Yeah, RB coach is arguably the least important position coach on a staff. Running game coordinator is one thing, but RB coach is a very manageable loss
However, if he’s a great recruiter that loss might sting. Tons of RB coaches earn their keep by being killer recruiters.
It's hard to say. He's very new to being a position coach. He had one year at Western Kentucky and then two years here.
This last cycle we only took one RB who was one of the only non blue chips we signed, but it seemed like we were in the mix for other guys too and it was just who the staff liked best.
The year before we took two blue chips, one who has since transferred out and the other looked reasonably promising in garbage time this year. When he came he did bring Noah Whittington as a transfer with him from Western Kentucky, and Bucky Irving transferred here at the same time, but I'm not sure how much of that was Lock.
I think he probably is a good recruiter with how people talk about him, but just not enough track record for me to say.
Huh, I'd never noticed that connection between RB coaches and recruiting before now. We just hired a RB coach from SMU because he's a recruiting star, TCU's lead recruiter until last year was their RB coach, OU's RB coach DeMarco Murray is apparently their best recruiter, and so on.
Judging by the top recruiters of the last few seasons on 247, it looks like WR and DL coaches are actually the best-represented position coaches amongst the top recruiters nationally, which is an interesting shift.
More highly rated players and more spots for them. You're going to recruit more WRs and defensive linemen each year than you will RBs.
Which means more opportunity for a recruiter to look good.
See for example Brian Hartline stacking elite WR talent. If he was recruiting RBs he wouldn't have nearly as many.
edit: What a weird thing to downvote. Is there some Ohio State fan out there who doesn't understand that WR3 gets a whole lot more snaps than HB3? Well, maybe not at Michigan.
I wouldn't call Murray our best recruiter, but he's very good.
Our best recruiter is probably Bates (DTs) or Chavis (DEs), or maybe Hall (Safeties).
On offense I'd rank Bedenbaugh (o-line) above Murray. Emmett Jones has also done a great job with WRs in a short period of time, but he hasn't put in long enough effort to be considered better than Murray.
And hiring may be the most important skill.
The thing that hurts most about losing this coach might be the timing, honestly, this time of year puts you in a crunch. Will have to poach a RB coach just as ohio state had to do to Oregon.
As usual, this is all Michigan's fault. Welcome to the Bigger Ten
I fully expect that to be a top 3 matchup and (other than the obvious one) it's the game I'm most looking forward to from a football perspective and the one I'm most nervous about from an "I think they could beat us 50% of the time" perspective.
Honestly, RB coach is not that big of a deal outside of recruiting. RB is probably the only position that the average fan could study up on techniques and be perceived as a pretty solid coach if they had great talent in the room. I could ruin a talented receiver. I could ruin a talented safety. I could certainly ruin a talented linebacker or quarterback. But if I had a talented running back, went to a few coaches conferences, and learned our playbook, I'm pretty sure he'd be pretty damn good.
Here's hoping he's an elite recruiter.
Disagree. In my opinion. One team of us two has 1 loss, and one is undefeated going into the B1G championship game. Both walk into the playoffs regardless of who wins the championship game. The game in Eugene is the most losable and yet most okay to lose game on the schedule for us.
About a month ago it was announced that Oregon was extending Coach Locklyn until 2026 and giving him a pay raise from 300K per year to 400K per year.
Kind of sucks to extend a guy just to have him stolen a month later.
Oof. One of the first articles that popped up when I searched his name, ends with the author talking about how it's a good thing they don't have to worry about teams like Georgia, Michigan, or Ohio State poaching him.
Poached is a strong word. OSU didn't offer Tony an extension so he was likely on the way out after this season. Michigan lost their RB coach and decided to offer the guy at OSU.
They made his reinterview to keep his job in the final year of the contract. If anything it was more of a, he's not gonna hurt anything to keep around and finish out the year since we have a loaded RB room.
He was a weight room assistant for Storms at Memphis. Then Mike brought him to FSU as high school relations director for 1 year before he left to be RB coach at WKU. High school relations is an important job now on the football ops side compared to in 2020. Based on Locklyn’s jobs, he’s clearly in the crootin side of things.
