Ryan Day likes what he’s seen from Ohio State this spring, and the Buckeyes will look to finish strong as the offense and defense go head-to-head on Saturday at Ohio Stadium.
After attendance was limited to less than 20,000 fans for last year’s spring game, there will be no capacity restrictions at the Shoe on Saturday as the Buckeyes conclude their slate of spring football practices in front of what should be a significantly larger crowd of fans as the public gets its first look at the 2022 Ohio State football team inside Ohio Stadium.
Saturday’s spring game will also serve as an opportunity for Ohio State to pay tribute to former quarterback Dwayne Haskins following hislast Saturday. All players will wear “DH” stickers on their helmets, and Ohio State will hold a pregame moment of silence and play a video remembering Haskins at halftime.
“In order to keep it where we can roll guys and the depth and not running guys across the field and being more organized, I think this is a better way to control who's in the game,” Day said. “We're still going to get to just as many reps. But it allows us to mix and match guys and have guys play for the offense and defense where if it was Scarlet and Gray, we would need them to play on both sides of the ball. It just becomes logistically a little harder to manage.
For young Buckeyes who don’t have much game experience yet, however, Saturday will be a key opportunity for them to get some game-like reps in the Shoe, especially considering that the Buckeyes open their season with a marquee non-conference game against Notre Dame. That’s why Day believes it’s important for Saturday to function as a true scrimmage rather than a glorified touch football game.
“The more reps they get under their belt, the better, especially in the stadium,” Day said. “We're not going to see a lot of crazy blitzes or anything like that, it's not going to be a challenge schematically, it's just going to be a matter of getting the snap, making the right read, delivering the football, handing the ball off, reading the right guy and just managing the game.
Going into Saturday’s exhibition, Day feels good about what the Buckeyes have accomplished this spring. He believes they’re in a much better place than they were at this time last year, when Ohio State was still trying to make up for all the reps it lost due to the COVID-19 shutdown in 2020.
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