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Has Ohio State Football Coach Brian Hartline Checked Out on the Season?

Menace2Sports with Zach Smith

Menace 2 Sports with Zach Smith

Sports, Football

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🗓️ 8 December 2025

⏱️ 103 minutes

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HAS BRIAN HARTLINE CHECKED OUT?!
Ohio State Football is in full meltdown mode after the shocking Big Ten Championship loss to Indiana, and now the spotlight is squarely on Brian Hartline — who has just accepted the Head Coaching job at South Florida.

Today, we dive into the growing rumor inside the Woody Hayes facility:
👉 Was Brian Hartline already mentally checked out on the Buckeyes before the championship game?

From play-calling concerns to preparation questions to recruiting fallout, this could be one of the most impactful coaching exits in years.

🔥 LIVE Show Topics:

Did Brian Hartline check out before the Big Ten Championship?

Inside the locker room reaction to Hartline's USF hiring

How much Hartline's departure affected Ohio State's offensive performance

Why the Indiana loss exposed deeper issues within the Buckeye staff

What Ryan Day must do to stabilize the program NOW

Who becomes the next WR coach/OC at Ohio State

How Hartline's move impacts recruiting, NIL, and offensive identity

LIVE chat reactions, heated debate & real-time fan takes

This might be the most dramatic moment in Ohio State's season — and the ripple effects will be massive heading into 2025.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

It is 53 weeks later.

0:05.2

And our first Monday show after a loss, I mean, we knew Indiana was good.

0:13.9

We knew Kurt Signetti was the real deal.

0:16.3

I still did not see this coming.

0:18.4

Yeah, me either.

0:19.4

And especially in the fashion that it did, who knew we would die in the Big Ten championship

0:26.5

game with a toy sword in hand.

0:31.6

Fucking 45 tight ends on the field instead of a room full of Ferraris.

0:39.1

I can't make sense of this.

0:41.7

After talking to people inside the building, this feels a lot like Michigan last year,

0:47.6

where you walked away from the game going, what the fuck was that game plan?

0:52.3

Just abysmal offensive plan offensive play calling and it begs the question

0:59.4

of the day is brian heartline checked out and should ryan day say thanks for everything

1:06.6

on to south florida you go yeah but sianara i think that's kind of the sentiment for a lot of Ohio State fans, even the ones that like Hartline are like, yeah, I don't really know after that kind of game plan, I think I'd rather you just focus on South Florida and let us kind of. In a world where in reality, that is his job. He just took a head coaching job. There's no time to waste. Yeah. He's got to get on

1:29.1

top of his duties as of the new head football coach in South Florida. To me, this is not a throw

1:34.8

shade at Brian Hartline. This happens in football, right? Coaches get opportunities. He got his head

1:41.9

coaching opportunity. He took it. He is now the head coach South Florida.

1:45.8

To me, this is on Ryan Day.

1:48.2

You thank Brian Hartline for everything.

1:50.7

Give him his flowers and tell him,

1:53.0

go be a great head coach.

1:54.5

But we got this from here.

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