Ryan Day called Harbaugh before extending offers to Mattison

Wishful thinking I am afraid.  

Day is extremely dangerous and has shown a willingness to go for the jugular already.  OSU's offense in 2018 wasn't what Urban Meyer would have run, that was Day's show.  I really think when the history is written we find out that Urban wasn't all that involved in 2018. He was checked out, might have been the figurehead but the offense was unlike anything he'd run before.    

Unfortunately its pretty clear Day has an eye for good defensive assistants and he has coached with some very familiar names.  Riley didn't have the balls or foresight to revamp the staff when he took over Oklahoma and got himself into a situation where he had to fire a DC midyear.  Day upgraded the defensive coaching staff at OSU before the ink was dry on his contract.  

Day is a prototype of the next generation of coaches, so is Riley.  Meyer and Kelly >>>> Big Game Bob and Mike Leach as mentors.  

Truth be told, Don Brown had Urban's number.  The read option Meyer clung to for years was not going to keep beating us. They looked pathetic against our D until JT went down.  Then Day trots out his prototype QB and OSU's offense morphs into a pass-first system with a QB who can deal. Past 5 quarters against our D has been ugly...and that is Ryan Day's offense on display.   

There is a good reason Tate Martell wasn't going to be the QB at OSU next year.  They aren't running the zone read and the QB's Day has been bringing in are guys who athletic pro-style QB's not run-first guys who can't quickly dissect a defense.