Ohio State head coach Ryan Day faces a tough crowd at a contentious meeting with the media on Tuesday.
Ryan Day's weekly media meeting went exactly how you may have thought it would. Day gave only a couple of minutes on Saturday night after their meltdown loss to the Texas Longhorns on Saturday night.
Day is largely to blame for the loss, as he led the Ohio State Buckeyes to pull their foot off the gas pedal while they had a 23-3 lead late in the second half against the Longhorns. There were several questionable decisions made by Day; the most egregious one was with 90 seconds remaining in the game, when he didn't let the Longhorns score from the one-yard line.
Things got contentious during the weekly media meeting to the point where Day stormed off the podium to end it.
Day Responds to his Late Game Mentality
Day was asked why he pulls back when he gets a big lead in a game. His response, somewhat defensively, was that it is unfair to say that they are not trying to score or that they are not trying to move the ball down the field. Instead, the question needs to be about execution.
Realistically, he is correct. If Sayin doesn't overthrow Devin McCuin on the RPO, no one is questioning him after he called a 30-yard touchdown pass. If the throw to Jeremiah Smith on the slant route isn't behind him, no one is asking this question.
The reality is that the calls were there, and the team was put in positions to be successful; they just failed to execute on the field. That's the question to be asked.
Day Responds to Not Allowing Texas to Score
Texas just completed a slant that set them up with first and goal from the 1-yard line with just around 1:30 left to go in the fourth quarter. Now, at this point in the game, the Longhorns had just completed three straight drives that they were killing the Buckeyes up and down the field. Ohio State had only 1 timeout, so they couldn't stop the clock more than once.
The answer here is to let Texas score and give the offense the best possible chance to score while trailing by one. Instead, Day elected to use that point in the game to tell his defense to get a stop. They obviously couldn't, and the Buckeyes got the ball back with just 25 seconds left.
Incredible, borderline inexcusable, mistake.
Day Responds to His Faith in the Special Teams Unit
This is the clip that is making the rounds. As Day finished answering the question about the above decision to let the Longhorns score, a reporter tried to slip in one final question about his faith in his special teams unit.
Day didn't answer; he just stormed off the stage and away from the podium. He wasn't having any part of that question, and yes, the answer to his faith in that group is in that reaction.
