Ryan Day’s Blunt Remark Strikes at Jim Harbaugh’s Family Following Carlos Locklyn’s Hiring at Ohio

Underlying currents in college football also seem to have a ripple effect on the NFL. The Ohio State Buckeyes head coach, Ryan Day, made a strategic move by hiring Carlos Locklyn as the running backs coach. However, to propagate Locklyn’s talent, Day chose to subtly attack the Los Angeles Chargers head coach, Jim Harbaugh. 

Even though Day avoids taking any names, it is evident to the football fans that he intended to. However, Wolverines fans did not take it well, as Day’s quote garnered controversy.

Day attacks Harbaugh without taking his name 

Hardly did anyone expect Day to drop a bomb on Harbaugh just after hiring Locklyn. However, the Ohio State coach surprised everyone, negatively portraying the Chargers HC and his family. However, support seems to reign strong even in Harbaugh’s former team. One of the Wolverines’ fans and a loyal admirer of Harbaugh did not receive Day’s gesture very well and shared his quote in the X post with the caption, “I’m going to say this even as a female… Ryan Day is the biggest p***y in college football. Maybe in football. I make zero apologies.”

To quote the Buckeyes coach, “Like some of us in this profession, he came up not in a football family but grew up and kind of had to figure it out on his own.” This attack was directly related to the legacy of the Harbaugh family, with his father, Jack Harbaugh, who was the former HC at Western Michigan University and Western Kentucky University. His brother, too, is a well-known HC guiding the Baltimore Ravens. It has been quite a long time now that the two coaches have had an embittered relationship.

Harbaugh-Day strained relationship

The deteriorating terms between Day and Harbaugh have something to do with the years-long rivalry between the Ohio State Buckeyes and the Michigan Wolverines. Before taking up the mentorship role, when Harbaugh played as a starting quarterback for Michigan, he never lost to Ohio State. Harbaugh and the Wolverines accomplished a trip to the Rose Bowl with a 26-24 win against Ohio State and won the Big Ten.

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However, it was under Harbaugh’s tutelage that Michigan won for the first time against Ohio State in 2021 since 2011. After the victory, Harbaugh attacked Day without taking his name, claiming, “Sometimes people are standing on third base” and later calling the comment a “good-hearted rivalry talk.” Even though the then-Wolverines coach pointed at Day, the Buckeyes Coach decided to drag his family into the attack. 

Now that Jim Harbaugh has stepped into the NFL, it is possible to see whether the move breaks the rivalry and leads to a positive connection with Ryan Day. Fans are awaiting the Chargers’ head coach’s reaction to this comment.  

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