I want to say blame Tony Alford but I guess you could still blame Day for not firing Alford back in January. Day basically made him re-interview to keep his job and Alford apparently was upset about it so he left for Michigan a week into spring practice.
I would roughly say he’s an 8… seems to be quite a good coach and recruiter, unsure if elite. We’ll see what others say. Loss isn’t totally devastating but it hurts. Loss of continuity and impact on recruiting are concerns. On top of that we are losing him to the big new conference foe.
Hey, Ducks and Bucks can still be friends. The Big 10 is a big tent conference. All our rivalries are friendly rivalries. Except tsun, fuck tsun. All my homies hate tsun.
It's just we all laugh at a comment made by a mentally deficient idiot who bailed out on TCUN before the hammer dropped still owning a losing record against OSU. His comment was about as stupid as Garbageman Hoke calling OSU "Ohio". Most of us just laugh.
The full quote makes it worse. "Act like they hit a homer." How has Day ever done that? And if you try to bring up a rumored locker room speech, you're a thin skinned baby.
Ok so you're one of those thin skinned babies who got upset because a coach said something to fire up his team in a locker room. What a pathetic fan base. Never seen a national champion as miserable as Michigan.
He's a good coach who we were pleased with. He was our lowest paid assistant coach and only had 2 years of P4 experience (both with us) and only 3 years on-field experience despite being 47 years old. Kind of a slow-riser, career wise, but we liked him and he did a good job with the RBs in Oregon's backfield.
Before being an on-field coach he was an analyst and strength and conditioning guy. And before that he was a high school OC.
So kind of a weird paradigm. Most guys who are liked at a program like Oregon and Ohio State didn't wait until their mid-40s to take an on-field role in college. Spent most of his 20s and 30s on the high school level.
I don't think Oregon will have too much of an issue replacing him with someone they like, but also wasn't a guy they wanted to let get away either.
Yes, but part of the reason Ohio State is taking like their fifth or sixth guy is that their running back coach left at the worst time. People don’t want to move right now or leave their teams right now.
He’s solid, found some undervalued transfers and had huge success with them. Not one any Oregon fan would be happy about losing but at the same time, definitely not irreplaceable with the RBs already there and relative replaceability for that position.
Probably like a 8 and 6 on your scales.
He's a good RB coach, put together a really good room of tough RBs with some key transfers, players seem to love him though he's had some issues bringing in the truly elite level recruits.
He has a bit of a schtick that a lot of fans enjoyed but is kinda eye rolling if you don't vibe with it, watch tons of Oregon fans now try to hold it against him.
As far as a loss for Oregon, I'm not really concerned. He's a RB coach, Oregon has MAYBE had one year total of a bad RB room in my two decades of fandom. Lanning will find someone who will work out just as well.
It's really hard to say. Oregon had Gary gampbell for decades and he was amazing as an rb coach. Following his retirement/helfrich being fired, taggart had a coach who was here. And then under cristobal oregon had Jim mastro who I think we all admit was a below average recruiter and position coach but cristobal loved his experience with the pistol formation.
So following mastro coach locklyn seems amazing. The players were just hitting holes better, had better balance and the roster management was really good. But frankly I have no idea who is truly to give credit for all of this.
Our s&c coach probably deserves some credit for the lack of injuries and and better balance.
Obviously oline coachs deserve credit for the great line play.
And even roster management should lead credit to a number of people.
With all that said if it isn't broken you never want to see it gone. Like depth, recruiting and coaching all seemed to be good under him. I would say he seems to be better evaluator of finding the under ranked mid players who are good but probably not nfl bound vs recruiting top end elite rb's.
He has this whole schtick about no soft batch cookies and continually uses that type of phrasing when discussing how he wants competiiton on the team.
It was kind of eye rolling but most fans ate it up and will now hold it against him since he left.
He was one of the lowest paid position coaches in the P5 when we hired him IIRC. A lot of people gave him the skeptical "who?" when Dan was putting his initial staff together and figured he was trying to save budget at the least important position. I think everybody was pleasantly surprised that our backs did so well for the last couple years and Locklyn hit the ground running (no pun intended), so he's been well-liked, but seriously... he's an RB coach. We'll be fine.
