re: Why didn't OSU want to interview top notch coaches?

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Ohio State is a well oiled machine.


If you call missing the playoffs half the time well oiled, then I guess so?

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They’ve been the most consistent program in my 23 years of following college football. Really the only bad year was the Luke fickell season. Aside from that, I can’t remember them losing more than 3 games. From cooper, to tressel and then Meyer, they’ve always been highly ranked.

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Aside from that, I can’t remember them losing more than 3 games. From cooper, to tressel and then Meyer, they’ve always been highly ranked.

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Cooper's last 2 season followed by Tressel's first season they ended up unranked. They also lost 4 games in 2004, but they finished ranked since after Troy Smith emerged from the Zwick-Smith QB battle and Ted Ginn became a focal point they became quite a potent offense, to go along with the solid defense that was the norm under Tressel.

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Ohio state is too good for him.

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We are. He needs a few more years at a lower program.

They should have hired Franchione.

Fickell had the opportunity. He had that deer in the headlights look the entire season. He's a great Buckeye and I hope the best for him but that ship has sailed.

Fickell is a great Buckeye, but he went 6-7. Right or wrong, he had his shot and didn't come through.

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He's proven himself at Ohio State

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How so ???? He won 3 games against awful teams with Urbans talent...He hasn't shown me crap......

I really don't care who you get as long as you lose 7-8 games a year............

I know Ohio State is a cult but the way their fans are sucking this guy off with no questions asked is weird.

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Do you think Ryan Day could have gone 6-7 with all of that going on?

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I think he'd have done better. Look at the job he did through fall camp and the first quarter of the season, and likely more than we even know the rest of the way, with everything going on this year.

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Again, what if Luke Fickell goes into Ohio Stadium and beats Ryan Day? 

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What if we beat them 80-0? Your question is silly, and it's certainly not a valid one when selecting the next coach at Ohio State.

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I find it interesting that out of the five full-time head coaches Ohio State's had since 1951, none of them were first-time head coaches before taking the job. In fact, all of them had been head coaches for at least five years. Ohio State's been successful for all of these years by hiring proven head coaches. That's why I and a lot of other people were surprised that they didn't at least explore the Matt Campbell option. He's the type of coach that Ohio State's been hiring for the last 70 years.

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I think the difference is most OSU fans who really saw what was going on knew Day was going to be the next HC. I said it to be people in September. Urban was going to leave and Day was taking over unless he had taken a HC job before that.

I was made comfortable with the fact 4 months ago, so when it happens I'm not all of a sudden going to be questioning it now. I was questioning it in September when I knew it was going to happen; I was happy with the small sample I saw

There's no way to know if a guy is going to be a national championship or even B1G winning coach. No way you can know that no matter how good a guy looks as a HC at a smaller place.

No one would have seen Saban as a 5 time champ during his time at MSU. He was basically a.500 coach there. Dabo was a WR coach for about 5 years then basically took over and has been dynamite. Riley took over an OU program with no prior pedigree, while Herman took a 2 year longer route and was a good HC at Houston before getting his job at TX.

There are a lot of routes, and all can be successful or duds. I mean Kiffen was handed the keys to a Bentley at USC and Tennessee at a very young age and blew it. He's still getting it back together almost a decade later