Ohio State AD: Ryan Day ‘absolutely’ back in 2025

Ahead of Ohio State’s appearance in the College Football Playoff, head coach Ryan Day received a vote of confidence from his athletic director despite the Buckeyes’ latest loss to Michigan.Ohio State AD Ross Bjork appeared on 97.1 The Fan in Columbus on Thursday, where a radio host asked him whether Day would be the Buckeyes’ coach at the start of next season regardless of how the playoffs shake out.”Absolutely,” said Bjork, who came to Ohio State from the same role at Texas A&M in July.”Coach Day and I have just hit it off so well. I’ve been really, really impressed. Every single time I’ve talked to him, I’ve learned something. He’s innovative. He recruits at the highest level. He’s got a great staff. There’s always tweaks. There was tweaks after last year, right? You’re always going to tweak things. You’re always going to make adjustments. You’re always going to make improvements.”Bjork continued by addressing the “championship or bust” attitude held by some of the fanbase.”This whole mentality about — and look, we live it, and we sign up for it — but if you get fixated on the end result and not have the process fully baked every time, you’re going to lose,” Bjork said. “The mindset’s going to lose because you’re only fixated on one thing. And so what we have to do is this whole ‘championship or bust’ mentality, you want that as the goal, but it has to be about the process.”To me, we’ve got to maybe change some conversations a little bit. I think we need to maybe just approach things a little bit differently.”Day is 66-10 as Ohio State’s coach and led the Buckeyes to one national championship game appearance, a 52-24 loss to Alabama to cap the 2020 season.

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