“I didn’t commit until Coach Tressel was hired,” Green said. “When I met with him, I kind of felt like he was just a down-to-earth good guy. Probably one of the most down-to-earth coaches I’ve ever met. (Texas’) Mack Brown was also pretty down-to-earth, but everybody else, they’ll tell you this stuff. Coach Tressel is a straight shooter. He’s going to tell you like it is. I was big and he was like, ‘You’re going to have to lose weight when you get here.’ And I was like, ‘This man is serious.’ He said, ‘If you don’t lose weight, you probably won’t play here.’ And I’m like, ‘This might be where I need to go – somewhere that’s going to get me better and get me where I need to be.’”