Ohio State news and notes (Updated Sunday 10:10 AM)

[harveycmd]

17 minutes ago, Hashtag said:

LJ and Knowles didn't get along because Day let LJ have too much of a say so in the defense.

That's why it's ironic that LJ is supposedly ready to expand the DT rotation now. Knowles begged Day to let him actually run the defense for 2 1/2 years. It took the Oregon loss to convince Day that Knowles should have his say on blitzes. There was no need for blitzes against Michigan, but LJ still wouldn't rotate the DTs. Knowles finally won out on that in the playoffs and they won the title. Knowles won the game against Texas, not Day or Kelly. That's why he left.

[LovingBuckeye]

15 hours ago, harveycmd said:

That's why it's ironic that LJ is supposedly ready to expand the DT rotation now. Knowles begged Day to let him actually run the defense for 2 1/2 years. It took the Oregon loss to convince Day that Knowles should have his say on blitzes. There was no need for blitzes against Michigan, but LJ still wouldn't rotate the DTs. Knowles finally won out on that in the playoffs and they won the title. Knowles won the game against Texas, not Day or Kelly. That's why he left.

This isn’t accurate at all. Please do not forget that Larry Johnson is an elite DL coach, a better DL coach than Knowles is a DC, and Knowles is a damn good DC. The reason Knowles left is because  Penn State offered him $3M/year, which Ohio State was never going to match that, nor should they have.

[LovingBuckeye]

15 hours ago, harveycmd said:

That's why it's ironic that LJ is supposedly ready to expand the DT rotation now. Knowles begged Day to let him actually run the defense for 2 1/2 years. It took the Oregon loss to convince Day that Knowles should have his say on blitzes. There was no need for blitzes against Michigan, but LJ still wouldn't rotate the DTs. Knowles finally won out on that in the playoffs and they won the title. Knowles won the game against Texas, not Day or Kelly. That's why he left.

Also, Larry Johnson expands the DL rotation based on how many guys he has that has earned playing team. If there are only one or two backups that are ready to play at a high level, there won’t be much rotation. Historically LJ prefers to rotate often, which early in his tenure made Buckeye fans mad because we didn’t want Joey Bosa or Chase Young, etc taken off the field. 

[LovingBuckeye]

Ryan Day’s press conference is today at 11:30am EST. Many believe he will announce QB1 at that time. Julian Sayin is still believed to be the overwhelming favorite.

[CJ Vogel]

 

[Hashtag]

1 hour ago, LovingBuckeye said:

Ryan Day’s press conference is today at 11:30am EST. Many believe he will announce QB1 at that time. Julian Sayin is still believed to be the overwhelming favorite.

Hope so

[Paul Jespersen]

Sayin confirmed starter. 

poor guy… 😜

🤘

[LovingBuckeye]

As an Ohio State fan it makes me happy that he gets two full weeks of all of the QB1 reps before facing Texas.

[Texus]

1 hour ago, LovingBuckeye said:

As an Ohio State fan it makes me happy that he gets two full weeks of all of the QB1 reps before facing Texas.

The owner of a big Texas site has an Ohio State source telling him that Sayin is turnover prone.  What say you to that?

 

[CJ Vogel]