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IT’S SO PEAK. They’re — they’re beautiful.
Ohhhhhh, I’m so happy! I’m so happy! This is the best day of my life!
“THERE’S A LOT GOING ON OUT THERE.” Ryan Day loves documentaries.
Months ago, Ohio State’s head coach somehow turned Netflix’s “The Dinosaurs” into an analogy for adapting or dying in college football. This week, Day said his newest affinity has been “American Godfathers: The Five Families.”
“I like the different documentaries, man,” Day said on Josh Pate’s College Football Show. “There’s a lot going on out there.”
You could see the excitement in his eyes as he recalled what he had learned from both.
“I watched the one on the dinosaurs. I watched the one on the Five Families and the mafia, which I was mentioning to you before, about how they adapted over time from Prohibition to all the way to now,” Day said. “But it is good sometimes to just turn your brain off and watch something for about an hour, and then go back and make a bunch of recruiting calls.”
It’s hilarious imagining Day squeezing in a mafia documentary between conversations with a five-star quarterback and a five-star wide receiver. But hey — if the formula works, who’s arguing with it?
THE RYAN SHAZIER MEAL PLAN. Need to gain weight?
Eat hundreds of medium pizzas.
Call it The Ryan Shazier Meal Plan.
This week, the All-American Ohio State linebacker appeared on 97.1 The Fan’s T-Bone and Tyvis and discussed what he called “Probation Pizza.”
“I had to eat a medium pizza every day before practice because I couldn’t maintain my weight,” Shazier said. “When everyone else was in the team meeting, and they’re waiting to practice, they see Ryan in the first two rows of the meeting room with a big box of pizza.”
"I had to eat a medium pizza everyday before practice because I couldn't maintain weight."@BoneAndTyvis971 asked Ryan Shazier about being on PROBATION PIZZA at Ohio State pic.twitter.com/3TRiouCfIP
— 97.1 The Fan (@971thefan) May 6, 2026
One of the positives of The Ryan Shazier Meal Plan is that you get to eat unlimited medium pizzas. One of the negatives, however, is that you start to lose your love for one of the world’s most popular foods.
“The place I started eating my pizza very soon became the place I stopped liking eating pizza,” Shazier said. “Eating the same stuff every single day, man, it gets to you, bro. … Even to this point, I don’t eat pizza as much as I used to.”
The gains were temporary.
The pizza trauma was forever.
Suddenly, The Ryan Shazier Meal Plan doesn’t sound so appealing.
I could never give up JT's Pizza! I could never!
“THE KOBE BRYANT MENTALITY.” Ryan Shazier has been in the news a lot this week. In addition to his appearance on 97.1 The Fan, Shazier also spoke with Kyle Odegard of Casino Guru News about what makes Jeremiah Smith special.
“Jeremiah has the Kobe Bryant mentality, that ‘job’s-never-finished’ mentality. He understands how good he is, but he understands he can also get better,” Shazier said. “He wants to be the best in the world at what he does. … He knows in college he’s not the best in the world. I think that’s one of the reasons he’s humble, and his upbringing causes him to be humble. It still bothers him that he got cut from his little league team. When guys are that petty, it makes them want to continue to get better.”
Shazier also pointed to Smith’s physical tools as a separator, saying it’s a mix of God-given genetics and relentless work that helped build him into a 6-foot-3, 223-pound receiver — numbers that will likely be outdated once Ohio State releases its preseason roster in August.
“He’s not as big as Calvin Johnson, but he’s a Calvin Johnson-type guy,” Shazier said. “Everybody he lines up against, they look at him, and this dude is 240 pounds basically, and when he runs by you, it’s like, ‘He’s running by me?’ And when you try to push him, you can’t, because he’s stronger than you. … He’s one of those guys like LeBron. He’s blessed with the body he has, but he also has the work ethic like LeBron, like Calvin Johnson. It allows them to be such an amazing athlete, a superior athlete. The only reason he won’t go No. 1 is if there’s a run on quarterbacks.”
Kobe.
LeBron.
Megatron.
That’s quite the company for JJ.
GET WELL SOON, COACH! Last week, Matt Patricia posted a photo on Instagram of himself in a hospital bed wearing a neck brace and smiling. Somehow, he was still rocking his signature flat cap. It wouldn’t be surprising if they let him keep it on during the procedure.
Patricia did not share details about the procedure or what led to it, but he said enough to make it clear he’s in good hands and in good spirits as he recovers.
Get well soon, Coach!
SONG OF THE DAY. "Will I See You Again?" - Thee Sacred Souls.
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