Carter Boyle: Ohio State’s football team off to an impressive start under Ryan Day
Carter Boyle’s favorite college football team, Ohio State, is off to an impressive start to the 2019 college football season under the helm of new head coach, Ryan Day. Day took over from legendary coach Urban Meyer at the start of the season. Meyer lost only nine games in seven seasons, which is enough reason for his successor to be intimidated, but Day is unfazed and remains positive that the team will be able to maintain its excellent standing.
At the Big Ten Conference’s football media day, he said, “When you start to think of it that way, you get overwhelmed in a hurry and you start to focus on things that really don’t matter. The expectations are so high here that if you don’t win them all, the minute you lose a game, you can’t just come crumbling and fall apart. It’s one of those things you have to think about and have a plan for."
Day inherits the well-oiled machine built and coached by Meyer, as well as a formidable team that lost only one game in a 13-1, Big Ten Championship winning season last year. Nonetheless, Day refuses to stay complacent and not make changes to a formula that has maintained the Buckeyes’ as an elite football powerhouse. Not one to coast on the laurels of those who came before him, he said, “This team’s has a lot to prove. This coaching staff, as a new coaching staff, has a lot to prove. The offense, we lose seven guys, really eight including Mike Weber leaving as well. It’s going to be a new quarterback under center.”
Apart from an offense that will look different, Carter Boyle and other fans of the sport and the team can look forward to a defensive coaching overhaul from Day - with four new hires on that side of the ball, the new coach will try to improve a defense that gave up the most yardage per game in program history.
At the Big Ten Conference’s football media day, he said, “When you start to think of it that way, you get overwhelmed in a hurry and you start to focus on things that really don’t matter. The expectations are so high here that if you don’t win them all, the minute you lose a game, you can’t just come crumbling and fall apart. It’s one of those things you have to think about and have a plan for."
Day inherits the well-oiled machine built and coached by Meyer, as well as a formidable team that lost only one game in a 13-1, Big Ten Championship winning season last year. Nonetheless, Day refuses to stay complacent and not make changes to a formula that has maintained the Buckeyes’ as an elite football powerhouse. Not one to coast on the laurels of those who came before him, he said, “This team’s has a lot to prove. This coaching staff, as a new coaching staff, has a lot to prove. The offense, we lose seven guys, really eight including Mike Weber leaving as well. It’s going to be a new quarterback under center.”
Apart from an offense that will look different, Carter Boyle and other fans of the sport and the team can look forward to a defensive coaching overhaul from Day - with four new hires on that side of the ball, the new coach will try to improve a defense that gave up the most yardage per game in program history.
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