Former Alabama head coach and current ESPN analyst Nick Saban offered an impassioned defense of Ohio State head coach Ryan Day on Monday.
“Having been a coach—having coached in the state and lived in the state for 12 or 14 years—I’m telling you, when the fans are negative and the media gets negative, it affects so many things,” he said on College GameDay. “You’ve got to give the guy credit, he built the roster. He’s built the roster for three years, and it’s gotten better. His coaches have made the players better. And they made a lot of improvement and they’ve overcome adversity, especially in the Michigan game. So we should be giving the guy credit.”