New HC Candidate

[Ring 6]

Ryan Day. About to win a national championship.
For those on the WR train, he has produced
Harrison
JSN
Olave
Wilson
J Smith who will be better than all of them
McLaurin
Egbuka who will probably be a #1

Started CJ Stroud as a true freshman and coach him to be ready for maybe the best rookie season ever for a QB.

He can bring Brian Stablein as WR coach. Chip Kelly as OC for a couple years until Stablein grows into it.

 

[Love The Drake]

Ryan Day. About to win a national championship.
For those on the WR train, he has produced
Harrison
JSN
Olave
Wilson
J Smith who will be better than all of them
McLaurin
Egbuka who will probably be a #1

Started CJ Stroud as a true freshman and coach him to be ready for maybe the best rookie season ever for a QB.

He can bring Brian Stablein as WR coach. Chip Kelly as OC for a couple years until Stablein grows into it.

I don’t see it happening.

 

[Ras-IR Dowling]

Day would be going from having a talent advantage over his opponent every week to the least talented roster in the league.

 

[Ring 6]

I don’t see it happening.

It will require some bags.

He’s 45 years old, offensive minded with a winning pedigree in a high pressure situation. Kind of the ideal candidate, especially if he finishes the job this year.

 

[ScottishPatriots]

He's also got a 22 million dollar roster and a team full of future NFL players playing against people who will be selling insurance next year.

He lost to a Michigan team with no offense with the best roster in college football, he's got a WR who'd start for the Patriots as a WR1 this week and most of Ohio State fanbase wanted to run him out of town until last week.

 

[signbabybrady]

I like the thinking but he has to win first. They looked really good last night so for now I'll go with you and put him on the interesting list. When he loses he gets removed (possibly removed from Ohio).

 

[Ring 6]

Day would be going from having a talent advantage over his opponent every week to the least talented roster in the league.

I’m not sure the point.
He doesn’t have a talent advantage over Oregon and blew them out.


Would you rather have a guy who loses but blames talent level?

We are going to have the most resources any team has ever had in an offseason with the #1 pick, 130+ mill and virtually no cost to resign players.
We have the QB. If we have the least talented roster next it would mean we tried to have the least talented roster.

 

[lancerman]

Not opposed to this.

 

[Ross12]

Ryan Day. About to win a national championship.
For those on the WR train, he has produced
Harrison
JSN
Olave
Wilson
J Smith who will be better than all of them
McLaurin
Egbuka who will probably be a #1

Started CJ Stroud as a true freshman and coach him to be ready for maybe the best rookie season ever for a QB.

He can bring Brian Stablein as WR coach. Chip Kelly as OC for a couple years until Stablein grows into it.

On one hand, I tend to agree with posters about the talent advantage in college. On the other hand, there's no denying how many quality offensive players have come from the program and become successful in the NFL. The question is whether he simply got the best recruits, used them, and then they went on to become stars in the NFL due to talent, or if his coaching and program helped mold them into being as good as they are. If it's the latter, he would theoretically be able to mold draftees from other programs into quality contributors as well.

I have a hard time seeing Kraft hiring him vs. someone experienced after the Mayo dumpster fire but it is an interesting consideration.

 

[PatsFan2]

Ryan Day. About to win a national championship.
For those on the WR train, he has produced
Harrison
JSN
Olave
Wilson
J Smith who will be better than all of them
McLaurin
Egbuka who will probably be a #1

Started CJ Stroud as a true freshman and coach him to be ready for maybe the best rookie season ever for a QB.

He can bring Brian Stablein as WR coach. Chip Kelly as OC for a couple years until Stablein grows into it.

Where do I sign??

 

[Pape]

If he is interested in the NFL, he's going to be in the thick of the NFL head coaching job search this off season... the most frequent rumor is Chicago...

wonder of Chip Kelly takes over in Ohio is Ryan flies the coop...

