As Ohio State has prepared for the 2019 football season, Ryan Day’s first season as the Buckeyes’ permanent head coach, two new mantras have been heard regularly around the Ohio State football program and seen regularly in hashtags on the Buckeyes’ social media channels.
Those two hashtags, which you’ve probably seen if you follow the football team on Twitter or Instagram, are #FTTE – which stands for Fight to the End – and #ToughLove.
We’ll start with the “Tough Love” mantra, which combines two core philosophies that Day has talked about regularly in his first offseason as Ohio State’s head coach.