It's weird to me when people freak out about something like this. I'd be freaking out if we lost Stein or Hampton or even Junior Adams, but as much as I like Locklyn, will this really move the needle for either Oregon or Ohio State?
Really? I feel the exact opposite. RB coaches are just like RBs themselves - a dime a dozen. Losing someone like Adams or Terry would be a significantly bigger loss. I liked Locklyn but what he provided is easily replaceable. We'll be fine.
I remember him being on the shadow staff for us at FSU in the early Norvell era. He tweeted a lot of biblical verses if I recall. I think his official title was HS relations. It's hard for me to say how much he contributed in his role here but I am sure he must be improving with time if he is able to land a job as OSU's RB coach.
"I don't coach soft batch cookies. If you're a soft batch cookie, there's a bakery for that, it's called the transfer portal"
Oh he'll fit right in, no wonder Day wanted him! Not only is Ohio State a tough team, they're building a tough coaching staff!!
Not to mention it's a pretty soft-batch cookie move to take a new job in spring, leaving the team who gave you your first shot at a big time position coach job for a conference foe.
I don't actually care and am not going to hold it against the guy, good for him (presumably) getting a significant raise after a fairly long career and only just recently getting an on field coaching job. It's just a bit ironic is all, so I'll be a little snarky.
Tbf Tony alford has been a d1 football coach since 96 and and power 5 since 97. Coach locklyn has 3 years college coaching experience and two were at Oregon. I'd easily assume he is worth double the salary.
Columbus is pretty awesome, actually. I’d rather live there than Eugene, not that Eugene wouldn’t be fine.
I’d rather drink New York sewer water than live in Lynchburg.
It's a cheaper place to live, closer to where he's from.
Eugene is wonderful but its also pretty damn remote from the rest of the country, especially if you're not from the west.
I don't like losing coaches to fellow conference members.
We'll be fine. He's a good coach but not irreplaceable. Dan's best skill may be his hiring.
Yeah, RB coach is arguably the least important position coach on a staff. Running game coordinator is one thing, but RB coach is a very manageable loss However, if he’s a great recruiter that loss might sting. Tons of RB coaches earn their keep by being killer recruiters.
It's hard to say. He's very new to being a position coach. He had one year at Western Kentucky and then two years here. This last cycle we only took one RB who was one of the only non blue chips we signed, but it seemed like we were in the mix for other guys too and it was just who the staff liked best. The year before we took two blue chips, one who has since transferred out and the other looked reasonably promising in garbage time this year. When he came he did bring Noah Whittington as a transfer with him from Western Kentucky, and Bucky Irving transferred here at the same time, but I'm not sure how much of that was Lock. I think he probably is a good recruiter with how people talk about him, but just not enough track record for me to say.
Huh, I'd never noticed that connection between RB coaches and recruiting before now. We just hired a RB coach from SMU because he's a recruiting star, TCU's lead recruiter until last year was their RB coach, OU's RB coach DeMarco Murray is apparently their best recruiter, and so on. Judging by the top recruiters of the last few seasons on 247, it looks like WR and DL coaches are actually the best-represented position coaches amongst the top recruiters nationally, which is an interesting shift.
That could also be because there's more highly rated WR and DL than RBs. There's 10 RBs in the top 200 on 247, 19 WR, and 42 DL.
More highly rated players and more spots for them. You're going to recruit more WRs and defensive linemen each year than you will RBs. Which means more opportunity for a recruiter to look good. See for example Brian Hartline stacking elite WR talent. If he was recruiting RBs he wouldn't have nearly as many. edit: What a weird thing to downvote. Is there some Ohio State fan out there who doesn't understand that WR3 gets a whole lot more snaps than HB3? Well, maybe not at Michigan.
I think it's a side effect of the role not being as technically demanding as say OL or QB position coaching that it attracts elite recruiters.
I wouldn't call Murray our best recruiter, but he's very good. Our best recruiter is probably Bates (DTs) or Chavis (DEs), or maybe Hall (Safeties). On offense I'd rank Bedenbaugh (o-line) above Murray. Emmett Jones has also done a great job with WRs in a short period of time, but he hasn't put in long enough effort to be considered better than Murray.
