None of Ohio State’s new assistant coaching hires expressed much hesitancy in jumping at the opportunity to join the Buckeye staff, and perhaps least of all was Justin Frye.
Despite losing the offensive coordinator tag he carried at UCLA and relocating from sunny Los Angeles to frigid Ohio in the middle of the winter, the Buckeyes’ new associate head coach for offense/offensive line coach had few reservations about reuniting with Ryan Day – his former coworker on staff at both Temple and Boston College.
“You step back and once you make big boy decisions to come to an elite place like this where you can recruit elite talent and develop elite talent and be around some of the best coaches in the country, I would’ve sprinted out here if he told me to instead of getting on the plane,” Frye said Monday at the Woody Hayes Athletic Center.