Former Ohio State coach Urban Meyer takes aim at 'idiots on social media' after Buckeyes win national title

Ohio State Buckeyes caput manager Ryan Day was nether sizeable unit entering the inaugural 12-team variation of the College Football Playoff. 

Despite ending the regular play with a 10-2 record, Day was connected the sideline successful precocious November for a 4th consecutive nonaccomplishment astatine the hands of the Michigan Wolverines, the Buckeyes' apical rival.

The disappointing extremity to an different coagulated play prompted a contingent of Ohio State fans to question whether Day should beryllium removed from his caput coaching post. However, Day seemed to quiescent astir of those critics by guiding the squad to an unblemished December and January. 

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Ohio State Buckeyes caput manager Urban Meyer laughs portion answering a question during a property league astatine Ohio State University successful Columbus, Ohio, connected Dec. 4, 2018. At the property conference, Meyer announced his status and violative coordinator Ryan Day was tapped arsenic the adjacent caput coach. (Kirk Irwin/Getty Images)

After knocking the Tennessee Volunteers retired successful the archetypal round, the Buckeyes blew retired the top-seeded Oregon Ducks successful the quarterfinals. Ohio State past defeated the Texas Longhorns successful the semifinal to beforehand to the nationalist title crippled successful Atlanta, wherever they prevailed with a 34-23 triumph over the Notre Dame Fighting Irish.

Amid the Buckeye faithful's nationalist rubric celebration, Day's predecessor called retired fans who antecedently utilized societal media to explicit their displeasure with the program's existent caput coach. Urban Meyer, who served arsenic Ohio State caput manager from 2012-18, described the fans who antecedently criticized Day via societal media arsenic "idiots."

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"I coached a agelong time, and a batch has been made of it and Coach Day and the pressures of coaching astatine a spot similar Ohio State," Meyer said during a caller quality connected the "Triple Option" podcast. "I made the remark that that's not going to change. The happening that has got to alteration and has changed is the idiots connected societal media that don't motion their sanction to stuff."

Ohio State Buckeyes caput manager Ryan Day looks connected aft defeating the Notre Dame Fighting Irish successful the College Football Playoff title crippled astatine Mercedes-Benz Stadium successful Atlanta connected Monday. (Samantha Madar/Columbus Dispatch / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)

Reaction to the nonaccomplishment to Michigan prompted Day to prosecute information to support his home. Meyer besides said the reported mediocre attraction that Day's children encountered arsenic they attended schoolhouse was a measurement "too far."

"When you commencement involving families, you’re pushing it excessively far," Meyer added. "Booing due to the fact that you don’t get archetypal downs and you suffer to the rival, that’s portion of the game. That’s each fair. But you’ve got to support the families retired of it."

Meyer past compared Day's concern to what helium faced during his coaching stint at Florida.

Urban Meyer looks connected during the CFP National Championship astatine Mercedes-Benz Stadium successful Atlanta connected Monday. (Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images)

"When I archetypal [went] to Florida, you cognize they wanted [Steve] Spurrier. I’d privation Spurrier, too. He was a Heisman Trophy victor there, won the nationalist championship," Meyer said. "But it was Coach Spurrier went, I think, to the [Washington] Redskins, helium got fired and left. He was available. The contingency wanted him back, and they hired maine from Utah. 

"I truly didn’t recognize the dynamic until I got there, and I got determination and I’ll ne'er hide — helium goes to South Carolina — we suffer to South Carolina, which you don’t bash that astatine Florida. I locomotion successful to bash my vigor amusement connected a Thursday, and I americium the astir miserable quality being. I’m a alien successful a unusual onshore down South there, and I travel walking successful and they boo me. I’m 7-2, I think, astatine the time."

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Meyer and Day person history, with the second serving arsenic the violative coordinator nether the erstwhile from 2017-18. Meyer retired pursuing the 2018 season, and Day was aboriginal introduced arsenic Ohio State's adjacent caput coach.

Meyer coached the Buckeyes to the nationalist rubric pursuing the 2014 regular season, making Ohio State the winners of the inaugural College Football Playoff. A decennary later, Day got them backmost to the mountaintop. 

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