Bo Schembechler (official thread)

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hope for a speedy recovery and prayers will go to the throne for ya bo

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Schembechler gets heart device

Posted: Monday October 23, 2006 4:12PM

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) -- Former Michigan football coach Bo Schembechler underwent a procedure Monday in which a device to help regulate heart beat was implanted in his chest.

The procedure took several hours and did not require open-heart surgery, the school said. He was expected to remain hospitalized for a day or two.


The 77-year-old Schembechler felt ill Friday while taping a television show and was taken to the hospital afterward.

He had a heart attack on the eve of his first Rose Bowl in 1970 and another one in 1987. He has had two quadruple heart bypass operations.

The seven-time Big Ten coach of the year compiled a 194-48-5 record at Michigan from 1969-89. Schembechler's record in 26 years of coaching was 234-64-8.

[BuckeyeMike80]

Get well soon Coach.

[osugrad21]

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COLLEGE FOOTBALL: Schembechler still recovering in hospital

October 24, 2006

Doctors put a small device in Bo Schembechler to regulate his heartbeat. U-M coach Lloyd Carr said the procedure went well.

Former Michigan coach Bo Schembechler had a procedure Monday to install a small device in his chest that will help regulate his heartbeat, according to University hospital officials.
The procedure lasted several hours and took place under light sedation.
A statement from U-M Hospital said Schembechler will remain at the hospital for a few days to recover.
Schembechler, 77, has had two quadruple bypass surgeries in the past 40 years. He was admitted to the cardiovascular unit Friday for observation after experiencing dizziness, among other symptoms, before taping his weekly television show in Southfield at the WXYZ-TV studios.
Michigan coach Lloyd Carr planned to see Schembechler on Monday afternoon.
"He had a procedure this morning, and the reports are it went very well," Carr said at his weekly news conference, before the results were announced to reporters. "I'm sure he's going to be going home here in the next day or two."
The device is designed to help Schembechler's heart pump more efficiently and prevent possible heart-related crises. It combines a pacemaker, which regulates the heartbeat, with a defibrillator, which can shock the heart back into rhythm.
Schembechler, who was 194-48-5 coaching Michigan from 1969-89, is a member of U-M Cardiovascular Center's National Advisory Board. He recently was saluted at the inaugural Heart of a Champion Golf Outing held by the CVC.

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Schembechler has device for heart implanted
Tuesday, October 24, 2006

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Former Michigan coach Bo Schembechler underwent a procedure yesterday in which a device to help regulate his heartbeat was implanted in his chest.
The procedure did not require open-heart surgery, the school said. He was expected to remain at University of Michigan Hospital for another day or two. Schembechler, 77, felt ill Friday while taping a television show and was taken to the hospital afterward. He coached at Michigan from 1969 to 1989, going 194-48-5, including 11-9-1 against Ohio State.
He had a heart attack on the eve of his first Rose Bowl in 1970 and another one in 1987. He has had two quadruple-bypass operations. The implanted device is relatively new technology, the school said. It combines a pacemaker, which regulates heartbeat, with a defibrillator, which can shock the heart back into rhythm.

[osugrad21]

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Schembechler gets device to regulate heart beat

Former Michigan football coach Bo Schembechler underwent a procedure Monday in which a device to help regulate heart beat was implanted in his chest.

The procedure took several hours and did not require open-heart surgery, the school said. He was expected to remain at University of Michigan Hospital for a day or two.

The 77-year-old Schembechler felt ill Friday while taping a television show and was taken to the hospital afterward.

The device doctors implanted is a biventricular implanted cardioverter defibrillator-pacemaker, the school said. It is a relatively new technology that combines a pacemaker, which regulates the heartbeat, with a defibrillator, which can shock the heart back into rhythm.

The device has several wires that are threaded into the chambers of the heart and connect to a tiny battery-powered computer implanted near the heart. The wires detect the heart's rhythm and deliver electrical shocks of different intensities and durations as needed.

Schembechler had a heart attack on the eve of his first Rose Bowl in 1970 and another one in 1987. He has had two quadruple heart bypass operations.

