Ryan Day hired armed security to protect his family following death threats after Michigan loss

In the days pursuing Ryan Day walking disconnected the tract successful Columbus pursuing Ohio State's nonaccomplishment to Michigan to extremity the regular season, his family’s information was the main precedence aft they received decease threats from a lunatic fringe of Buckeye fans. 

There was evidently a monster fallout successful Columbus aft the loss, with fans calling for Ryan Day to beryllium fired aft Ohio State mislaid its 4th consecutive crippled to the Wolverines. But what immoderate folks person not heard is however everything spiraled retired of power from a information standpoint for Ryan Day and his family. 

Speaking with the Columbus Dispatch, Nina Day, the woman of Ryan Day, spoke astir the unspeakable events that came successful the aftermath of the Michigan loss. The concern down the scenes for the household had turned, successful a unsafe manner. 

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Head manager Ryan Day of the Ohio State Buckeyes celebrates with wife, Christina, and girl aft defeating the Oregon Ducks 41-21 successful the Rose Bowl Game Presented by Prudential astatine Rose Bowl Stadium connected January 01, 2025 successful Pasadena, California. 

"The clip betwixt the Michigan crippled and the Tennessee crippled was arsenic debased and acheronian arsenic you could perchance imagine. Extremely negative. Unprecedented hate," Nina Day explained. 

When Ryan Day was 8 years old, his begetter died by suicide. So, erstwhile fans someway got clasp of Nina Day's compartment telephone fig successful the days pursuing the Michigan loss, unfathomable messages started to determination successful astatine a changeless rate, earlier Nina decided it was champion to conscionable disconnect her phone. 

"They told maine aggregate times to person Ryan travel successful his father's footsteps and termination himself," Nina noted to the Dispatch. 

Ohio State Buckeyes caput manager Ryan Day walks disconnected the tract aft the crippled against the Michigan Wolverines and the Ohio State Buckeyes connected November 30, 2024, astatine Ohio Stadium successful Columbus, OH. (Ian Johnson/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

On the outside, Ryan Day continued to propulsion forward, holding his play property conference, portion waiting to spot who his squad would play successful the archetypal circular of the assemblage shot playoff. But wrong the family, things were starting to get retired of power erstwhile it came to their safety. 

According to Nina Day, their 16-year-old son, RJ, started to person decease threats connected societal media, portion the family’s code was besides posted, starring to Ryan Day hiring equipped information guards to support his household astatine their house. There was besides a thought from Nina that she should instrumentality her kids and permission Columbus during this time, not knowing what the adjacent period could bring. 

"I deliberation he, astatine times, second-guessed his determination to get into this and beryllium successful the spotlight that we're in. He felt liable and conscionable felt atrocious that helium had enactment america successful this position. He promised america he'd get america retired of it," Nina Day mentioned about the conversations with her husband. 

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There are fans crossed each sports that instrumentality things mode excessively seriously, and this is different lawsuit of thing that could not beryllium controlled. There was nary crushed that the Day household needed to fearfulness for their lives implicit a shot game, I don’t attraction however overmuch you’re paid, oregon what your occupation rubric is. 

This is evidently the disfigured portion of sports, and it's not arsenic if this is the archetypal clip we've heard of coaches having to woody with these types of situations, and it won’t beryllium the last. 

Head manager Sherrone Moore of the Michigan Wolverines shakes hands with caput manager Ryan Day of the Ohio State Buckeyes pursuing the crippled astatine Ohio Stadium connected November 30, 2024 successful Columbus, Ohio.  (Jason Mowry/Getty Images)

"He fought similar hellhole and got america retired of a precise acheronian spot that we were successful 5 weeks agone due to the fact that of his resilience, due to the fact that I don’t deliberation anybody truly thought this was going to extremity the mode it did," Nina Day mentioned. "Everybody thought the play ended successful November. 

"All helium kept telling maine was ‘I privation to bring you guys peace. I conscionable privation to bring you guys peace.’ And helium knew that for america to consciousness immoderate benignant of peace, helium had to triumph it all."

All of this implicit a shot game. A household fearing for their lives, needing equipped information to defender their house, conscionable to get a peaceful nighttime of slumber and consciousness safe. 

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While Nina Day mentioned that you cannot statement an full instrumentality basal arsenic the ‘lunatic fringe’, determination are surely a fig of radical who should beryllium held accountable for their actions towards the Day family. 

As I watched Ryan Day observe with his household connected the tract Monday night, hugging each subordinate of the family, determination was surely much to the communicative than conscionable a caput manager who was dealing with extracurricular noise.