Simple comparisons to Woody Hayes, or, back a bit further, Francis “Show ‘Em No Mercy” Schmidt, to current head coach Ryan Day in Ohio State football lore somehow seem to fall short of the mark. Perhaps a better analogy is one from a passage in a speech made by Norman Mailer at Berkeley back in 1965. “Nearly every American’s sense of identity is at the mercy of a self which demands action and more action to define the most rudimentary borders of identity,” said Mailer, referencing Lyndon Johnson. “It is a demand which will either kill a brave man or force him to grow, but when a coward is put in need of such action he tears the wings off flies.” Tears the wings of flies, eh? That seems somewhat appropriate in regard to Day, who has gleefully rolled up multiple 70-point explosions vs. overmatched foes on his watch…
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