HC Ryan Day (2019 B1G Media COY)

[DaveyBoy]

Day can easily turn this thing around. Focus on the exigencies of the game in front of you... the clock, the time outs, the overall fit to the agreed pre-game strategy or agreed changes in response to game context. Agree what your subordinates are going to do and then trust them to get on with it. Stop second guessing your OC and DC. Let them run their operations, making sure that they substitute enough to keep the team fresh on the field. Hold others accountable at half time and after the game.

Approach the game with an attitude of abundance, not defeat. Shave off that effing beard. It's not convincing anyone you're a tough guy. It's the badge that says Harbo is living in your mind. Look like the guy whose teams moved through TCUN like shit through a goose.

Be the best version of you and trust that guy to get it done.

That is precisely how Joe Paterno did it when he roamed the sidelines. The dude never wore a headset. He had excellent coordinators and JoePa watched the play on the field and looked for details and specifics like who was winning the trenches and where. Which linebackers or backs were not able to keep up.

Day needs to trust, delegate, and manage

 

[BuckeyeNation27]

Every team has a "get back" guy. We need a "knock it off" guy. He runs certain things past the "knock it off" guy.....and that guy can say "hey, dipshit. knock it off with running directly into their LONE strength." Or, "knock it off with the end arounds to the short side of the field."

Just knock it off with the dumb things that obviously aren't going to work. Is King Right 64 Y Shallow Swap gonna work? Fuck if I know....I'm not the X's and O's guy. I'm the "knock it off" guy. 2nd down after a sack? Knock it off with the run that can only gain 4 yards. Everybody knows it's coming.

 

[RuGettinIt]

Every team has a "get back" guy. We need a "knock it off" guy. He runs certain things past the "knock it off" guy.....and that guy can say "hey, dipshit. knock it off with running directly into their LONE strength." Or, "knock it off with the end arounds to the short side of the field."

Just knock it off with the dumb things that obviously aren't going to work. Is King Right 64 Y Shallow Swap gonna work? Fuck if I know....I'm not the X's and O's guy. I'm the "knock it off" guy. 2nd down after a sack? Knock it off with the run that can only gain 4 yards. Everybody knows it's coming.

Day/Kelly run on 2nd and long….surely you jest

The only thing more obvious was Urbs emptying the backfield

 

[Onebuckfan]

Every team has a "get back" guy. We need a "knock it off" guy. He runs certain things past the "knock it off" guy.....and that guy can say "hey, dipshit. knock it off with running directly into their LONE strength." Or, "knock it off with the end arounds to the short side of the field."

Just knock it off with the dumb things that obviously aren't going to work. Is King Right 64 Y Shallow Swap gonna work? Fuck if I know....I'm not the X's and O's guy. I'm the "knock it off" guy. 2nd down after a sack? Knock it off with the run that can only gain 4 yards. Everybody knows it's coming.

The 3 yd pass on 3rd and 5. No routes behind the line to gain on 3or 4 down.

 

[Zem]

Give him whatever the hell he was on that caused Clemson 2020 and Georgia 2022 and yes I know people will say he turtled at the end of Georgia. But this team playing with the fire and looseness and I'm not sure another team keeps it close enough for him to turtle at the end

Folks keep referring back to the bolded and with good reason. What I haven't seen mentioned was the fact that Noah nailed a field goal from almost that exact spot with 3 minutes left in the 4th quarter, if memory serves. He just booted a line drive right through. And that was right after Marvin was targeted...

So I've always thought Day sort of logically thought it wouldn't be a problem for Noah to do the exact same thing he did just a few minutes ago. Should have tried to get closer, of course, but I get it.

 

[osuvictory1]

Every team has a "get back" guy. We need a "knock it off" guy. He runs certain things past the "knock it off" guy.....and that guy can say "hey, dipshit. knock it off with running directly into their LONE strength." Or, "knock it off with the end arounds to the short side of the field."

Just knock it off with the dumb things that obviously aren't going to work. Is King Right 64 Y Shallow Swap gonna work? Fuck if I know....I'm not the X's and O's guy. I'm the "knock it off" guy. 2nd down after a sack? Knock it off with the run that can only gain 4 yards. Everybody knows it's coming.

Not a stupid idea at all.

 

[Thump]

Been thinking about this all day and I'm pretty confident in saying that the way this team is built, we are better equipped to win the national championship than we are the B1G championship. It's because of the extreme levels in our skill players and the lack of depth in the O and Dlines. I just see us performing better in the next few weeks than we did in most weeks of conference play although there were only 2 hiccups. If we get a guy or two back from injury I think we win this damn thing.

That doesn't heal the open wound but it'll work like Morphine until spring.

I see that your new scarlet-colored glasses came in.

 

[Bestbuck36]

I see that your new scarlet-colored glasses came in.

The prescription is a little far sighted though.

 

[BUCKYLE]

That is precisely how Joe Paterno did it when he roamed the sidelines. The dude never wore a headset. He had excellent coordinators and JoePa watched the play on the field and looked for details and specifics like who was winning the trenches and where. Which linebackers or backs were not able to keep up.

