When TV commercials first began airing in Manhattan movie theaters about 20 years ago, New Yorkers booed lustily. They wanted to be entertained, not solicited. Eventually, human nature took over, as it always does, and the verbal protests died a quiet death as movie-goers got worn down by the noisy fluff preceding the feature. In other words, they got soft. Ryan Day does not want a similar surrender happening to the Buckeyes. The Ohio State football coach has crusaded against the Buckeyes softening at any point during the season, no matter what mid-major or lower opponent exhibition preceded Big Ten play. Day stresses the need for “competitive stamina” and insists during every press conference that players and coaches be color blind to OSU’s opponent; the midnight blue and gold of Toledo might as well be the maize and blue of Michigan. “It doesn’t have anything to do with the team…
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