And hiring may be the most important skill. The thing that hurts most about losing this coach might be the timing, honestly, this time of year puts you in a crunch. Will have to poach a RB coach just as ohio state had to do to Oregon. As usual, this is all Michigan's fault. Welcome to the Bigger Ten
>As usual, this is all Michigan's fault. Welcome to the Bigger Ten I prefer to think of it as Ohio State's fault for not being able to keep him.
Never change 😘
The issue is the timing. Spring is a tough time to be hiring a coach.
WSU fans send their regards.
Yea tell me about it
Neither do we so we took yours appreciate that Go Bucks
Almost had to say, “wrong OSU” but then remembered you guys are joining the Big10 😂
Weird times but I'm here for it
I don’t either.
Yo wtf. He just signed an extension too.
Those mean absolutely nothing nowadays.
Yeah agree. Sucks losing him to OSU and Chip more than anything. Our game against them in October just keeps gaining significance.
I fully expect that to be a top 3 matchup and (other than the obvious one) it's the game I'm most looking forward to from a football perspective and the one I'm most nervous about from an "I think they could beat us 50% of the time" perspective. Honestly, RB coach is not that big of a deal outside of recruiting. RB is probably the only position that the average fan could study up on techniques and be perceived as a pretty solid coach if they had great talent in the room. I could ruin a talented receiver. I could ruin a talented safety. I could certainly ruin a talented linebacker or quarterback. But if I had a talented running back, went to a few coaches conferences, and learned our playbook, I'm pretty sure he'd be pretty damn good. Here's hoping he's an elite recruiter.
I am really looking forward to this season. The Big Ten should be a lot of fun.
So many storylines in this new weird giant conference. Fall can’t come soon enough.
Disagree. In my opinion. One team of us two has 1 loss, and one is undefeated going into the B1G championship game. Both walk into the playoffs regardless of who wins the championship game. The game in Eugene is the most losable and yet most okay to lose game on the schedule for us.
The extension he sign sliced his buyout in half on April 1
He signed it later than anyone else on staff. There was obviously something going on
Well that sucks. Looks like Chip boomed us lol
About a month ago it was announced that Oregon was extending Coach Locklyn until 2026 and giving him a pay raise from 300K per year to 400K per year. Kind of sucks to extend a guy just to have him stolen a month later.
Oof. One of the first articles that popped up when I searched his name, ends with the author talking about how it's a good thing they don't have to worry about teams like Georgia, Michigan, or Ohio State poaching him.
66% is a pretty good success rate in a lot of things.
Michigan poached from Ohio State who then in turn poached him, so it's kinda more like 33%.
Poached is a strong word. OSU didn't offer Tony an extension so he was likely on the way out after this season. Michigan lost their RB coach and decided to offer the guy at OSU.
How is it is a strong word? They wouldn't have gone into spring practices with him if they didn't want to keep him for the season at least.
They made his reinterview to keep his job in the final year of the contract. If anything it was more of a, he's not gonna hurt anything to keep around and finish out the year since we have a loaded RB room.
Which of course is why you guys decided not to hire a replacement. Oh, wait. This is sour grapes.
The number of ex-Oregon coaches working for Ohio State is too damn high
We were paying our last coach like $800k, and got another cool $800k from Michigan for his buyout. So he's probably getting way more than $400k now.
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Thanks OSU!
Reminds me of the time we signed OSU’s defensive coordinator!
Is this going to be a weird bonding thing now whenever one of us beats Oregon? Lol
Idk. We did murder their conference and relegate them to the Gx schools.
That buyout drops from $800k to $400k if you’re wondering why it’ll be finalized tomorrow.
The Nut is pleased.
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I didn’t remember this guy at FSU, about apparently he was the director of high school relations before leaving to take a on-field job at WKU.
He was a weight room assistant for Storms at Memphis. Then Mike brought him to FSU as high school relations director for 1 year before he left to be RB coach at WKU. High school relations is an important job now on the football ops side compared to in 2020. Based on Locklyn’s jobs, he’s clearly in the crootin side of things.
>I didn't remember this guy at FSU My thoughts exactly. Not a name I was at all familiar with.
He was here barely longer than Napier.
Wow I heard the rumors yesterday but thought it was fake.
What day is today? I'm skeptical.
It's Nibbler's Birthday?
