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For us when Day got promoted after Meyer retired Gene Smith admitted a year later that he actually considered Bob Stoops for the job (don’t know if he actually reached out to him about it or not) before agreeing to go along with Urban’s succession plan.
I don’t think there were any other candidates other than Urban in 2011 (Ohio State was pretty laser focused on him and only him taking over at that point) but in 2001 when we were looking for coaches Glen Mason and Mike Bellotti were both heavily considered for the job before they found Tressel (and Tressel was kind of a left field hire being pulled from the Division I-AA ranks).
Back when Earle Bruce was hired in '78 to replace Woody Ohio State notoriously reached out to Lou Holtz about the job first but wouldn’t pay him the salary he wanted (Ohio State was notorious for being cheap with their coaches back in those days).