Chip Kelly, Jim Knowles and how Ryan Day should replace Ohio State’s coordinators

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🗓️ 4 February 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Ryan Day has to replace a few valuable pieces of his coaching staff as he heads into Year 7 running the Ohio State football program. On offense, he must find a new offensive coordinator and offensive line coach after Chip Kelly and Justin Frye left for the NFL. On defense, must hire a defensive coordinator following Jim Knowles' departure for Penn State. On this episode of Buckeye Talk, Stephen Means, Stefan Krajisnik and Andrew Gillis discuss the impact of those losses. Plus, give a description of who Day should hire in their place. Thanks for listening to Buckeye Talk. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:01.6	Welcome back to Buckeye Talk.
1:02.9	I'm Stephen Krasnick, and that's Andrew Gillis.
1:05.5	And if you're watching this on YouTube, what's up, folks?
1:08.3	Look at the floating heads about to talk about Ohio State losing.
1:11.3	It's other coordinator. Jim Nolan has already headed off to Penn State. He's already there,
1:15.0	by the way, doing interviews and sit downs and whatnot. Chip Kelly, Stefan, is now also leaving
1:20.2	there. Been maybe some talks about him leaving off for the NFL. There'd been a few school,
1:25.0	few teams, excuse me, involved. It's football school. It's still school.
1:29.3	It's just not, you know, you get letter grades. You get raises. You get raises. You get
1:32.2	traded and all that stuff. Chip Kelly is leaving to go be the offensive coordinator for the
1:37.3	Las Vegas Raiders. Stefan, when this news first dropped, there was maybe a poetic way I looked at it.
1:42.8	But there's also just a logical way to look at things for Chip Kelly.
1:48.4	Justin Frye has also left for the NFL.
1:50.8	He's the Arizona Cardinals, who offensive line coach.
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