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What Ohio State head coach Ryan Day said during his weekly press conference
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Ohio State coach Ryan Day met with the media Tuesday and had plenty to say about moving forward after the Buckeyes 38-25 road win over Penn State.
Among the topics, Day discussed the future of the season without cornerback Cameron Brown, who will miss the remainder of the season with an achilles injury.
“Tyreke Johnson is the first guy that needs to step up at cornerback with Cameron Brown out, along with Ryan Watts and Cameron Martinez,” said Day. “Cam came in with experience this season at a position where we couldn’t afford to lose anyone. So to lose Cam, it’s a significant hit. I really feel bad for Cam and his family.”
He also talked about the difficulty of playing with the artificial crowd noise and praised the work of his other corners through the first two weeks, Shaun Wade and Sevyn Banks.
“I thought they played well. [Jahan] Dotson made some really good plays. On those two long ones, I thought Shaun was right there. The kid just made two remarkable catches,” said Day.
Some of the additional comments are below.
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On Ohio State cornerback Cameron Brown's season-ending injury: “Cam came in with experience this season at a position where we couldn't afford to lose anyone. So to lose Cam, it's a significant hit. I really feel bad for Cam and his family.” pic.twitter.com/MBcRJfFwZ3
— Dan Hope (@Dan_Hope) November 3, 2020
Ryan Day on the two missed short field goals at Penn State on Saturday night: “Just ridiculous. Those are chip shots.”
— Dan Hope (@Dan_Hope) November 3, 2020
Ryan Day said there was a conversation with the Big Ten about what happened at the end of the half at Penn State, but he didn't want to get too much into it. “Apparently there was more than two seconds on the clock, which I don't really understand, but I'm just going to move on.”
— Dan Hope (@Dan_Hope) November 3, 2020
Ryan Day said the Buckeyes practiced on Monday instead of Tuesday since today is a mandatory day off for players due to Election Day. Said the Buckeyes had a “really good practice, very spirited” on Monday, but it is a change from their usual routine.
— Dan Hope (@Dan_Hope) November 3, 2020
Ryan Day said Tyreke Johnson is the first guy that needs to step up at cornerback with Cameron Brown out, along with Ryan Watts and Cameron Martinez. Day said Ohio State is hoping to get Lejond Cavazos back soon, and Marcus Williamson could also see snaps at outside cornerback.
— Dan Hope (@Dan_Hope) November 3, 2020
Ryan Day said Greg Schiano was a “great resource” when he served as the acting head coach in 2018, and “I'm forever in debt to him for that.”
“It's no surprise, you can already see how well things are going at Rutgers … I think he's going to build something really good there.“
— Dan Hope (@Dan_Hope) November 3, 2020
Ryan Day said that if Ohio State wants to be a great team, it can't just continue to do what it's doing, it has to keep getting better in all areas.
— Dan Hope (@Dan_Hope) November 3, 2020
Ryan Day on Jonathon Cooper's performance at Penn State: “He played like a guy that was dying to play a month ago … He was playing hungry, he was playing with passion, and it was really cool to see a guy playing like that with the Block O on his chest.”
— Dan Hope (@Dan_Hope) November 3, 2020
Ryan Day said it's “really hard” to communicate when the artificial crowd noise is turned up to 90 decibels. He said the crowd noise doesn't have to be turned down to 70 decibels until the center is over the ball, so it's a “major challenge.”
— Dan Hope (@Dan_Hope) November 3, 2020
Ryan Day: “If we're chasing greatness, and that's what we want to be, then every day we should be going after this thing, 100 miles per hour. … Right now, we got a long way to go.”
— Dan Hope (@Dan_Hope) November 3, 2020
Day said that LB Justin Hilliard tested positive for COVID-19 early Saturday but it proved to be a false positive. His next test was negative. Big Ten rules still kept him from playing.
— Bill Rabinowitz 🗞 (@brdispatch) November 3, 2020
Ryan Day on how Shaun Wade and Sevyn Banks have performed through two weeks: "I thought they played well. Dotson made some really good plays. On those two long ones, I thought Shaun was right there. The kid just made two remarkable catches."
— Colin Hass-Hill (@chasshill) November 3, 2020
Ryan Day on Justin Hilliard missing Saturday's game: "Justin got a false positive. He then took a PCR and that confirmed he was negative."
"We felt awful for Justin." He says the Big Ten is talking about the policies to figure out the "best thing moving forward."
— Colin Hass-Hill (@chasshill) November 3, 2020
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