The words over the door to the Woody Hayes Athletic Center identify the entryway as the Brian and Mandi Yeager Atrium. Except red tape covers the “M” in Mandi and in Atrium. Sixteen days later, The Debacle in the Shoe still is literally imprinted on the Ohio State Buckeyes.
It has become standard operating procedure on this massive campus to slap a red-tape X on every public letter “M” leading into the annual rivalry game against the Michigan Wolverines. The 13th letter in the alphabet is eradicated for a week. But now, after a fourth straight loss in the series, Ohio State really needs to rip off the Band-Aid—or, more accurately, the red tape—and move on with life.
