Ryan Day Needs to Stop Being a Coward
Eschewing the transfer portal looks dumb considering the likes of Alabama (and Day himself) have profited mightily from it.

Well, this is awkward… Urban Meyer, le Pap de Dublin, is out after not even a single season as coach of the Jacksonville Jaguars
Adam Schefter of ESPN relayed the news late last night:

I will have more in an emergency Rooster later today. Thanks and God Bless
Ryan Day shanked Dabo Swinney by 21 points back in January. My joke about putting Swinney in a pine box appears to have been close to what actually happened on that fateful night.
The Tigers were lucky only to lose three games this year before accepting a bid to face Iowa State in the Cheez-It Bowl, something that I thought was a joke when I was told about it.
They’ve lost their defensive and offensive coordinators and a slew of players to transfer portal blue-chip recruits decommitting.
In Dabo’s defense, he always said he would “go do something else” if college players ever got paid. I just always assumed he would quit his day job first.
Dabo didn’t shock me yesterday when he spent Early Signing Day crying about the state of college football rather than celebrating his tepid No. 17 recruiting class:

Get a load of this loser, clutching his pearls about education and claiming that his own players aren’t mature enough to decide to leave his luxuriously appointed estate. Hard to believe a poisonous mentality like that could emanate from a campus named after a Confederate officer and slave owner!
My mirth, however, didn’t last long. My coach, Ryan Day, also went out of his way to complain about the transfer portal.
From Griffin Strom of elevenwarriors.com:
"I think it's dangerous to live in the portal world." Day says he doesn't think it's "sustainable" for the chemistry of the team to bring guys in without thinking it all the way through.
Well, glad we thought all the way through of “backing off” former five-star LSU cornerback Elias Ricks when he entered the portal only to watch four-star 2022 cornerback Terrance Brooks flip to Texas yesterday.
Not like we needed help at that position! No sir!
Ricks announced his transfer to Alabama yesterday because Alabama coach Nick Saban ain’t scared. Last year he took former Ohio State wide receiver Jameson Williams from the transfer portal and promptly made him a focus point of this year’s offense.
The coaches ranting against the portal remind of the scene in The Wire when Marlo Stanfield tells the security guard that he wants the world to be one way, but it’s the other way:
If this is the “Wild Wild West,” then so be it. Seems like an opportune time to make a fortune by leveraging the competitive advantage Ohio State already enjoys 98% teams to use.
The transfer portal has proven to be a game-changer. Mel Tucker has used it to remake the entire Michigan State roster in half the time it would have taken through traditional recruiting. The portal is also a great way to add an elite piece, as Day himself found out when he secured the services of former Georgia quarterback Justin Fields and rode him to a 20-2 record over two seasons.
Ohio State’s roster simply isn’t good enough, because if it was they wouldn’t have been manhandled by the likes of Alabama, Michigan and Oregon in the last three big games the Buckeyes played.
And for Day to call the portal “dangerous” or unsustainable is wishing the world was one way when it’s the other way. It’s putting his team at a competitive disadvantage, especially when the likes of Alabama has netted players like Ricks and Williams in the last two cycles alone.
Maybe I’ve got it wrong. (I hope I’ve got it wrong.) But this seems like eschewing the portal is a painfully dumb misstep that will look even more boneheaded next year.
And if that revelation comes after another loss to Michigan? Day will have lost the chance to adapt because he’ll be back coaching quarterbacks in the NFC West.
Don’t say I didn’t warn him.
THOSE WMDs. The pardon of a war criminal… Former Jaguars kicker says Urban Meyer kicked him during warm-ups… We have confirmed that headlights are too bright… Retail theft coverage hypes familiar pro-criminalization narrative… Tse Chi Lop, the Jeff Bezos of the international drug trade.