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HC Ryan Day (2019 B1G Media COY)

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However, watching is learning if you're doing it right, especially in football.

That is true of players and coaches.

In their never-ending quest for an advantage, coaches do more copying than Xerox.

They watch others and see what works -- and what doesn't.

They also watch to see what's missing, and that's what Ryan Day did when evaluating his role when he first came to Ohio State.

It would be difficult to be critical of Urban Meyer's football product, especially for a young offensive coordinator like Day. But Day assessed the offense and the quarterback position he was in charge of and found an area for improvement.

Prior to his arrival, OSU had only ever produced one first-round NFL Draft pick at quarterback. That came way back in 1982 when Art Schlichter went to the Baltimore Colts.

Between that pick and Day's arrival, 10 Ohio State quarterbacks were drafted -- one mostly as a punter and one entirely as a safety, and none of them went higher than the third round.

For a program like Ohio State that has churned out first-round picks at every other position since 2001, there is no real rhyme or reason for why the quarterbacks have been so lacking.

I'm not saying Ryan Day took it personally, but it's clear he took it seriously.

And it took him all of two seasons to produce the Buckeyes' first first-round quarterback with Dwayne Haskins in the 2019 draft. It won't be long before his second first-round quarterback gets the call as well as Justin Fields is already being talked about as a top five pick.

With Ohio State already wearing the badge of DBU and DEU, Day wants the Buckeyes to be QBU for the foreseeable future.

"I think that's huge," he said this spring. "I think when I first got here, it wasn't something that had really been done before and I really took it upon myself as a challenge to try to -- and I say it to the staff all the time, if you're a position coach at Ohio State that you should be -- if we're DBU and you're the DBs coach, you've done your job. I mean, if you're the quarterback coach at Ohio State, we should be Quarterback U. If you're the running back coach, it should be Running Back U.

"Because, to me, if you're really doing your job, doing a great job at your position and recruiting and developing. I mean, this is Defensive End U right now because Larry Johnson recruited at a high level and developed. Well, I think at each position, that should be the goal. And that was the standard that I was charged with when I got here and I think we're building it up. We're not there yet."

Ohio State already has 5-star quarterback Kyle McCord committed in the 2021 class and Day signed a pair of blue chip quarterbacks in Jack Miller and CJ Stroud in the 2020 class. There may be no more enticing place for a quarterback to be right now than Ohio State, especially when you consider the receivers that the Buckeye QBs are getting to throw to.

"Obviously, we're making progress in the right direction," Day said. "But a lot still to be worked on and we've got to keep developing the guys we have in our program now and keep recruiting at a high level.

"But I think between receivers and quarterbacks we've done a good job here in the last couple years. We've just got to keep building on it."
 
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Fourteen years ago, Troy Smith captured a Heisman Trophy. Recently, J.T. Barrett won 38 games and set dozens of program records in his five years at Ohio State. Terrelle Pryor and Braxton Miller were two of the most dynamic players to ever play the position in the Big Ten.

Throughout the team’s history, plenty of heralded quarterbacks have propelled Ohio State forward in the national landscape. Cornelius Greene, Rex Kern, Bobby Hoying and Les Horvath thrived, and Craig Krenzel and Cardale Jones lined up behind center for the Buckeyes’ past two national championships.

Yet for most of its history, Ohio State hasn’t consistently produced quarterbacks who have gone on to thrive in the NFL, which head coach Ryan Day realizes.

“I think that's huge,” Day said earlier this year. “When I first got here, it wasn't something that had really been done before. Really took it upon myself as a challenge.”

Between 1983 and 2017, no Ohio State quarterback was taken in the first or second rounds of the NFL draft. Only two were selected in the third round during that time period, and neither of them – wide receiver Braxton Miller and punter Tom Tupa – spent the majority of their time in the league at quarterback.

Until Dwayne Haskins went 15th overall to the Washington Redskins in the 2019 NFL Draft, Art Schlichter was the most recent first-round quarterback out of Ohio State, having been taken No. 4 overall in the 1982 NFL Draft. If Day has his way, what was such an extended drought won’t happen again anytime soon.

“I say it to the staff all the time,” Day said. “If you're a position coach at Ohio State, then if we're DBU and you're the DBs coach, then you've done your job. If you're the quarterback coach at Ohio State, you should be Quarterback U.”

Right now, Ohio State doesn’t have a remotely strong claim to being QBU. Sports Illustrated didn’t bother including the Buckeyes among their 12 teams when evaluating who is QBU, and ESPN ranked them 10th a year ago.

So far since Urban Meyer hired Day a few years ago, however, Ohio State has produced some of its best quarterbacks of all-time. Haskins was first, and with Justin Fields returning as potential first-round pick next year and other top recruits – CJ Stroud, Jack Miller and Kyle McCord – lined up to replace him down the line, the Buckeyes have plenty of momentum.

It’s not fair to place Ohio State among the best programs at putting quarterbacks in the NFL. At least, not yet. But Day has the position trending in the right direction. Here’s how they got to this point.
 
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I'll be turning 58 in a few weeks and just thought about something. Ryan Day is 41 years old, and he may possibly be the final coach that I will ever see lead this team in my lifetime. I did cartwheels the day they hired him (okay, more like just falling on my side time after time) and I can't think of anyone in the world I'd rather see in this position than him. Not an Ohioan like Coach Hayes, or Coach Tressel, or Coach Meyer. But, like Milwood put so eloquently, "He. Just. Fucking. Gets. It."
 
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WoodyWorshiper said:
I'll be turning 58 in a few weeks and just thought about something. Ryan Day is 41 years old, and he may possibly be the final coach that I will ever see lead this team in my lifetime. I did cartwheels the day they hired him (okay, more like just falling on my side time after time) and I can't think of anyone in the world I'd rather see in this position than him. Not an Ohioan like Coach Hayes, or Coach Tressel, or Coach Meyer. but, like Milwood put so eloquently, "He. Just. Fucking. Gets. It."
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58 is my next birthday as well, though it is a little farther off. What more could you ask for as a Buckeye fan at our age than to have a future as bright as the current team's with a coach as young as Day?

He hasn't won a National Championship yet and he hasn't closed on the greatest recruiting class in history yet, so let's revisit this conversation in 7 months and reassess.
 
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MGMT said:
Hats off to your generation here at BP.

My dad would have been 56 this year and without your generation showing us what all this means I’m not sure if I’d ever give a fuck about the fall. This thing of ours is truly something special and I can only hope my daughter decides to carry it in some capacity.
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I'm a 3rd generation Buckeye... I would expect that there is more than one 5th generation Buckeye on BP.
 
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I was a child when Woody roamed so I don't really remember him at all.

Earl was my first coach and I was salty when they let him go even though I knew we had slipped. Badly. Then John Fucking Cooper about broke me.

Some stuff I didn't like about him aside, Woody bless Jim Tressel for righting the ship.

Tress to Urban to Day seems almost unfair at this point.

Then again, fuck everyone else. Especially tsun.
 
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