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HC Ryan Day (National Champion)

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What did Ryan Day do differently last night? Here's a few things I saw.

1. He kept his heart in the game and showed a lot of emotion, celebrating the best plays openly. His team fed off that.
2. He kept his head in the game. No boneheaded mistakes that I saw.
3. He praised his coordinators and players.
4. He approved a game plan that played to his team's strengths on both sides of the ball.
5. He made every comment about the outcome about those folks, not himself.

Grade: Champion
 
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Steve19 said:
What did Ryan Day do differently last night? Here's a few things I saw.

1. He kept his heart in the game and showed a lot of emotion, celebrating the best plays openly. His team fed off that.
2. He kept his head in the game. No boneheaded mistakes that I saw.
3. He praised his coordinators and players.
4. He approved a game plan that played to his team's strengths on both sides of the ball.
5. He made every comment about the outcome about those folks, not himself.

Grade: Champion
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Not just the result but something was for sure different.

A couple of things happened that typically start the spiral but for whatever reason last night, they just didn't.

There was a critical bad call (or two), there was the near fumble going into the endzone that didn't get fumbled. We've seen both of those triggers lead to some massive momentum shifts and gut wrenching losses previously.

There was a drive or two span at the end of the first half when it felt like they were going to try and milk a 21 point lead for the whole game/go into a shell but they didn't. Again, we've seen that before and however it came to be, they corrected it on the fly.

Now, you are never as good or as bad as you look in an ass beating game but there were sign of the aggressive Ryan Day led team that realized it had the best player on the field and used him with ruthless efficiency. I don't know if it's a sign of things to come, if Day is beginning to get fixed or if it was simply a one game thing where the better team said fuck it, we just aren't doing this again.

Whatever. I'll take it.
 
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Jaxbuck said:
Not just the result but something was for sure different.

A couple of things happened that typically start the spiral but for whatever reason last night, they just didn't.

There was a critical bad call (or two), there was the near fumble going into the endzone that didn't get fumbled. We've seen both of those triggers lead to some massive momentum shifts and gut wrenching losses previously.

There was a drive or two span at the end of the first half when it felt like they were going to try and milk a 21 point lead for the whole game/go into a shell but they didn't. Again, we've seen that before and however it came to be, they corrected it on the fly.

Now, you are never as good or as bad as you look in an ass beating game but there were sign of the aggressive Ryan Day led team that realized it had the best player on the field and used him with ruthless efficiency. I don't know if it's a sign of things to come, if Day is beginning to get fixed or if it was simply a one game thing where the better team said fuck it, we just aren't doing this again.

Whatever. I'll take it.
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When that near fumble happened but didn’t, I said, “it’s our night.” As you said, too many times that doesn’t go our way and when it doesn’t, it’s the start of the ball of yarn unraveling.
 
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Fungo Squiggly said:
Ryan, whatever the fuck you did and said to get this team ready, do it every week, please!
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Leaned into the identify of his program being pass first to open up the run, like we've all been begging him to do for years. Last night should be the approach to every single game we play. And moving forward, if it is, we will see a lot more of Death Star OSU...I hope like hell this isn't just another one-time thing (2020 Clemson, 2022 Georgia) and he's finally learned the lesson...

Next step is not crumbling again in a tight game...I imagine that test will be coming pretty soon...hoping like hell for a breakthrough.
 
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sparcboxbuck said:
When that near fumble happened but didn’t, I said, “it’s our night.” As you said, too many times that doesn’t go our way and when it doesn’t, it’s the start of the ball of yarn unraveling.
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It’s so funny that you mention this. I was up in 19C last night with my buddy and said the exact same thing to him. We dominated and outside of the “interception” everything broke our way. I was at the 2014 Big Ten Title game against Wisconsin and it felt similar to that in many ways. It was our night.

Something has changed with this team, just a hunch. This is gonna be our run. It will be OSU-Georgia playing a 2022 rematch at Mercedes Benz for a Natty and we will avenge that loss.

I give Day a ton of credit for that win last night. The dude hears us and is making the adjustments. Let’s support him and this team and go win this fuckimg thing!
 
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