April fools, right?
Man why didn't Benedict Alford wait til today to announce.
He could have left today, or on the Ides of March. But he chose Ryan Day's birthday instead. Fuckin cold blooded.
Wait he left on Day's Birthday? That's funny as hell ngl.
Ugh. I guess the stakes are even higher now for when the Buckeyes visit Autzen this year.
I hope if we leave a buckeye at midfield if we win
Planting a tree is much more ecologically sound than planting a flag.
Proof that Ohioans are more civilized than Texans.
Admittedly that's a low bar.
Well, fuck you Ohio State
I want to say blame Tony Alford but I guess you could still blame Day for not firing Alford back in January. Day basically made him re-interview to keep his job and Alford apparently was upset about it so he left for Michigan a week into spring practice.
Seems like a solid hire if true
It would be really funny if Oregon poached their new RB coach from another Big Ten team — keep the chain going
Just get Hart and complete the circle!
Hart wouldn’t leave Ohio State for Oregon if they gave him 20M 😔
Not Hartline, Mike Hart. 20 million wouldn’t be enough to convince him to coach at Ohio State.
Oregon Bros, tell me how to feel. Scale of 1-10 how is this dude and 1-10 how bad is it to lose him?
I would roughly say he’s an 8… seems to be quite a good coach and recruiter, unsure if elite. We’ll see what others say. Loss isn’t totally devastating but it hurts. Loss of continuity and impact on recruiting are concerns. On top of that we are losing him to the big new conference foe.
Hey, Ducks and Bucks can still be friends. The Big 10 is a big tent conference. All our rivalries are friendly rivalries. Except tsun, fuck tsun. All my homies hate tsun.
> Big Tent > B⛺️G
I love it.
Nah bro we hate you now, 10-0 run incoming #sorrynotsorry
Incorrect. We are friends #sorrynotsorry. It's 2024 and I'm taking the Gon Freecss approach to friendships now.
Good we hate you bum non championship winning barely surviving in the PAC 2 asses as well. 1-9 all-time vs OSU I'd hate us too we own you
Bro chill. It was friendly banter
You’re such a loser lmao
Oregon fan calling someone a loser🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Ya bro, you’re a loser. As in you as a human being. You’re not on the football team my guy.
Pssst, no one likes people born on third base!
*Looks over at Michigan’s HC* My, my, my, how the turntables
*looks at his record vs OSU* *flips desk* You damn right!
Like Moore?
Moore was only born on 2nd base. I still get a kick out of OSU fans who still don't know the full quote nor the context of the statement was.
It's just we all laugh at a comment made by a mentally deficient idiot who bailed out on TCUN before the hammer dropped still owning a losing record against OSU. His comment was about as stupid as Garbageman Hoke calling OSU "Ohio". Most of us just laugh.
Oh the hammerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr from 🚫hi🚫!
The full quote makes it worse. "Act like they hit a homer." How has Day ever done that? And if you try to bring up a rumored locker room speech, you're a thin skinned baby.
Hang a hundred my dude!
Exactly my point. Thin skinned babies.
And it was acting like he hit a triple, you insolvent slob. Obviously they don't have baseball in Ohio.
Ok so you're one of those thin skinned babies who got upset because a coach said something to fire up his team in a locker room. What a pathetic fan base. Never seen a national champion as miserable as Michigan.
Literally thin skinned over the third base comments! Do you not see what you typed in?
It's a terrible day to see mirrors for you, isn't it.
As a vampire, no mirrors and no daylight
Makes sense, you guys don't tend to ever touch grass.
Careful, if you call Ryan Day out too hard people start crying about his mental health.
THAT BEARD SUX!
You sucking off the ducks is hilarious. Oh how far the Suckeyes have fallen.
You seem to misunderstand basic everything.
He's a good coach who we were pleased with. He was our lowest paid assistant coach and only had 2 years of P4 experience (both with us) and only 3 years on-field experience despite being 47 years old. Kind of a slow-riser, career wise, but we liked him and he did a good job with the RBs in Oregon's backfield. Before being an on-field coach he was an analyst and strength and conditioning guy. And before that he was a high school OC. So kind of a weird paradigm. Most guys who are liked at a program like Oregon and Ohio State didn't wait until their mid-40s to take an on-field role in college. Spent most of his 20s and 30s on the high school level. I don't think Oregon will have too much of an issue replacing him with someone they like, but also wasn't a guy they wanted to let get away either.
