Earlier this month, the college football world was hit with some shocking news when a hazing scandal surfaced in the Northwestern Wildcats football program that ultimately led to the firing of head coach Pat Fitzgerald. The news sent shockwaves around college football, and those waves were felt by Ohio State head coach Ryan Day.
During his press conference at Big Ten Media Days this week, Ryan Day was asked about the Northwestern hazing scandal and how it affected his program. And he admitted that he “immediately” had some conversations with his staff to make sure something like that doesn’t happen at Ohio State.
“Immediately, all of a sudden, you got to look hard and make sure that there’s nothing going on with your (own program),” Day said at Big Ten Media Days according to On3. “So immediately, I have a staff meeting and talk about how if there’s something that’s going on, you know, I need to know about it. It needs to be told to me. So you can go back through that, again, not that we don’t talk about those things, we do.
“But just it’s something that, you know, brings to the forefront. We talk to the team about how it’s unacceptable, all the things that come with it. So you just try to make sure you have everything in place so that something like that doesn’t happen, especially when it’s something that just happened recently.”
It’s safe to say that other coaches likely did the same thing.
[On3]
