New OSU RB Coach Carlos Locklyn with some interesting quotes about leaving Oregon and the transfer portal: "People will say I’m a soft-batch cookie for leaving there, but in actuality, I’m not"
This article is full of some great quotes from new OSU RB coach, Carlos Locklyn, which make him seem like a great match for Coach Day. Here's some highlights including how players are "soft cookies" for entering the portal, but he's not for leaving Oregon and how he doesn't like to be called his first name:
I’ve been called everything but a child of God by the people back at the other place that I just left,” Locklyn said. “I’m telling you, if I let you in my DMs, there’s some great comedians out here that are sending me tons of cookies. It’s funny.”
“I tell kids all the time, I don’t coach soft-batch cookies,” Locklyn said then. “If you a soft-batch cookie you got to get away from around me. And they got a bakery for that, guess what it’s called? The transfer portal.”
“The soft-batch cookie thing came from just having the frame of mind, a mental toughness,” Locklyn said on Wednesday at Ohio State. “It had nothing to do with guys getting in the portal or anything. Now most people will say I’m a soft-batch cookie for leaving there, but in actuality, I’m not. It takes great strength to make the decision to leave a place. A weak-minded person wouldn’t be able to make the decisions that I make. It took great strength to do that.”
“I prefer to be called Lock,” Locklyn said. “I know coach Lanning would call me — I thought maybe trying to take a shot at me every now and then while I was out there at Oregon — he called me Carlos. But I prefer to be called coach Lock.”
You also may realize the irony of Locklyn now coaching Quinshon Judkins, who by his own definition would be a "soft cookie"
Whoa. Size matters evidently.
He's not soft for leaving Oregon. He's soft for going to Ohio State.
He'll fit in nicely alongside the other victims of bullying.
Rumor is their qb hierarchy as of today is:
QB1 - DB
QB1a -JS
QB3 - WH
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OSU qbs
QB1 - Devin Brown
QB1a - Julian Sayin
QB3 - Will Howard
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If Brown is the starter the Buckeyes will not escape the regular season unscathed. The gap between him and Honda is vast.
I am surprised Will Howard is behind Devin Brown. That guy looked horrible last year.
Will Howard was mid at KSU and basically lost his job to a freshman. Howard has NFL athleticism, but he never showed he had the arm talent to succeed in OSU's offense. I'm not sure why people were so hyped on him
The athletic part is why people think Howard will transform OSU's offense. The thought being put someone mobile back there and Michigan's DL wouldn't be able to tee off.
Whatever...
Wasn't there a guy from Alabama that was mobile? How's that work out?
April 11th, 2024 at 11:02 AM ^
It did not work out well for them, it was the center's fault. So this situation is TOTALLY differ... hey, wait a minute...
April 11th, 2024 at 11:28 AM ^
His cadence was responsible for bad snaps, but otherwise....
Ohio State offense will be a step down from last year. That Missouri game opened my eyes to OSU life on O moving forward is going to be tough.
So…. Will Howard has to give his off season Heisman Trophy back?
What happened to their other QB croot, Air something?
He bail when Sayin flipped? Or just unworthy of mention?
So we're back to the guess the initials shit again. FFS.
There's some sort of cognitive inflexibility going on there that I've noticed before. Why use initials when you're talking about OSU? I don't get it.
Anyway, poor unfortunate Buckeyes! They may have to roll with a 3rd-year 5-star QB. How will they manage? (Yeah, he may not be that great. Still, they're better off on paper than most other schools.)
April 11th, 2024 at 11:31 AM ^
Taylor Decker, in his pregame intro, just says "THE!"
Every time he does that, I follow in my head with “cooler poopers”
Julian sayin...you mean Tathan Martell 2.0?
Martell crossed - sorry, Falco
So like Michigan they have QB issues.
The 2024 edition of The Game is going to be a rock fight.
April 11th, 2024 at 10:18 AM ^
I hope you’re right. Our D and run game sets us up beautifully for smashing heads.
