COLUMBUS — With no previous experience as a head coach — save for a three-game cameo last season when Urban Meyer was suspended — Ryan Day was something of a leap-of-faith hire to be Ohio State football coach. OSU director of athletics Gene Smith and Day’s predecessor, Urban Meyer, both cited infrastructure and continuity multiple times in explaining why Day was the man for the job, which he was given without a national search. >>RELATED: The Buckeyes are Ryan Day’s team now The pillars of success were already in place, they reasoned when the decision was made in December, so tapping someone who already knows how to build around and ultimately upon them makes sense. “I hired Ryan Day (as an assistant in 2016) because I thought he was a very good coach,” Meyer said Dec. 4 after announcing he would retire following the Rose Bowl on Jan. 1. “I knew…
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