Film lovers Paterno, Tressel give each other good reviews

0 Comments | Philadelphia Inquirer, The, September, 2006 | by Frank Fitzpatrick

The middle-age guy with the red vest and the tax auditor's haircut doesn't appear to have much in common with the old man in Coke-bottle glasses and rolled-up khakis. But, in a way, Jim Tressel and Joe Paterno are the Ebert and Roeper of college coaches. While the technologically challenged Paterno still can't distinguish a videotape from a DVD, there are few things Penn State's coach enjoys more than sitting in his den, dissecting an opposing team as he watches one.

Tressel is, by all accounts, a tape junkie, too, spending hours each day viewing them in elaborate film rooms inside Ohio State's Woody Hayes Athletic Center. And if the two coaches were reviewing each other's game tapes in advance of Saturday's matchup between No. 24 Penn State and No. 1 Ohio State in Columbus,...