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Is Ryan Day Planning To Make Changes To The Ohio State Coaching Staff? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning for Saturday, December twenty third. I'm your host,
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  tom Or The Cotton Bowl game against Missouri in just six days, the
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  game against Michigan in three hundred and forty three days. Today, we're going
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  to be taking a little bit of a step back to early signing day,
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  Ryan Day's press conference. You've heard all about the Ohio State recruiting class and
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  the guys they've signed. Today, we're going to be hearing directly from Ryan
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  Day about some of the other stuff we got to hear about, because there
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  were some very interesting conversations around a few other aspects of the Ohio State program.
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  And we're going to be structuring this a little differently than we typically do
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  these shows. Normally, I'll kind of give you a synopsis of the question,
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  and then you'll hear a little clip from Ryan Day, and I'll give
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  you a synopsis the next question. We're going to do this a little differently.
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  I've cut all this stuff together with the actual questions from the reporters because
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  you can actually hear them when you're in the team room. So you're going
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  to hear the exact question because sometimes the worrying you don't want to you don't
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  want to sort of interpret stuff. You want to give let you guys hear
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  the exact question that Ryan Day's answering, because sometimes that can matter in certain
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  situations. And we're going to start with the coaching staff. So this is
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  going to be three questions from three different people. The middle one, his
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  voice will probably sound a little familiar during the press conference, all back to
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  back just about the process of when are these coaches going to be evaluated in
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  terms of are you're going to make change through twenty twenty four, how are
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  you going to be evaluating them? All that kind of stuff. So here's
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  Brian a getting asked three different questions about the future of the Ohio State coaching
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  staff. Do you expect to make any changes to your coaching staff after the
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  season? Like I said to you before, you know, we got this,
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  we have this bowl game to play, and we're always going to evaluate
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  it, and you know, if there's any updates then you know, I'll
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  give them at the right time, But we're always going to evaluate it after
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  every season and go from there. Brian, you said earlier you were serve
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  of evaluating the staff after the season. What are the factors, specific factors
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  that you are evaluating, and what's the standards that they're being evaluated. Again.
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  Yeah, the first thing is you know, recruiting. That's that's the
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  number one thing. You've got to recruit your position. It's your job.
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  You're the head coach of your position. You've got to make sure that you
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  know that that room is strong year in and year out. You know,
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  we have a certain amount of depth that we have at each position. And
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  then you know it's your job to make sure that that you know you have
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  you know, the best, that best room in the country. I think
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  that's the other thing that we talk about a lot. And when you're at
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  Ohio State and you're coaching, you know, the wide receivers, it should
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  be wide receiver you. You know, if you're coaching the linebackers, it
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  should be a linebacker you because you know this is the best place in the
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  country. And so I think that that's the first thing. I think.
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  You know, the second thing is you know how they how they perform on
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  the field. You know, what what type of production are you getting out
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  of your unit? And then a big part of that is the development.
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  You know, and you know, if you're recruiting really well, and then
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  you're developing your players. Then yearsually you're going to get production and so and
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  then the last thing it's just you know, what do you bring in schematically
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  to the table? You know what do you are you putting your guys in
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  in a situation to be successful? And that's our job as coaches when you
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  make evaluations on a coaching staff. Uresk this earlier, but just generally,
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  like like Austin was asking about the calendar and stuff, there doesn't seem to
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  be, you know what, I mean, a really good time until after
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  January the first or the fifth, or whatever you want to call it,
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  right, I mean, does that make it, I don't know, uncomfortable
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  for you in that respect of you're selling this program, et cetera, but
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  you also want to maybe make some changes. Yeah, I mean you have
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  to take into consideration the timing of everything. Yeah, and yeah, so
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  we'll do that, but but yeah, I mean, you know, you
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  go through the season and you work through the season, and then you know,
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  you come up for air and figure out what you know, what you
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  need to do to fix things and how you need to make changes if appropriate.
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  One of the very very big storylines on early signing Day and probably for
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  the foreseeable future, is going to be about the future of defensive line coach
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  Larry Johnson. Again, there's gonna be a few different questions here about Johnson
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  and the defensive line in general. His future. Ryan Day pretty clear here
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  about you know, does he expect Larry Johnson to be back on the staff
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  next year. So here here's a few of those questions about the defensive line.
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  I've had a number of questions about Larry Johnson. Have you had to
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  answer questions whether he's retiring or staying. You know, it's funny guys have
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  brought that up over the years in recruiting. But but he's he's young,
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  he's you know, in terms of his approach every day, he's got a
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  lot of energy, you know, and he wants to continue to coach,
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  and you know, the guys in a room love him and and so yeah,
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  now he's he's still got a lot of energy when it comes to coaching,
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  and he still has a passion for coaching. And you know, his
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  wisdom, his experience is the best in the country. And our guys know
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  that, and they certainly people recognize that in recruiting, thank you. Yes.
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  With defensive line recruiting, I guess generally, do you feel like you
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  guys cast a wide enough net when trying to find the right prospects. And
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  additionally to that, this program has always done a pretty good job with offensive
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  lineman of kind of scouring the Midwest and finding, you know, with developmental
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  prospects. Obviously you've done that with this class. Just doesn't seem to happen
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  as much on the defensive line. And I'm wondering maybe why that is.
