Even mental giant George Costanza came up with a belated comeback quicker than Ryan Day.
Ryan Day merch is very popular at the Jerk Store.
Oh yeah, Ryan? The jerk store called and they are running out of you.
Yeah, well I had sex with your wife!
His wife is dead…
He grew up in a family of private investigators - and the family is still not good at that job, either.
Maybe they should investigate how to beat Michigan with the most talented team money can buy.
still stinging. never going to make up for the 3-peat thumping despite having every possible legal and illegal weapon at his disposal.
day is like a guy driving a corvette who lost a race to a guy in a chevy impala. three straight times. bwahahaha.
Some might say he was driving a Maserati.
I heard he got rid of his Honda McCord. I'm just Sayin'....
cul-de-sacs can be confusing.
Third base is a tough place to grow up.
Or be stranded.
Harbaugh is Paul Walker in his suped up Supra, beating the guy in the Ferarri in the first movie. One Built his car to go fast, the other bought his car to go fast. One is willing to make the daring moves to win. The other is more concerned with his image (and his dyed beard).
Jim is in Herbie the Love Bug-smiling from ear to ear...circling Day in his Ferrari.
He’s the guy driving the Caddy getting passed by a Little Nash Rambler stuck in second gear in the old song, “Beep Beep.”
Hey XM! Help me understand...
...I do not see why/how this quote is an apparent shot at Jim.
"Like some of us in this profession (Day referring to himself), he (Carlos) came up not in a football family but grew up and..."
Okay....so he's correlating Carlos with himself that they grew up and found a passion for football on their own, not because of their upbringing. Just because Jim grew up in a football family, so did many others, and why do people think this quote has anything to do with the Harbaughs?
Quite a reach, methinks.
chuck, as my favorite buckeye i do see your point and its reasonable. i just think it's more reasonable that JH has left a permanent scar on your guy and day keeps picking at it.
hope you are doing well. you are a very welcome poster around here.
EDIT: see henson's comment just below. seems like you'd have to convince your own fan base of your position first, before you ask us. it must pain you, a good dude, to have those guys on 'your side'. every fan base has some, but ohio has cornered the market.
Methinks Chuck doesn't want to catch the garter.
Why are you asking XM? Go ask these guys, "your trusted source for Ohio State athletics." They're the ones who tweeted it was a shot at Harbaugh.
Comments from 11 Warriors:
the shaaaade
Thank you for highlighting what I also locked in on.
And it is righteous shade at that.
Came here to say the same thing.
Bang - I lit up on that too lol
Yep, love it!
Underhanded direct response to the born on 3rd comment.
BET
It's certainly not a bad thing, he was just pointing out the irony of who the comment came from. Some would consider growing up in the UM and Stanford stadiums while living football would be quite the advantage over a guy like Day who lost his father young and had to go get everything for himself.
Neither are bad ways to get to where they are, it's just that one asshole through he would make a smart ass remark without really thinking about what he was saying.
it is the real "born on 3rd base".
In short, Fuck Michigan.
eat that Jimmy lol
And I would add "grew up in a football family where Daddy made it possible for him to coach and get plum jobs and having an older brother who kept bailing his incompetent ass out by sending him rental coaches".
Fan board commenters are delusional. Don't you know that already?
...doesn't matter which colors they wear.
you guys have waaaaayy more, and waaay more severe nut jobs than we do.
as to the original point, their nutiness and quotes speaks to my first point: it was harbaugh living rent-free in 3rd base's head.
And yet...?
Still waiting for that 100, Ryan.
He meant yards not points.😂
Installment plan...
If this is the version of Ryan Day that "has it figured out" then I hope Ohio State gives him a lifetime contract.
I could not agree more, give him a lifetime contract.
The full 2 paragraphs from the 11Warriors article below the fold, if anyone is interested.
Honestly, I don't think it had anything to do with Harbaugh, as Locklyn legimately DOES have a somewhat unique path to the CFB coaching world. But I may be wrong, that's just how I read it.
