By: Doug Lesmerises (Cleveland Plain Dealer) -

Columbus — In the mid-1980s, a football recruit sat in an office at St. John Arena with two Ohio State football coaches. Woody Hayes in one chair. Jim Tressel in the other.

“When I was here as an assistant, he would come around a little bit,” Tressel said Thursday, recollecting his interactions with the legend to whom he would eventually draw comparisons. “I remember him talking to a recruit one time in my office, and he had him look out the St. John Arena window toward the stadium and said, ‘Young man that stadium was built from 1920 to ‘22. There’s been a lot of changes in the world from that point until now, and if you come to Ohio State in the next four years, there will be more changes in those four years than there were in those 60 years.’

“That was a different type of recruiting pitch. I don’t know if it was a recruiting pitch or if it was just something he was thinking about. At that time he was really talking about the age of computers was really going to take off. It was a hunch he had.

“The funny thing is I don’t even remember who the recruit was. I probably gave the recruit no attention because Woody was there. I thought Woody was talking to me.”

Every year during Penn State week, Tressel is asked to reflect on his relationship with Nittany Lions legend Joe Paterno, and every year he tells the story about interviewing with Paterno for a graduate assistant job in 1974, then instead taking a more hands-on job at……

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