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2026 tOSU Offense Discussion

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cincibuck said:
"Sounds like Ohio State will continue to utilize multiple TE's and no changes will be made. Ryan Day in his press conference said the TE's have been solid as a group."

Remember the game at Michigan when Tress went with a tackle instead of a tight end and pounded their ass all game long with that set. But then that was Tress. Someone who knew how to beat Michigan.
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I certainly do, that was when we used that big TE as a Yackle. Name escapes me for some reason. Clutch game plan from the man who knew how to beat ttun.
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2026 tOSU "Special" Teams Discussion

shetuck
brodybuck21 said:

Rob Keys Will Be Ohio State’s Special Teams Coordinator for Rest of 2026 Season After Robby Discher’s Firing​

By Dan Hope on November 10, 2026 at 12:20 pm @dan_hope
Rob Keys

USA TODAY Network via Reuters Connect
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Coaching special teams will be a collaborative effort for Ohio State’s staff for the rest of the 2026 season.
Rob Keys, who’s worked with Ohio State’s special teams as a member of the Buckeyes’ extended coaching staff since 2022, will coordinate Ohio State’s special teams for the remainder of 2026 after Robby Discher’s firing, Ryan Day said Tuesday.
Several other Ohio State coaches will assist Keys in that effort. Day said Matt Guerrieri will lead the punt team, while James Laurinaitis will lead the kickoff team for the rest of 2026. Keys will lead the punt return team, while multiple coaches will split up coaching the kickoff return unit.
Keys joined Ohio State’s staff in 2022 after 11 years as the head coach at Findlay, a Division II school in Northwest Ohio. He’s worked with special teams throughout his five years at Ohio State, most recently holding the title of senior analyst.
The de facto leader of Ohio State’s special teams in 2024 and 2025, when the Buckeyes didn’t have a full-time special teams coordinator, Keys will now lead Ohio State in that phase of the game again. The Buckeyes will be counting on him to clean up what’s been a unit plagued by penalties and miscues throughout the 2026 season, leading to Discher’s firing after only nine games at Ohio State.
Day said he fired Discher because “there’s just been too many detrimental plays,” specifically calling Oregon’s 30-yard fake punt – which flipped the momentum of the game that Ohio State led 14-3, but ultimately lost 41-28 – against the Buckeyes “embarrassing.”
“I'm not gonna get into all the details of it at this point, but to me, that was a breakdown in a big way,” Day said.
Day said he will not make any more coaching changes before this week’s game against Northwestern, though he will continue to evaluate whether more changes should be made going forward. He also said he has not yet decided whether he will hire a full-time special teams coordinator in 2027.

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So let me get this straight… I have no clue who Rob Keys is. But, to fix the issues we’ve been having on special teams for last few years, we’re going to promote the guy who’s been coaching the special teams for the last few years?
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Mark Pantoni (Assistant Athletic Director, Player Personnel)

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Captain Buckeye said:
I agree. That he should bare some responsibility for this past years portal class. Maybe he was directed to get older kids like Indiana and that led to a complete failure?

But what is Pantoni and others doing to get underrated talent onto the team? Just taking bigger schools back ups isn’t a great way forward.

Just go out and get talented players. How is Indiana able to get Daly to come in and play great? How did Indiana identify the defensive end from Kansas State?

Why are we missing on every single transfer that’s not obvious? Of course identifying Downs, Klare, Judkins, Davison, and Fields is easy.

But where is the kid where we are floored we identified? They’ve not done well in the portal other than the obvious kids.
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Josh Simmons was a no-name from SDSU who developed into a 1st round pick (would've been top 10 if not for the injury and character concerns).
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What kind of car do you drive?

BuckBackHome
NJ-Buckeye said:
Wonder how many are like me... Not sure anyone has been in the 3rd row of either of my Pilots more than a handful of times in 20 years..
I bought it for the back area storage area and the fact that 2 large sized crates can fit in the back at the same time.
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And bodies....allegedly;-)
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2026 tOSU Offense Discussion

pnuts34
Captain Buckeye said:
Bolded.

The team needs him to get back to this. Maybe not as the coordinator but to get back to those dynamic crazy offenses. As Ryan has gone he’s become more and more conservative on offense. Choosing to now play time of possession, play formations we don’t have the personnel for, and talks consistently about getting the game to the 4th quarter.

The team need the guy that prior to Oregon Rose Bowl game stated “this doesn’t have to be close”.
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Along his HC journey Day has decided that he wants HIS team to run more like an NFL team. He wants a slower pace and actually has increased his plays in 2026 from 2025(70 from 63/plays a game). But it’s still lower than the 76 plays a game he was running in his 1st year as HC. But I don’t think anyone wants Day back to being the HC and OC.

One good point that I heard on the Bill & Doug podcast, was that they didn’t see Day going to strictly former NFL coaches as a positive anymore. The experiment has been done for the last few years, and we’re seeing this year that MP isn’t that good at simply scheming a defense to disrupt an offense. And specifically to this thread, AS has failed this offense. It doesn’t look coherent and in sync, and Fahey has been essentially set up to fail with a string of plays being safe and offering no threat. College and the NFL are 2 different games, and getting these big brains in the way to over complicate the game isn’t helping the kids to succeed. Watching plenty of teams in CFB have offenses that constantly threaten defenses yet have a fraction of the talent that OSU have is absolutely frustrating. If AS were shown the door after this season, I’d personally prefer Day pursue a young OC from the college ranks who relives he has a bunch of WR talent and doesn’t use heavy lineups so much. An OC who can use the threat of those WRs to open up the run game. And for the love of everything holy, Day needs to get an OL coach who can develop and identify talent more than an OL coach who’s strictly a recruiter. Because at this point, with the Portal there’s no excuse why OSU can’t land elite OL in the Portal to go with several from HS. Just my $.02
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