I’m going to be brutally honest, I don’t want to write this blog, for a lot of reasons.
I have so much I want to say, things I want to vent about, fears I want to express, but simultaneously, I’m speechless.
For the first time in my life, the Buckeyes feel like they’re a program on the downfall.
A once great empire, slowly beginning their descent into extinction.
I know that’s an extreme comparison, but this isn’t a feeling that I’m used to.
Since becoming a fan at 10 years old, I have rarely witnessed a BAD Ohio State season. I could count them on one hand
I’ve often joked that God made me a Browns fan because I had the Buckeyes to redeem it.
This season has been humbling.
The standard for Ohio State has always been simple, contend for the Big Ten Championship and beat TTUN.
Ryan Day hasn’t done either consistently, this season he has looked in over his head on multiple occasions.
This isn’t the first time either, it’s been really the ONLY flaw to Ryan Day. When the heat turns up, he collapses on himself. He overthinks the plan, he gets too conservative, he doesn’t manage the clock well, and it has cost this program multiple BIG TIME WINS.
People call a portion of Ohio State fans the lunatic fringe because their expectations for this program are deemed too extreme that nobody can ever achieve them.
This lunatic fringe calls for Ryan Day’s job every time he loses a big game, and for a while I thought it was insane, but after these past two weeks, I think I’m right there with them.
Now before you think I’ve just completely gone off the deep end, let me preface everything by saying this…
I’m fine with losing, I won’t like it, I never will, but I could handle it if we lost a game in which we were competitive and lost to the better team. That happens. It’s football.
However, I can’t stomach losing in the manner that these Buckeyes have lost the past two weeks.
Two weeks of gutless, low effort, flat out garbage across the board.
Those are the things that the Head Coach is responsible for creating. A team that never quits that leaves everything they have on the field and is disciplined.
Ryan Day has lost this team, and along with it, probably a chunk of his future.
Players like Chris Henry Jr, Jay Timmons, Riley Pettijohn, Legend Bey, Tavien St Clair, Khary Wilder, and Brock Boyd, all incredible talents, that now wouldn’t surprise me if they began looking for opportunities elsewhere come seasons end.
A team that already lacked a ton of depth, looks like it’s in danger of losing the star power that got it’s named to the top of the College Football landscape.
Ryan Day has been a successful coach for Ohio State, but this season has been a real eye opener for a lot of Buckeye fans.
It feels eerily similar to the vibes after the 2024 Michigan game. If Ryan Day is expected to return to Ohio State, he has no other choice but to win out the rest of the year. If this team comes out flat at any other point in this season, he’s lost me.
I hope this team can pull it together and go back to playing with the pride fans expect out of the Scarlet and Gray.
Anything less isn’t up to the standard.
O-H
