Ryan Day has a contemporary up in Cleveland

“Now they’re the two most powerful coaches in Ohio football, with the fates of two winning teams (one proven, one all potential) in their hands. If you squint hard enough and get past Kitchens’ prominent Alabama drawl and Day’s fading New England dialect, you can see the same guy, two all-state high school quarterbacks who started for their homestate universities before launching coaching careers that peaked right here in the last two months.”

There are exactly two big time football programs in the state of Ohio (Cincinnati is in Kentucky), and they’re led by a 39-year-old Ryan Day and a 44-year-old Freddie Kitchens, both first time head coaches and long time offensive masterminds. Given the…