The Ohio State football program is a dangerous place to be coy.
Every press conference, recruiting visit, tweet, grunt - any noise seeping out of the Woody Hayes Athletic Center is captured and amplified for the masses to consume. All coaches, especially the one of charge, have to embrace that reality.
This dynamic is one of those hardwired and uncontrollable constituency characteristics, so trying to change or evade it is a wasteful errand. Hoping OSU fans or even OSU media outlets won't notice or question the slightest microscopic detail is just silly.
Walk through campus tailgating lots on a November Saturday and you'll meet a grandmother of 14 who knitted the dazzling scarlet and gray sweater she's proudly wearing.