Ryan Day worked under Urban Meyer for four seasons -- including three as a full-time ****** istant. After taking over as the head coach at Ohio State, he took those lessons and the mentorship of Meyer with him. But recently, he's leaning on a key piece of advice when replacing members of his coaching staff.
Day has had to replace his offensive coordinator in each of the last three seasons, and that coincided this year with losing one of the top recruiters on his roster: Brian Hartline. Hartline, who served as Ohio State's offensive coordinator and wide receivers coach last season, left to take the head coaching position with USF this offseason.
So what did Day do? He remembered what Meyer told him years ago.
"When you're at Ohio State you get to go hire the best," Ryan Day said on The Pat McAfee Show. "I remember one of my first recruiting meetings, I was the quarterbacks coach and offensive coordinator and Urban Meyer was the head coach here. And we walked in, and the recruit and the family says, 'Well, we really like coach Day, but what happens if he leaves?' I thought coach was going to say, 'He's going to be here for a long time, you don't need to worry about that.' He just said, 'We'll just go get the next best guy out there.'"
Day went out and added Cortez Hankton as the wide receivers coach and Arthur Smith as the OC.

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