Ohio State Football: Ryan Day is on the hot seat

The Ohio State football team has done a lot of good with Ryan Day as their head coach. He has made the College Football Playoff in three of the four seasons he’s led the program. He led the team to the National Championship Game in 2020 as well.

2022 ended with a disappointment when the defense blew the Peach Bowl. That wasn’t on Day. I think Day actually called his best offensive game of the entire season. Despite all of that, Day is officially on the hot seat once the 2023 season gets started.

The main reason for this is his performance against TTUN. The Buckeyes have gotten blown out in each of the last two meetings with them. It’s not just that Ohio State got beat badly that is concerning. It’s the way that they got beat that shows there are issues.

Ohio State keeps getting bullied by them. Day also now has his players in the program. Most of Urban Meyer’s recruits are long gone and were this season. These are the players that Day wants in the program. Their performance ultimately falls on him.

Not only does the performance of the team as a whole fall on him, but the hires that he makes are also all on him. He was the one that went out and hired Jim Knowles, Tim Walton, and Perry Eliano. That entire defensive staff failed to do their jobs in the final two games of the season.

If Day doesn’t beat Michigan again next year, he can’t come back as the head coach. That would not only mean that he would have lost to them three years in a row, but that would also likely mean that they would not have won the Big Ten yet again.

Those kinds of results aren’t acceptable within the Ohio State football program. Day knows that. He knows what the standard is in Columbus. If he is the great coach he’s billed to be, he will make adjustments and shut people like me up.