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Tressel says he is done with coaching

Published Jun. 25, 2015 1:20 p.m. ET

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Jim Tressel has effectively two more years left on his show-cause penalty handed down by the NCAA in December 2011, but his comments Wednesday on WHBC radio in Canton indicate that doesn't matter. 

"No, I've completely ruled that out," Tressel replied when host Kenny Roda asked if he might return to the sidelines some day (transcript via Elevenwarriors.com). 

At 62, Tressel is younger than Woody Hayes was when his OSU tenure ended in 1978 and younger than Steve Spurrier is now, but the soon-to-be OSU and College Football Hall of Famer said he might have been out of the game too long at this point. The last game he coached at Ohio State was the Sugar Bowl against Arkansas in January 2011. 

"When you're away from something for four or five years, you're not as up to date and I would be a dinosaur in coaching right now," he said. "I'm trying to be up to date in what I'm doing. They need the younger generation in there right now."

Of course Tressel has plenty to keep him busy as the president at Youngstown State, and he noted that gives him the chance to work with a far larger pool of young people. 

"I feel like I'm coaching 12,000 kids rather than 100," he said. 

(H/T Elevenwarriors.com)

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