It took six years, however the Ohio State Buckeyes obtained to the mountaintop with head coach Ryan Day this season, successful the 2024 College Football Playoff.
However with a nationwide title now in his possession, would Day think about bolting school soccer for the NFL?
“I’d by no means wanna say, ‘I’d by no means think about it,’ as a result of you do not know how issues can change. I used to be within the NFL for 2 years and had an important expertise there, and it is an important league. However proper now, the affect we will make on younger individuals is, to me, extra impactful in school,” Day said on the most recent version of “The Steam Room.”
“And that is why I obtained into this sport, was to try this and that is what I need to do.”
Day was a quarterbacks coach within the NFL for 2 seasons: 2015 with the Philadelphia Eagles and 2016 with the San Francisco 49ers. Each of these assistant teaching stints got here beneath head coach Chip Kelly, who’s now Day’s offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Ohio State.
Day arrived in Columbus in 2017, serving because the Buckeyes’ co-offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach beneath head coach City Meyer. He was then Ohio State’s offensive coordinator, quarterbacks coach and performing head coach for 3 video games in 2018. Day was promoted to full-time head coach for the 2019 season within the wake of Meyer’s retirement.
Since Day turned the full-time head coach in 2019, Ohio State is a mixed 67-10 with 5 Eleven-plus-win seasons, 4 School Soccer Playoff appearances and not more than two losses in a single season.
Previous to the 2024 School Soccer Playoff, Day’s Buckeyes misplaced on their house turf to the archival Michigan Wolverines, who had been unranked, marking their fourth consecutive loss within the iconic Big Ten rivalry.
Ohio State then rebounded, blowing out the No. 9 Tennessee Volunteers at house within the first spherical, dealing with the No. 1 Oregon Ducks within the quarterfinals, edging out the No. 5 Texas Longhorns within the semifinals and knocking off the No. 7 Notre Dame Fighting Irish within the Nationwide Championship.
What’s subsequent for Day with the Buckeyes? Make a category of 1 a category of two.
“Woody Hayes is the final one to win a number of nationwide championships at Ohio State. That is one thing I’ve now set for myself,” Day stated. “To be the subsequent head coach to win a number of championships at Ohio State. There’s nonetheless much more to be completed.”
5 of Ohio State’s 9 championships got here with Hayes as head coach (1954, 1957, 1961, 1968 and 1970). Paul Brown (1942), Jim Tressel (2002), Meyer (2014) and Day (2024) gained the opposite 4.
The following time Day and the Buckeyes will likely be in motion is Aug. 30, after they host the Longhorns in Week 1 of the 2025 school soccer season, a rematch of final season’s semifinal spherical matchup.
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