The seven-time Big Ten coach of the year compiled a 194-48-5 record at Michigan from 1969 to 1989. Schembechler's record in 26 years of coaching was 234-64-8.

[osugrad21]

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Schembechler released
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Former Michigan football coach Bo Schembechler was released from a hospital Tuesday, one day after a device to help regulate his heartbeat was implanted in his chest.
The 77-year-old has been doing well since he underwent the procedure at University of Michigan Hospital.

[osugrad21]

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? Former Michigan coach Bo Schembechler, 77, was released from a hospital, one day after a device to help regulate his heartbeat was implanted in his chest. He was hospitalized Friday after falling ill while taping a television show.

[OSUBasketballJunkie]

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Schembechler in good spirits, back cheering for Wolverines

Sunday, November 05, 2006

Todd Jones
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

</IMG> Former Michigan coach Bo Schembechler recently received a pacemaker after a cardiac episode. He said he won?t attend the Ohio State-Michigan game in two weeks.


ANN ARBOR, Mich. ? The man in the brown fedora looked down at the field he once stomped upon as his own.
He took in the sight of the massive bowl, the wooden bleachers of Michigan Stadium filled with 109,359 fans, and listened to the University of Michigan marching band blare its familiar fight song.
"I love this time of year," Bo Schembechler said. "I love to follow college football."
As he should, just 15 days after the legendary former Michigan coach thought he might not live to see another game.
"The only time you come check on me is when you think I?m going to die," he said with a warm laugh.
Schembechler, 77, was in good spirits and health yesterday while attending Michigan?s 34-26 victory over Ball State two weeks after a cardiac episode necessitated doctors implanting a defibrillatorpacemaker into his chest.
He reminisced about Woody Hayes, talked a little about the showdown Nov. 18 between the No. 1-ranked Buckeyes and No. 2-ranked Wolverines, and had a question, too.
"Hey, have you ever heard of the ?Dead Schembechlers??" he asked. "What the hell is that? "
Schembechler first learned about that sonamed Columbus punk band the previous day when shown their Web site, featuring such songs as "Bomb Ann Arbor Now" and "We Don?t Give A Damn For The Whole State of Michigan."
"Holy smokes, I couldn?t believe it," a smiling Schembechler said. "They?re all dressed like Woody. I think it?s crazy."
Bo momentarily thought he was going to be a dead Schembechler two weeks ago when he was in an ambulance heading to the University of Michigan Hospital.
"I?ve had (heart) episodes before, but they would pass," he said. "I was worried this may be the last one."
Schembechler, a diabetic, previously had two heart attacks and had undergone two quadruple heart bypass surgeries.
"The medical people here will tell you it?s a miracle I?m alive," Schembechler said. "How many guys you know had a heart attack 36 years ago and are still alive? Name one."
Although he now feels good, Schembechler won?t attend Michigan?s upcoming game against the Buckeyes in Columbus.
"That would be too big of a deal for me," he said. "Besides, I?ve got a 50-inch plasma TV that my boys (former Michigan players) brought to me in the hospital."
The man who won 13 Big Ten titles in 21 seasons for Michigan won?t predict who?ll win between the Wolverines and Buckeyes.
"I think they?re the best team in the country until somebody unseats them," Schembechler said about Ohio State.
He doesn?t expect either team to be able to run the ball much in that game, but he?s confident in Michigan?s defense.
"They?re a better defense than they were last year, that?s for sure," he said.
No matter the outcome, would he like to see an Ohio State-Michigan rematch in the Bowl Championship Series title game?
"Hell yes," Schembechler said. "Ohio State and Michigan should play as often as they can. Maybe they could play the (season) opener and then again at the end of the year, too."
He then laughed, and he smiled soon after at halftime when English actor Patrick Stewart said "Beat the Buckeyes" over the stadium?s public address speakers, causing the crowd to roar its approval.
"Oooooooooohhhhh, they?re getting ready," Schembechler said.
tjones@dispatch.com

[osugrad21]

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Bo recalls days with, and against, Woody

Schembechler started the '10-year war' by beating his old coach.


