The Ohio State football team waited for over a month to officially hire a new offensive coordinator once Brian Hartline decided to become the new head coach of USF. Hartline was only the offensive coordinator for one year, and it is the only time he has ever called plays.
Ryan Day clearly decided that he didn't want to hire an offensive coordinator from another collegiate program. There were rumors that they were looking at hiring Brian Daboll, but he ended up deciding to be hired by the Eagles instead. The Buckeyes eventually settled on Arthur Smith as the right man for the job.
After hiring him, Day spoke about hiring him for the first time while talking in an interview on 97.1 the Fan. While some fans were not pleased with the hire, Day gave some quotes that should have fans more excited about it moving forward.
Ohio State football fans should be excited about Arthur Smith after Ryan Day quote
Day is very pleased with the hiring of Smith, and he let fans know that he believes he will be a home run hire.
“I think we've hit a home run here when you look at all the different things. I can't get into the details of the background and all that, I think I will at some other point, but I think it's easy to see when you talk to people who know football.”
Day even mentioned that people around him believe it's a great hire.
“I just got so many text messages that, ‘Hey man, what a great hire,’ and all those things. So we're very, very excited. In even a short period of time, you can already see some of the connections that are being made here.”
The Ohio State Buckeyes will determine how good a hire this is once the season starts and the offense starts firing things up. Smith has an idea of how he wants to run the offense, and he will mesh that with how Day wants things to go.