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QB1 Julian Sayin (All B1G, B1G Frosh of Year, All American, National Frosh of Year, National Champion)

ScriptOhio
RB07OSU said:
Howard was about damn perfect in deciding to run or throw. He was a decent athlete, but his decisiveness was the key. I think that can be learned, so I think Julian can get that decision making skill down. Lord knows the talent is there and he's a decent enough athlete.
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RE: Julian Sayin's 77.0 completion percentage in 2025 is the best in single-season program history, is a Big Ten Record and also is third highest in FBS history (Bo Nix in 2023 at Oregon (77.4 pct.) and Mac Jones in 2020 at Alabama (77.4 pct.)).

Will Howard was a 5th year senior and had 4 years of experience at K-State under his belt when he came to Ohio State. Julian Sayin pretty much sat of the bench in 2024 as QB3 watching Howard play. In 2025 Ohio State didn't have the best OL or QB2/QB3. Besides not always having a lot of time to set up in the pocket and he was told not to run (to minimize his chances for an injury)he threw a lot of passes away just to avoid a sack. With a year of actual experience/more film watching/additional coaching I would expect him to be able to read defenses much faster and he should be able to see when he has an opportunity to run for a first down, not be hit, and just go out of bounds or take a feet first slide. He's the most accurate passer that has ever been at Ohio State, the WR room could very well be the best in the nation, and overall the RBs much are better than average. If Ohio State can fix last year's "Achilles heel" (i.e. the OL) there's a very high ceiling in what Julian Sayin should be able to accomplish in 2026.
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WR Coach Cortez Hankton (Official Thread)

ScriptOhio
calibuck said:
Back 'in the day', was publicized that Woody gave several of his raises to his assistant coaches. He famously said 'I've got enough, so want some to go to my assistants' or somesuch wording. Always thought that was cool. Also believe that Day/Bjork will reward those assistants who produce in recruiting talent, and how well their position group performs on the field. Script, do you have an update of the 2026 salaries for the group you can post? Would think a side-by-side year-over-year picture would be telling. Lest we forget, for the working stiffs of the world (including me), $500,000 a year isn't chump change. And, inevitably, other schools are going to try to poach these guys, especially the high performers (see above), and we'll see how Day/Bjork respond. Maybe Day would take a cut to help out? Dunno.
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Matt Patricia Becomes College Football’s Highest-Paid Coordinator With $3.75 Million Salary, Arthur Smith to Make $1.5 Million in 2026

Matt Patricia becomes college football’s highest-paid assistant coach with a $3.75 million salary while Arthur Smith will make $1.5 million in his first year at Ohio State.
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Matt Patricia Becomes College Football’s Highest-Paid Coordinator With $3.75 Million Salary, Arthur Smith to Make $1.5 Million in 2026​

March 10, 2026
Matt Patricia is now the highest-paid assistant coach in college football.

After leading the nation’s top defense in his first year with the Buckeyes in 2025, Ohio State’s defensive coordinator will make $3.75 million in 2026 as part of a new three-year contract. His salary will increase to $3.85 million in 2027 and 2028, per the terms of his contract, which was obtained by Eleven Warriors on Tuesday through a public records request.

Patricia’s new contract comes after he received offers from NFL teams that were interested in hiring him as their defensive coordinator. Ultimately, Patricia decided to stay at Ohio State, and Ohio State made sure he was compensated accordingly.

“Did he have options? Yes. But I think he found a lot of joy in making an impact on these guys' lives at a different point in their lives than what he was used to in the NFL. And so we were able to work something out to keep him here,” Ryan Day said Tuesday.
“We knew that was important. The guys really enjoy working with him and learning from him.”

