Bucknuts Morning 5: March 15, 2019

Bucknuts Morning 5: An Ohio State athletics podcast

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🗓️ 15 March 2019

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

When Ryan Day arrived at Ohio State in January of 2017 as the Buckeyes' co-offensive coordinator/quarterbacks coach, he was overshadowed by the hiring of offensive coordinator/tight ends coach Kevin Wilson. Almost everyone -- certainly including us here at Bucknuts -- thought Wilson was the one who was going to bring the offense to new heights in Columbus. After all, it was Wilson who was relatively successful as the head coach at Indiana (and always fielded good/great offenses at IU) and it was Wilson who had a history of being a standout offensive coordinator at the college level at Oklahoma and Northwestern.

Yet, in the span of one year, it was Day who was turning down an opportunity to be an offensive coordinator in the NFL with the Tennessee Titans. It was Day who was promoted to offensive coordinator in 2018. And it was Day who became just the second assistant coach ever at Ohio State to make a salary in the seven-digits (joining Greg Schiano).

Then when Urban Meyer was suspended, it was Day who took over the program during preseason camp and for the first three games of the 2018 season. Then when Meyer retired after the 2018 season, Ohio State was so impressed with Day that they didn't even do a search for a new head coach. The Buckeyes promoted Day to head coach, and the early returns on the recruiting front and just how he handles his business in general have been positive.

On today's show, Jonah Booker joins Dave Biddle to discuss the quick rise of Ryan Day, plus:

* How Justin Fields and Matthew Baldwin look so far at quarterback.

* Thoughts on OSU's 2019 wide receivers.

* Ohio State's basketball team defeating Indiana on Thursday and advancing to face Michigan State today in the Big Ten Tournament.

All of that and more is coming at you on the Friday extravaganza.

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0:00.0	The And the Good morning.
0:28.2	Good morning Bucknutters,
0:29.0	to The Bucknuts Morning Five
0:30.6	here on Friday, March 15th, 2019. I am Dave Biddle, very happy joined by
0:35.2	Jonah Booker for his usual Friday visit.
0:37.9	Jaybook, I'm going to start up talking about kind of the meteoric rise of Ryan Day.
0:47.6	It's almost like we all know it's happened but I don't think it gets talked about enough
0:51.9	especially when you look at when Ryan Day was hired when he came to Ohio State in January of 2017, so just basically, you know, two years and two months ago, everyone, myself included, certainly, I felt like I was leading the Kevin Wilson bandwagon, was sitting there saying like Kevin Wilson is the
1:04.4	offensive guru this is going to be huge for Ohio State and yes co-offensive
1:08.4	coordinator quarterback's coach Ryan Day he looks like he's got a pretty good
1:10.8	resume he could be a coach on the rise man, I don't think anybody saw this coming.
1:15.1	I just, as you take a step back and look at how fast everything's happened with Ryan Day,
1:20.7	you know, he's become such a, I don't want to say he's a star yet let's let him
1:25.4	coach a full season but man it's been a meteoric rise for Ryan Day I just want to get your
1:28.6	thoughts on that. Yeah he's he's really elevated his name profile nationally. I know ESPN Louis Riddick has really studied Ohio State's offense and he said a lot of the concepts and a lot of the things that Ohio
1:44.9	State is doing offensively a lot of NFL teams should be knocking on Ryan Day's
1:50.3	door just to kind of understand what they're actually doing because the
1:54.9	office that Ohio State is running now under the leadership of Ryan Day is
2:00.4	is what you're starting to see a lot of offenses trend to when it comes today I believe
2:07.0	Ohio State is looking at him in the mode of a
2:15.0	show makvay or the Oklahoma coach there. Lincoln Riley, he's a young up and coming coach.
2:18.0	He's very innovative.
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