Day needs to trust, delegate, and manage

Sure. THAT he could pay attention to

 

[Jaxbuck]

Sure. THAT he could pay attention to

Excellent coordinators he says.

 

[Steve19]

I'm quite happy that the defense would be competently managed with this coordinator and Stevie Wonder on the sidelines. I'm equally certain that if Day were to tell his OC, "Forget what you think I want. Call the game you want to call.", the Buckeyes can win the NC." Guys, I'll take care of the minute by minute stuff and keep you apprised of things I see and hear from the sidelines that might affect your thinking, but I am going to rely entirely on you to develop a winning game plan and call our plays. I'll give you all the support that you need to do it."

Day needs to learn how to be a CEO that makes everyone around him better. A fool would think that would diminish their role as HC, when that is the model of a true HC who has built an excellent coaching team.

 

[System_id]

Day can easily turn this thing around. Focus on the exigencies of the game in front of you... the clock, the time outs, the overall fit to the agreed pre-game strategy or agreed changes in response to game context. Agree what your subordinates are going to do and then trust them to get on with it. Stop second guessing your OC and DC. Let them run their operations, making sure that they substitute enough to keep the team fresh on the field. Hold others accountable at half time and after the game.

Approach the game with an attitude of abundance, not defeat. Shave off that effing beard. It's not convincing anyone you're a tough guy. It's the badge that says Harbo is living in your mind. Look like the guy whose teams moved through TCUN like shit through a goose.

Be the best version of you and trust that guy to get it done.

I'm genuinely surprised ya'll aren't mentally checked out right now. Call me a bad Buckeye fan but I have absolutely zero faith in the coaches navigating this team through the playoffs.

 

[Poe McKnoe]

I'm quite happy that the defense would be competently managed with this coordinator and Stevie Wonder on the sidelines. I'm equally certain that if Day were to tell his OC, "Forget what you think I want. Call the game you want to call.", the Buckeyes can win the NC." Guys, I'll take care of the minute by minute stuff and keep you apprised of things I see and hear from the sidelines that might affect your thinking, but I am going to rely entirely on you to develop a winning game plan and call our plays. I'll give you all the support that you need to do it."

Day needs to learn how to be a CEO that makes everyone around him better. A fool would think that would diminish their role as HC, when that is the model of a true HC who has built an excellent coaching team.

I think we need to hire Nick Saban as a consultant and get him on weekly calls where he picks a different unit on the team to call “antiquated,” because that seems to be the only way that meaningful change happens.

 

[RB07OSU]

Every team has a "get back" guy. We need a "knock it off" guy. He runs certain things past the "knock it off" guy.....and that guy can say "hey, dipshit. knock it off with running directly into their LONE strength." Or, "knock it off with the end arounds to the short side of the field."

Just knock it off with the dumb things that obviously aren't going to work. Is King Right 64 Y Shallow Swap gonna work? Fuck if I know....I'm not the X's and O's guy. I'm the "knock it off" guy. 2nd down after a sack? Knock it off with the run that can only gain 4 yards. Everybody knows it's coming.

Agree with everything and love the King Right 64 Y Shallow Swap reference (that I recited to Tressel as a teenager lol, he couldn't believe it that I knew every pattern on the play).

But the bolded is what I cannot handle from Day or Kelly. FUCKING UTILIZE MISMATCHES! That is really the issue with Day, he overthinks in big games. There are plenty of other issues, but this is the biggest one to me. Don't recruit insanely talented 5* WRs and not use them in The Game, tell the RBs they have less carries, or at least until the pass game opens up the run game. As a player I understood why I would not get the ball more in certain games, or less at certain time, depending on the opponent and best game plan. These players would do the same, it's stubborn coaching to the chagrin of losing games over it.

I want a hard line in the sand that says if you don't get to the Natty, you don't have a job. Just one man's opinion.

 

[Jaxbuck]

I'm quite happy that the defense would be competently managed with this coordinator and Stevie Wonder on the sidelines. I'm equally certain that if Day were to tell his OC, "Forget what you think I want. Call the game you want to call.", the Buckeyes can win the NC." Guys, I'll take care of the minute by minute stuff and keep you apprised of things I see and hear from the sidelines that might affect your thinking, but I am going to rely entirely on you to develop a winning game plan and call our plays. I'll give you all the support that you need to do it."

Day needs to learn how to be a CEO that makes everyone around him better. A fool would think that would diminish their role as HC, when that is the model of a true HC who has built an excellent coaching team.

This is 100% the need but we have a guy who’s demonstrated he’s not more than a high level individual contributor, trying to learn how to be a CEO on the job for the better part of 6 years.

Using this professional management of organizations in the real world model is what makes me 1) so sure Day isn’t the guy and for a while now and 2) really start to question Gene Smith even more.

Either Day absolutely refuses to take help with professional development or it hasn’t been offered or the incompetent guy’s boss didn’t see the need(or care) to try and help the incompetent guy.

The last bit is very easy for me to buy into knowing what short timers syndrome is like. Especially with a career bureaucrat like Gene.