OHIO STATE'S 2026 ASSISTANT COACH SALARIES
COACH TITLE 2026 SALARY 2025 SALARY CHANGE CONTRACT END
MATT PATRICIA DEFENSIVE COORDINATOR $3,750,000 $2,500,000 +$1,250,000 2029
TIM WALTON ASSISTANT HEAD COACH/CO-DEFENSIVE COORDINATOR/SECONDARY COACH $1,800,000 $1,800,000 $0 2028
LARRY JOHNSON ASSOCIATE HEAD COACH/DEFENSIVE LINE COACH $1,600,000 $1,400,000 +$200,000 2027
ARTHUR SMITH OFFENSIVE COORDINATOR $1,500,000 N/A* N/A 2028
KEENAN BAILEY CO-OFFENSIVE COORDINATOR/TIGHT ENDS COACH $1,000,000 $650,000 +$350,000 2028
TYLER BOWEN OFFENSIVE LINE COACH/RUN GAME COORDINATOR $1,000,000 $900,000 +$100,000 2028
MATT GUERRIERI PASSING GAME COORDINATOR/SAFETIES COACH $1,000,000 $900,000 +$100,000 2028
CORTEZ HANKTON WIDE RECEIVERS COACH $900,000 $1,000,000* -$100,000 2028
JAMES LAURINAITIS LINEBACKERS COACH $900,000 $500,000 +$400,000 2028
BILLY FESSLER PASSING GAME COORDINATOR/QUARTERBACKS COACH $750,000 $475,000 +$275,000 2028
CARLOS LOCKLYN RUNNING BACKS COACH $700,000 $650,000 +$50,000 2028
ROBBY DISCHER SPECIAL TEAMS COORDINATOR $400,000 $400,000* $0 2028
*Hankton coached at LSU and Discher coached at Illinois in 2025. Arthur Smith was the Pittsburgh Steelers’ offensive coordinator in 2025, but his NFL contract was not subject to public record.

New Ohio State offensive coordinator Arthur Smith will make $1.5 million in 2026 and $2 million in 2027 on a two-year contract. Wide receivers coach Cortez Hankton will make $900,000 in 2026 and $1 million in 2027 on a two-year contract. New special teams coordinator Robby Discher will make $400,000 in 2026 and $450,000 in 2027 on a two-year contract.
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In total, Ohio State will pay its assistant coaches $15.3 million in 2026, its largest assistant coach salary pool ever, after expanding its full-time coaching staff from 10 coaches to 12. That’s an increase of more than $3.5 million from 2025, when Ohio State paid its assistant coaches $11.775 million in salary, not including bonuses.

That’s in addition to the $12.5 million Ohio State will pay Day, who’s in the second year of a seven-year contract that he signed with Ohio State last year.

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Ryan Day, Ohio State Agree On a New Seven-Year Contract Valued at $12.5 Million Per Year

Ohio State and national champion head coach Ryan Day have agreed in principle to a new seven-year contract with a total annual compensation of $12.5 million.
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Ryan Day, Ohio State Agree On a New Seven-Year Contract Valued at $12.5 Million Per Year​

February 6, 2025
Ryan Day has a new contract.

Ohio State announced Thursday that Day and the school's athletic department have agreed in principle to a new seven-year contract, worth $12.5 million in total annual compensation, that will keep the head football coach in Columbus through the 2031 season. Terms of the contract, which add three years to his current agreement.

In addition to his base pay, Day will also remain eligible for a multitude of bonuses based on his team’s performance, as listed below:
  • $50,000 for a team GPA of 3.0 or higher, which increases to $100,000 if GPA is 3.3+ and $150,000 if GPA is 3.5+
  • $50,000 for a Big Ten Championship Game appearance, which increases to $250,000 for a Big Ten Championship Game win
  • $100,000 for a College Football Playoff appearance, which increases to $250,000 for a quarterfinal appearance, $300,000 if Ohio State earns a first-round bye into the quarterfinals, $350,000 for a semifinal appearance, $500,000 for a national championship game appearance and $1 million for a national championship game win
  • $50,000 for a Big Ten Coach of the Year award
  • $100,000 for a national coach of the year award
Should Ohio State fire Day without cause, it would owe Day a buyout of $11.5 million per year for each remaining year on the contract, though he would be required to pursue other work and those buyout payments would be reduced by his pay in his subsequent job.

