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Twenty-five years ago this summer, Jim Tressel took over for Bill Narduzzi as Youngstown State's head football coach. 

He was just the Penguins' fourth boss in school history and until the first sentence you just read in this story, probably the only other YSU head coach you could name if questioned.

Though the program wasn't exactly in great shape at the time of his departure, Narduzzi himself was eventually inducted into the Youngstown State Hall of Fame in 1996, ten years after Tressel took over for him (going 2-9 in his first season before developing the program into the I-AA powerhouse that it became). 

Narduzzi's son Pat, a freshman in 1985, had led the Penguins - and the entire conference - in tackles that season in playing for his father.  However, once Tressel took over for pops in 1986, Pat promptly left Youngstown State and transferred to Rhode Island. 

Pat is now one of Mark Dantonio's assistants at Michigan State, just one of the schools that are currently in Feast Mode with Ohio's top prep prospects in the wake of Tressel's resignation.

It's an interesting little anecdote, isn't it.  Not only for you, Buckeye fan, but apparently to anyone with even a casual interest in college sports. 

Reading new or old stories about Ohio State football, beyond the festering scandal activated by players busted for affronting their amateur statuses in a tattoo parlor, and about things that Tressel might have done decades ago is suddenly a burgeoning summer enterprise in the world of journalism.