Ryan Day’s first year at Ohio State impressed just about everybody, including his boss.
Athletic director Gene Smith wrote in last summer’s performance review that Day “exceeded expectations” in his first season as Ohio State’s head coach. Both the academic and athletic success of the program, he wrote, “was extraordinary.”
Smith’s comments were among those in the 2019-20 performance reviews of Ohio State's football coaches, obtained by Eleven Warriors on Friday via a public records request that was initially filed last summer.
Smith touted an undefeated record up until the College Football Playoff, a Big Ten championship and the team being “positioned to play for a National Title” before what he described as a “heartbreaking loss” to Clemson in Day's performance review.