Ryan Day on modern college football: "Either you adapt, or you die."
Ohio State Buckeyes head coach Ryan Day discussed the current landscape of college football and roster building itself.
You know it's peak offseason when head college football coaches are talking about dinosaur Netflix documentaries. Head coach Ryan Day brought up the new documentary miniseries The Dinosaurs from Netflix on Tuesday after the Buckeyes ' sixth spring practice. While this shouldn't be news, the way Day talked about it and the comparison he made were quite intriguing and got the average college football fan thinking about the state of the sport.
Ryan Day on dinosaurs and college football programs "I watched that Netflix documentary on the dinosaurs," Day told reporters Tuesday . "If you want to feel insignificant, watch that because it talks about how the dinosaurs were on Earth, like, 250 million years ago. Throughout time … the world changed, the climate changed, the Earth changed.
Some dinosaurs figured out how to continue to adapt, and some died. I guess that's a little extreme, but I think it's kind of the way it is in college football. The people who know how to adapt are going to continue to move on, and the ones who don't, they die.
As frustrating as it all is, as much as we all want to just pull our hair out and throw our hands up and realize that this is all extremely crazy, even being with some of the NFL personnel last Wednesday. When they look at you and say, 'You are insane to be in college football,' they're right. But either you adapt, or you die.
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