December 4th, 2018 at 1:17 PM ^
Wow.
Helps with continuity I guess. And I am sure Day is a great coach. He is also young and experienced, which helps with recruiting, etc.
But this is a giant step down from Urban Meyer across the board in my view. Hopefully Day is able to keep Schiano and Kevin Wilson onboard. See no reason why not.
People here need to understand that Day played starting quarterback for Chip Kelly UNH 1998-2001, starter in 2001, when Kelly was the OC there. The "hurry up" spread option offense is in Columbus to stay.
December 4th, 2018 at 1:28 PM ^
this is comparable to a Tom Herman hire it appears. Should be a very good hire, not historically great hire. Would have liked to notch a victory against Urban, but we’ll have to take what we can get at this point.
December 4th, 2018 at 1:48 PM ^
Until we beat OSU, I don't care if they are winless by the time The Game is here or Day is the coach... I refuse to get excited about our prospects to beat them.
December 4th, 2018 at 1:57 PM ^
They must have a lot of faith in him. I get it. He acquitted himself well during Urban's three game suspension, there's more than enough talent on the team to have faith that he'll do well for the duration, and he's not going to go away much from what worked under Meyer. I imagine it'll be largely the same schemes/philosophies.
The only knock against Day is that the teams he had to coach against didn't really have a pulse, especially considering that TCU wasn't as good as we all thought they were 2-3 months ago. Against Oregon St and Rutgers, you literally could've pulled a drunken OSU sorostitute out of the stands, put a headset on her and gave her a playbook, and OSU would've still won by no less than 3 TDs. So we don't know yet how good Day is as an in-game coach.
I think OSU is willing to take a chance on a young up and comer, though. Minnesota has done it with PJ Fleck with decent results so far, the Rams have done it with Sean McVay and have received results beyond their wildest dreams. If OSU hits another home run with Day, they've essentially secured their future for the next 15-20 years as long as he doesn't have NFL aspirations. If they don't, they'll still have enough cache as a program within 3-5 years to move on from him and get another top hire.
December 4th, 2018 at 1:58 PM ^
I welcome this.
Every coaching change, everywhere, is an inflection point. Things never just stay the same, no matter who the coach is.
Who knows, he might be even better. But given that Meyer was perfect against us, I'm willing to gamble that the inflection point is downward not upward.
At this point, anything to shuffle the deck and get a new hand to break the cold streak.
We have nothing to lose. What's he going to do, recruit 5-stars and beat us every game?
Oh, wait . . .
December 4th, 2018 at 4:14 PM ^
Agreed, in my option this can only be good. Urban had a 90% win percentage at OSU. Alabama under Nick Saban is one of the most dominate programs ever, and they have a 91% win percentage (throwing out his first 7-6 season). If Day steps in and is the greatest college football coach in history then we are basically at the same point we are right now. Any other result and this is an improvement for us.
December 4th, 2018 at 9:36 PM ^
Thread should have been shut down after this comment. Spot on, M-Dog. The odds that he turns out better than one of the top 2 or 3 coaches in college football are astronomical. Don’t get me wrong, there is a lot of area between Urban Meyer and this guy sucks, but not much between Urban Meyer and {looks at the list of great coaches} ..... Nick Saban.
Fuck, I feel dirty, and nauseous.
December 4th, 2018 at 2:09 PM ^
Didn't they realize that Brady Hoke was available?
December 4th, 2018 at 3:45 PM ^
They tried, Hoke's GPS took him to Athens, Ohio instead. He never showed up for the interview.
December 4th, 2018 at 4:07 PM ^
He should have walked.
December 4th, 2018 at 2:15 PM ^
Meyer's presser was weird. No fanfare ... kind of a cold handoff to Ryan Day.
December 4th, 2018 at 4:11 PM ^
You knew this is how it would end the minute Urban basically laid the entire Zach Smith thing on his AD's table as his fault. There was no way for those two to ever coexist after that, and now they won't.
Kinda makes you wonder if they didn't work all this out for the suspension, allow him to retire at end of year instead of firing with cause or firing before season. It's been a very long time so the memory might be cheating, but isn't that basically how Lou Holtz left Notre Dame too?
December 4th, 2018 at 4:23 PM ^
Well, 2019 in the Big Ten East is a little more interesting, and it will be interesting to see how or if recruiting and other things change under Day, although I suspect there won't be drastic, at least not right away (if indeed there are changes to appreciate at all). I don't think it got much easier if at all for us, at least not in the short-term.
December 4th, 2018 at 5:02 PM ^
This is amazing. I always suspected OSU fans thought they could plug in anybody and continue with the incredible success that Urban brought them. They're putting an almost completely untested commodity at head coach. This has the potential to be a disaster for them.
December 4th, 2018 at 6:14 PM ^
I don't get this coaching hire at all. Ohio State can hire ANYBODY. They hired Tressel, who had won multiple titles in Div 1-AA (albeit probably by cheating). Then they hired Meyer, who had been considered one of the best coaches in the country for a decade.
Now they hire some dude that has never even been a head coach, and has only been an OC for a few seasons, with almost no longevity at any school.
Huh? I mean, even if this guy has been impressive in his 2 years at OSU, huh? Brady Hoke had a FAR better resume than this guy when Michigan hired him. I mean light years better.
December 4th, 2018 at 7:09 PM ^
I agree with you. Given who OSU is nationally at the moment, why wouldn't they conduct a national serach? Tell me which coach wouldn't at least listen to what Gene Smith had to say? Nick Saban maybe? It may work out for them or it may not, but I'd say they're overdue for a coaching hire failure.
FWIW most Buckeyes just assume that this will work out for them-- they're speculating how much of a raise he'll get when he wins his first NC. I guess they've gotten used to falling in a pile of crap and coming up smelling like roses.
Urban was probably the #2 coach in the country; I think the only direction to go is down, even if not very far down.
December 4th, 2018 at 6:50 PM ^
Hopefully this was their rich rod moment and we can curb stomp them the next few years.
December 4th, 2018 at 7:30 PM ^
You don't need to be a coaching mastermind to win 10 games at OSU. You don't need to be a coaching mastermind at OSU to have a legit shot at beating Michigan every single time you play them. Those things are just in-built.
But it'd be tough for someone to be an upgrade on Meyer or even a like-for-like replacement. So that definitely has increased our chances going forward - by how much remains to be seen.
December 4th, 2018 at 7:50 PM ^
Now everything hinges on The Game next year. I’d say OSU at home with a 39 year old first time head coach is MUST win for Harbaugh’s legacy.
December 4th, 2018 at 8:49 PM ^
Meyer cannot be replaced. OSU will take a step back. Day may be an excellent coach.
All of those can simultaneously be true. If I was Day I’d have some concern with taking this job. The money is a non issue he was going to be a multi millionaire either way. Urban Meyer is a generationally great coach. I hate him, but he is. I saw it first hand working for the football team at BG when Meyer was there.
The odds of Day being Meyer are almost zero. It’s the odds of the next Alabama coach being Saban part deux.
Even on the radio in Columbus they said if he goes 10-2 the next three years and beats Michigan each year that is NOT good enough. That is total failure.
Many of my friends that went to osu and love osu could not have cared less about the game last week since they were 11-1 and “sucked” this year.
That is what Day is stepping into.