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Breaking: Ryan Day dispels the nonsensical narrative surrounding his current team at Ohio State
After falling short of reaching the College Football Playoff last season after losing to Michigan, the Ohio State Buckeyes had quite the offseason.
Ohio State went and added a few names like Caleb Downs, Will Howard, and Quinshon Judkins. Around the college football world, there was a picture painted that the Buckeyes went out and “bought” their roster.
“People say a lot about Ohio State, right? That’s just the way it goes, we get a lot of attention,” Ryan Day explained on a recent airing of THE Podcast live show. “It is whatever you give attention to, that’s not true we brought in six guys.”
Along with the three named above, the Buckeyes brought in QB Julian Sayin, OL Seth McLaughlin, TE Will Kacmarek, and S Keenan Nelson Jr. It comes up to seven additions for the Buckeyes in total in places on the roster that needed it.
“If that’s the game, we’re going to play it and we’re going to be aggressive. The guys on the team are the ones that embraced it. I talked to TreVeyon Henderson before we brought in Quinshon Judkins. I talked to the guys about bringing these pieces in and they all wanted that,” Day explained.
Bringing in an elite talent like Downs was big for the Buckeyes and the same can be said about Judkins. While Howard has not been named the starter yet, the expectation is he will be the guy for Ohio State behind center in 2024.
“These guys wanted to come to Ohio State. This wasn’t one of those things where we had to sell really hard. These guys are excited to be here.”
In the era of college football in 2024, NIL is a big point of emphasis and you have to be ready to pay for premier talent. That happens everywhere, not just Ohio State. The Buckeyes did not add a roster full of transfers, instead, they were able to return a boatload of talent that could have gone to the NFL Draft.
If Ohio State is going to win a national title in 2024, a few transfers are going to have an impact on that happening. In the end, it isn’t going to matter how they arrived in Columbus.
