It’s a new era of college football 30 years ago it would be crazy to fire a coach who wins 9-10 games a year but now it’s not it’s beat your rivals and win titles or bust.
I was raised hearing stories about a dude named ole 9-3 Earle who was a pretty great coach in his own right. Ohio State is a different place.
Get a grip? I'm not sure what prompted that response.
I'm not really interested in winning 10 games. I'm a lot more interested in winning national championships. Ryan Day has kept Ohio State in the national championship picture from 2019 to 2024, and the Buckeyes could still easily win the NC this season (primarily due to the competition being less than stellar). I don't know who Ohio State could hire that would get this team over to actually win NCs as opposed to merely being in the hunt. If you have any suggestions, please post them.
- Nick Saban (make an offer .. $20m, $25m .. UM paid $10m for a QB lol .. tell him here's $20m, and here's another $30m for NIL have fun coach & let him say no. Everyone is confident he will, so let him. Start with the best possible candidate.)
- Urban Meyer (I don't really want this one, but, he's out there... and it satisfies the criteria of someone who can get the team over the hump but I think he was losing his magic and he's not the same ruthless UF Meyer)
- Cignetti. Saban tree. Has won at multiple levels and multiple destinations.
- Vrabel. Gets Ohio State. Build a recruiting staff around him, don't make him recruit. Have him be the big dick energy closer, he was very good at recruiting when he was here, but bring him the NIL package and unlimited assistants for recruiting.
- Fickell. Should have stayed in Cinci & it may be a no brainer. Wisconsin crap aside, "trust the coaches", if Tressel trusted him and Urban retained him, he's must not be so retarded as everyone likes to make him out to be. Definitely someone who gets "it". Would likely make us proud.
- Mark Stoops. Ohio guy.
- Jason Candle. Ohio guy.
- Ben Johnson. NFL coordinator.
- Brad Idzik. NFL coordinator.
- K.C. Keeler. Outsider, old, lower division winner.
- Craig Bohl. Outsider, old, lower division winner.
Dan Lanning is bush league to me. He will get what's his.
I am sure there are plenty of people out there that I don't know, I'm just a regular-ass dude, I didn't know Tressel or Day when they were hired either. And I am not saying it's easy and anyone can coach the Buckeyes, but no way Urban randomly found the one and only coach who could coach Ohio State and his name is Ryan Day. There must be another.
All I know is my expectations of an OSU team moving forward are out the window I’m over sports for real. I’m gonna start enjoying the next hopefully 20 years of my life doing things that have little bearing on what some young college kids are doing I their respective sport. The Ohio State stickers, hitch. license plate, camo wrap, and window cling are going to get removed from my truck tomorrow when I sober up! More to life than wasting it in disappointment! I’m not 20 anymore. I’d rather spend quality time doing family things than worrying about a bunch of college kids.
The sun will come up tomorrow, Fren. Definitely don't rip all your shit off drunk lol
Part of why he wouldn’t come here is our vocal fanbase is insane many times.
Is that why all the players left for the NFL and didn't come back? Is that why our best players transferred out and no one transferred in? Is that why we can't keep any good coaches on staff? Makes sense that's why we got Day, all the good coaches don't like our meanie fans.
Not sure how I am supposed to reconcile:
Team is just made up of a bunch of mercenaries here for the money.
We need to hire/cut a fat check to a coach to replace our current one who has one of the highest winning percentages of current coaches, if not the highest.
I don't believe the team is mercenaries. I think that's disrespectful as fuck to be honest. You start to realize how much time, blood, sweat, tears go into all this shit and to act like they are mercenaries and we, the fans, are the real Buckeyes is crazy to me.
What's Days buyout? I bet it's $50m+ --- that money should go to the "mercenaries" who do more for the school and program than any of us do. Unless you are the one writing the fat check, or are a former player, just enjoy the show is how I reconcile it.
Day is the current highest winning percentage I believe amoung active D1 coaches. Unfortunately the team goals aren't "win a high percentage of your games" it's beat UM, win the B1G, and win the NC. Day will be 0/12 after this season on those goals unless we string it together 4 times in a row here.
The Game Used to matter. Technically it doesn’t anymore. If you can win a natty without beating scum , it doesn’t matter. Inside in our souls it matters but in this new age - I’ll take a natty and a loss over no natty and a win. My old school brain had to readjust and that’s just how I see it in 2024 and moving forward. And it’s gross. Yea.
Game matters. Not sure if you're reading the same website as me but the game most definitely matters. Just look at Day...
