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Wayne Woodrow "Woody" Hayes (5x National Champion, OSU HOF, CFB HOF, R.I.P.)

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20 Years ago yesterday...

Woody Hayes passed away. I was only ten years old when it happened, but was aware that a amazing man had just passed. I still remember my dad and his friends sitting out on the porch talking about him. Just dawned on me that it was yesterday...

Some great Woody quotes...
  • "You can never really pay back. You can only pay forward."
  • "A guy from Ohio can make it in life if he works hard enough."
  • "You win with people."
  • "Paralyze resistance with persistence."
  • "There are three things that can happen when you throw a pass, and two of them are bad." This quote is often attributed to Hayes, but some contend General Robert Neyland of the University of Tennessee or Darrell Royal of the University of Texas was the source. Darrell Royal gives the credit to Woody Hayes as being the source of the quote.[1]
  • "I never saw a football player make a tackle with a smile on his face."
  • "Discipline is 95 percent anticipation."
  • "Without winners, there wouldn't even be any god damned civilization."
  • "Football represents and embodies everything that's great about this country, because the United States of America is built on winners, not losers or people who didn't bother to play."
  • "One thing you cannot afford ever to do is to feel sorry for yourself."
  • "There was no one who had better people than I did, or better football players. And, we outworked the other teams."
  • "The only way we'd get beaten was if we got a little fat-headed, if we didn't train right, if we had dissension on the squad."
  • "So many times I've found people smarter than I was ... But you know what they couldn't do? They couldn't outwork me. They couldn't outwork me!"
  • "You can outwork anybody. Try it, you will find out that you can do it."
  • "Anything easy ain't worth a damn!"
  • When asked why he went for two despite a 34-point lead against Michigan, Hayes quipped, "Because I couldn't go for three."
  • "There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you. "
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Saw31;780272; said:
I have to ask. How in God's name does BretGoBlow get authorship of the official Woody Hayes thread? It's friggin disgraceful!!
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No it's not Saw. Brett, like him or not is a fan of scUM which makes him a fan of the Ohio State/ Michigan rivalry and the respect that goes with it. Brett is simply the "starter" because nobody did it before him. Same way with if you go hit the scUM sites and see the outpouring of well wishes to Coach Schembechler's family after he passed the day before "The Game" from Buckeye fans. Hell, If I had caught that before a scUM fan I would have posted it there first and given my heartfelt condolences. Peace.
 
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Remembering Woody

I have asserted, and still do, that even twenty years after his passing, Woody could still be elected governor of Ohio.

:gobucks3: :gobucks4: :banger: Many life lessons from this man. I remember going to the Monday Morning Quarterback club with my Dad (actually lunch meeting) and Anne Hayes was speaking. When asked if she had ever considered divorcing Woody, she answered, "Murder - yes. Divorce - never!". She, too, was a great person.

I do try to live by the 'pay forward, not back' (my paraphrase) motto. It does work.
 
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An effort is underway to put a bronze statue of Woody on tOSU's campus. Assuming this happens, wherever they place it, my next trip to Columbus would include a visit to see this overdue tribute.

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Mary Dannemiller Issue date: 3/29/07 Section: Campus

He's been dead for 20 years, but Woody Hayes could soon return to Ohio State's campus.

Undergraduate Student Government Sen. Pat Sprinkle has introduced a ballot initiative for this year's elections which, if passed, will approve the construction of a bronze statue of the famous football coach that could cost as much as $30,000.

"He was really a great leader who represents what OSU students and OSU stands for," said Sprinkle, a junior in political science and education.

Although the bronze statue's home is still unknown, Sprinkle said he would like to see it in a history building rather than the stadium as an homage to Hayes' work off the football field.

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Birthplace to honor Hayes

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By Kyle Nagel
Staff Writer

Friday, September 21, 2007

Even without a birth connection, the village of Clifton would still happily honor Woody Hayes.
"We're almost all Buckeyes fans," said Steve McFarland, Clifton mayor.


