Ryan Day sat in a room at the Woody Hayes Athletic Center on August 11 and delivered the crushing blow to his team.
In a meeting he called “one of the hardest conversations I’ve ever had to have,” he looked in the eyes of players like Jonathon Cooper, Justin Hilliard, Shaun Wade, Justin Fields, Josh Myers, Pete Werner, Tuf Borland, Baron Browning and Sevyn Banks and told them that what they had been working for over the past eight months was now gone.
That pain they had felt in the loss to Clemson was already going to linger forever, but when the Big Ten canceled the fall season, there was now going to be no chance for redemption in 2020.