Former Navy SEAL Clint Bruce on relationship with Ohio State's Ryan Day, helping college football stars

Former NFL subordinate Clint Bruce, who decided to service the U.S. by becoming a Navy SEAL aft his shot career, travels astir the state sharing connection of contented astir enactment with athletes.

Bruce graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy, wherever helium earned Aloha Bowl MVP honors successful 1996. He was inducted into the Navy/Marine Corps Stadium Hall of Fame successful 2009. 

Bruce went connected to person stints successful the league with the Baltimore Ravens and New Orleans Saints. He is presently a palmy motivational speaker. In an exclusive sit-down with Fox News Digital, Bruce shared what motivates him to assistance today's athletes successful immoderate mode helium can.

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"I'm ever going to spell sojourn with athletes, due to the fact that athletes … I deliberation ever person an bonzer magnitude of unit connected them, ever trying to beryllium idiosyncratic right, beryllium idiosyncratic wrong," Bruce told Fox News Digital.

"And I conscionable retrieve what it was similar to beryllium an athlete. I retrieve however meaningful it was for maine erstwhile I had an accidental to larn from radical who person been from wherever I said I wanted to go."

Ohio State manager Ryan Day entered this past play nether sizeable pressure. The disapproval of the manager ramped up aft the Buckeyes erstwhile again failed to decision their apical rival, the Michigan Wolverines, successful precocious November. Day yet sent a beardown connection to the doubters arsenic helium guided Ohio State to the College Football Playoff National Championship. 

Ohio State caput manager Ryan Day hoists the trophy with his players aft defeating Notre Dame successful the CFP National Championship connected Jan. 20, 2025. (Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images)

Bruce said helium "could tell" however bully the 2024 Buckeyes were going to beryllium aboriginal on.

"That squad … I deliberation I tin archer however bully someone's going to beryllium based connected who asked the questions and what the questions are. And 1 of the things I ever accidental is, if your champion and your youngest are curious, [then] you're going to win, it's conscionable a question of when," Bruce said.

"Curiosity is simply a catalyst. … So what was absorbing astir this squad is who was funny and however funny they were. Their champion players were asking the hardest questions, and they weren't [just] shot questions."

Bruce said having the courageousness to inquire questions was thing helium learned during his subject work days.

"In the peculiar operations community, erstwhile your elder enlisted [members] are funny [and they] commencement asking questions, everybody who is acrophobic to inquire a question present has support to inquire it. On the battlefield, you don't privation to larn retired determination … you privation to larn earlier we spell retired there."

Bruce said helium has been repeatedly asked by the players and coaches to instrumentality and talk to the team. Next week, helium volition present the keynote code astatine the 2025 Ohio State coaches clinic, Day announced connected Wednesday.

The session volition besides diagnostic a wide receiver roundtable with Joey Galloway, Brian Hartline, Santonio Holmes and Carnell Tate. The lawsuit is scheduled for April 10-12.

During an quality connected the "The Triple Option" podcast past month, Day credited the Navy SEALs for providing the Buckeyes with immoderate added information during their tally to the nationalist title.

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"He's been truly bully for maine successful the process of knowing what it means to beryllium a leader," Day said successful notation to the communal respect helium shares with Bruce.

Ohio State caput manager Ryan Day reacts aft defeating Notre Dame successful the CFP National Championship connected Jan. 20, 2025. (Samantha Madar/Columbus Dispatch / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)

"The soldiers are doing each the fighting. It's your occupation arsenic a caput coach, person and skipper to look on the skyline and fig retired what's coming next. There are truthful galore parallels betwixt the subject and coaching. He and I would stock a batch of conversations."

Day credited Bruce for delivering an "unbelievable talk" to the Buckeyes earlier their playoff semifinal crippled against the Texas Longhorns successful January.

"We played down successful Dallas, and conscionable by chance, the fort helium is stationed astatine was similar 5 minutes from our hotel," Day said. "He conscionable came implicit and gave our squad an unbelievable talk. He talked astir however erstwhile the SEALs spell to a blistery spot successful Afghanistan oregon antithetic places, they acceptable up shop, instrumentality a fewer days to get regulated with the area, past they make a storm, wreck and past leave. That was what we were doing. It was truly cool. I'm conscionable trying to find arsenic galore radical who are successful the apical 1% of the apical 1% arsenic imaginable and enactment them successful my beingness arsenic possible."

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Last month, Day was rewarded with a declaration hold that volition necktie him to the shot programme done the 2031 season. Day besides became the second-highest-paid manager successful assemblage football, trailing lone Georgia's Kirby Smart.

Since leaving the Navy, Bruce remains progressive with his company, HoldFast. The enactment focuses connected enactment and showcases transitioning veterans arsenic speakers and nonrecreational enforcement coaches. 

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