Urban F. Meyer (Former OSU, CFB and NFL coach)

[Hetuck]

If you're a defensive coach on this staff, I hope you're spending time game planning for Washington and not updating your resume. But I also hope you have a good reason to be updating your resume.

 

[Hetuck]

Worst ever last question.

 

[strohs]

Unless I missed it, Urban thanked everyone but Drake...

I hope Day can be a great HC, but he has no experience, and this isn't Oklahoma.

 

[dragurd]

Worst ever last question.

Which was for those of us who can't watch right now because of work?

 

[MililaniBuckeye]

Unless I missed it, Urban thanked everyone but Drake...

I hope Day can be a great HC, but he has no experience, and this isn't Oklahoma.

Apparently you missed the first three games of this season...

 

[MililaniBuckeye]

OK, at work and couldn't get shit from the live feed and news is still spotty since this has all happened within the last few hours. Is Meyer's retirement effective now. i.e., he doesn't coach the Rose Bowl, or is it effective when the Rose Bowl game clock hits all zeroes?

 

[TooTall]

OK, at work and couldn't get shit from the live feed and news is still spotty since this has all happened within the last few hours. Is Meyer's retirement effective now. i.e., he doesn't coach the Rose Bowl, or is it effective when the Rose Bowl game clock hits all zeroes?

After the Rose Bowl.

 

[Hetuck]

Which was for those of us who can't watch right now because of work?

Basically a "What makes Ohio State so special for you?" question.

 

[JohnnyCockfight]

Unless I missed it, Urban thanked everyone but Drake...

I hope Day can be a great HC, but he has no experience, and this isn't Oklahoma.

Did he thank the Board of Trustees?

 

[Buckeye513]

OK, at work and couldn't get shit from the live feed and news is still spotty since this has all happened within the last few hours. Is Meyer's retirement effective now. i.e., he doesn't coach the Rose Bowl, or is it effective when the Rose Bowl game clock hits all zeroes?

After the Rose Bowl.

He did say that he'll only be meeting recruits on campus and Day will be out making visits from now on.

 

[BuckBuckTN]

After the Rose Bowl.

Post Rose Bowl but Day is recruiting as incoming HC now.

This is to assure players can't decommit because of a coaching change. I'm not sure if he has to be in place by 12/19, early signing, or after that officially, but it needs to be known the change is coming to keep recruits from jumping.

 

[Oh8ch]

I understand the concerns over the idea of an inexperienced coach taking over. But from the moment Day was first hired he has been spoken of as a future rock star.

Lots of folks hate Gene Smith. I am not one of them. He has made some outstanding hires and certainly does not take the hiring of a football coach lightly. Both he and Urban can't say enough about how special Day is.

Why go through a coaching search that would result in recruiting turmoil and a transition period for the team only to watch the guy you had in your pocket go on to greatness elsewhere? Is this a gamble? I don''t really think so.

Folks often say "trust the coaches". In this case I say trust the AD.

 

[Abenaki]

Unless I missed it, Urban thanked everyone but Drake...

I hope Day can be a great HC, but he has no experience, and this isn't Oklahoma.

Honest question: who would you have preferred?

 

[Hetuck]

Yep. Best news all day for sure.

We never got an explanation about his "new capacity."

 

[Abenaki]

We never got an explanation about his "new capacity."

To me it sounded like they don't know exactly what the "new capacity" will be yet.