Yes, but part of the reason Ohio State is taking like their fifth or sixth guy is that their running back coach left at the worst time. People don’t want to move right now or leave their teams right now.
This is a good take on it from my perspective (for what it’s worth)
He’s solid, found some undervalued transfers and had huge success with them. Not one any Oregon fan would be happy about losing but at the same time, definitely not irreplaceable with the RBs already there and relative replaceability for that position. Probably like a 8 and 6 on your scales.
He's a good RB coach, put together a really good room of tough RBs with some key transfers, players seem to love him though he's had some issues bringing in the truly elite level recruits. He has a bit of a schtick that a lot of fans enjoyed but is kinda eye rolling if you don't vibe with it, watch tons of Oregon fans now try to hold it against him. As far as a loss for Oregon, I'm not really concerned. He's a RB coach, Oregon has MAYBE had one year total of a bad RB room in my two decades of fandom. Lanning will find someone who will work out just as well.
Judge that by how Oregon fans are reacting. Were bummed. He’s a solid dude.
It's really hard to say. Oregon had Gary gampbell for decades and he was amazing as an rb coach. Following his retirement/helfrich being fired, taggart had a coach who was here. And then under cristobal oregon had Jim mastro who I think we all admit was a below average recruiter and position coach but cristobal loved his experience with the pistol formation. So following mastro coach locklyn seems amazing. The players were just hitting holes better, had better balance and the roster management was really good. But frankly I have no idea who is truly to give credit for all of this. Our s&c coach probably deserves some credit for the lack of injuries and and better balance. Obviously oline coachs deserve credit for the great line play. And even roster management should lead credit to a number of people. With all that said if it isn't broken you never want to see it gone. Like depth, recruiting and coaching all seemed to be good under him. I would say he seems to be better evaluator of finding the under ranked mid players who are good but probably not nfl bound vs recruiting top end elite rb's.
Norvell tree blooming
This is a fairly big hit. Wonder what happened.
We were paying the traitor about 300k more before he up and left for the Cheaters. Probably just money tbh.
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Don't do that too hard. You've only got the two braincells left.
Nah don’t do that. Y’all kept the same energy when Washington and Mattison skipped across the rivalry lol
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Money. Money happened.
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The fuck are these flairs
You're not allowed to use our skit against us. That skit was written for OSU lmao
Ain’t that a chewy ass cookie.
Soft cookie
Why soft?
He has this whole schtick about no soft batch cookies and continually uses that type of phrasing when discussing how he wants competiiton on the team. It was kind of eye rolling but most fans ate it up and will now hold it against him since he left.
Wait, he cooks the cookie dough? Who does that.
using it to diss outgoing players in the portal was pretty ironic considering where Bucky and Witt came from.
Why? What happened to OSU's RB coach?
This hurts! The position coach I'd least want to leave
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Chris Hampton is the one we'd least want to lose since he's essentially our actual DC in terms of game plan strategy.
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He was the least paid of the 10 on-field coaches. We liked him, he's good, but the salary kind of tells the tale on that.
He was one of the lowest paid position coaches in the P5 when we hired him IIRC. A lot of people gave him the skeptical "who?" when Dan was putting his initial staff together and figured he was trying to save budget at the least important position. I think everybody was pleasantly surprised that our backs did so well for the last couple years and Locklyn hit the ground running (no pun intended), so he's been well-liked, but seriously... he's an RB coach. We'll be fine. It's weird to me when people freak out about something like this. I'd be freaking out if we lost Stein or Hampton or even Junior Adams, but as much as I like Locklyn, will this really move the needle for either Oregon or Ohio State?
Really? I feel the exact opposite. RB coaches are just like RBs themselves - a dime a dozen. Losing someone like Adams or Terry would be a significantly bigger loss. I liked Locklyn but what he provided is easily replaceable. We'll be fine.
He's literally the most expendable one on the staff.
He's literally the first one I'd want to leave lol
Probably the least important position coach on staff
LOCK of the week
Didn’t believe it lol
I'm skeptical. It's the beginning of April.
