I'm not sure if he had one with day before BoB, given they were recruiting him while BoB was at Bama, but he had a relationship with Day independent of BoB for sure.

It's my understanding that OSU was high on his list before ultimately committing to Bama, like Downs. And he basically already had a list of transfer destinations ready to go when he finally decided to go through with it. OSU was at the top, and he apparently initiated contact with them.

And according to one of our most reliable and credible insiders (Birm), BoB really had nothing to do with that initial contact, but once he did, likely played a role in persuading Day to bring Sayin in since the only apprehension was that they were already bringing in the 4th highest rated QB in this class. Because the last time we had a top 5 QB, and then the #1 QB came in later, was in 2021 when McCord was already enrolled and Ewers reclassified late. So it ended up screwing up the sequencing of QBs, especially since Ewers reclassified right before fall practice, too late to really learn the offense to move up the depth chart to get playing time, and then Stroud ended up becoming one of the best QBs in the country, so Ewers didn't want to be no higher than #2 on the depth chart for another season. So he transferred to Texas.

Now obviously these circumstances are different, with Sayin still able to learn the offense, and actually in his natural recruiting class, plus the reason for transferring (Saban retiring) and quite a bit different than the reason for Ewers reclassifying (no NIL allowed in Texas high schools, at least then).

So the Ewers situation really screwed up a lot of things with sequencing of QBs, and what not, but despite some pretty obvious distinctions, I think OSU wanted to making sure the same thing wouldn't happen with Sayin situation. I think BoB just helped calm an apprehension, but Sayin would have come regardless if OSU was on born.