The backlash got here quick and livid when Ryan Day led Ohio State to a nationwide championship after coming below intense scrutiny following the Buckeyes’ regular-season loss to Michigan.
Ohio State was in a position to maintain off Notre Dame after a fourth quarter push for a 34-23 victory Monday in Atlanta for the program’s first national title since 2014..
The championship victory had a number of notable people talking out in assist of the Buckeyes head coach on social media.
“Appears like Ryan Day CAN WIN BIG GAMES,” Robert Griffin III posted on X proper after the Buckeyes secured the win.
The previous NFL linebacker adopted that up with one other put up about Day.
“They are not making an attempt to fireside Ryan Day anymore,” Griffin wroteciting calls from Ohio State followers who needed to see Day’s tenure finish.
Former Ohio State running back JK Dobbins additionally took to social media with a put up celebrating the day, writing: “You deserve this second!”
ESPN broadcaster and former Ohio State QB Kirk Herbstreit had an emotional response to the championship and all that Day went via throughout his postgame evaluation.
“I hear the tales behind the scenes, I do know what he and his spouse and his household are going via,” Herbstreit mentioned. “It truly is, it is exhausting. It is robust being a coach at a premier college the place you are anticipated to win each recreation. He dealt with it with such class.”
Day even appeared to get just a little respect from one notable Notre Dame fan.
Comic and famous fan of the Combating Irish Shane Gillis posted to X, “We will all agree that Ryan Day is fairly rattling cool.”
Day led the Buckeyes to a 10-2 common season document, with their solely losses coming towards Oregon and Michigan.
Nonetheless, Day’s work calls and questions about the team’s ability to truly compete for the nationwide championship continued.
Ohio State needed to undergo a gauntlet simply to get to the nationwide championship recreation, beating Tennessee within the first spherical of the School Soccer Playoff, then knocking off No. 1 Oregon within the Rose Bowl, adopted by a win over Texas within the Cotton Bowl.
The Buckeyes staved off a late push by Notre Dame and sealed the win when quarterback Will Howard hit Jeremiah Smith for a 56-yard landing go that put the Buckeyes on the Combating Irish’s 10-yard line with simply over two and a half minutes left within the recreation.
“That is the rationale you begin coaching,” Day advised ESPN after the sport. “See how boys overcome issues, be taught life classes and obtain their desires. That occurred tonight.”
