What do you do when you’ve seen the same rodeo over and over?
Ryan Day brought you many trips to playoff land and even one national title, but he spent much of the just ended season playing just enough to win. Any way you slice it, that’s playing from a not-to-lose vantage that’s proven costly along the way. It has it’s own built-in version of Tressel Ball.
But it’s in his code. Gullible Ohio State fans bought his rhetoric about unleashing some score-mongering-full-blast offense. Day reputedly was saving it all year for when things get really serious. It didn’t happen in the Indiana loss and it didn’t happen New Year’s Eve. And it was absent in the so-called annual war of the Up North refrigerator game.
The Day era has been a good one as noted above. But few leopards ever change their spots, as the cliché goes, and Day and his offensive play strategies have become clichés. Time to thank him dearly and move on.
If Urban Meyer told Michigan’s new coach he can get any recruit he wants and win a national title, what can a new energetic coach who isn’t afraid to roll the dice do at Ohio State?
Day didn’t deserve the offense he had this year. He abused it. He also abused the one before winning the title. Every thing about his style reeks with caution not daring do, a huge waste of the talent there.
One philosophy is coaching according to the talent you have. First year starter or otherwise, he kept as he’s done many times before, his young star QB on a tight leash. It’s micromanaging at its worse.
Check all the stats you want but the run game was non-existent for the most part. Ryan in the Indiana game eschewed field goals when he should’ve taken them and did the reverse in many other important situations over his reign.
The game has changed. College football coaches come and go as we all know. Thank Day for what he’s done, no small measure for sure, and cut him loose.
Otherwise, you’ll be purchasing more tickets to that same old rodeo. It’s like one of those math quizzes in college with a problem you missed and the instructor warned you before hand it was a guaranteed given.
New blood new refreshing energy.