bona fide HOF'er but become the TOP coach in all of D-I. Had he either been able to maintain many of those early tenured assistants or replace them with comparable assistants, we win at least two titles, beat USC at least once and only have one loss to Texas.

Maybe. Mcmullen was hot I will agree with you but we had no answer for Perry and Navarre was red hot. Michigan was rolling.

Llllllllloyd Carr;s last hurrah. Perry just killed us that game. Killed us.

Michael Jenkins, Ballard, Robiskie, Hartline, Krenzel, McMullen, Holmes, Ginn, Vance, Gonzalez, even Troy Smith a little bit - he underused every brilliant receiver and quarterback from 2000-2010. Can you imagine if he would have had the group last year? - he would have actually had a genuine reason not to throw. He probably would have started 8 offensive lineman a full back, rb and QB. We wouldnt have passed once all season. Now finally we are going to get a real offense. Pity we didnt get Diggs - one of the freshman will have to emerge - they need to use Hall full time as a receiver he couldnt possibly be worse than the group last year as Corey Brown simply can not play - he's the worst OSU starting receiver I have seen in 20 years. Anyway Tress always had his teams ready to play (except Florida of course) -but his offense was always unimaginative, predictable and dull. Bollman by himself was twice as bad.

i was always a little frustrated that JT never opened it up more, but looking back I never realized how good JT was...the guy had to have been a genius to manage an entire football team/program of tosu caliber at the level it did for so long with the lack of assistant coaching staff help/input/teaching