Every team is different, and Day says this one wants to be coached hard. So he's showing his intense side more in practice and during and after games with the goal of achieving the most success in his tenure.

Number 3-ranked Ohio State scored early, and often (Brandon Inniss, above), and checked a lot of good-performance boxes in its tuneup for next week's noon showdown with No. 6 Penn State.

All that we thought we knew about Day – always calm and only calls running plays because he has to – isn't quite what we've learned five games into a season when his team has yet to feature a consistent running game.

The Buckeyes junior quietly led the team in hitting in 2022, and vows to be a more complete player in 2023.  Longing to earn an everyday defensive job, he's working to make it hard for anyone to not notice. Some fall Buckeye baseball in our Monday Press Pros feature.