Ohio State Coach Ryan Day: “There’s Enough Blame For Everyone”

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Granted, Ryan Day is pretty good on camera and mic after a loss.

He acted exactly as you expected and acknowledged the shortcomings that today’s loss to Oregon highlighted.

Day takes all the blame, answers questions with grace and patience, never pointing anything but the mirror.

“I felt like it was a game we never had control over,” Day said. “I felt like they were leading the ball, and we didn’t do a very good job of managing the football, and we couldn’t convert the fourth downs. And because of that, we are catching up. We are still behind. We have to learn from that. You have to learn from that and we still have a lot of football left, and figuring out where the execution problems were and fixing them. “

Ohio State was basically chasing Oregon from the start, and despite having already tied the game 7-7 in the first quarter, the Buckeyes never led the rest of the way.

“We have to work things out,” he continued. You know, that’s kind of how it is. I thought that in the end they had missed opportunities in attack. The attack will also do its part. And, again, I don’t think we established the run, and I wanted the defense to give the ball back to the attacking. You know that we did not do anything with the lead to have opportunities to score points. “

As you can imagine, Day was asked (in several different ways) if the blame for this defeat fell on the shoulders of defensive coordinator Kerry Coombs. The offense racked up 636 yards and Ohio State still hasn’t found a way to beat the Ducks.

“There is a lot of criticism to be made,” Day said. “Everyone on our team works really hard, we make decisions as a group and it ultimately comes down to me because I’m the head coach. “

It may be true, but something has to change … and that has to change from tomorrow.

I don’t call for anyone’s job here. Frankly, I like a lot of things about Kerry Coombs. But something must give here. I don’t know if the problem is with the scheme, the management or the staff. It may be a combination of all three. But for a team to come and throw the ball at will is totally inexcusable. And once the Buckeyes started committing more bodies to the running game, Anthony Brown went very steadily to open targets.

“When you go through adversity, you learn a lot about your team, you learn a lot about your leadership.” Day referred to the fact that adversity puts leadership under arms, as it can be easy to start pointing fingers at areas where things fall apart on game day. “When things aren’t going well, you have to show determination, resilience. It’s not fatal, but it sure hurts.”

Ohio State’s hopes of qualifying for the college football playoffs aren’t completely dashed, but this road has certainly become much more difficult.

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