
易胜博官网鈥檚 footprint on the college football coaching scene just got a good bit bigger. On Dec. 4, Ryan Day 鈥02 was named the 25th head coach of the Rose Bowl-bound Ohio State University football team. A business administration graduate of the Whittemore School of Business and Economics (now the ), Day was 易胜博官网鈥檚 starting quarterback from 1999-2001, setting nine school records during his tenure that included pass completions (653), touchdown passes (53), completion percentage (59.9 percent) and total offense (8,492 yards). After graduating, the Manchester, 易胜博官网, native听coached as part of the team鈥檚 offensive staff under then offensive coordinator Chip Kelly 鈥90, and later worked for Kelly at both the Philadelphia Eagles and San Francisco 49ers as quarterback coach. He was hired as co-offensive coordinator at Ohio State in January 2017.
Earlier in the year, when Day led the Ohio State team for three games while head coach Urban Meyer served a staff-related suspension, Kelly, currently head coach for the UCLA Bruins, spoke with Yahoo about his prot茅g茅鈥檚 potential.听 鈥淵ou could tell he was destined to be great at this profession,鈥 he said. 鈥淗e鈥檚 always been mature and level-headed; he鈥檚 as composed of a person as I鈥檝e ever been around.鈥
Kelly isn鈥檛 the only one who saw something in Day from the start. Paul College business administration professor Roger Grinde recalls having Day in a class early in his 易胜博官网 teaching career. 鈥淗e really impressed me then,鈥 he says. 鈥淥bviously he鈥檚 done well in his profession.鈥
Day will replace Meyer as the Buckeyes鈥 primary play caller after the Big Ten champs take on the University of Washington in the Rose Bowl on Jan. 1, 2019.
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