Even if we don’t get the same thrill as we do on the first Wednesday in February for college football, coaches like Ohio State’s Ryan Day seem a lot more relieved to speak with the media.
The head coach of the Buckeyes took the podium and spoke for over an hour, discussing defensive end Dominic Kirks and a variety of other things.
Regarding the current status of the Ohio State football team, Day answered a number of thoughtful questions, some of which offered interesting information about what to expect for the 2024 season and beyond. Find out below what I felt were the key points made by the Ohio State head coach at his press conference.
89 percent of college football coaches who win 50 percent of their games in five years are not fired. Ryan Day, the coach of Ohio State, is not expected to be the first. However, Day lost to Michigan on Saturday in the rivalry match that ended all rivalries for the third time in a row. Assistant Sherrone Moore led the Wolverines as captain; he wore the large headset on game day because head coach Jim Harbaugh was serving a large Ten ban.
Moore outcoached Day when there were two teams on the field with roughly comparable skill levels. Day didn’t make any disastrous mistakes, but on two crucial fourth-down plays, he was not bold, and both times, his caution let him down against Ohio State. On a fourth-and-1 play at Ohio State’s 46, Day decided to punt, but his punter mishandled a 33-yard duck that missed the 20-yard line. Later, on fourth and 2, at Michigan’s 34-yard line, the coach decided to try for a field goal just before halftime. The subsequent 52-yard try was longer than Jayden Fielding, the kicker for the Buckeyes,’s career-long 47-yard effort, and he failed wide left. The whole game, Ohio State made no attempts to convert on fourth downs. Moore forced Michigan to attempt three, and the Wolverines successfully completed each one on their way to two touchdowns. A 34-yard pass from Michigan’s running back to his tight end, which set up another field goal, was the game’s top schematic play. Moore is also the team’s offensive coordinator.
Day is the head coach of the college football team with the greatest inherent advantage. If you were hired as head coach, you, yes you, would lead Ohio State to at least a respectable bowl game. Ohio State will always, no matter what, assemble one of the finest rosters in the nation, according to gravity. (The Buckeyes have the advantage of being the only program that is a given in a state that produces a large number of talented high school athletes, as well as being a well-known national brand that can visit high schools in Florida, Texas, and other states and produce potential NFL players.) But on Saturday, following two years of crushing defeats, Day lost in a different fashion: all day, the man on the opposite sideline, with little head coaching experience except from filling in for his boss when the latter was not permitted inside the stadium, outwitted Day. Michigan won 30–24 in the end. On their way to the College Football Playoffs are the Wolverines.
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