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HC Ryan Day (B1G Coach of Year, B1G Champion, National Champion)

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Jaxbuck said:
He is a great QB developer and overall offensive mind. He has managed to keep the OSU machine running at an extremely high level overall. He's won a NC, I mean it is what it is at this point.

The knock/fear I would still have is if they get this salary cap stuff in place and teams generally abide by it, you are going to have an NFL type environment where resources are more even, talent is more even and the really excellent X/O coaches really become difference makers. There is nothing about Day so far that makes me think he can do more with less, or even similar, talent. He relies on having better Jimmie's and Joe's.

Just being honest but I am not a coach. I could be dead wrong (I hope).
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I honestly think it's the opposite. I think he's one o the best X/O coaches ever, but as the head man, he needs to be more than that and didn't truly grow into that until the playoff run in 2024. With Hartline leaving last year, he had to go back to that a bit for the Indiana and Cryami games and it's not who he is anymore.

I think we see it sometimes when we do the paralysis by over-analysis thing too, and that's a symptom of what I'm talking about. That was especially evident in the TCUN game in 2024. Bad game planning and an very atypical and inefficient day from the QB position for whatever reason, and you had a coaching staff grasping for straws they couldn't see.

I think we'll see, once he retires from Ohio State, that he becomes an OC for someone down the line and that play calling and X/O scheming is back to the level I'm talking about.
 
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knuckifyoubuck said:
If we are talking about the worst games and no adjustments, the Urban game w Tuf Borland covering wide receivers has been blocked out of my memories
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I’ve always hated this narrative because that’s not exactly what happened.

Tuf wasn’t covering D. Smith. He was dropping into a zone.

That same coverage has been ran by every DC that’s been here since. Alabama was just flat better.
 
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Gunlife said:
You have to give Miami some credit. They were the much more physical team in the 1st half. They slugged OSU in the face.
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Miami deserves credit. But without that int TD, buckeyes were in ok position. And that play was not on coaches. Either JJ or Klare should have at least slowed Keionte Scott.

Miami won that game on the back of their dline, I’m not sure how much in game adjustments Day could’ve done.
 
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buchtelgrad04 said:
I’ve always hated this narrative because that’s not exactly what happened.

Tuf wasn’t covering D. Smith. He was dropping into a zone.

That same coverage has been ran by every DC that’s been here since. Alabama was just flat better.
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Covid didn’t help the bucks either. That game was just the oddest of all the bad luck Day endured in my book.
 
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restless said:
Miami deserves credit. But without that int TD, buckeyes were in ok position. And that play was not on coaches. Either JJ or Klare should have at least slowed Keionte Scott.

Miami won that game on the back of their dline, I’m not sure how much in game adjustments Day could’ve done.
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Disagree. Not like it's the first football game ever where the d line was beating the o line. Lets start doing some quick passing etc
 
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knuckifyoubuck said:
If we are talking about the worst games and no adjustments, the Urban game w Tuf Borland covering wide receivers has been blocked out of my memories
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1. It wasn't Urban coaching in the game.

2. Tuf was playing zone. He was NOT covering wide receivers in any type of man to man scheme.

3. The moment Sermon went out with the popped collarbone it was over. The only way Ohio State was winning that game was with ball control.
 
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Tanner said:
That was just terribly designed play. Lining Jeremiah and Inniss up on one side and having Jeremiah be the blocker is hilarious
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Why? He has the physical advantage over literally anyone who they could possibly put out there on defense....He's a WR but he still has to make his blocks. Literally ANYONE in the program, but especially Smith himself would say the same thing too.

Frankly if he makes that block, no one touches Inniss and Cryami has to adjust for that formation if they show it again (and go over the top with the ball)....
 
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