By Kyle Nagel
Staff Writer

Tuesday, November 14, 2006

ANN ARBOR, Mich. ? Glenn E. "Bo" Schembechler walked to the podium, albeit a little slowly, at the University of Michigan's Junge Family Champions Center on Monday. A large group of reporters was seated in the plush room surrounded by blue and Michigan logos, representing a tradition that Schembechler had a large part in advancing during his time as Michigan's football coach from 1969-89.
"I haven't been to a press conference like this in a long time," said the 77-year-old Barberton, Ohio, native, dressed sharply in a blue-striped shirt and navy blue sport coat, his hair slicked back.
Then, for the next 29 minutes, Schembechler discussed the Ohio State-Michigan rivalry ? which renews Saturday when the two 11-0 teams meet in Columbus. He also talked about his old coach, boss and rival, Woody Hayes.
It was a reminder of the game's legend, which has been building in 102 games played since 1897.
"There's no rivalry," Schembechler said, "that compares with this."
Ten intense years
Arguably the most heated period of that rivalry began when Schembechler arrived in Ann Arbor, Mich., in 1969. Over the next decade ? known as the "10-year war" ? Schembechler's Michigan teams faced Hayes' Buckeyes in some of the biggest college football games of the 1970s.
Their relationship, however, started long before that, during Schembechler's days playing for Hayes at Miami University. When Hayes was hired at Ohio State in 1951, Schembechler joined him as a graduate assistant ? "make the coffee in the morning, pick up the prospects at the airport and run the errands." In 1958, Schembechler returned to Columbus as an assistant coach and stayed until 1962, when he became Miami's coach.
Or, as Schembechler put it, "I escaped."
"I coached there for Woody when Woody was really Woody," he said.
Like the time after a 7-0 loss to Michigan in 1951 when Hayes picked up a projector while reviewing film at his home and tossed it across the room, yelling, "I won't subject the people of Columbus to football like that."
Or the time, in 1961, when Ohio State beat Michigan, 50-20, and the coaches attended an alumni dinner in Cleveland. Before his speech, Hayes was told the school's faculty council had voted to decline an invitation to the Rose Bowl, even though the Buckeyes were the Big Ten champions.
"Woody said, 'Get your coat,' " Schembechler said. "We started walking around downtown, talked some, walked in silence some. Then when we got back to the hotel, Woody went to the podium and gave one of the great speeches you ever heard. It took him that long to walk around there to say the faculty has a right to their opinion.
"I'll never forget how tough that guy was."
Preparing 'every day'
By November 1969, Schembechler had coached his Michigan team to a 7-2 record in his first season when the Wolverines met the 8-0 and top-ranked Buckeyes, who had won 22 straight games. Michigan, ranked 12th, won 24-12, firing the first shot in that "10-year war."
"I'll never forget when Woody said at a dinner we had for him after he retired, when he looked down the podium at me, and said, 'Damn you, you'll never win a bigger game than that,' " Schembechler said. "And, he was right."
But Schembechler did win plenty of games ? he is Michigan's winningest coach with a 194-48-5 record in 21 seasons. He won or tied for 13 Big Ten championships, and his 1970s teams were 96-10-3 in the regular season, the best mark nationally that decade.
But against Ohio State, he went 5-4-1 against Hayes and the Buckeyes from 1969-78, the final 10 seasons of Hayes' 28-year tenure.
Schembechler's most animated moment Monday came when asked how often during the year he prepared for Ohio State.
"Every day!" he said emphatically. "It was our strategy here to do something to beat Ohio State every day! Even if it's in the first meeting of the year, we talked about it."
Schembechler's biggest disappointment? Missing the 1973 Rose Bowl, which happened at a time when the loser of The Big Game ended its season early.
"We had an antiquated leadership in the Big Ten Conference," he said. "It wasn't until 1973, when they literally screwed us out of the Rose Bowl, and I mean it exactly the way I said it, they changed it."
In '73, Ohio State and Michigan entered their season finale ranked No. 1 (OSU) and No. 4 (Michigan), and both undefeated. It ended in a 10-10 tie.
"Including Woody Hayes, who congratulated me after the game and said, 'You'll do a good job in the Rose Bowl,' everybody expected Michigan to go to the Rose Bowl," Schembechler said.
Instead, Ohio State beat Southern California, 42-21.
Funny, though, that the loser of this year's Ohio State-Michigan game likely will get a trip to the Rose Bowl, while the winner will go to the national championship game. Some argue this is the biggest game these two have played.
Schembechler ? who won't be in Columbus on Saturday, nearly a month after a device to help regulate his heartbeat was implanted in his chest ? was forced to agree.
"It'll be a whale of a battle," he said.

