Ryan Day Discusses Relationship With Ex-ohio State Dc Jim Knowles Ahead Of Penn State Game

No. 1 Ohio State takes connected unranked, interim coach-led Penn State this play successful a matchup that is acold from nan expectations that astir had for nan title earlier nan season.

The Nittany Lions' play has spiraled retired of power aft losing to Oregon successful double overtime successful precocious September. From there, Penn State mislaid to some UCLA and Northwestern, which led nan schoolhouse to occurrence James Franklin.

One coach that remains astatine Penn State is protect coordinator Jim Knowles, who was connected nan Ohio State sideline for nan crippled a twelvemonth ago. Knowles left Ohio State aft nan programme won nan nationalist championship past play pursuing a reasonably awkward statement situation, taking a occupation pinch nan Nittany Lions that made him nan highest-paid protect coordinator successful assemblage football.

Buckeyes coach Ryan Day was asked astir nan narration he has pinch Knowles and whether aliases not he's talked pinch him overmuch since he near for Happy Valley.

"Like immoderate relationship, erstwhile it breaks off, sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad, but location really hasn't been communication," Day said on Tuesday. "He did a awesome occupation erstwhile he was here, helped america triumph a nationalist championship, benignant of near it astatine that. Then it was, 'Hey we gotta spell make a replacement and move connected from there.' Yeah, that's benignant of really it is. It was abrupt, but we surely respect nan activity he did erstwhile he was here."

Doesn't sound for illustration there's excessively overmuch of a narration location aft Knowles's departure.

Ohio State and Penn State are group for a Noon ET kickoff connected Saturday successful Columbus.

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