Day, who is heading into his second season as the Buckeyes’ head coach, has been a vocal advocate for mental health awareness. This past summer, his family launched the Christina and Ryan Day Fund for Pediatric and Adolescent Mental Wellness at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus. As part of that announcement, Day said publicly for the first time that his dad died by suicide in 1988. Day was 9 years old at the time. “I hope we win a lot of games; that’s part of the job at Ohio State,” Day said in a Yahoo Sports story in August, before he led the Buckeyes to a Big Ten championship and the College Football Playoff. “But you want to have a bigger impact than that when you’re done. You want to leave a legacy behind. You want to make change.” “In this time, there’s a lot of newness going on, and…
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