Ohio State Buckeyes Aim for a National Championship in 2024

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00:00Yesterday, it was Ryan Day's turn as the Ohio State Buckeyes are the favorites to win the

00:09Big Ten this year.

00:10Ryan, of course, wants to be able to beat Michigan for the first time in a while as

00:15well.

00:16He understands, Scotty, all the hype that is surrounding his Buckeye team.

00:21You know, our focus is on this preseason, it's the next step, and I'm sure a lot of

00:27coaches will say it, you can't really focus on what happened the year before, you can't

00:32get too worried about what's coming down the road, but we all know there's a lot of noise

00:36and a lot of hype around this team, and what we can't do is let those distractions grab

00:41our focus from what we need to do day in and day out.

00:44We know it's going to be a long season, but we've got to have a great preseason.

00:47We've got to have a physical preseason, we've got to lay that foundation for what's going

00:51to come as we head throughout the season, but we're very, very excited about our guys,

00:57we have great experience in that locker room, and some great talent.

01:01But it's going to take more than talent, it's going to take all the no-talent issues to

01:03get to where we want to be and reach our goals.

01:05Who's he kidding, preseason my ass, this guy, if he doesn't play for a national championship,

01:15and that means he has to beat Michigan, and if he doesn't go to that playoff and play

01:19for a national championship, there's going to be massive rumblings to get him fired in

01:24Columbus, because this team is absolutely stacked, loaded at every position on the field,

01:33they have the best receivers in college football, they have everything.

01:39But what I want to see is, frankly, them go to Outsen Stadium in week two against Oregon

01:46and lose, and anyone else that wants to beat them along the way, I'd love to see it.

01:52Like I want nothing more.

01:53All I hear about is Ohio State and Georgia, right, like that's all you hear about.

02:01There's more than that in the SEC.

02:03We hear about, you know, Texas, it goes on and on, Ole Miss, even Alabama, but you hear

02:10about Ohio State being the team, right, that it's Ohio State and Ryan Day, and they've

02:16lost three in a row to Michigan, and I think he's got one thing going for him, Jim Harbaugh

02:21is not there anymore.

02:23So once Harbaugh figured him out, and he started losing to Michigan, then the fans

02:27turned on him, and anything short of a national championship, I think in Columbus and Ryan

02:31Day is in trouble.

02:34I agree with you.

02:35I think he absolutely needs to get the job done this year.

02:39You're right, they do take that trip to Oregon.

02:41That is on Saturday, October the 12th.

02:44They also, of course, play Michigan, they play Penn State, they go to Happy Valley this

02:48year, so two tough road games for Ohio State in the Big Ten Conference.

02:52Now remember this, we might have forgot this during the offseason, Chip Kelly quit as the

02:57head coach at UCLA to go be the offensive coordinator for Ryan Day in Columbus.

03:05Now Ryan Day played for Chip Kelly in New Hampshire, Scotty, so they have a connection

03:11from very far back.

03:13Day trusts Kelly more than anyone else he's ever met in his entire life.

03:18Here we go.

03:19I think what he brings, for me turning it over, I really wanted to have somebody that

03:25had head coaching experience.

03:28Never thought that you'd have somebody that was a head coach the way he has been in college

03:31and in the NFL in that background, and so it allows me a little more of a peace of mind

03:40and certainly a lot of trust there.

03:41I trust Chip with my life, and that's a big part of any time you're handing something

03:46over like that, that you've done almost your entire career.

03:50I cannot believe for the life of me that he left UCLA as the head coach in the Big Ten

03:59to go be the offensive coordinator at Ohio State.

04:02I gotta tell you, I don't care if they're lovers.

04:07I don't care if they're best friends, lovers, he was his coach, all the rest.

04:11I have told you before, you gotta be nuts to walk away from Westwood and UCLA as a basketball

04:20or football coach.

04:21If you have that job and they haven't fired you, you don't walk away from that place.

04:26I'm sorry.

04:28I know Ohio State is a great football school and all the rest, but let me tell you something.

04:34On its best day, it can't hold UCLA's onions.

04:39I'm telling you, I used to troll that campus.

04:43I drove around, I did 15 miles an hour.

04:45I was like, oh my God, Jesus, what in the name, oh, look at that, oh my God.

04:50I was talking to myself in the car.

04:53It was like, I've never seen anything like it.

04:55It's the most beautiful place on earth and you're coaching at the Rose Bowl in the Big

05:00Ten and you want to go be an offensive coordinator?

05:03You were a head coach in the NFL and a head coach at UCLA and you want to be an offensive

05:06coordinator at Ohio State?

05:09I mean, he must've been drunk.

05:10Honestly, Carver High, I don't care if your team stinks, I still wouldn't leave UCLA for anything.

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