Ohio State head coach Ryan Day says it is his intention to have someone else calling plays next year.
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00:00 In terms of bringing in a play caller,
00:02 obviously that's going to impact your life a little bit
00:04 during the week.
00:06 In some of the late game moments where--
00:10 Notre Dame, you're trying to manage your clock,
00:13 you're trying to figure out how much time you're going to have,
00:16 all that stuff.
00:17 How much does having someone, whether it's
00:19 Bill or whoever else, just fall?
00:21 How much does that help you with just handling
00:23 all the stuff in your head and multitasking
00:25 all of the stuff in your head in those close and late moments?
00:29 Yeah, that's a good question.
00:30 I think the first part of the question
00:32 was how much will it affect the day to day.
00:35 I think that goes back to how much
00:37 will I be involved with special teams based on the office
00:43 coordinator's role.
00:44 And so that will affect a little bit about the 10th position.
00:49 But in game, I feel like when you're calling the game,
00:56 you have an idea of, OK, should you go for it on fourth and two?
01:01 Well, do you have a good play?
01:03 It's one thing if you don't have an idea what the play is,
01:05 is that you just go for it.
01:06 Well, then you don't have a good play.
01:08 I feel like when you're calling the game,
01:10 you're a little bit more of control of the situation.
01:12 You know what's going on.
01:14 If you don't like the look, you can call a timeout.
01:16 There's just so many more things when you're actually
01:18 calling the game that you're in control of.
01:21 But I do think having somebody else call the game
01:25 will allow me a little bit of a step back
01:27 and see things from a wider lens of, OK, how's it going
01:32 with the defense, the special teams, overall,
01:34 kind of step back a little bit and have
01:36 a little bit of a different perspective.
01:37 There's pluses and minuses to both situations.
01:40 We can sit back and look at stuff
01:42 that went on in the playoffs, our game.
01:44 When do you go for it, when you not go for it,
01:46 decisions that are made.
01:47 And listen, we can second guess all those things.
01:49 But I do think being able to step back
01:51 will give me a little bit of a wider lens on things.
01:55 But there's a lot of guys, in particular in the NFL,
01:58 who call it, who are also making those decisions in game.
02:01 I think they do a great job.
02:02 So I think you have a good feel for what's going on in the game
02:06 and a little more control.
02:08 I guess sometimes you can get a little bit laser-focused
02:10 on what's going on in terms of the play call
02:12 as opposed to maybe sometimes the situation.
02:15 So I think those are the pluses and minuses of that.
02:17 Brendan, how about Sports Illustrated?
02:20 Ryan, maybe building off that a little bit,
02:24 how hard was it for you to give up play call
02:27 or to say that your intention, if it's--
02:30 Well, I haven't done it yet.
02:32 So we'll see.
02:33 But I know that that is an ideal situation moving forward.
02:39 I know that it has to happen.
02:41 There's so much that's going on right now in college football.
02:44 Do I want to?
02:45 No, I don't.
02:46 I love the football part of it.
02:47 I love call and plays.
02:48 I love being in there.
02:50 I'm getting pulled out, and I'm just not--
02:54 on a Wednesday night, thinking about what
02:57 to call on third and four on the 21-yard line
03:02 in the third quarter of a game.
03:03 Those are all the things you rehearse in your mind.
03:05 It takes a lot of work.
03:07 And I know that my energy and time and all that stuff
03:11 needs to be in other areas, especially with everything
03:15 going on right now across the board just with the team
03:18 and the portal and NIL and just all those types of things.
03:21 So I know that's the right thing to do.
03:24 But now making sure the right person's in place
03:26 was critical when we hired Bill.