COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ryan Day’s still-young tenure as Ohio State football coach has reinforced one grim lesson about the coaching profession. Great victories are often difficult to remember. The most painful losses, though, follow you relentlessly. Anyone who watched Day after last season’s home loss to Michigan — singing “Carmen Ohio” with the team, or in postgame interviews — saw the toll of a second straight soul-crusher in the series. A loss like that one, Day said, “takes a chunk out of you.” “No one really knows what that’s like — the relief after a win and the agony after a loss and what it means to so many people in the state of Ohio to win football games at Ohio State and what comes with that,” Day said last April at OSU’s annual coaches’ clinic. Recommended Buckeyes stories Big Ten following Ohio State football’s lead with a…
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