2:37 PM ET CHICAGO — As Ryan Day prepares for his first season as coach of the Ohio State Buckeyes, he is following advice from another young coach who entered a similar situation in 2017: Oklahoma’s Lincoln Riley. Day called Riley “a great resource” during his preparation to succeed Urban Meyer with the Buckeyes, and the two talked at the NFL draft in April. Riley followed in the footsteps of Bob Stoops, who won a national championship and 10 Big 12 titles with Oklahoma before retiring in 2017. Meyer led Ohio State to three Big Ten titles and a national championship in 2014 — his third as a head coach — before retiring in December. “He’s one of the few guys who I thought could probably relate to the situation,” Day told ESPN of Riley at Big Ten media days. “The best advice he gave me was: ‘Don’t worry about…
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