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Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

How Kerry Coombs responded to his demotion and what it means for Ohio State football

Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

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Sports, Football

4.51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Ohio State's usual Tuesday press conference featured defensive coordinator Kerry Coombs, who spoke for the first time since responsibility to call the defense was handed to Matt Barnes after the loss to Oregon. Nathan and Stephen discuss what they heard from Coombs and what it means for his future with the Buckeyes. Also, reaction to Ryan Day's mid-season assessments. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome back to Buckeye Talk. I'm Nathan Baird, along with Steven Means from Cleven.com.

0:10.9

We are coming off of our only buy week, off week, idle week, whatever you want to call

0:17.5

it, media availability. We talked to Ryan Day today at the Woody. We talked to Carrie

0:23.0

Combs at the Woody. And we talked to Chris Alive today at the Woody. And one of those

0:28.1

three was really, really, really interesting. And the other two were kind of fine. We got

0:32.9

some important things from Ryan Day too. But obviously, Carrie Combs, when he came walking

0:37.3

into the media room today, was a bit of a revelation. We have not talked to Carrie Combs

0:43.1

since the Oregon game when he had play call duties taken away from him and given to Matt

0:49.5

Barnes. And the tenor of that conversation after the Oregon game was very much...

0:57.1

What are you going to do about this problem? Or what can be done about this problem? Or how much

1:02.1

of this problem is your fault? And I thought the tenor of today's conversation was about his

1:11.8

response. There were a lot of questions today. People were very interested in what did this mean

1:18.4

for Carrie Combs? And we obviously talked a little bit about what it meant for the team and how

1:22.3

the team has gotten better on defense over the last month. We talked about that with Ryan Day as

1:27.7

well. But Steven, I mean, you asked the first question. I think it was the obvious first question

1:32.3

that anybody was going to ask. That's not a digging into you. But that was a question I had to be

1:37.0

asked. It was like, how are you handling this? And we got some insight into everything that has

1:43.9

been going on behind the scenes. And the things that Ryan Day has been alluded to, at least in what

1:48.6

they're saying publicly about it, they seem to be on the same page. That Carrie Combs is not happy.

1:53.8

Carrie Combs did not enjoy being publicly removed of his play-calling duties. But Carrie Combs

2:01.9

being who he is, both in terms of personality and being a longstanding professional in this

2:07.8

industry, in this business, in this sport has handled it with some class. I guess just what was your...

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