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

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Woody Hayes coached football from 1951 to 1978.

It has been more than a year since the original ballot to build a Woody Hayes statue, estimated at more than $30,000, was initiated.

The ballot was introduced by Undergraduate Student Government Sen. Patrick Sprinkle and voted on during last year's USG election.

Although the initiative was passed by students, no work has been done to bring the statue to campus.

In an e-mail statement, Sprinkle said the completion of the Woody Hayes statue seems unlikely.

"It would be unwise to spend a great deal of funding solely from USG on the statue," Sprinkle said.

In his statement Sprinkle also said the current climate on campus would not make this project feasible.

A specific location was never named for the controversial statue.

Wayne Woodrow "Woody" Hayes was a famed football coach at Ohio State from 1951-1978.

Hayes is probably best known for winning three National Championship titles and 13 Big Ten titles while at OSU.

Though the original ballot was passed last year along with the election of presidential team Kate Christobek and Pete Steele, it was never a part of their original plans for USG.

"The statue was not part of our platform," said Steele, former USG vice president.

Steele, who voted in favor of the statue, also said that the statue was not made a priority.

"Just because a proposal is passed does not mean it is going to be a top priority for the administration in charge," he said.

In his e-mail, Sprinkle said the project was also hindered by a lack of support from other campus organizations.

"We have not been able to get additional support from various campus groups," Sprinkle said. "In future years, I would like to see USG, the Alumni Association, the Department of Athletics and the Class Gift Committee collaborate to see this statue idea get off the ground."

Entire article: Hayes statue given low priority by USG - Campus
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Thanks Coach Hayes. For everything.
 
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May 15, 2009
Woody & Bo 2.0
Spoke briefly with Michael Rosenberg, a columnist for the Detroit Free Press whose bestselling book -- "War As They Knew It ..." -- chronicles the relationship and personalities of Woody Hayes and Bo Schembechler during the turbulent '60s and '70s.

It was a quick but interesting discussion, during which I asked the author to summarize the way Ohio State is viewed in Ann Arbor. His take:

"There are much more intense feelings down here (in Columbus). You have to remember that Ann Arbor is part of metro Detroit."
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"I think OSU fans generally respect Bo more than Michigan fans respect Woody," he said. "I know I just thought Woody was nutty."

Then Rosenberg began research for his book and came to appreciate Hayes more than he thought him "nutty." It got to the point that UM friends chided Rosenberg for painting a positive picture of Woody.

"That's what happens when you study someone 3-dimensionally," he said of his changed outlook regarding Hayes.
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Rob Oller: Dotting the 'eye' ... on all things Ohio State
 
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Fri Jun 12, 2009

Weekend Out: Woody Hayes was an emotional man
By Matt Hinton

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It's true, as this post-game celebration with Buckeye lineman John Hicks proves on one end, and as Woody's violent finish proves on the other. In between, he was a prolific screamer, puncher (frequently of himself; at least once as a pregame motivational tactic) and thrower (of everything in sight). He endured multiple heart attacks, and later on a sponge left next to that beleaguered ticker after surgery. If you believe the gospels passed down through the generations, things could get a little melodramatic:

Once, while on a vacation to the Alps, Woody made a collect call back to Columbus because he knew it was the day that grades came out. When one of the coaches informed him that a player was flunking out of school, Woody freaked. He instructed that the phone be passed to every assistant and ripped into each one of them. Then he said "I can't trust anybody back there! I go away for two weeks and you kill me! I might as well kill myself right here!"

The coaches, now in fear of their jobs, could hear Woody screaming over the phone. "I'm gonna kill myself! I'm gonna jump off a god--m Alp!" he yelled. The coaches in the office began chanting softly, "Jump ... Jump!" The coach on the phone tried to cover the receiver, but he couldn't. "I will! I will!" Woody yelled. "I heard those sonsabitches! Tell 'em I will! I will!" There was then a cracking sound over the phone, and then silence, and the coaches realized that Woody had ripped the phone out of the wall and threw it across the room.
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Weekend Out: Woody Hayes was an emotional man - Dr. Saturday - NCAA Football - Rivals.com
 
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Some of you here never heard or saw Woody and thus are not as blessed as we who have had the supreme pleasure of basking in his life.
Let me say this, That to me and many others he is our hero forever, our guide in our lives.
Woody was well, Woody, Very passionate about every aspect in his life.
To me he was the consumate teacher as he spent his whole life trying to teach life to everyone he would come in contact with.
He not only endeavored to live his life as fully as he could but also encouraged everyone else to do the same. To be the best they could be to themselves and others. To inspire each student and player to achieve more than they thought themselves capable of.

Woody was a great coach true but he was even more of a great person. What I have always respected Woody for was not just for the coach he was but immensely more for the manner in which he taught and lived, with true passion and loyalty for life and the game he loved.
 
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Forget about championships, winning percentages and bowl games. These, to me, are the sport's five most legendary coaches from a purely subjective standpoint:

1. Bryant: For a quarter-century (1958-82), his teams dominated the sport and his persona dominated the profession. We may never see that again.

2. Knute Rockne: Though he coached just 13 years, he singlehandedly created the Notre Dame dynasty, delivered the most famous locker-room speech in history and had a movie made about him. An estimated 300,000 people witnessed his funeral procession. He was kind of a big deal.

3. Paterno: It's impossible to truly comprehend that Penn State has had the same head football coach since 1966 -- and that he led the Nittany Lions to the Rose Bowl last year at 81. For much of his career, he also was the sport's most prominent voice on myriad moral and ethical issues.

