Don Brown and Ryan Day coached together for 2 years at BC

Submitted by BlueLikeJazz on December 4th, 2018 at 12:25 PM

I haven't seen this discussed at all, but Brown and Day coordinated the defense and offense respectively at Boston College together from 2013-1014. 

That's going to be an interesting subplot going forward with these two teams, as I'm sure they each know each other's tendencies and preferences pretty well. Certainly seems like Round 1 went to Day. Hopefully Brown can punch back next year. 

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BeatOSU52

December 4th, 2018 at 1:30 PM ^

Sometimes this blog is weird.  There was a comment on Saturday morning about how not wanting back into into the playoff to get killed by Alabama, and it for some reason got upvoted a ton.    I mean, obviously we don't want to get killed by Alabama but people were basically saying they'd rather go to the Peach Bowl than the CFP.  

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Sideline

December 4th, 2018 at 4:40 PM ^

To be fair, I don't think anyone ever feared Braxton Miller or Joe Burrows...

JT Barrett never was THE reason OSU beat UM...

Martell? lol

 

Dwayne Haskins was DEFINITELY the best of that group. And will more than likely be the best QB the Buckeyes have seen come through that program in awhile... 

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DrMantisToboggan

December 4th, 2018 at 2:04 PM ^

Lack of pressure and Brandon Watson were 80-90% of the reason we lost to OSU. No team that doesn't get to Haskins can stop OSU's offense. Not us, not Bama, not Clemson, not the Houston Texans. If Haskins has all day to throw and at least one DB he knows his guy has a massive athleticism advantage over, it's a wrap.

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I Like Burgers

December 4th, 2018 at 3:11 PM ^

And that's not the case here.  Because sometimes your defense just isn't good.  I don't recall the offense putting Ohio State in too many bad positions the last two years.

In 2017, Ohio State had scoring drives of:

11 plays/75 yards

3/53 yds

11/78 yds

10/47 yds (FG)

3/66 yds

 

In 2018 it was:

6/57 yds

9/80 yds

8/79 yds

9/56 yds (FG)

2/22 yds**

1/78 yds

6/75 yds

3/19 yds**

 

Two whole drives in two seasons that you can blame on the offense putting them in a bad position.  Maybe 3 if you want to throw in that FG in 2017.  The rest of it is just an ass-whooping wholly independent from offensive struggles.

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ScooterTooter

December 4th, 2018 at 1:00 PM ^

I think this is the wrong argument. 

This is really about Barrett vs. Haskins. 

Brown had Barrett figured out.

In 2016, Ohio State scored 10 points in regulation at home. You might say "They missed two field goals!", which okay. But their one TD came when they had to drive 6 yards. Really, Ohio State's offense played well enough to score 9 points on their own in regulation. They didn't even cross 200 yards till the last drive in regulation (that featured a terrible call by the officials on a third down given that they would let the same call go when it would have helped Michigan in overtime). That is a beat down and its a travesty that Michigan lost that game because of offensive mistakes and the officiating. 

In 2017, Ohio State had 14 points through 2.5 quarters with Barrett in the game. Seven of those points came on a drive that was aided by phantom penalties (perplexing even the announcers) and a shocking dropped INT by Josh Metellus. 

What's honestly frustrating - especially given what happened this year - is that Ohio State was probably HELPED in 2017 by losing their starting QB. Ever since Haskins entered that game, Michigan has been unable to stop Ohio State. 

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UM Fan from Sydney

December 4th, 2018 at 12:44 PM ^

I was having a conversation with a friend about this. If we don't win in 2019 with the amount of upper classmen we will have (assuming Shea returns, which I expect him to), the fact that it's a home game, OSU will have a new coach and possibly new QB, then I simply cannot believe Harbaugh and his team/staff can get it done versus OSU. In fact, I might believe that we will never beat OSU again at that rate.

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