Captain Buckeye said:

Daly now able to return for a 5th year what a fucking joke.

I’m really beginning to hate this program. Miracle what Cig has done but dodging any nonconference schedule and now this. Irritating.

I have to say, why are we scheduling UGA, Texas, ND, Alabama etc? Indiana isn’t doing that. Oregon isn’t doing that any longer. Penn State hasn’t done that for years. TCUN wasn’t doing that for the longest time either.

I have to say, we can’t afford to lose to Texas knowing we face Oregon and Indiana (let alone all the other teams).

This year vs IU is going to be an absolute war. You have to hope all the tough games we’ll play will better prepare us for that game compared to IU who plays no one until they play us.

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Give Michigan credit, they scheduled Texas and Oklahoma the last few years.

Lol the predictable domino effect from the insane deal that DGG got. Desperate programs throwing comical bags to get a player or two causes havoc on the market.

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gmen6981 said:

Other than The Game 2024, I really can't remember Day having any of those "WTF" games. Like you said, Urban seemed to to suffer at least one of those every year. They usually managed to pull them out, but as Iowa and Purdue showed, not always.

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Urban relied on intensity and motivation so much, my belief is that once a year his teams were just mentally/emotionally checked out and you had his head scratcher. Only Urban could stay as intense as Urban for as long as Urban. College kids couldn't do it. NFL players told him to fuck off.

I think Day's probably not a great in game/adjustment coach. Like @Mike80 said, there has never been a perfect coach and Day wasn't going to be the first.

He is a great QB developer and overall offensive mind. He has managed to keep the OSU machine running at an extremely high level overall. He's won a NC, I mean it is what it is at this point.

The knock/fear I would still have is if they get this salary cap stuff in place and teams generally abide by it, you are going to have an NFL type environment where resources are more even, talent is more even and the really excellent X/O coaches really become difference makers. There is nothing about Day so far that makes me think he can do more with less, or even similar, talent. He relies on having better Jimmie's and Joe's.

Just being honest but I am not a coach. I could be dead wrong (I hope).

Vogt is a trash manager as well. Continuing to throw Festa out in high leverage situations.

This is just a bad baseball team that can't even do the most basic things. Kwan tried bunting in the bottom of the 10th and popped it up right to the 3rd basemen

Just sayin': In case you wondered too.

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Ohio State’s Passing Game Had a YAC Problem in 2025 – And Fixing It Could Define the Buckeyes’ Offense in 2026​

For the first time in the transfer portal era, Ohio State added a wide receiver from the transfer portal – two, to be exact. It also added a new wide receivers coach and offensive coordinator.

Part of that was due to the attrition that happens in today's college football landscape, but Brian Hartline taking his talents to South Florida also played a part. However, another reason is that Ohio State needs to have a more explosive passing attack, one that generates more yards after the catch.

In 2025, Ohio State had 3,755 receiving yards as a team. Only 1,595 of those yards came after the catch (5.1 YAC/reception), per Pro Football Focus. The Buckeyes were the 15th-worst Power Four team in that category. After averaging 5.2 YAC/REC during an undefeated regular season, OSU averaged only 4.7 YAC/REC in its two postseason losses (4.0 vs. Indiana and 5.3 vs. Miami).

It's the worst OSU has been in that category throughout an entire season since 2020, when it averaged 4.5 yards after catch per reception.

Only five Buckeyes had more than 100 yards after catch last season, led by Jeremiah Smith, whose 378 YAC were tied for the 50th-most in the country. While 10 Ohio State players averaged more than 5.0 YAC/REC, only two of those players had more than 100 yards after catch, and none were a wide receiver who had more than six receptions.

The Buckeyes had two of the best receivers in the country (a top-four pick in the 2025 NFL draft and arguably the best player in college football in both 2025 and 2026), yet Ohio State’s pass-catchers didn’t make many game-changing plays after the catch.

Top Five Buckeyes in Yards After Catch in 2025
For comparison's sake, Indiana and Miami – the only two teams to beat Ohio State last season and the national championship matchup – had 1,712 yards after catch (5.9 YAC/REC) and 2,384 yards after catch (6.7 YAC/REC), respectively. Malachi Toney led the country in the statistic, with 841 (7.7 YAC/REC).

"It's something that's definitely an emphasis point," Day said. "I think we've been solid at it, but I certainly think we can get better."

Smith agreed. After he had 491 yards after catch (6.5 YAC/REC) as a freshman in 2024, those numbers dropped to 378 and 4.3 in 2025. However, it was a problem for the entire group, not just for the star wide receiver.

"We really had no guys that had juice when they had the ball in their hands," Smith said in the spring. “I am always trying to find ways to get better. This offseason to really try to advance my IQ of the game, be better at yards after the catch. That really is the biggest emphasis in our wide receiver room this year, especially a goal for us.”

Given its importance for Ohio State’s passing attack to take another step and reach its full potential, the Buckeyes have been focused on improving in making plays after the catch since the beginning of the offseason. Hiring Cortez Hankton to replace Hartline was the first step in doing so. A college wide receivers coach since 2012, Hankton has a proven track record of developing receivers who gain yards after the catch.

YAC/REC of Teams with Cortez Hankton as WRs Coach Over the Last Five Years
"It's a part of my personality, just in terms of who I am and what I've coached over a number of years," Hankton said in March. "And it was something I felt like we could improve on. And so when I came in, Coach ironically said, 'Hey, this is an area where I could feel like we can improve.' And so I felt like it was right in my wheelhouse."

Ohio State's wide receivers have taken notice since Hankton came to Columbus in January.

"Just making guys miss. That's really it. Running through a soft shoulder," Smith said of how Hankton has coached him to gain more yards after catch. "Coach Hankton does a good job of showing me clips and stuff like that about how to run through a soft shoulder and making guys miss. I feel like that's something y'all gonna see from me a lot this year."
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johnson2443 said:

This is a shocking DL to have on one college team let alone a high school.

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No joke, that's not even fair. I'm not sure what you even do about that at the HS level. Run a screen 80% of the time?

BuckBackHome said:

WOW! Those passes are a thing of beauty.

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For his size, that's an incredibly compact delivery. Pair that with a cannon and I can see why he's so highly rated. Really hope he winds up in Columbus, this kid is for real.

Bestbuck36 said:

That's a BAMF right there

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A day late but I posted this gentleman elsewhere yesterday
THIS was a BAMF!
Mr Jack "The Assassin" Tatum

Pagan back to his old self. Probably get Santillan back in 2 weeks. Losing Hunter hurts but these pencil dicks are still fighting at least.

Ok for some reason my brain was thinking the Ohio exhibition thing was today

Buckeyes are different

Yeah our schedule alone should shut people tf up but, nope, still stupid

Geesh, Skenes has disintegrated before our eyes

Fungo Squiggly said:

Fucker is still 10 games ahead of me and I’m actually trying. That’s how bad I am at this.

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I’ll send you my 5 on IL for Ohtani.

Oregon fans on twitter are mad.........

Not because the coach is an idiot out there doing stuff like this but because the media is supposedly out to get them putting this story out the day before their training camp starts.

lol.