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2020 Team Discussion Thread

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RYAN DAY DISCUSSES “BLOCK 0” JERSEY TRADITION AND OHIO STATE'S MOST RECENT SCRIMMAGE ON BUCKEYE ROUNDTABLE
  • On Saturday's scrimmage, which he called preseason game No. 2 at Ohio Stadium: “It went well. The weather was nice ... came out pretty good in terms of health ... I'll say this: I thought the guys took the next step ... I thought the pad level was pretty good overall. I think we're getting there.”
  • “It's getting to the point now where we just want to play.”
  • Day said the Buckeyes have already been in their game-week schedule for the past couple weeks, but they're starting to add more Nebraska-specific stuff into practices now, though they're also still doing a lot of "good-on-good" to develop their first-team players against one another.
  • “The thing that we've always done here is we play depth when appropriate ... It's really not so much about the depth chart as much as it is the ability to play. If someone has earned the right to play in practice, and everybody in that unit believes in that person that they deserve a chance to play, then they'll play. If they're not quite ready yet, then we just keep working. It's a long season.” Day said the Buckeyes are still building up their depth at some positions.
  • On the cornerbacks: “We have some young guys back there that Kerry's really doing a good job of bringing along. I think the more guys we can play, the better off for us ... that depth is being created. Still not there yet, but we're getting there, and the guys are working at it.”
  • Day said “there's been a lot of teachable moments the last couple weeks“ of crazy things that have happened in college football and the NFL that they've been showing their players as examples of situations that could come up in games. He said the intentional grounding/fumble controversy that happened in the Auburn/Arkansas game was actually something they had talked about with the Buckeyes' quarterbacks last week.
Entire article: https://www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio...s-most-recent-scrimmage-on-buckeye-roundtable
 
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There are a number of variables that remain unknown when it comes to exactly how the NCAA will proceed after this season, but there aren’t many changes expected for Ohio State.

“It’s very confusing metrics that, boy, it took me about three hours to sit down with Mark Pantoni and figure it all out,” Buckeyes coach Ryan Day said. “It’s kind of a plus-one based on seniors and years of eligibility. It’s confusing. It’s not easy. But I don’t see us being over 85, even next fall as I project it all out.

“With guys leaving to go to the NFL, guys graduating and different things. I still project it at 85 for us. But we’ll see. It’s going to have to be something we continually talk about and work through.”

So what are the Buckeyes being told by the NCAA right now? No one is really sure, but it sounds complicated. But quite frankly, it’s not something that is likely to affect Ohio State in the way it might other, less-established programs.

Even if the Buckeyes wanted to convince a handful of their potential departees to stick around for another season, there’s no guarantee they could or would anyway. Kids don’t matriculate to Ohio State to stay five or six years in the program, generally speaking. And the Buckeyes aren’t really interested in telling the Class of 2021, full of potential future stars, that they’re going to be effectively put on hold next season while they rehash the current roster’s holdovers.

That may sound a bit harsh, but it’s not intended that way. Programs like Ohio State are built moving and looking forward. The current state of college football transfers is concerning enough, but the soon-to-be-reality of one free transfer for all means there’s a risk if the next wave is put on the back-burner because of the Covid-19 roster adjustments.

The Buckeyes have enough talent waiting in the wings on the current roster and future recruiting classes that they don’t need to take advantage of the waiting roster loopholes just because they can.
 
