College football season always brings out plenty of prognosticators.
Count Ohio State football coach Ryan Day among them. Albeit, a good portion of fans try their hand at predicting winners and losers on the football field from a gambling perspective. Day tries to forecast a much cloudier avenue: Finding high school players on the recruiting trail that are going to someday develop into leaders and the heartbeat of a program.
“I say that a lot of times in recruiting, I project it. I’ll say ‘I can see you being a captain here,’” Day said Monday. “There’s certain guys.