Former Ohio State football coach Jim Tressel was introduced Thursday by U. Akron President Luis Proenza as the school’s new vice president of strategic engagement.

Just days removed from an unsuccessful run at the NFL’s Indianapolis Colts’ head coaching job, Tressel will begin his new role at Akron on May 1, 29 days shy of the one-year anniversary of his forced resignation at OSU.

Tressel, who began his coaching career as an undergraduate assistant at Akron, will earn $200,000 annually in his new position at Akron.

“That Akron experience is something I look forward to sinking my teeth into,” Tressel said at the Thursday press conference at Akron.

In Tressel’s final game coaching the Buckeyes, he led the team to a 31-26 victory against Arkansas in the 2011 Sugar Bowl in the Louisiana Superdome. That game, along with the entire 2010 season, was later vacated by OSU as part of its self-imposed penalties for violating NCAA policies. Tressel’s decade-long reign at OSU ended when he was forced to resign from his post with the Buckeyes on May 30.

On Dec. 19, Tressel was issued a five-year show cause penalty by the NCAA for not properly reporting NCAA rules violations that he was aware of during the Buckeyes’ 2010 season. The show cause would result in penalties for any member institution that hired him as a coach.