Ohio State head coach Ryan Day has been on the hot seat with the lunatic fringe of the Buckeyes fanbase for years. But now he’s starting to feel serious pressure from even sane Ohio State fans, and Michigan alum Dave Portnoy is reveling in his troubles.
Day has reached his low point thanks to a blowout home loss to Oregon that all but eliminated the Buckeyes from College Football Playoff contention. Ohio State is now 6-5 in their last 11 games, and as has been pointed out, just 1-5 in games without a significant talent advantage.
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The loss to Oregon made all sorts of history for the wrong reasons in Columbus. The program has three losses in a season already for the first time since 2011. They lost back-to-back games by double digits for the first time since 2004. And they gave up 38 unanswered points for the first time since 1999.
Dave Portnoy has been Ryan Day’s number one critic for some time now. And his unrelenting denunciation of the coach and the school made his association with Fox Sports and Big Noon Kickoff a short-lived one. In fact, Portnoy named Day and Ohio State as the reasons for his departure from the show.
As you would expect, Portnoy is taking the opportunity to throw gasoline on the fire burning in Columbus with glee in comments on FS1’s Wake Up Barstool.
“I want an apology from every single person in Columbus. I want them to get in line and line up, I’m in the Keys, from here to New Mexico, and I want them all to come in a receiving line and say, ‘Hey, Dave Portnoy, you’ve been right about Ryan Day from the jump. He’s a coward; he can’t coach; he was born on 3rd base. All of it! Get in line and say I’m sorry. You should be back on Big Noon Kickoff. It was a joke what they did to you. Yes, we have problems in Ann Arbor, but that team’s a joke with the talent that they have,” Portnoy said.
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The ironic thing is there’s a non-zero portion of the Ohio State fanbase that has agreed with Dave Portnoy about Ryan Day all this time. At least some would be a bit more diplomatic about it, though.
Despite his insane win-loss record and national championship, Day has faced criticism for being too conservative and underperforming in the biggest games, given the incredible talent at his disposal. His failure to develop five-star recruit Tavien St. Clair has left the Buckeyes completely lost after Julian Sayin’s injury. The current collection of players and coaches has left OSU fans as pessimistic as they have been since the Luke Fickell year in 2011 between Jim Tressel and Urban Meyer. And fans have no confidence that he can rally the troops to beat Michigan to get something from this season, given his 2-4 record in The Game, losing multiple times as a heavy favorite.
Of course, Michigan is in an even bigger freefall with Kyle Whittingham at the helm. The Wolverines had an embarrassing home loss to Michigan State and are now 2-4 in Big Ten play and 5-4 overall. Combine that with the Sherrone Moore debacle and at least things aren’t that bad at Ohio State, all things considered.
But Portnoy also had an interesting idea that both fanbases would probably sign up for to raise the stakes of the rivalry game later this month — loser has to keep their coaching staff in place for next year.
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