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I think at minimum Day needs to hire an OC that pushes his offensive concepts. This offense has gotten stale and the run concepts have alot to be desired. I also think a dual threat QB even if he had passing qualities of McCord gives you more options and ability to go run heavy if the pass...

While I think there are some killer instinct issues with Day. I also think his offensive philosophy is flawed for college football. He has good passing concepts but the run concepts just aren't up to par. His offense might actually be more fit for the NFL than college. I think in college...

I completely agree with the splitting reps for QBs and RBs. I think we are mixing in guys at RB too much for anyone to get comfortable and figure out where holes can open over a game. The o-line just isn't overpowering enough to open up specific holes between the tackles for the RBs. If they...

Urban made the mistake of hiring Beck and not someone who would help evolve the offense which is why 2015 and 2016 sucked. Tom Herman was gone. Without Urbans approach though we might never have Day. I think teams have an advantage when they are evolving in college football. The longer a...

I will say that Warinner and Schiano were Urban's buddies. Beck was Warinner's friends which is why he was kept around the second year. I agree with your statements about Day. I do think if he brought in someone that was a good offensive mind, it would challenge his thinking. He basically...

It reverted in 2015 and 2016 because Warinner and Beck weren't the guys to try to evolve the offense. Beck was just a huge downgrade from Herman. Wilson and Day come in 2017 they definitely changes to the offense for the better. The problem is that once Day was HC the Urban offense was phased...

Also Urban was all about evolving the offense and defense. He would bring in coordinators with a different style on both sides of the ball and see if they could mesh with what was existing there. New things were always being added or modified every season to keep teams guessing. It didn't...

I think some of the reason why the play calling seems predictable is that Day's offense is pretty much the same offense it has been since he took over. There is a lot of tape on what they are going to do and Indiana's DC was on the Buckeye's staff last season. I also think there is very...

I'm sure other teams have been in contact with him and have attempted to pick him off. It might not have crossed his mind to transfer in a different era but I think other teams have most likely pitched him already. Part of that pitch probably is giving him the best shot at making it in the...

To me, I think he is probably weighing to stay or transfer to another program. He had a good role for the playoff game, my guess is he wants Day to commit to give him that type of role consistently next season. If he enters the portal, I'm sure other coaches will lay out an consistent expanded...

Samuel was the peak of that role and went on to being one of the focal points of the offense. I don't think Xavier has that kind of ceiling but I do think he has the big play ability to take on the lesser role we saw from the hybrid during the Urban years. I think his role should be expanded...

I hope he is back too. I hope they really define his role. Really he should be used in the hybrid role that Curtis Samuel, Jalin Marshall, Braxton, etc were used. I think he can bring bigger elements to the offense if he is consistently used as a WR/RB instead of a 3rd WR. If they...

I also think it could help to rotate players or expand beyond 3 WR sets to allow other players to contribute. Even just as blockers you can get players rep then it could give different looks and we might not be so locked into 3 WR sets to produce offense. If the backup WRs aren't able to...

I think someone else wrote on here this but the Michigan game is the gateway for this team to get to the big ten championship and the playoffs. The fact that Michigan has become a better team and they are the competition to get into the big ten championship game, paired with it being the last...

Day's offense got stale. By stale, I mean it just had been out too long in the college football atmosphere and teams were able to rot away it's advantages that Day had figured out. The amount of game tape and experience Michigan had against a Ryan Day offense just made it easy to figure out...

I've never thought Stroud was immobile, he is decently fast. He might not be Braxton, Fields, or freshman JT fast but he is considerably faster than Cardale or Haskins. He probably has similar speed to JT the year after he recovered from his broken leg. I think the right description for...

I understand that mentality but Stroud also never ran much in high school either so I think it's more how he plays in general than protecting himself from injury for his NFL pay day. But let's say he was protecting himself and the top tier pro style would do the same, Day should look at the...

I agree that I think it's Stroud himself that is choosing not to take yards with his feet. The scrambling yards plus the fact that he basically didn't take the ball in the zone read for the whole time he was here basically says he is a unwilling runner. The odds that he wasn't suppose to take...

I also think a good HC would have the foresight to not let the offense get stale before making the change. It's really not a bad thing for a team's OC to move on after a couple seasons to being a HC somewhere else. Have Day as HC brings a consistent foundation for the offense, having up and...

The question is if he can do that consistently. These are football players they will have instances of running over someone. Some guys just don't have the mentality to do it play after play.