June 26, 2026

Ohio State football’s Keenan Bailey emerged from The Cave as the Buckeyes’ next coach on the rise

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Keenan Bailey needed an office, any office – so he commandeered an abandoned room off the indoor practice field inside Ohio State football’s Woody Hayes Athletic Center. © David Petkiewicz cleveland.com/cleveland.com/TNS Ohio State coach Ryan Day promoted Keenan Bailey to tight ends coach after working to keep him on staff after other college and NFL teams tried to hire him. No windows in this glorified walk-in closet. No plush accommodations or mementos from Buckeye history. Yet it contained the essentials for a low-level staffer seeking solitude: A desk, a white board, a filing cabinet, some monitors and a printer. It helped that this space Bailey christened “The Cave” was close enough to coach Ryan Day’s office to take a handoff. In his former role as Day’s senior advisor, Bailey made it his mission to anticipate needs and find solutions before being asked. “There’s enough film out there,”…

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