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Bo just got rushed to the hospital...per 1460.

[Brutus1]

Hopefully, he's ok. He was a Buckeye well before he was a wolvereenie.

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Bo Schembechler taken to hospital after collapse in TV studio



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Created: 11/17/2006 10:31:45 AM
Updated: 11/17/2006 11:16:34 AM

Former University of Michigan football coach Bo Schembechler was transported to Providence Hospital after a medical emergency Friday morning, a Southfield Police Department official has said.

Schembechler is currently listed in critical condition with an undisclosed ailment, according to Providence Hospital officials, according to a WDIV Local 4 report.

Detective John Harris said Southfield officers escorted an ambulance carrying Schembechler to Providence Hospital at about 9:30 a.m. Medical personnel were called to WXYZ-TV in Southfield after Schembechler apparently suffered a medical problem.

Last month, the 77-year-old Schembechler had a pacemaker and defibrillator installed after he had dizziness and other symptoms while taping his weekly television show.


As the winningest head coach in Michigan football history, Schembechler's teams won or tied an impressive 13 Big Ten championships during his 21 year tenure.

Under Schembechler's guidance, Michigan's 96-10-3 regular season record through the decade of the 1970s was the nation's best. He guided 17 teams to post-season bowl games (Ten Rose Bowls) and another 17 to top ten finishes in the final wire service polls (AP and/or UPI).

In his 27 years of coaching, Schembechler's teams never had a losing season. Upon stepping down after the 1989 season, Bo retired as the winningest active coach in the nation (234-65-8) and fifth on the all-time list, only behind coaching legends Paul 'Bear' Bryant, Amos Alonzo Stagg, Glen 'Pop' Warner, and Woody Hayes.

In addition to his coaching responsibilities, Schembechler served as Michigan's Director of Athletics between 1988-1990.

After earning his diploma from Miami (Ohio) University in 1951, Schembechler received his master's degree from Ohio State in 1952 while serving as a graduate assistant coach.

He continued his coaching career with brief stints as an assistant at Presbyterian College (1954), Bowling Green (1955) and Northwestern (1958) before spending five seasons as an assistant at Ohio State.

In 1963, Schembechler was named head coach at Miam. of Ohio, a position he held until taking over the Michigan program prior to the 1969 campaign.

From 1990 to 1992, Schembechler was president of the Detroit Tigers professional baseball club.

The Wolverines are now coached by Lloyd Carr, one of Schembechler's former assistants.

This comes on the eve of the Michigan - Ohio State game.

Of all the coaching match-ups in the long Michigan-Ohio State rivalry, none has been more intense and at times bitter than that between Woody Hayes and Bo Schembechler. For ten years the two dominated the "Big 2 and Little 8," splitting ten conference titles between and finishing second eight times.

Hayes supposedly could not bring himself to speak the name of "that school up north" and Schembechler, who played for Hayes at Miami of Ohio and was an Ohio State assistant coach, savored nothing more than putting it to his old mentor.

After a decade of memorable on-field stratagems, sideline antics, and locker room psychological ploys, the two coaches came out almost dead-even, Schembechler holding a slim 5-4-1 advantage.

He had been planning to watch the game on a new 50" plasma - now I think he has more serious things on his mind.
Wishing him the best.

[BuckeyeNation27]

I'm hearing internet rumors that he has passed away

[Zurp]

What we don't need is a "win one for Bo" attitude to sweep through the Michigan locker room.