If Jim Tressel runs for governor of Ohio, it will come up.
And he might run. Tressel, 72, the former Ohio State football coach whose 2002 Buckeyes won a national championship, whose teams were 9-1 against rival Michigan, and who served as president of Youngstown State University from 2014 to 2023, was easily approved Wednesday to be lieutenant governor to Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine. And in an interview with The Athletic, he stopped well short of ruling out a run to succeed DeWine, a Republican whose second term stretches through 2026.
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As he explained his thinking about a gubernatorial run, Tressel recalled a lesson he learned at the University of Akron
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