Tressel’s Michigan Week Presser Tidbits
Coach Tress was asked, at his weekly media luncheon, if TP2 had exceeded expectations. As usual, JT didn’t really answer the question, but we all know the answer to that: a resounding “Hell-to-the-yea”! Here was coach’s response:
COACH TRESSEL: Terrelle has done a good job of accepting coaching. He loves being coached. He wants to do well so badly. I remember him saying clear back in August, he’ll do anything to help this senior class have a great year. That’s the way he is. He’s saying the same things late in the year. Has he exceeded? We’re so close to the situation that there are some things that you wish he’d have seen the Mike linebacker go that way and throw to this guy. We’re to that point now that it’s on a play-by-play, day-by-day standpoint. But we knew that he was a talented young guy. Everyone in the country knew that. I don’t know that anyone knew just what a student of the game that he wanted to be. He was always very serious about the game when you talked to him, but you don’t know until you’re thrust into the situation and again, I don’t think you ever evaluate anything whether it’s an individual or a team until they’ve had their full body of work, as we call it, and then you have a chance to maybe for three minutes talk about that first year and then you worry about how he and we are going to do the next year.
Gotta love Tressel-speak!
He also discussed some hypotheticals with regards to Terrelle’s recruitment, since he battled Michigan’s Rich Rod (and to a lesser extent, JoePa) for him.
One of the questions was with regards to starting Todd Boeckman for the game. JT said that he hasn’t “really talked about that”, but it would not shock me to see it. However, if he’s out there for more than a play or two, that’s bad news. I know Michigan is terrible this season, but we can’t afford to get all “cute”; even on Senior Day. The players that give the team the best chance to win need to be out on the field, captains or not.
Then taunting-gate was brought up. Tress didn’t even know what happened. Thanks to the the tattling reporters, he does now!
COACH TRESSEL: He loves to compete and he loves people questioning whether he can get something done or not, but is that always the best thing to communicate back and forth? Not always, but you don’t know what was said, you don’t know if it’s good natured or whatever it happens to be, but didn’t really see it, didn’t even hear of it until you just said that.
TP didn’t really do anything. With swear words and debris raining down on him all he did was point at the student section and smirk. I still think it was unnecessary, but it’s not like he was yelling back, throwing things himself, or even displaying improper gestures. He just pointed at them. That’s all.
We should all try that some time. Pimpin’ aint easy.
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