No college football coach ever wants to say anything outlandish in June. They don’t want to make unnecessary headlines for public fodder during the summer.
Unsurprisingly, Ryan Day mostly stuck to the basics at his press conference on Wednesday, not revealing much new information. When discussing his thinking about Ohio State’s roster, he didn’t say anything particularly complicated or enlightening.
“I keep going to the fact that our really good players have to play good,” he said. “Our veteran players have to play veteran.”
Nothing hard to understand about that. But when Day began rattling off names, one stood out.