Alan Saunders

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415 appearances 3 recordings 2 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 6 Feb

Alan Saunders’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Bill and Doug Show: Ohio State Football Talk · What will Arthur Smith bring to Ohio State? Discussing the Buckeyes' new OC with Alan Saunders · 6 Feb 2026 podcast

I don't think he was ever going to get them there.

But if you don't have the talent, I think it was very evident that he was a big help in that regard.

Yeah, I'm really interested to see what the interplay is like between him and Ryan Day because as far as I can tell, he's really never worked with someone who is on the same side of the ball as him that sort of approaches things from a different – like very different offenses, right, than what Ohio State has had than what he's run.

I think there's an opportunity there for –

uh some real collusion where you can take some of the best parts of both and put them together and make it work really well i mean i think if you look at the ohio state running game this year um last year they had

overwhelming talent.

This year was not overwhelming talent, and it wasn't as good.

So I think if you're looking at trying to get back there, I think that's an opportunity.

And I don't know how you can be bad at running a passing offense with Jeremiah Smith and Julian San.

I think me and you could figure out how to get him the ball.

So I think it feels like short-term anyway, a good fit.

And I also think it's a bit of a zig in terms of what most college defenses are preparing for.

I was covering Pitt in the ACC when Georgia Tech still ran the option.

And we had like a coach's conference call every week where like all the head coaches would talk.

And just unanimously, every team hated playing Georgia Tech.

because they would get into a rhythm of like, hey, it's another RPO spread offense, and then there's this – or whatever, this defense is – and then you just get something that's so different than what you're used to preparing for that that itself becomes a challenge.

And Georgia Tech was doing that because they couldn't get the guys, right?

They felt like they needed to do that to be competitive.

But when you have the players and then you're also the schematic outlier compared to like what the rest of college football is doing, as long as it's structurally sound, you're not like doing dumb stuff to be different.

I think it can be really a powerful weapon.

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