The duel for the cancellation of the 2020 football season continues in the state of Ohio, coach Ryan Day said Wednesday, but he and his team are ahead.
“I turned myself in last night to throw a pity party, but I woke up and went back to work,” he said at a conference call with reporters. “Because that’s life, and that’s what sports are.”
“It’s a fluid situation,” Day said.
He added that he disagreed with Big Ten’s resolve to close football this fall. He said he, Ohio State Athletic Director Gene Smith and new President Kristina Johnson, agreed. The state of Ohio lobbied for the season to be delayed rather than postponed, but the league took a resolution in a different way and indicated a spring season imaginable as an option if the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic can be controlled.
Day said he was looking for a winter season, not spring. He advocated a season that would begin in early January and consist of eight or nine games. An earlier outing would provide a more appropriate mattress before the normal 2021 season begins, he said.
Day said he firmly believed that his 2020 team, the moment ranked on the pre-season ballot of Amway’s coaches, Clemson, would have been special. Despite how dominant the 2019 team was before losing in a school football semi-final, Day said his current team had a “one-of-a-kind” potential.