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RYAN DAY
ON PHYSICALITY IN PRACTICE
  • "We had a really physical Tuesday and Wednesday. It was one of those things where, as we get closer, you have to figure out how tough your team is."
  • "Really pleased with the last couple days in terms of physicality."
  • Day said they've done a significant number of tackling drills, working on pursuit angles and "thudding up" but said they have done some live tackling as well.
ON CONDITIONING
  • "You're never quite sure until you're in a game where you're at," but Day thinks "We're in a pretty good place.
  • Day said you really find out how conditioned you are during the first game with tempo.
ON PROTECTING THEMSELVES FROM THE VIRUS
  • "We talk about it every day."
  • Day said his team treats each person they come in contact with outside the program as if they have the virus.
  • "There's a lot of sacrifices that have to be made."
  • "We can't get tired of doing this."
ON THE MEDICAL STAFF
  • "I can't say enough about our medical staff here."
  • Day said the testing has run very smoothly every morning.
  • "Better than expected."
ON THE RIGHT TACKLE POSITION
  • "They've both shown great promise for this season. I think they'll both play."
  • Day said the difference is Nicholas Petit-Frere has more time in the program.
  • "Paris has got a bright future ahead of him."
ON DAWAND JONES
  • "Dawand Jones has really done a good job this preseason."
  • Day said Dawand Jones is comfortable in the program and knows the language and terminology.
  • "He certainly has taken pride in his work."
  • Called him "a pleasant surprise."
ON JONATHON COOPER'S NO. 0 NUMBER
  • Day said he talked with Mickey Marotti, Ryan Stamper and Quinn Temple about it.
  • Day said when they realized No. 0 was actually a Block "O," they decided it needed to be earned.
  • "Wait a minute now, we can't just give that out to anybody. That has to be earned."
  • Day said Cooper was the perfect player to wear it for the first time. "Well deserved, and I think he's really fired up to have that."
  • "It's cool to add a new tradition here," Day said, noting that there are so many traditions, it's cool to start one that he hopes is around for a long time.
ON CALLING PLAYS
  • Day said an offense having tendencies is a sign of a good offense.
  • Day said he likes to set up plays and then counter off of them, he's not just calling plays and hoping that they work.
  • "When you're just running plays and not setting anything up, that's when you can get in trouble against a good defense."
ON JUSTIN FIELDS
  • Day said Justin Fields has been very motivated since the offseason.
  • "Any time you can come back and you have some games under your belt from last season, it really makes a difference."
  • Day said experience gives a quarterback confidence.
HOW DO YOU IMPROVE WHEN LAST YEAR'S OFFENSE WAS SO GOOD?
  • "The first thing we have to do is we have to take care of the football."
  • "The second thing is, we have to play with great pad level."
  • "I think the big plays are going to come."
  • "If we do those things right there, I think the numbers are going to take care of themselves."
ON YOUNG RECEIVERS BLOCKING
  • "They have to."
  • Day said he realizes that's not something you do at 7-on-7 camps or really in high school, but you have to learn to do it if you want to see the field at Ohio State.
  • "That's something you have to do at Ohio State."
ON PLAYERS EARNING THEIR STRIPES ON SPECIAL TEAMS
  • "If you're not playing on special teams, then you're not playing in the game."
  • "For the guys who want to know why they're not playing more snaps but they're not playing on special teams, I don't really know what to say."
  • Day said if guys are starting on two special teams, "then you deserve a chance to play."
ON THE "EQUALITY" DECAL ON THE HELMETS
  • "It's really up to the team. It's up to our guys, it's up to the leadership group."
  • "I'm here to support those guys, I always have been."
  • Day said if it's something they feel strongly about "Then that's what we're going to do."
ON THE LINEBACKER DEPTH
  • "The linebacker position is a position of strength for us."
  • Between Tuf Borland, Pete Werner, Barron Browning and Justin Hilliard, they have lots of experience at that position.
  • Day called the linebackers the strength of the defense.
ON CONTINGENCY PLANS, IF A COACH TESTS POSITIVE
  • "We have certain things that we've talked about, contingency plans in place for everybody across the board."
  • Day said the good news is, they can still communicate via Zoom regardless
  • "If something were to happen, we can still function."
  • "It's certainly a challenge, as we're seeing."
ON WHEN RECRUITS CAN RETURN TO CAMPUS
  • Day said he doesn't know when they'll be allowed to bring players back on campus.
  • Day said they've been doing "virtual visits" for recruits on Zoom in the meantime.
  • "I give the recruits and the families a lot of credit for understanding."
ON IF HE WOULD LIKE THE GAME AT NOON
  • "Ahhhh that's a noon game," Day said. "That's tradition."
  • Day said there have been so many changes this year, they should keep this one at noon.
  • Day also notes that a primetime game in December would be extremely cold.
ON IF JUSTIN FIELDS RUNS A 4.3-SECOND 40-YARD DASH
  • "Oh, I don't know, I don't know where that came from."
  • "Justin runs well, he looks good. I don't know what he would run if he ran one."
 
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ON YOUNG RECEIVERS BLOCKING
  • "They have to."
  • Day said he realizes that's not something you do at 7-on-7 camps or really in high school, but you have to learn to do it if you want to see the field at Ohio State.
  • "That's something you have to do at Ohio State."
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I know it's far from unique to Ohio State, if you want to break big plays the WR's need to block downfield, but I love the pride some of our guys have taken in being great blockers over the past years. Spencer and McLaurin FTW.
 
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The Buckeyes enter the season with a roster ranked third in 247Sports’ team talent composite rankings, including 14 players who were five-star composite recruits – the second-most in the country, behind only Georgia. And Ohio State’s roster is as national as ever, populated with players from 22 different states, including players from all four corners of the continental United States and even Hawaii.
 
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Joey Galloway: Ohio State will go 'undefeated in regular season'

Speaking on Saturday night’s College Football Final, Galloway even compared the Ohio State offense to Alabama.

“The Ohio State team will go undefeated in the regular season,” Galloway said. “Justin Fields will jump into the Heisman Trophy conversation once they blow out Nebraska. Ryan Day has this team ready. Mid shutdown, Ohio State did not shut down. Ohio State was ready to roll. They add Trey Sermon, transfer from Oklahoma. That offense will put up points like an Alabama offense.”

Fields finished the 2019 season with a Heisman worthy campaign and could very well duplicate his success. He finished last year with 3,273 yards passing, 41 touchdowns, three interceptions, 484 rushing yards and 10 rushing touchdowns.

The addition of Sermon, who transferred from Oklahoma, appears to be under the radar now. Sermon played 10 games last year and only carried the ball 54 times but in 2018, Sermon had his best season. He finished that year with 947 yards rushing, 13 touchdowns, 12 catches and 181 receiving yards.

With head coach Ryan Day running the offense, Sermon definitely has the ability to be a multi-purpose back and get more involved in the run-pass option game with Fields.

Entire article: https://247sports.com/college/ohio-...ll-go-undefeated-in-regular-season-153198484/
 
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