Whoever wins the job, he will not be treading an entirely new path. Four times in the past, Ohio State has had a first-year player at the helm for all or most of a season. Half of those seasons ended in disappointment, but the other two yielded Big Ten titles. The most recent also ended with the Buckeyes winning it all, but there is far more to that story. “It will be anxious,” Day said in anticipation of his next quarterback competition. “But you recruit guys for a reason, and you have to develop them. You have to get them out there, and you have to let them play.” That’s the direction Woody Hayes went in 1978 when he replaced senior starter Rod Gerald with Art Schlichter, a hotshot recruit from Washington Court House Miami Trace. Thirty years later, Terrelle Pryor of Jeannette, Pa., became the second freshman starting quarterback…
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