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Gov. Mike DeWine announced Monday that he is nominating former Ohio State football coach and Youngstown State University president Jim Tressel to serve as his lieutenant governor.

The nomination of Tressel comes after former Ohio Lt. Gov. Jon Husted was tapped by DeWine to replace Vice President JD Vance in the United States Senate.

"I wanted someone who shared my values, Ohio's values. Someone who can pull people together. I want someone who shares my vision for the state of Ohio and that is we want everyone to live up to their God-given potential," DeWine explained in his reasoning for choosing Tressel.

While Tressel comes to his new post with no political experience, the 72-year-old native of Northeast Ohio did serve as the president at Youngstown State from 2014 to 2023. During his presidency at YSU, he was rumored to have interest in running for the U.S. Senate in 2018, then also after Rob Portman announced his retirement in 2021.

"Too busy here at YSU to run for the Senate," Tressel told BuzzFeed News in 2021. "It is time for the young guys to step up."

DeWine said that Tressel will be involved directly with education and workforce development during the last two years of his administration.

Tressel was born in Mentor and graduated from Berea High School and Baldwin Wallace University, playing quarterback for his father, BW head coach Lee Tressel. In 1986, Tressel became the head football coach at Youngstown State University. In 15 seasons, Tressel led YSU to four national championships.

In 2001, Tressel left Youngstown State to become head football coach at Ohio State. He would lead the Buckeyes to the national championship the following year, plus seven Big Ten titles in his ten seasons. He resigned in 2011 following a memorabilia-for-cash scandal involving five Buckeye players.

"This is really a humbling moment," said Tressel. "I believe in our governor and what he believes in. I promised for the next 699 days to have a singleness of purpose and singleness of focus, which is to serve the needs that the governor outlines."

DeWine's nomination of Tressel must be approved by both the Ohio Senate and the Ohio House of Representatives.

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