With no plans to hire a full-time special teams coordinator to replace the fired Parker Fleming, Ryan Day had some phone calls to make.
Sure, incoming safeties coach Matt Guerrieri had a hand in special teams implementation at previous stops, but none of the assistants on Day’s staff have a special teams coordinator line on their résumé that comes after the year 1999.
There was no clear assistant to assign as the surveyor on special teams. So Day sought advice and received an idea he liked from a man Buckeye fans know very well, Jim Tressel.
“I made a bunch of calls to a bunch of coaches and one in particular that hit with me was when I talked to Coach Tressel,” Day said on Tuesday.