In his introductory press conference at Youngstown State on Wednesday, former Nebraska and now-YSU coach Bo Pelini had some nice words for university president Jim Tressel at the expense of his former superiors.
"I love to coach football, I love to serve kids that I coach and I believe that I have a great situation here," Pelini said. "I have a tremendous athletic director, a president who understands football who's going to support me – something that I don't know if I've ever head. I have a great administration and a community that I believe in wholeheartedly."
At Nebraska, Pelini had a 67-27 record and won nine games in each of his seven seasons with the school, though it wasn't enough at a school that remembers its dominance in the 1990s fondly. He was fired shortly after Nebraska's final regular season game of 2014.
Tressel, the former Ohio State coach, became YSU's president in 2014. He was the football coach at Youngstown State before becoming the coach at Ohio State. Pelini is a native of Youngstown, Ohio, and is back coaching in the town for the first time since he was a coach at Cardinal Mooney High School in 1993.
In 2013, audio of a leaked 2011 tirade of Pelini's was leaked. After the release of the video, Nebraska president Harvey Perlman said he was disappointed about it and met with athletic director Shawn Eichorst. At the time, Eichorst said he talked with Pelini and expressed the administration's "deep concern."
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