https://247sports.com/Season/2021-Football/CompositeRecruitRankings/?InstitutionGroup=HighSchool
True, but he got 4 of the Top Ten recruits last winter and made the Play Off twice
If you count the 3 games he coached in 2018, he is 28-3 as a head coach and undefeated in conference play, including 2 CFP appearances.
Not sure how you can conclude anything other than he is an excellent coach. There are very few major contributors left on the team that were not recruited by Day and his staff. They are the number one offense in CFB by most viable measures. Besides Saban, who has done better in the last 3 1/2 seasons?
It is conceivable that a merely decent coach would inherit the OSU program and do as well. I think it's too early to tell, personally.
no one. which is why I said he's underpaid.
And the offense he runs- I am super envious of. I LOVE the passing game. Not a fan of the QB spread read option shit that Urbz and RichRod made famous. Not a fan of the boring 3 yards and a cloud of dust stone age shit Harbaugh loves to run. I want to see QB's that can THROW THE BALL DOWN THE FIELD and make explosive plays in the passing game. Day's offenses have consistently done that in spades. I would KILL for that shit at Michigan.
I should be more clear. I didn't want to intimate that he can't recruit, nor that he can't coach.
There are skills that are necessary to be Head Coach that it's not yet clear whether he does or doesn't have. Football programs, even at helmets, don't run themselves. You need to have those "CEO" attributes above and beyond recruiting and coaching chops.
The annals of college football is littered with promising coordinators who got up to the big time, and after a few years what was a finely tuned machine starts to show signs of slippage because they're not capable of being the unicorn that they replaced.
This happens even more often when it's a coordinator who is elevated within his own program, because some of the cultural things that would change immediately if it was a coordinator poached from another program who takes over don't really change.
The first 2 or so years after someone like Urban leaving a program still have his upperclassmen who were brought up in his "process" to use Saban's term, who are already baked so to speak and whatever Day does won't really change them. It's when they graduate out of the program and players who had little to no tutelage under Urban are forced to take the reins that we'll see if OSU starts to falter.
I'm not saying Day doesn't have those attributes. I'm saying it's too early to know either way.
