COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ryan Day’s contract, which was extended and increased in February, calls for him to make $5.4 million this year, which would push the second-year Ohio State coach into the top 20 of the highest-paid college football coaches in the country. There’s just no way he can pull in that full salary this year. Because Day, like Alabama’s Nick Saban and Clemson’s Dabo Swinney and Michigan’s Jim Harbaugh and every other major college football coach, isn’t paid for winning games. He’s paid for making his school money — which you do by winning games. With college sports on the edge of a financial crisis due to COVID-19, which has led the Big Ten to cancel non-conference games for this season and which will prevent teams from drawing normal crowds (if there’s a season at all), coaches have to take a pay cut. This has been an obvious and…
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