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"

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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"