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Post 23 Season tOSU Coaching Changes

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AuTX Buckeye said:
Not sure how I feel about Matt G .... from previous comments his recruiting -- which is the #1 thing Ryan Day uses to evaluate his coaches -- is lacking badly....
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Fair, but to some credit he’s recruited at Duke and Indiana. Hard places to pull big recruits.

Edit: ive read rumblings that the players loved him and Ransom called him “his go to man”.
 
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buchtelgrad04 said:
This isn’t the ringing endorsement of a LB coach’s ability that you might seem to think it is.
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I’m directly criticizing the ability of the players by saying their deficiencies needed to be hidden by sending them on blitzes most of the time in 2022.

For Eichenberg, his lack of athleticism, for Steele, his lack of instincts.

Expecting Laurinaitis to make Eichenberg faster, or to give Steele a decade’s worth of experience at the position he didn’t have in 2023 doesn’t seem fair to evaluate on, to me.
 
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SEREbuckeye said:
Matt G’s recruiting was mainly at Duke where he seemed to recruit as well as you could there. One 4 star and the rest are 3 stars. This was all pre-NIL so a much different era.

https://247sports.com/Coach/matt-guerrieri-1789/AllTimeRecruits/
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Although I initially expressed skepticism as well, particularly about recruiting, the positives are he seems to connect well with players, he’s rock solid on the same page with Knowles on concepts and schemes, he’a young and has the energy to hit the road, he can send text messages, Ohio State has a year’s worth of tape on defense to sell players on, Day has done an excellent job building a rock solid culture in the program (as evidenced by the returning players), and the brand sells itself.

I’m officially cautiously optimistic.
 
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Buckeye86 said:
Although I initially expressed skepticism as well, particularly about recruiting, the positives are he seems to connect well with players, he’s rock solid on the same page with Knowles on concepts and schemes, he’a young and has the energy to hit the road, he can send text messages, Ohio State has a year’s worth of tape on defense to sell players on, Day has done an excellent job building a rock solid culture in the program (as evidenced by the returning players), and the brand sells itself.

I’m officially cautiously optimistic.
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This. Also add in the fact that he’s not some journeyman leaching off Knowles. Indiana has him calling defensive plays. His teeth are well cut and could be a replacement-in-waiting for Johnson.
 
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Buckeye86 said:
I’m directly criticizing the ability of the players by saying their deficiencies needed to be hidden by sending them on blitzes most of the time in 2022.

For Eichenberg, his lack of athleticism, for Steele, his lack of instincts.

Expecting Laurinaitis to make Eichenberg faster, or to give Steele a decade’s worth of experience at the position he didn’t have in 2023 doesn’t seem fair to evaluate on, to me.
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Foot speed or athleticism DOES NOT account for going the wrong way. I’m not speaking about physical attributes.

LB’s should know which way to go when the ball is snapped.
 
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