ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Ryan Day was walking out of Michigan Stadium on Saturday for the first time in six years as a winning coach when he slowed his pace. He looked up at the throng of Ohio State fans surrounding the tunnel exit, and at the acres of empty blue seats beyond them, and he raised both fists into the snowy sky. He gestured at the fans to keep roaring. He did the O-H-I-O cheer.
After so many miserable moments on the last Saturday of November, Day gave himself permission to soak in this pounding of the hated Wolverines. But he didn’t give himself permission to uncork everything that had been bottled up inside.
