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Zip,' Tressel says  Published: Thu, February 2, 2012 @ 10:36
a.m.  AKRON — “I am excited to be a Zip,” former Ohio State
University football coach Jim Tressel told members of the news
media today as the University of Akron today named him to a vice
president’s position.  According to the Akron beacon Journal,
Tressel will be in charge of “strategic engagement” for the
university and will be paid a base salary of $200,000.  The
newspaper reported Tressel played a key role in the search for a
football coach that led to the hiring of Terry Bowden and since
then has remained in touch with university officials, said UA
President Luis Proenza.  It was after those discussions, Proenza
said, that he began talking to Tressel about returning to UA.
Tressel, who earned his master’s degree in education at UA and
was once part of the Zips football c