CLOSE Michigan Wolverines football coach Jim Harbaugh speaks to the media on Monday, Nov. 25, 2019, in Ann Arbor. Orion Sang, Detroit Free Press COLUMBUS, Ohio — A month before solidifying his first signing class as Ohio State’s new coach, Ryan Day pulled off one of the greatest recruiting coups of his fledgling tenure. With his predecessor, Urban Meyer, barely out the door, Day managed to flip a 70-year-old former defensive coordinator and a 35-year-old linebackers coach who had been committed assistants on Jim Harbaugh’s staff at Michigan. One day, Greg Mattison and Al Washington were rocking maize-and-blue Jordan brand gear. The next, they were decked out in scarlet-and-gray Nike apparel, working for the enemy “My whole plan was that when I have an opportunity to have my first coaching staff, everyone in that room I trust to have my back when things didn’t go so well,” Day said Tuesday at the Woody…
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