4. Woody Hayes: He was the Bryant of the Midwest, a coach whose program's consistent dominance ceased only when Bo Schemebechler, a worthy rival, emerged during Hayes' latter years. Obviously, his legacy was to a degree forever tainted by that ghastly, final image.

5. Bud Wilkinson: His Sooners of the late '40s and '50s were arguably the sport's greatest dynasty, capturing 13 straight conference titles and three national titles and achieving an NCAA-record 47-game winning streak. Only his early retirement at age 47 precluded further greatness.
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Ranking Bobby Bowden, Joe Paterno among top five?best coaches - Stewart Mandel - SI.com
 
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Greene: A lesson from Woody Hayes
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By Bob Greene
CNN Contributor

Editor's note: This is an excerpt from CNN Contributor Bob Greene's new book, "Late Edition: A Love Story," a memoir of his time working at an Ohio newspaper in the 1960s.
The localness of what we did down at the paper defined everything. Even as a kid brand-new to the staff and brand-new to the newspaper business, hired to work during summer vacations, I could tell that.

It was a localness not confined to the geographic scope of our news coverage -- it went without saying that the Columbus, Ohio, Citizen-Journal wasn't about to send its reporters to Africa or France (or even to Kentucky or Indiana). The men and women in the city room arrived at work each day knowing that they weren't going to be assigned to anyplace from where they couldn't drive back to the office by deadline.
The localness extended beyond that, though, and infused the very feel of the place. One night in the summer of 1967 the phone on the sports desk rang and I picked it up with the customary: "Sports!"
The person on the other end said:
"Now, that's no way to answer a telephone, is it?"
"Who's calling?" I said.
"To whom am I speaking?" the caller said.
"This is Bob Greene," I said.
"Now, I've seen your name in the paper," the caller said. "It's Bob Greene Jr., isn't it?"
I had been permitted to write a few sports stories that summer; I used the "Jr." at the end of the byline.
"Yes," I said. I thought I recognized the voice from somewhere.
"Now, I believe I know your mother and father," the caller said. "Are your parents Robert and Phyllis Greene, from Bexley?"
"Yes," I said.
"I know they didn't raise you to answer a phone that way," the caller said. "When you answer a business telephone, the proper way to do it is to tell the caller your name first."
"All right, sir," I said.
"I know your parents are fine people, and I'm sure they taught you good manners," the caller said. "You don't want to disappoint them by giving a bad impression of yourself on the telephone, do you?"
"No, sir," I said.
"Good," the caller said. "Now, this is Woody Hayes. I was calling to speak with Tom Pastorius. Is Tom there, please?"
And, my hands shaking, I connected him with Pastorius, one of the paper's sportswriters.
I knew it really was the head coach of the Ohio State University football team because of that phrase early in his lecture to me -- "To whom am I speaking?" His grammar was always scrupulous -- no "Who am I speaking to?" from Woody Hayes.
The localness was all around us. Woody had met my mother and father on a few occasions, he remembered them, and he was setting their son straight. He may have been the most nationally famous person in the community, but he was first and foremost a member of that community -- during all his years as head football coach at Ohio State, Woody kept his home telephone number listed in the Columbus phone book: W.W. Hayes, on Cardiff Road. That made for a lot of late-night crank calls from a lot of insulting or drunken people, but he thought that if he was going to represent the community, then he should be as available as any other man or woman in town.
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Woody Hayes Named Among 50 Greatest Coaches Of All-Time
Published: July 29, 2009

COLUMBUS, Ohio?Wayne Woodrow ?Woody? Hayes, the heart and soul of Ohio State football for 28 years, Wednesday was named to The Sporting News? list of the Top 50 Greatest Coaches of All-Time, as selected by a panel of 118 Hall of Famers, championship coaches and other experts. Hayes came in at No. 27, joining three other Big Ten football coaching legends, Penn State?s Joe Paterno (No. 13), Michigan?s Bo Schembechler (No. 36) and Chicago?s Amos Alonzo Stagg (No. 40). The 14-page feature is part of the new Sporting News Magazine, which hits newsstands this week.

The Big Ten?s four picks were the most of any college conference.

The Hayes File:

?Won five national titles (1970, 1968, 1961, 1957 and 1954)
?Won 13 Big Ten championships
?Won 205 overall and 152 conference games
?Led Ohio State to 11 bowl games (eight Rose Bowls)
?Took Ohio State to four consecutive Rose Bowls (1972-75)
?Produced 56 first team All-Americans
?Coached three Heisman Trophy and three Outland Trophy winners
?Coached two Lombardi Award winners
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Woody Hayes Named Among 50 Greatest Coaches Of All-Time | NBC4i.com
 
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Before folks get upset about the ranking in the previous article, that top-50 was for all sports.

Woody came in 6th among college football coaches, behind Bear Bryant, Knute Rockne, JoePa, Eddie Robinson and Bobby Bowden.

John Wooden topped the list. Paul Brown was #12.
 
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Before folks get upset about the ranking in the previous article, that top-50 was for all sports.

Woody came in 6th among college football coaches, behind Bear Bryant, Knute Rockne, JoePa, Eddie Robinson and Bobby Bowden.

John Wooden topped the list. Paul Brown was #12.
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Woody should be above joepa and bobby bowden, IMO
 
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Brief encounter spoke volumes about Woody
Saturday, September 5, 2009
By Lisa Geichman Prosek

My husband, John, and I were riding a shuttle to the terminal at Port Columbus when the bus stopped and picked up an older man.

As he climbed the steps, I saw his hat, then his coat, then his suitcase.

When his whole person stood up in the front of the bus, I couldn't believe the immensity of Woody Hayes.
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The Columbus Dispatch : First Person: Brief encounter spoke volumes about Woody
 
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