HC Ryan Day (National Champion)

[Systems_id]

Hard to give him anything higher than a C for his coaching staff hires as a whole

Agreed. First year was A+ but the Coombs hire was absolutely disastrous. I think the Knowles hire will prove to be a great one down the road since the defense played well for most of the year unlike when Coombs was here. Who I'm NOT sold on though is Tim Walton. Not sure if it's simply because we have six CBs on the roster but his room has not lived up to expectations all year.

 

[NFBuck]

Agreed. First year was A+ but the Coombs hire was absolutely disastrous. I think the Knowles hire will prove to be a great one down the road since the defense played well for most of the year unlike when Coombs was here. Who I'm NOT sold on though is Tim Walton. Not sure if it's simply because we have six CBs on the roster but his room has not lived up to expectations all year.

The CBs have been dreadful. Have been mostly since 2019. I don't know if it's recruiting misses, coaching, or a mixture of both, but until that gets fixed, we're going to remain vulnerable to big plays regardless of how Knowles schemes.

Knowles fielded excellent defenses in the pass happy Big 12; that tells me the guy can coach so I'm inclined to give him a bit of a pass, but Walton/Eliano need to recruit and coach better. (I know the current mess in the secondary isn't due to their recruiting, but they need to get after it)

 

[Bestbuck36]

Day needs to spend some time in Miami in the off-season and learn McDaniels system. The ball handling by Tua has improved so much this season is incredible. Then the route trees Miami runs for Hill and Waddle are excellent. OSUs WRs should be able to dominate every bit as Miamis and they can still run the ball

 

[RuGettinIt]

We'll see. It's easy to make these comments on your day off.

 

[Onebuckfan]

Day rethink your plan ..no JSN no Henderson ..start back at zero and build an offense and game plan. Feature MH.

 

[WilliamTSherman]

Coach Day: Let me give a bit of advice

 

[cdiddy70]

Day needs to spend some time in Miami in the off-season and learn McDaniels system. The ball handling by Tua has improved so much this season is incredible. Then the route trees Miami runs for Hill and Waddle are excellent. OSUs WRs should be able to dominate every bit as Miamis and they can still run the ball

I’d rather he spend it San Fran studying Shanny’s run game concepts.
I don’t want him spending even more time on his beloved passing schemes.

 

[Jaxbuck]

Day rethink your plan ..no JSN no Henderson ..start back at zero and build an offense and game plan. Feature MH.

I'd say go figure out the red zone stalling because that's been there all 4 years to some degree or another.

 

[BUCK3YE5]

I'd say go figure out the red zone stalling because that's been there all 4 years to some degree or another.

You could even go back to '18 when Day was the OC. Remember the red zone issues on that team? The mid/late season fuckery with Tate Martell?

Just thinking about it makes me wanna puke..

 

[Onebuckfan]

You could even go back to '18 when Day was the OC. Remember the red zone issues on that team? The mid/late season fuckery with Tate Martell?

Just thinking about it makes me wanna puke..

It’s hard our QB can’t or won’t bail out the play call with his feet.

 

[Bestbuck36]

Might as well wildcat inside the 5 and gain the extra blocker with Fryar at TE and run his way a lot!

 

[dragurd]

It’s hard our QB can’t or won’t bail out the play call with his feet.

The weird thing is he started to do that since the Northwestern game then just completely stopped the biggest game of the year again

 

[Jake]

I'd say go figure out the red zone stalling because that's been there all 4 years to some degree or another.

Guess who leads the nation in red zone scoring defense this season?

 

[mendensa]

Guess who leads the nation in red zone scoring defense this season?

On a positive note, OSU has allowed the least amount of RZ trips (23) of any team in the country. Just have allowed opponents to score 21 of those 23 times. Eliminate the big play and keep teams out of the RZ and we're good, right?

 

[NFBuck]

Coach Day: Let me give a bit of advice

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