Ohio State Buckeyes head coach Ryan Day has expressed his dissatisfaction with the development of quarterbacks in football. Day is coming off the back of a National championship-winning season with the Buckeyes; however, the team lacks an experienced quarterback going into the 2025 season.
Ryan Day Questions the Process of Developing Quarterbacks
Day questioned the process of developing quarterbacks in the NFL when responding to questions about Ohio State’s lack of an experienced quarterback and his plans for simulating experience for a young quarterback.
“I’ve tried so many of those different things and this is a long conversation,” the 46-year-old said about the unique challenges of developing quarterbacks. “But even having a son who’s now a sophomore and is a quarterback, you just realize that if you play basketball, baseball, lacrosse, all these other sports, you constantly play games.”
“You could play five basketball games on a weekend. You could play — I don’t know how many lacrosse games they play, but they play a lot. Soccer, my daughters, they play all these soccer games. How often are you actually playing 11-on-11 football and playing the quarterback position? And I think that’s why you see so much back and forth, so much confusion.”
“It’s just not very much a science, even when you get to the NFL and the draft process,” Day said. “Because these guys haven’t played a lot of football. And so you don’t know where they are. You don’t always know how to compare where they’ve played to where they need to play, the types of throws that need to be made. So, I think about this a lot.”
Lack of Experience Could Be “Fatal” For Ohio State
The head coach is aware that a lack of experience in any area of the field could pose a major threat to the chances of any team’s success and he is determined to mitigate any issues that could arise from it.
Day recently revealed that Lincoln Kineholz and Julian Sayin will be the first picks at quarterback, while Freshman quarterback and five-star-plus recruit Tavien St. Clair will compete with them for a starting role.
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The Ohio State Buckeyes are one of the top recruiting programs in the country, a fact underscored by their national championship win this past season. Lincoln Kienholz, a four-star recruit from the class of 2023, will be competing for the starting quarterback role against Julian Sayin — a five-star recruit in the 2024 cycle.
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