Ohio State Around the Shoe: Don't take Jeremiah Smith for granted, Julian Sayin's legs and more
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Welcome back to Around the Shoe on the Bill & Doug Show. Ball is here. Spring practice has started. That's why we bumped the show from a usual Monday spot to a Wednesday spot so we could all take in the first day of spring practice on Tuesday. Doug LaMaurice and Bill Landis joined, as always, by two outstanding members of the Ohio State Beat today. Sam Cipriani from Buckeye Sports Bulletin, Joey Kaufman from the Columbus Dispatch. Sam, you're back for your second attempt at this. Why did you accept this invitation instead of telling us to go cram it? You're never coming on the show again.
Well, I had a great time on the show last time, obviously. Love what you guys do here on the podcast. And yeah, obviously excited to talk about Buckeye Sports and the football season being back.
Yeah.
And Joey, you have nothing better to do than come on this stinking show? Thanks, man. Why are you here, Joey? The ad pay. Yeah. Man, it's like those royalty checks. That four-cent check is coming to your mailbox by next week as we cash checks here at the Bill & Doug Show on Around the Shoe. Five questions, five topics about Ohio State football. We're going to zero in on what we saw at Tuesday's practice, but Sam, we're going to start with you for the first question, and it's not about spring football exactly because Ohio State dropped the assistant coach contracts last after spring football practice on Tuesday. Landis, what was the big number for the entire staff? $15.3 million. And that includes Ryan Day, right?
Nope. No? No? Does not. That's just for the middle managers is 15.3 million. That's right. For real. Wow. Congratulations to those guys, Sam, that number, what word or phrase would you use to describe the assistant coach salaries released by Ohio state on Tuesday?
I'm going to say cha-ching. They surely cashed in all the assistance there. And I think obviously the big winner in all of that was Matt Patricia. I believe it was a $1.25 million raise up to $3.75 million. million for 2026 and that's a that's a raise well deserved I mean he was arguably the best coordinator period in all of college football last year and took a defense that you know many thought were going to take a step slight step back last year losing a lot in 2025 into you know a defense that had the top rank storing and total defense in the whole nation and you know nearly every assistant coach is making over 600k and you got six making you know over a million per year and even guys like strength coach uh mickey mariotti uh you know making a million dollars so i mean pretty much everybody on the staff is uh is making a significant amount of money and yeah i would i would say they've they've definitely cashed in uh this year
You know, I don't really understand economic policy or politics or anything related to the actual world. Did these salaries go up because of tariffs? Does anybody know if that might be? Could that be what part of this is? Can you terrify college football coaching contracts? Does anyone know that? Would that explain this? Why everyone got a big raise? No?
No.
Matt Patricia is just buying a lot of Canadian lumber, and he needs more money to do it.
Joey, what's your phrase? I hope your phrase, Joey, was not terrifies. What's your word or phrase to describe what's happening with the Buckeye coaches?
I mean, eye-popping, the numbers, and I think it's really underappreciated for how much salaries have surged in college football. I think we've become numb to – just the dollars and cents of it all. But it's not that long ago, Ryan Day in 2018 became Ohio State's first million dollar assistant along with Greg Sciano. And now nearly everybody on staff is a million dollar assistant. Seven out of the 12 position coaches and coordinators are gonna make at least a million dollars. When Day put together his first staff in 19, he only had one assistant making over a million dollars. And that salary pool was just over 7 million. It's now over 15 million, so obviously not adjusting for inflation. Not to segue into that lesson, but it's more than doubled from what it was on the inaugural staff.
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