AuTX Buckeye said:

No more retreads. It rarely works out. Fresh blood or else.

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This.

AuTX Buckeye said:

No more retreads. It rarely works out. Fresh blood or else.

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Patricia could be considered a bit of a retread in some ways.

I'd be ok with Wilson - he has a strong enough personality and a definite system that would be able to keep Coach Day in more of an executive role.

No matter who gets the job, whoever it is has to have established credibility to be able to run the show on his own. Kelly had it. Hartline did not fully have that 'it' yet. Tom Herman had it while he was at Ohio State, especially after JT got hurt against TCUN, Tim Beck did not as we saw the following year.

osuvictory1 said:

Listened to Menace. Smith doesn't like the hire. Say's Hankton is not a good recruiter, but for a few guys. At each UGA and LSU the receivers regressed.

I know... I know Zach Smith, but he does know ball, and the different coaches out there.

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Anybody who ever brings up Zach Smith always posts it with a caveat. You'd think that would be enough of a big red flag, and yet....

“PAWWWWWWLLLLLLL!”

Thump said:

Huh?

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Satirical analogy, referring to Cryami fans' 23-year Terry Porter obsession.

I'm not going to crush the kid - unlike about 60% of the non-BP Buckeye fanbase, I don't get my jollies screeching about kickers.

Literally no one in the locker room feels worse about it than he does.

I do have some concerns about 'staying with your guy' too long but that's a Ryan Day problem, not a Jayden Fielding problem. There's putting people in a position to succeed or fail, and then there's trotting a guy out who has shown a propensity for not getting the job done. Everyone has their ceiling and their limitations, and it's ENTIRELY on the coaches to find them, understand what they are, and do what's best for the PROGRAM and the PLAYER.

OregonBuckeye said:

Well, he hasn't played. Not sure how anyone can accurately rank him. But he certainly has the physical tools to be great.

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Just sayin': Yeah, you're right and the only time he did get to play it was a disaster, i.e. 2023 Cotton Bowl.

No more retreads. It rarely works out. Fresh blood or else.

Ole Miss settling for FGs probably going to regret it.

Telekinesis said:

They were lined up offside on that one play.

We shouldn’t get over this for about 23 years!

Jesus, man! You act like they would have won if the refs didn’t screw us over so badly on that one play. Good god. Never forget.

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Huh?

It will be telling whom Day brings in. The one thing about Wilson is his background working with the OL.

Dude that last one was good from 61 or 62....absolute bomb.

dragurd said:

He also had some sour grapes over Hartline and his WR rotations

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I have heard him call Hartline the goat. He actually raves about Hartline.

It's true. Hartline did not rotate very much. Many people questioned that.

Get a real kicker for the love of christ, Ryan.

Not so much of a criticism as an adjustment I think he'll understand and make this next season.

College ball is necessarily different from the NFL. A LOT of NFL teams operate under the 4 minute offense (so does Ohio State in a lot of previous seasons). Teams that can dink and dunk all the way down the field without fucking up (like last night) are very rare. I want to say the longest pass attempted by Beck last night was under 25 yards (full disclosure, I didn't see most of the 4th quarter).

The adjustment is, as @Captain Buckeye stated - if your offense is chewing clock, and you're not getting off the field defensively (playing softer zones, not getting off the field on 3rd down, etc) - then BOTH teams are chewing clock. That will work 90% of the time when you have a team as powerful as Ohio State BUT when the other team can play that way like Indiana and Cryami did, then the system works against itself.

The adjustment has to be to attack more in those situations. When Ohio State did that last night on defense, they got several stops in a row.

Patricia is the best defensive coordinator Ohio State has had since Fickell or Dantonio. I'm certain he will figure it out.

56 yard chip shot

ho hum, another 50+ right through the uprights

55 and 56 with ease lol. Meanwhile Fielding is liable to shank a 27 yarder

Just sayin': I'd say either of these two would be a great hire as OC.

Brian Daboll​

Brian Daboll was the head coach of the New York Giants and has a strong track record of working with quarterbacks, including the Buffalo Bills’ Josh Allen. Daboll was rumored to be a candidate for the Penn State coaching job, but that wasn’t the way that the Nittany Lions went.

Daboll is a great offensive mind with experience at the college and pro levels. Ryan Day went to the NFL ranks to get his defensive coordinator with Matt Patricia, maybe he does that here.

Kevin Wilson ​

Kevin Wilson was with the Buckeyes from 2017 through 2022 before leaving to take the head coaching job at Tulsa. Wilson was very good at his job in Columbus, and that helped him land the head coaching gig. Wilson was let go after the 2024 season and is now an offensive analyst with Oklahoma.

Since Wilson joined the Ohio State Buckeyes in 2017, they have averaged 523.8 yards per game (third in the nation), had more than 500 yards of total offense 27 times and over 600 yards nine times, scored 234 touchdowns (second in the nation), completed 138 touchdown passes (best in the nation), set six Big Ten Conference Offensive Records in the 2018 season (535.6 yards per game, 5,100 passing yards, 51 touchdown passes, 1131 total plays). Wilson's offense produced back-to-back Heisman Trophy finalists (Dwayne Haskins and Justin Fields), the first 2,000-yard rusher in school history (J. K. Dobbins), and the fifth 1,000-yard receiver in school history (Parris Campbell).