 

[Ring 6]

On one hand, I tend to agree with posters about the talent advantage in college. On the other hand, there's no denying how many quality offensive players have come from the program and become successful in the NFL. The question is whether he simply got the best recruits, used them, and then they went on to become stars in the NFL due to talent, or if his coaching and program helped mold them into being as good as they are. If it's the latter, he would theoretically be able to mold draftees from other programs into quality contributors as well.

I have a hard time seeing Kraft hiring him vs. someone experienced after the Mayo dumpster fire but it is an interesting consideration.

Look at his time at Ohio State. Virtually every WR he put on the field became a star and an NFL starter. They were not all the best recruits in the country.

Who would be a better choice?
Day has experience and you would replace the GM too with someone with NFL personnel experience.

 

[Steve102]

If he is interested in the NFL, he's going to be in the thick of the NFL head coaching job search this off season... the most frequent rumor is Chicago...

wonder of Chip Kelly takes over in Ohio is Ryan flies the coop...

Chip has said he doesn't want the BS that comes with the HC job now, he just wants to coach.

I don't see Day leaving. Why would he? Got the world by the 'nads now. I think if they got their asses kicked yesterday, coupled with the Michigan losses might make him have a roving eye or possibly be on the hot seat. Now? Nah. They are rolling. Even if they lose to Texas (doubtful), they've had a great season. It's should be them and Georgia at the end.

 

[Ring 6]

If he is interested in the NFL, he's going to be in the thick of the NFL head coaching job search this off season... the most frequent rumor is Chicago...

wonder of Chip Kelly takes over in Ohio is Ryan flies the coop...

The reason I like Day is that after the Oregon loss, he revamped the defensive scheme and it became one of the best if not the best in the country.
After the Michigan loss he revamped the offense. It is crystal clear to any buckeye fan that since that game the chip kelly influence has been removed and they are back to the Day offense when he ran it himself.
His coaching literally fixed both sides of the ball and made them at or near best in the country.

 

[Pape]

The reason I like Day is that after the Oregon loss, he revamped the defensive scheme and it became one of the best if not the best in the country.
After the Michigan loss he revamped the offense. It is crystal clear to any buckeye fan that since that game the chip kelly influence has been removed and they are back to the Day offense when he ran it himself.

thats cool. don't follow college football, so i'll take your word on that.

and made them at or best best in the country.

 

[sb1]

Interesting option

 

[Jim Beankie]

His eldest as a frosh got his 1st offer from BC a year or so ago. Plus they're from...



That being said, that would be a LOT of pressure on top of an already crushing level. Like native Theo as young GM kind of pressure.

 

[Hugepatsfan]

If he wants to make the leap from college to the NFL, he has the pedigree/credentials/resume to justify consideration for sure.

The NIL stuff in college is merging how you can/have to coach college kids vs. pros. Before, those were more divergent from each other. In theory, that could make this leap less "risky" than with past coaches - it feels like a lot of the college coaches coming in were able to sell their vision to owners on paper but then when they had to actually coach the players their personality/style didn't translate like in college.

Our team is pretty close to a ground zero start. You're looking for someone to come in and pretty much start this from the bottom-up as opposed to adding the finishing touches to something already largely in place. On paper, it seems like the type of scenario that might be best for a college coach implementing their own "program" if they are making the leap to the NFL.

It definitely warrants consideration if it's on the table. A lot of what makes a good coach comes down to things that none of us are ever going to be able to accurately predict or assess because they can't be evaluated from the stands or through a TV/computer screen. So it's hard for me to definitely say yes or no to any candidate really.

 

[tuckeverlasting]

i thought i read somewhere that he's a new england guy and the only way he leaves osu is for the patriots. isn't chip kelly a new england guy as well. i've been thinking about day since bb left.

 

[Steve102]

i thought i read somewhere that he's a new england guy and the only way he leaves osu is for the patriots. isn't chip kelly a new england guy as well. i've been thinking about day since bb left.

Both are UNH alums.