November 15, 2024

Why Kirk Herbstreit calls Ohio State fans who want Ryan Day fired 'jackasses'

Kirk Herbstreit doesn’t understand why a certain group of Ohio State football fans want the Buckeyes to move on from coach Ryan Day. In a conversation with the Toledo Blade’s David Briggs at a celebrity dinner to benefit the Historic South Initiative, the former Ohio State quarterback and current ESPN college football analyst pointed to a “lunatic fringe” of Ohio State fans who are not satisfied with Day’s performance the last two seasons. And Herbstreit admitted he didn’t really care what that segment of the fanbase thinks. “The 15 percenters, they get mad at anything,” he said. “That percent is going to be mad at something always. [Day] could win the Michigan game, go to the playoff and lose, and they’ll be mad about that. That group is just a bunch of jackasses who kind of embarrass all of us as Ohio State fans. So I don’t really care, honestly,…

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