But in Clifton's case, there's extra reason to celebrate. The village of 170 situated in southern Clark County will honor Hayes, the legendary Ohio State football coach, during its annual Old Clifton Days Festival this weekend, including a street sign dedication and one-man play.



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Hayes' clock was always set to Michigan game time

 Jim Naveau | [email protected] - 11.16.2007


[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif]COLUMBUS ? Beyond the unwillingness to even say the word Michigan, beyond the refusal to buy gas north of the Ohio border, maybe the most enduring part of the legend of Woody Hayes? obsession with Ohio State?s annual football game against its biggest rival is the story of how he would have his teams practice for the Michigan game all year long.
So, is it a myth, an urban legend concocted over the decades? Or is it true?
It?s all true. Very true, according to some of the people who were there.
Last week former coach Earle Bruce recalled how when he was an OSU assistant in 1971, Hayes had the team spend two days practicing for the Michigan game the week before a non-conference game against Colorado in September. And Colorado was ranked No. 10 at the time.
Dave Cheney, a Lima attorney who was an all-Big Ten offensive lineman at OSU in 1970, remembers the year-around Michigan preparations.



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The Ozone's basketball coverage included this Woody story I hadn't heard before.

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Prior to the game we chatted with former OSU football SID Steve Snapp. We were swapping stories about visits to New Orleans. Snapp said that the first time OSU went to the Sugar Bowl the team bus pulled up in front of the hotel which was right on the river, and Woody noticed that there was a ship moored in front of the hotel and it was flying a Russian flag. Woody would not let his team get off the bus and demanded another hotel, saying the Buckeyes were not going to stay that close to a bunch of Commies. After two or three hours of arguing, Woody agreed to check in but only with the promise that they would have the ship moved. The next day, the ship was gone.

Awesome.
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Tigerkid05;1017957; said:
I also think y'all worship Woody Hayes to much, but not to the Nth degree like the Bama gumps worship Bear, but still. I know he was a great coach but, he punched a kid in the neck during a game, a southern boy at that. I guess we've never really had a coach with such significance at LSU, maybe ole' Cholly Mac.
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I'm the resident old fart on the board, old enough to remember listening to a Friday night broadcast from someplace called "Baa Tun Rou gze" and hearing the goings on of one Billy Cannon. That was the era of single platoon football and Cholly Mac (Actually Paul Dietzel, thanks to Tigerkid 05 for the correction) was winning games by throwing in a bunch of 2s and 3s and calling them "The Chinese Bandits." "Defensive specialists," he claimed, but it was great psychology. They played their hearts out in their one or two series a game and gave the 1s a much needed rest. It made me fascinated with LSU football, but then you came up on some lean times and you turned to one of Woody's own, a tough, hard nosed kid named Bo Rein to turn things around. He once impaled himself on a chain link fence going after a fly ball while playing outfield for the basball buckeyes. He was just starting to revitalize the LSU program when he disappeared into thin air... literally... flying his private jet to meet a recruit.

I can understand that an outsider might look at Woody and see only the incident with Charlie Bauman of Clemson.

I had the coach for his football class and will never forget the experience. On his first class he informed us that there would be a quiz at the end of each week and that the first ten questions would be on current events and the second ten would be about football. Note which came first. "You guys are going to be out there as teachers first and coaches second and that's as it should be. You're not much use to anyone if the only thing you know is football." Note also that the guy TAUGHT two courses, one on football and one on military history. When the campus was going to hell in a hand basket in 1970 it was Coach Hayes alone of all the faculty who was willing to come out on the campus and speak to the students. The rest of them, liberals and conservatives, hid in the offices. The man was a dynamo in finding ways to help or at least visit the kids at Children's Hospital. The day after he defeated USC and OJ Simpson he flew to Vietnam on a very low key, beneath the radar, visit to the troops.

In an age when coaches are demanding and receiving outrageous sums of money it is well to remember that Woody insisted that he not be paid any more than the highest paid professor on the faculty. The man clearly understood that the mission of the university is to educate.

And if that's why "y'all worship Woody Hayes to(o) much," then we are all seriously short of "too much" these days.
 
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