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

[dragurd]

Wanted to comment on something I’ve found extremely unique to this years team….

We run the fewest amount of plays per game. It’s insanely counter-intuitive, as Day always liked a bit of tempo and to maximize amount of possessions. And common wisdom is, if you have the better players, you want more possessions bc over the course of a game, the extra possessions will favor the better team.

But Day has been pretty pissed over last few years over the amount of possessions per game when a team slows pace and tries to shorten game.

To his credit, he gave up on trying to increase possessions per game, and focused on maximizing points per possession. And to maximize that stat, they take more time between plays to make sure they will execute play to its maximum potential. They play slower but execute at a higher level.

I found this strategy to be very odd as it played out throughout season, but I’ll give him his flowers. It’s not necessarily the most exciting, but it has worked extremely well. It’s like he’s beating our opponents at their game….with much better players. He took lemons and made lemonade…

He did it last year too. I wonder if he and Chip sat down last year and talked about it or if was Bill O'Brian thing before he left.

 

[Jaxbuck]

He did it last year too. I wonder if he and Chip sat down last year and talked about it or if was Bill O'Brian thing before he left.

It's a thing in CFB now but for our purposes, let's go with Day being the vanguard.

 

[otisu]

Three goals: beat TTUN, win the Big Ten Championship, win the National Championship

To do so, you need the team full strength for the last 5/6 games of the season. Reducing the odds of injury is best done by reducing the number of plays in those first 11 games. I think its as simple as that. As long as it doesn't stymie wins, the team is better off.

 

[charlohiottean]

He did it last year too. I wonder if he and Chip sat down last year and talked about it or if was Bill O'Brian thing before he left.

Ryan Day said that very thing in multiple interviews from last spring through the summer.

This season you hear the word efficiency coming from players and coaches after every game. I believe this is the mantra/slogan/concept that coach Day can use as both motivation and explanation to every member of the organization. I think he can hang his legacy on that one word. I would not be sad to see OSU become known as Thee Ohio State University of Efficiency! Regardless of my frivolous conjecture, whatever is working, may it continue unabated throughout his tenure.

 

[dragurd]

Ryan Day said that very thing in multiple interviews from last spring through the summer.

Not surprised. As Chip is probably one of the few people that he would listen to on something like that