Ryan Day, Matt Patricia and what Ohio State's coaches said heading into spring practice

Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

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🗓️ 17 March 2025

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Spring practice has arrived, bringing with it the official start of Ohio State football's national title defenses. Ryan Day and the rest of the coaching staff spoke publicly to preview the start of practice, detailing why certain hires were made, visions for the future and what the 'Spring Showcase' on April 12 will look like. On this episode of Buckeye Talk, Stephen Means, Stefan Krajisnik, and Andrew Gillis break down everything that was said as we head into the new season. Thanks for listening to Buckeye Talk, Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, hey, where you've been,
0:17.1	Buckeye talk is about to begin.
0:20.5	Hey, hey, hey, come on in. Ben, Buckeye Talk is about to begin.
0:24.8	Hey, hey, hey, come on in.
0:33.5	Welcome back to Buckeye Talk.
0:34.3	I'm Stephen Kreis.
0:36.2	That's Stefan Kreisnick, and that's Andrew Gillis.
0:42.6	And spring practice has finally arrived. And what's crazy is, it feels like to bring outside. You know,
0:47.7	it's warm, it's beautiful, the sun is shining, the birds are tripping. And I'm only saying that because there have been years in the past where Ohio State has started spring practice and it's
0:51.7	still snowing around or it's cold and we're in big
0:54.5	coats and hoodies and whatnot. Well, for start, they push it back until after spring break. So that
0:59.7	helps. They're also only doing four weeks of spring practice instead of five weeks of spring
1:03.7	practice, which is also great, I think. It's a thing. I don't know if it's great or not. It's less work, but it's also less
1:12.5	content for us to get. So I guess there's a good and bad to it, Stefan, but overall, it's
1:18.2	beautiful outside. Are you, are you happy? Are you excited? Your first spring football as an Ohio
1:22.5	state beat writer. Any time it gets a little warmer, March Madness starts coming up.
1:38.4	Like when it's warm and like the games in Dayton tip off and then the first weekend arrives and it's just like, you're kind of sitting there being like, this is why I wake up in December.
1:41.6	It's because eventually I'll get here and we've made it.
1:44.8	The problem is it looks like next week it is going to be back in the 50s.
1:47.1	So it might be cold by the time spring practice starts again.
1:48.6	See, that's the problem.
1:51.4	No one's, well, that's next weeks.
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