Day would owe Ohio State a $6 million buyout if he left Ohio State before Jan. 31, 2026. That buyout decreases to $4 million on Feb. 1, 2026 and by $500,000 for every subsequent year thereafter, down to $2 million if he leaves Ohio State after Feb. 1, 2030 and no buyout if he leaves Ohio State after Feb. 1, 2031.
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Deciding When to Retire

Jaxbuck
shetuck said:
The more interesting question isn't "when" but "where"...

Florida real estate getting more affordable.
Some countries in Europe are ending Golden Visas, but others are still giving incentives.
Asia (vietnam, thailand), South America (Honduras, Costa Rica)...

Urban to rural vs rural to urban - eg rustbelt to NYC or ATL or ABQ vs getting outta the big noisy city out to big sky country.

Others? Digital nomads? Buy a room on a cruise ship? Buy a farm or a fruit orchard?
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Not Florida dude.

Whatever the hell you do, don’t do Florida.
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Deciding When to Retire

shetuck
The more interesting question isn't "when" but "where"...

Florida real estate getting more affordable.
Some countries in Europe are ending Golden Visas, but others are still giving incentives.
Asia (vietnam, thailand), South America (Honduras, Costa Rica)...

Urban to rural vs rural to urban - eg rustbelt to NYC or ATL or ABQ vs getting outta the big noisy city out to big sky country.

Others? Digital nomads? Buy a room on a cruise ship? Buy a farm or a fruit orchard?
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Deciding When to Retire

Jaxbuck
heisman said:
I think we are talking around one another. A person who made minimum wage in 1980 could not afford any of those things at $2 an hour either. Nothing has changed that much. 1980 had interest rates around 15% as well.

Minimum wage in IL isn’t $2 an hour anymore, it’s $17 an hour. Work a little OT and you’re looking at $40k per year. That’s why there is inflation. Apples to apples, even with inflation, you can afford a hell of a lot more on $17 per hour today than you could $2 an hour 45 years ago.

Anyway, the beauty of 401k math is that if you deduct $2k (5%), and your employer matches the $2k (most do, including mine), that’s $4k per year in your 401k. Since it’s pre-tax, that takes that $40 per week deduction, and reduces it to around $30 per week, or $1500 per year. So, you are choosing to forego $30 per week in instant gratification, for $4000 per year in capital growth. Put that $4000 per year in a compound interest calculator at a rate of 12% (S&P’s since 1980), and you end up with $4.4 million dollars. $30 per week or $4 million? This is the exact presentation I have management give our new employees.
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Probably a side conversation but you cannot buy the same with $17 an hour (or any amount). your purchasing power is 25-45% less.

To say that you can is factually incorrect
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Deciding When to Retire

shetuck
heisman said:
I think we are talking around one another. A person who made minimum wage in 1980 could not afford any of those things at $2 an hour either. Nothing has changed that much. 1980 had interest rates around 15% as well.

Minimum wage in IL isn’t $2 an hour anymore, it’s $17 an hour. Work a little OT and you’re looking at $40k per year. That’s why there is inflation. Apples to apples, even with inflation, you can afford a hell of a lot more on $17 per hour today than you could $2 an hour 45 years ago.

Anyway, the beauty of 401k math is that if you deduct $2k (5%), and your employer matches the $2k (most do, including mine), that’s $4k per year in your 401k. Since it’s pre-tax, that takes that $40 per week deduction, and reduces it to around $30 per week, or $1500 per year. So, you are choosing to forego $30 per week in instant gratification, for $4000 per year in capital growth. Put that $4000 per year in a compound interest calculator at a rate of 12% (S&P’s since 1980), and you end up with $4.4 million dollars. $30 per week or $4 million? This is the exact presentation I have management give our new employees.
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skip that dunkin / mcd's / starbucks stop every morning and get your coffee / eggs / bagel at home... $4.4 million dollars.
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Deciding When to Retire

heisman
Jaxbuck said:
Totally agree, you have to own assets and then you win on asset inflation.

You have to have earn enough to buy assets though, and the board has tilted hard against most people as child rearing, education and healthcare have outpaced wage growth and eaten into the purchasing power of those earnings.
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I think we are talking around one another. A person who made minimum wage in 1980 could not afford any of those things at $2 an hour either. Nothing has changed that much. 1980 had interest rates around 15% as well.

