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Ohio State football coach Ryan Day is undecided on the format of the Buckeyes’ spring showcase on April 12.
The showcase is replacing the traditional spring game, which has involved an intrasquad scrimmage in previous years, as the culmination of spring practice. It will also be held at Ohio Stadium with public admission.
“To sit here and tell you I know exactly what the format is going to be, I don’t know right now,” Day told The Dispatch.
“We have to see how the first couple weeks of spring practice go,” Ohio State coach Ryan Day said of why he has yet to decided on the spring game’s format.
Day is conscious of the wear and tear on the Buckeyes, who played 16 games last season, a stretch that was the longest in school history as they went through the expanded College Football Playoff to win a national championship.
“We have some guys that have played a lot of football,” he said.
Other schools have scrapped spring games this year, including Texas, which met Ohio State in the semifinals.
Nebraska coach Matt Rhule canceled the Cornhuskers’ spring game due to concerns about other programs attempting to poach their players with a spring transfer window looming in late April.
But Day holds an appreciation for the public event, which mimics elements of the environment at the Horseshoe on fall Saturdays, and sees it as part of the acclimation for underclassmen.
“We want to do the best we can to put our guys in the stadium on that day and let them feel what it’s like to play in a game,” he said, “because until we kick off against Texas in the first game, that’ll be the only other opportunity for those guys to feel what a game is like. We have a lot of younger guys that haven’t played a lot of football. I don’t want to lose that opportunity.”
Day expects it will not be until later in spring practice…
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Author : The Columbus Dispatch
Publish date : 2025-02-27 17:09:00
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