You can't convince me that's good for OSU based on what we saw in their bowl game
I follow most of the OSU beatwriters and I haven’t seen that rumored… The rumor out there is that Julian Sayin is a much better passer than expected from a true freshman, but he is still solidly behind Will Howard/Devin Brown. Howard and Sayin are both still only 2.5 weeks into learning a new offense - they will likely show better grasp of it by Fall camp.
Sayin has looked like he has passed Lincoln Kienholz as QB3 though, and Kienholz will likely jump into the transfer portal as a result (rumored to have shared interest with Iowa).
- QB1a: Devin Brown (RsSo.)
- QB1b: Will Howard (RsSr.)
- QB3a: Julian Sayin (Fr.)
- QB3b: Lincoln Kienholz (RsFr.)
- QB5: Air Noland (Fr.)
April 10th, 2024 at 10:07 PM ^
Whoa. Size matters evidently.
Not if you're a soft-batch cookie though. Then all you've got is a big soft cookie.
Big Moflasses cookie
His level of self awareness is astonishingly low
That's probably a positive for a position coach if we're being honest.
Maybe if your HC is Day. Otherwise, this is never true. Even the best HCs value assistants who can think for themselves-and keep the HC on track.
Feature not a bug in Columbus...
Not only Quinshon Judkins but also a guy he coached back at Oregon, Bucky Irving, came through the transfer portal. Bucky was certainly not a "soft cookie". Dude was a stud.
This guy isn't just putting his foot in his mouth, he's shoved in his whole leg up to the pelvis.
But nobody can make tough decisions like he can...
C'mon now making sense has not exactly been an Ohio State virtue. He is adopting the culture rapidly.
You can't spell H-Y-P-O-C-R-I-T-E without the letters in Ohio.
April 11th, 2024 at 10:52 AM ^
Also taking full credit for the Memphis running backs....which is odd because they had an official running backs coach NOT named Carlos Locklyn.
Very odd for him to take credit for someone else's work.
Charmin makes cookies now too?
No soft-batch cookies there.
I can't tell if this is a real thing that happened...
... or if it's an AI-generated gif in response to the question, "Can you create an image that expresses the inner essence of Ryan Day?"
I'm also not sure which of those two possibilites I'd prefer being true.
OMG!!!
I almost spit out a mouthful of great bourbon (Stagg 23C ).
Day is such an ass🤡.
humble brag
I love this scene in Reefer Madness where they all smoke Bucknuts and then go dance to the honky hepcat in the underground club.
Rocking out to Kidz Bop
Ryan Day doing his best impression of Michael Flatley’s Lord of the Dance known as the Ohio State Ass Clown Shuffle.
That’s THE Ohio State Ass Clown Shuffle!
Sounds half baked. Never had a coaching family. Nothing should be taught or passed down according to hoppy the penguin.
The interview:
Ryan Day: We're looking for tough people. Are you tough?
Carlos: Tough as a stale cookie.
RD: You're hired.
It's a rigorous screening process.
Ryan Day: "I heard you might be soft."
Carlos Locklyn: "I'm not."
Ryan Day: "Welcome aboard!"
*Ryan Day listens to soft-batch cookie speech.*
Headline later that day: "Ryan Day has entered the transfer portal."
So he has great strength because he chose to leave Oregon, but players who enter the transfer portal are "soft-batch cookies."
Yeah, ok then. Makes sense.
April 10th, 2024 at 10:06 PM ^
In his defense, I think he was saying that soft-batch cookies shouldn't play for him, they should instead use the transfer portal. So someone transferring isn't necessarily a soft-batch cookie--but if someone is a soft-batch cookie they should go away via the transfer portal.
To his offense, or whatever the opposite of in his defense is, he's giving me Josh Gattis vibes. Like he's mad he wasn't feeling appreciated at Oregon, and is trying to burn bridges on his way out of town.