Ohio State’s Jim Tressel Named To AFCA Board of Trustees – Ohio State Buckeyes
6/5/2006 12:00:00 AM | Football
June 5, 2006
WACO, TEXAS –Ohio State University Head Coach Jim Tressel has been named to the Board of Trustees of the American Football Coaches Association.
Tressel joins a group of distinguished head coaches who guide the organization. The Board formulates policy and provides direction for the AFCA, which was founded in 1922 by Amos Alonzo Stagg, John Heisman and others. The AFCA has more than 10,000 members from all levels of the football coaching profession.
“It is an honor to serve the game of football, the coaching profession and to represent the Big 10,” Tressel said. “I am excited about the opportunity to work with the AFCA staff and the Board of Trustees.”
Tressel replaces Lloyd Carr of the University of Michigan, who has stepped down from his position on the AFCA Board.
Other members of the AFCA Board of Trustees include 2006 president Mel Tjeerdsma of Northwest Missouri State University; first vice-president Ken Sparks of Carson-Newman College; second vice-president Tyrone Willingham of the University of Washington and third vice-president Dick Tomey of San Jose State University.
Also serving on the Board in 2006: Larry Kehres, Mount Union College; Rob Ash, Drake University; Chuck Amato, North Carolina State University; Mike Bellotti, University of Oregon; Tim Murphy, Harvard University; Joe Glenn, University of Wyoming; Joe Novak, Northern Illinois University; Tommy Tuberville, Auburn University; Rich Rodriguez, West Virginia University; Mike Welch, Ithaca College; Dan McCarney, Iowa State University and Rob Ianello, University of Notre Dame, ex officio member and chairman of the Assistant Coaches Committee. AFCA Executive Director Grant Teaff serves as secretary-treasurer of the organization.
Tressel is the second member of his family to serve on the AFCA Board of Trustees. His brother, Dick, was a member of the Board from 1995-2000 while he was the head coach at Hamline University. Dick Tressel served as Third Vice President in his final year on the Board. Jim Tressel has a 20-year record of 185-70-2 at Ohio State and Youngstown State. He is the only coach in AFCA history to earn National Coach of the Year honors at two different schools and in two different divisions. He was the 2002 I-A National Coach of the Year at Ohio State and the 1991 and 1994 I-AA National Coach of the Year at Youngstown State. Tressel and his father, Lee, (Baldwin-Wallace 1978) are the only father-son duo to win AFCA National Coach of the Year honors.
The AFCA was founded in 1922 and currently has more than 10,000 members around the world, ranging from the high school level to the professional ranks. According to its constitution, the AFCA was formed, in part, to “maintain the highest possible standards in football and the coaching profession” and to “provide a forum for the discussion and study of all matters pertaining to football and coaching.”