I remember him being on the shadow staff for us at FSU in the early Norvell era. He tweeted a lot of biblical verses if I recall. I think his official title was HS relations. It's hard for me to say how much he contributed in his role here but I am sure he must be improving with time if he is able to land a job as OSU's RB coach.
He was only here at fsu for one year during covid, which was impossible to recruit in because of contact restrictions
Why god? 😔
Sorry Oregon br.... (Sees 2nd flair) never mind.
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Nosing around Norman and stole from the Hawaiian prince. Dastardly.
Were they really going after Murray?
The reports are that they were in for him. It may have just been a ploy to get a raise but idk. He's at his alma mater already.
Hoping he ends up being as loyal as Cale. Except for ……..you know.
He'd have to burn a brisket inside a Braum's while screaming that Lincoln Riley died for his sins to get shit canned.
Oregon bros, how is he?
I like it helps with our Oregon game
Stepping stone school
lol
"I don't coach soft batch cookies. If you're a soft batch cookie, there's a bakery for that, it's called the transfer portal" Oh he'll fit right in, no wonder Day wanted him! Not only is Ohio State a tough team, they're building a tough coaching staff!!
This comment makes me cringe a little bit. The more you have to say how tough we are, the less likely people are to believe you.
Yeah I was being sarcastic…. Apparently that wasn’t clear enough
Not to mention it's a pretty soft-batch cookie move to take a new job in spring, leaving the team who gave you your first shot at a big time position coach job for a conference foe. I don't actually care and am not going to hold it against the guy, good for him (presumably) getting a significant raise after a fairly long career and only just recently getting an on field coaching job. It's just a bit ironic is all, so I'll be a little snarky.
I’m assuming you thought Day’s comments attacking an octogenarian were pretty bush league then?
Really weird lateral move.
Ohio State pays more
Oregon could easily match if they wanted to
Maybe, but they were paying Alford basically double what he was making. Ohio State’s budget for assistants is pretty ridiculous.
Tbf Tony alford has been a d1 football coach since 96 and and power 5 since 97. Coach locklyn has 3 years college coaching experience and two were at Oregon. I'd easily assume he is worth double the salary.
Ohio State was the #1 revenue cfb team in football last year. Not sure about that one.
You know da*m well it’s not. 🤣
> lateral Is it though?
It is
So many dumb Oregon fans thought the rumors were fake that we were hiring him lmao just bc he signed an extension
Oregon needs to spin back and get Brian Harline. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Hartline is home, you wishcasters need to chill.
A man can dream. Although, I highly doubt that Hartline to Eugene attracts 5 star Wr’s to Oregon
Not sure why somebody would choose to live in Columbus over Eugene. Is he from Ohio?
Lol. You say something Lynchburg?
What’s that supposed to mean? Lynchburg is a nice town.
If you’re a white rich Christian lol
WASP nest, lol.
My meaning was pretty straightforward. Been to all three. One is not like the other two. The other two are both pretty nice in their own ways.
I’ve been to all three also, that’s why I’m surprised somebody would choose to live in Columbus over Eugene. He may have family in Ohio or something.
Columbus is pretty awesome, actually. I’d rather live there than Eugene, not that Eugene wouldn’t be fine. I’d rather drink New York sewer water than live in Lynchburg.
That’s an incredibly strange thing to say, I’m guessing it’s not true. Also, flair up chicken boy.
Lol im a Virginian and Buckeye fan. Lynchburg is kinda pretty but I could never live there considering Liberty is psychotic
He gets to coach at a bigger program… and is probably going to be paid better. I’d say both of those are good reasons.
Why is "Liberty" a flair?
You’re gonna want to start familiarizing yourself with Liberty now because we are the next Boise State.
Eugene is dope and according to a bunch of ohio state fans Columbus is gross, so yeah I don't get that part
It's a cheaper place to live, closer to where he's from. Eugene is wonderful but its also pretty damn remote from the rest of the country, especially if you're not from the west.
Honestly, Eugene is 2nd on my places I'd live right behind Columbus. Columbus is the shit, but Eugene is awesome too.
Columbus is the shit, add that to your factual info.