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  I think when you say, you know, casting a big enough net,
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  I think so, I mean we you know, we recruit from coast to
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  coast. You know, when you look at our roster just across the board,
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  and you know where our guys are from, and you know, I
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  think we were looking from coast to coast. You look at, I guess
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  in our d line. Now you know you got a guy from Germany,
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  You've got a guy from Seattle, You've got guys from different parts of the
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  country. So I think I think you know, we're we're looking for the
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  best we can possibly get and the best fit. And so yeah, you
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  know, I mean Jack Sawyer's from right down the Street, you know,
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  I mean we've we've we've got guys from from from Ohio and you know,
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  I think everyone wants to come in and develop, you know, at a
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  high level. But but I think we've done a really good job, like
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  you said in the old line of identifying those guys and having physical guys that
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  are going to come in and work and you know, and want to be
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  at Ohio State and you know, become you know, veteran players. So
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  I mean two different positions. But you know, I feel like we are
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  casting that net, yeah, and also developing. And when when it comes
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  to to Larry, it just seems like again and I'm sure in the future,
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  they're going to keep weaponizing it against you. The fact that he is
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  I think believe seventy two years old and has been doing this a long time.
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  What is the plan I guess to combat that, to to stop other
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  programs from using that against you as you move forward. Well, I think
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  the other part of it, you know, the flip the flip side is
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  that you know, this is a guy who's you know, developed unbelievable players,
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  and you know, some people can talk about, you know, how
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  they develop and everything like Larry's actually done it, and so there's there's a
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  body of work there, and you know, and also you know he's you
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  know, got a lot of wisdom to him, and so you know,
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  when you're going into a room every day with somebody, you know you're counting
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  on them to mentor your young man. And and you know, I think
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  that's where you know, families feel comfortable with that. You know when they
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  when they hand their son over to Larry Johnson, they know what they're getting.
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  They're going to get someone that's going to pour into them in all areas.
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  And you know, he's done that with so many different people, and
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  so you know he's going to continue to work. He's got again a ton
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  of energy, and you know he's working hard. Recruiting is just like everybody
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  else. There's certainly different challenges these days, as you know, but but
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  he is adapting and and we're gonna have a really good deal line next year.
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  And finally we're gonna be talking a little bit about the quarterback position.
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  A few questions here. The first one about Kyle McCord, who was on
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  the sidelines. In case you missed this for Syracuse's forty five nothing lost to
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  the University of South Florida during their ball game on Thursday night. So you're
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  gonna hear a quick question about Kyle McCord and then about the quarterback market and
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  the transfer portal, and then what Brian Day has seen from Devin Brown and
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  Lincoln Keyholes this month. We haven't pumped you since Kyle's decision became public.
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  Just anything that you could say as to ways that you think you could have
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  handled that better or how surprised were you the way that that sort of went
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  sideways. Yeah, I'm going to just you know, keep the conversation private
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  between between us. But and I really don't want to get into it because
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  you know, I don't think it serves anybody any good. I think Kyle,
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  you know, was very well respected here. You know, we wish
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  him nothing but the best. You know, he played some good football here
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  and you know, spent three years here and made a lot of relationships here,
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  and you know, I think he's you know, committed to another school
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  now and he'll do well there. He will, So you know, I
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  just I don't think it's worth getting into all right now, but but certainly
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  wish him nothing with the best of luck. There's a lot of guys in
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  our room care about him a lot. That that decision then led to a
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  lot of speculation as to how much you guys would get involved in the trains
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  in portal with a quarterback. How did you look at that approach that and
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  ultimately what I guess the decisions have been made about that. Yeah, you
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  know, I I think that you know, competition is very very healthy.
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  I think you know, Lincoln's really been coming on look excited to see air
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  you know, get going here the spring, but you know, fire up
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  to see the way Devn's been practicing the last few weeks. You know,
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  it's it's it's been great for him. You know, now that he's healthy,
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  angle's feeling better, and you kind of like, okay, take this
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  thing and run and see see how the next couple of weeks go in terms
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  of the way he handles himself, excited that he's going to be able to
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  play in this game and and then just go from there. But you know,
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  Devon was real close, you know, going into the season, and
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  so this is gonna be an awesome opportunity for him to take it and run
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  and and so excited to see that and and and again, I think the
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  guys have seen you know what he's been. You know, the last couple
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  of practices have been very good. And but also you know link in and
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  Air. I mean, the these guys are are talented young men who want
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  to get on the field. I guess specifically, what are you seeing from
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  Devin right now that you like, maybe especially relative to what you were seeing
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  when you made the decisions to the conference, Well, you know you're seeing
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  well wait to get and to get in the game to kind of see it
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  all. But I think it's just the experience of getting more and more reps
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  under your belt. But also when when you're when you're with the ones and
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  you're with the starters all the time, I think you can play a little
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  bit maybe a little bit more freely and not worried about making a mistake.
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  And so that's been good to see, all right. So that was just
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  a little bit of housekeeping touch on in a few different storylines we just haven't
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  really gotten to talk about on this show all that much. So I hope
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  that was hope that was informative for you. You get a chance to hear
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  directly from Ryan Day and you know, with the with all the direct questions
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  so you're not there's no room for interpretation. This is what he was asked,
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  this is what he answered, So hopefully that was informative for you.
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  We'll be back tomorrow with another show we're playing and bringing bringing in ross Fulton
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  there Buddy, talk about a little bit about the ohisted offense, your hosted
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  defense and the Cotton Bowl against Missouri. That'll be probably the next couple of
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  day worth the shows as the plan. So we'll have that and then after
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  that, Tony and Kevin and I'll be down in Dallas for the Cotton Bowl
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  right around the corner. Could be a less than a week, can't believe
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  it, less than a week without till that game, the Buckeyes and Missoo
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  facing off in Jerryworld on the twenty ninth. We will have coverage of the
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  full lead up to that game. Lots of press conferences, lots of open
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  practices, all that kind of good stuff, all from Dallas. You can
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  find it all at bucke Huddle dot com and of course at YouTube dot com
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  slash Buckeye Huddle. We'll have a lot of content there as well. So
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  that will do it for today. Thank you guys all for joining us.
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  Have a great day. We will talk to you tomorrow.