Minimum wage in IL isn’t $2 an hour anymore, it’s $17 an hour. Work a little OT and you’re looking at $40k per year. That’s why there is inflation. Apples to apples, even with inflation, you can afford a hell of a lot more on $17 per hour today than you could $2 an hour 45 years ago.

Anyway, the beauty of 401k math is that if you deduct $2k (5%), and your employer matches the $2k (most do, including mine), that’s $4k per year in your 401k. Since it’s pre-tax, that takes that $40 per week deduction, and reduces it to around $30 per week, or $1500 per year. So, you are choosing to forego $30 per week in instant gratification, for $4000 per year in capital growth. Put that $4000 per year in a compound interest calculator at a rate of 12% (S&P’s since 1980), and you end up with $4.4 million dollars. $30 per week or $4 million? This is the exact presentation I have management give our new employees.
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Deciding When to Retire

Jaxbuck
heisman said:
It’s in the investor’s favor. That’s the point. The massive asset inflation across all asset classes is unprecedented. You either prepare for it, or you don’t. That’s why @Zurp is so loaded!
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Totally agree, you have to own assets and then you win on asset inflation.

You have to have earn enough to buy assets though, and the board has tilted hard against most people as child rearing, education and healthcare have outpaced wage growth and eaten into the purchasing power of those earnings.
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Impending Assistant Coach Vacancies

MGMT
calibuck said:
Hey, please clear away the fog for me. I know that there have been numerous asst coaches hired to backstop LJsr. Eventually he'll hang 'em up, and the thought was there would be an individual trained to succeed him. And those numerous asst coaches have all left to take other jobs. OK, does tOSU have someone in place? Or is it going to be find the best guy out there when he finally rides into the sunset? I've lost track.
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I’m not sure the guys under LJS are considered successors. Joe Kim by all accounts seems to be a very respected consultant and teacher of technique but from a recruitment and unit performance standpoint I have no idea.

Sorry I couldn’t be of more help, in short it doesn’t seem like it but he has teachers under him for sure.
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Deciding When to Retire

heisman
Jaxbuck said:
The purchasing power of a dollar has eroded massively over the past 40 some years. Deepening on where you look and what stats you like the median "adult package" of a house, cars kids, education has outpaced core inflation to the order of ~ 25-40% less purchasing power than the 1980's.

That isn't in anyone's favor.
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It’s in the investor’s favor. That’s the point. The massive asset inflation across all asset classes is unprecedented. You either prepare for it, or you don’t. That’s why @Zurp is so loaded!
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2026 scUM Shenanigans, Arguments, Arrogant Twatwaffles, Emasculated Cucks, Feckless Marmots, Dirty Cheaters "Mid"chigan

buckeyemania11
Mike80 said:
And the new staff isn't as beholden to his aura (if that's the right word)....it will be far easier for them to say "well, we tried, he sucks" and go to that other kid that seems to fit their scheme better.
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The comedy that would result from the new staff benching the 12 million dollar man for a generic 4 star freshmen would be some all time stuff. I'm sure Whittingham could give two fucks, he was heading to retirement anyways before desperate scUM came blowing him up. It would ruffle a lot of feathers in the scUM sphere though
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Deciding When to Retire

Jaxbuck
heisman said:
Disagree. The math is in everyone’s favor.
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The purchasing power of a dollar has eroded massively over the past 40 some years. Deepening on where you look and what stats you like the median "adult package" of a house, cars kids, education has outpaced core inflation to the order of ~ 25-40% less purchasing power than the 1980's.

That isn't in anyone's favor.
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Deciding When to Retire

heisman
Jaxbuck said:
It's bullshit beyond a certain level of income, below that and it isn't bullshit. It's math.

There are a lot of working poor in this country. They aren't all stupid and lazy.

Capitalism is the least bad economic system we humans have come up with but it still sucks at distribution.
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Disagree. The math is in everyone’s favor.

Stupid and lazy…probably not. Priorities of alcohol, tattoos, weed, and consumer debt…more than likely.
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