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A former running back at Chattanooga, Locklyn has climbed the coaching ladder at an impressive pace. He began coaching in 2009 as a volunteer for high schools in Tennesee while he worked as a corrections and police officer. Locklyn later referred to himself as a “walk-on” coach during those years, and the name of his account on X still reflects that perspective.
“I love that about him,” Day said. “Like some of us in this profession, he came up not in a football family but grew up and kind of had to figure it out on their own. He’s one of those people. When you listen to how he came up in this thing, he’s very appreciative of all the opportunities he’s gotten. But he’s earned them all, and he deserved them all. He really earned and deserved this opportunity.”
Nope
Yeah - I ain’t buying it either, my guy
Ryan Day sprained his tongue trying to slide that weak subtweet in there. Should've just said Harbaugh's name if he was going to use that many words.
“I know writers who use subtext, and they’re all cowards.”
You are wrong, sir. "...he came up not in a football family..." is nothing but a sad reference to the Harbaugh family. I'll give him credit for coming up with something for which he didn't need to call out the family name specifically, but this one is probably a little vague for your standard OSU fan to catch on with.
I mean, a PSU fan couldn't see it, so...
Also he leads with "like some of us," so he's inserting himself in the statement (to counter 3rd base).
It's a very odd thing to do if his only goal was to praise Locklyn. If he wanted to point out how unique and special Locklyn is, then he wouldn't basically start with, "As is so common among many of us coaches..."
If this wasn't about Harbaugh, then he doesn't even know how to praise people.
It's not odd for a narcissist.
You try way too hard to always be the contrarian. You must be a load of fun to be around.
You have to admire the consistency though.
It's OK to provide an alternative interpretation. I do think it's intended for Harbaugh (especially as this is the coach hired to replace the one UM stole), but I can see how one can think/feel differently.
Nittany Fan has been more willing to take positions against the standard ones here, but I appreciate his chillness in how he does it.
Probably Canadian. Passive aggressive by nature.
He really earned and deserved the opportunity, but you know, he really deserved and earned it. Can't say enough about the guy but you know what, he just really deserved and earned it.
Look for clues. Cryin Day clearly said 'like some of "US" in the profession', he had to battle his way up. This is classic psychological projection:
"In its malignant forms, it is a defense mechanism in which the ego defends itself against disowned and highly negative parts of the self by denying their existence in themselves and attributing them to others"
Clearly it is Harbaugh who grew up on 3rd base with all the advantages of being in a football family. I think this is true to an extent. Harbaugh learned the central tenet of football probably in the womb: it is a ferocious physical game at its core, and that battle generally determines the outcome. Team and coach mentality must unflinchingly reflect this tenet at all times. Like many of his generation, Day learned football drawing up cool plays on Madden.
He could have mentioned his path without the football family part. The sad fact is that the subtle dig falls flat and sounds a lot like too little, too late.
He says he didn't "come up in a football family," like that's unusual or something. It isn't. So why even add that utterly extraneous, mundane detail unless you're attempting to make some lame, insecurity-rooted "point" with it?
Nice find fishbulb. And I agree,
.. he's still in his head. ...
There are 100 reasons hanging in Day's head as to why he's inferior to Harb's
and they are all true
100% honesty, and rivalry aside, I'm pretty damned impressed by Ryan Day achieving this level of success as a kid growing up in a single parent household and dealing with the trauma of a parental suicide. That's incredible. He should absolutely be proud of that. And his openness about that situation and his support of mental health should be applauded.
But holy smokes, dude cannot stop himself from walking into these comments. You lost three in a row. You called out Lou friggin Holtz in a post game interview. You stuck a big "Toughness" sign or whatever up on the wall. Now you lost a coach to Michigan and are trying to frame it as replacing him with a coach who didn't grow up in a football family because that insinuates that those who did are somehow less?
My man, get yourself and your team into the submarine and start yapping after you beat Michigan.
yeah, I used to like Day too.
But to go nuclear on the "sign stealing" bullshit made me lose all respect for him. He is the worst, and deserves every lump he gets.