The days are slowly ticking by on a loss that will forever haunt an Ohio State team that had the goods to win it all in 2019. The Buckeyes outplayed defensing national champion Clemson for large portions of the Fiesta Bowl Saturday night, but couldn’t seem to catch a break — ultimately falling when Justin Fields’ pass in the end zone was picked off with 37 seconds left on the clock.
There’s no doubt the loss still stings for new head coach Ryan Day, and it’ll take some significant time to get over it. Still, he handled himself with class afterwards and now it’s time to focus on recruiting and working on next year’s run towards big things.
There’s one guy in Day’s corner though at all times, and it’s former Ohio State head coach Urban Meyer. Day sat down with the crew of the Big Ten Network after the game Saturday to dissect a little of what we saw Saturday night, and Meyer sat to his left.
If was a rather far-reaching interview, but at the end Meyer consoles Day and swells with pride on what he and the team did this year.
“I know I’m working at BTN right now, but I’m proud of you, brother,” said Meyer. “And I’m proud of Ohio State football, the way they played, the way they scrapped. And that was a hell of a team, hell of a year and you come back, have a great team coming back, and the future’s bright. Recruiting is strong at Ohio State. You’ve got a great head football coach and his staff.”
Those are really strong, personal and attention grabbing words from Urban Meyer. You can watch the entire interview thanks to the video shared by the Twitter feed of BTN.
"There's a lot of pride in there, there's a lot of tears, there's a lot of anger."
– Ryan Day, on the @OhioStateFB locker room
Watch the full interview ⬇️. pic.twitter.com/RO0CtMWppT
— Big Ten Network (@BigTenNetwork) December 29, 2019