As the hiring of coach Jim Tressel at Ohio State starts to have an effect on the Buckeye football family, it also affects another family – Tressel’s own.”We have a lot of things to absorb here in the next few weeks,” said Tressel’s wife Ellen. “We were both excited, very excited. Youngstown is only two and a half hours away, my family is still there and they’ve already told us ‘we’re coming down to the games,’ so it’s not like we’re moving across the country,” she said of her husband’s new job.Ellen Tressel, who met her husband while he was coaching at Youngstown State, said it was too soon to know when the family would be relocating to Columbus. “Maybe in a few months,” she said. “Jim will be here before the rest of us, we haven’t made all the decisions yet.”She also talked about why Buckeye football is so great.”I think it’s the atmosphere, it’s the city, it’s the fans and the support; everything you’ve got here. It’s meeting the players and getting to know the surroundings and all the folks that make this possible,” she said.The pressure of coaching football at OSU is new to Ellen Tressel, but she said her husband could handle it. Of herself she said, “I won’t know until we get here,” adding “everyone is entitled to their opinion but that’s what makes America great.”Eloise Tressel, the new coach’s mother, attended last Thursday’s news conference to support her son.”I didn’t know until last night,” she said. “I was in a meeting from 4-6 p.m., so I was sheltered to the world, and when I got in my car here it was on the radio, that Jim had been named coach.””I think that he’s got the intelligence, the courage and the honesty to face the issues and deal with them, not that it’s going to be easy,” she added.Her husband, the late Lee Tressel, coached football at Baldwin Wallace College, and Jim played under him as quarterback while in college at BW. “(Lee’s) been proud of him all along, he’s been gone 20 years but Jim has done a good job wherever he’s been,” she said. Regardless of the opinions of some fans, Tressel’s family believes that he is the best man for the job.”His love of the players, his commitment, his spirituality, his love of family and all the things put together make him a great guy. He’s very qualified, he’s a great guy on and off the field and he’s up to the challenge,” Ellen Tressel said. “(Jim) is really a down to earth guy, he’s a great guy to get along with, he’s a great guy to be around, he’s extremely encouraging and a great influence on me,” said Tressel’s stepson Eric.