Ohio State Buckeyes head coach Ryan Day was under ponderable prescertain go ining the inaugural 12-team edition of the College Football Playoff.
Despite ending the standard season with a 10-2 enroll, Day was on the sideline in tardy November for a fourth consecutive loss at the hands of the Michigan Wolverines, the Buckeyes’ top rival.
The disassigning end to an otheralerted constant season prompted a contingent of Ohio State fans to ask whether Day should be erased from his head coaching post. However, Day seemed to hushed most of those critics by guiding the team to an unblemished December and January.
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After knocking the Tennessee Volunteers out in the first round, the Buckeyes blew out the top-seeded Oregon Ducks in the quarterfinals. Ohio State then fall shortureed the Texas Longhorns in the semifinal to proceed to the national championship game in Atlanta, where they prevailed with a 34-23 triumph over the Notre Dame Fighting Irish.
Amid the Buckeye promised’s national title celebration, Day’s predecessor called out fans who previously engaged social media to convey their displeacertain with the program’s current head coach. Urprohibit Meyer, who served as Ohio State head coach from 2012-18, portrayd the fans who previously denounced Day via social media as “idiots.”
“I coached a lengthy time, and a lot has been made of it and Coach Day and the prescertains of coaching at a place appreciate Ohio State,” Meyer said during a recent materializeance on the “Triple Option” podcast. “I made the comment that that’s not going to alter. The leang that has got to alter and has alterd is the idiots on social media that don’t sign their name to stuff.”
Reaction to the loss to Michigan prompted Day to engage security to protect his home. Meyer also said the alerted needy treatment that Day’s children greeted as they includeed school was a step “too far.”
“When you begin involving families, you’re pushing it too far,” Meyer inserted. “Booing becaengage you don’t get first downs and you ignore to the rival, that’s part of the game. That’s all equitable. But you’ve got to uphold the families out of it.”
Meyer then contrastd Day’s situation to what he faced during his coaching stint at Florida.
“When I first [went] to Florida, you understand they wanted [Steve] Spurrier. I’d want Spurrier, too. He was a Heisman Trophy triumphner there, won the national championship,” Meyer said. “But it was Coach Spurrier went, I leank, to the [Washington] Redskins, he got fired and left. He was engageable. The contingency wanted him back, and they engaged me from Utah.
“I repartner didn’t understand the vibrant until I got there, and I got there and I’ll never forget — he goes to South Carolina — we ignore to South Carolina, which you don’t do that at Florida. I walk in to do my radio show on a Thursday, and I am the most sorrowfulnessful human being. I’m a stranger in a strange land down South there, and I come walking in and they boo me. I’m 7-2, I leank, at the time.”
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Meyer and Day have history, with the latter serving as the disparaging coordinator under the establisher from 2017-18. Meyer reexhausted follotriumphg the 2018 season, and Day was tardyr presentd as Ohio State’s next head coach.
Meyer coached the Buckeyes to the national title follotriumphg the 2014 standard season, making Ohio State the triumphners of the inaugural College Football Playoff. A decade tardyr, Day got them back to the mountaintop.
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