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

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Happy Birthday, Coach.

Just recently started introducing my son the the legend that is Coach Hayes. I like to take a few minutes every 2/14 to reflect on the man and what he means to me, in my own private way. Today we shared in the "Buckeye" room the stories behind the posters, figurines, magazine covers, bobbleheads, and nesting dolls.

Not much more to say, getting a little damp around the eyes:cry:

Will always and forever Love you, Coach!


Peace
 
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Tressel recalls soft side of Hayes at area fundraiser
The Buckeyes coach of today tells how a visit from Woody cheered his terminally ill father.
By Kyle Nagel, Staff Writer
Wednesday, May 5, 2010

FAIRBORN ? Jim Tressel had a personal story to share about Woody Hayes.

As he sat on a stool under a spotlight on Tuesday, May 4, Tressel began talking about his father. Lee Tressel was a football coach at Baldwin-Wallace College, and after winning a Division III national championship in 1978, he was diagnosed with cancer and deteriorated.

In 1981, Hayes, the famed Ohio State football coach, was speaking at a luncheon in Detroit when a former Baldwin-Wallace player introduced himself and mentioned Lee Tressel wasn?t doing well.

?He said to this person he had just met, ?Did you drive here? Let?s drive to Cleveland and see Coach Tressel,? ? Jim Tressel said.
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Tressel recalls soft side of Hayes at area fundraiser
 
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DontHateOState;1700977; said:
Crazy. Can you imagine the bit of destiny this was, Woody Hayes visiting the dying father of the man who would come closest to emulating his success.
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That wasn't destiny, that was true Woody. You younger guys that didn't live in his era haven't really learned all about him. We old farts lived and breathed right alongside of him and knew the complete Woody.
 
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Best Buckeye;1700988; said:
You younger guys that didn't live in his era haven't really learned all about him. We old farts lived and breathed right alongside of him and knew the complete Woody.
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as well as you can know a person that you never met, read about in the paper, and saw occasionally on TV, right?
 
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Buckeye86;1701011; said:
I've met Tressel, doesn't mean I know him any better than anyone else and I don't pretend to.

Anyways, I've had this argument before so I won't get into it.
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Doesn't mean that I didn't know him better than someone either, does it?
 
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Mike Harden commentary: 'Playboy' wasn't in Woody's playbook
Sunday, June 13, 2010
By Mike Harden

In 1970, as Ohio State was set to field a stunning team of great potential for the coming football season, not a single player was given the nod as a member of the Playboy magazine pre-season All-America team.

Hugh Hefner's sports predictors shunned the Buckeyes, who went on to post a perfect regular season, stumbling only in the Rose Bowl to Stanford and quarterback Jim Plunkett's late-starting aerial show.

A raft of players from that Big Ten championship year were drafted by NFL teams, John Brockington and Jack Tatum among their number, but none got to see the inside of the Playboy Mansion as long as Woody was around.

So, what did Woody Hayes have against Hefner and his coterie of nubile women wearing about enough of a bathing-suit bottom to make a yarmulke for a gerbil?

Hayes' 1970 Buckeyes were shut out of the Playboy picks because the coach had already slammed that meaty paw of his smack down and declared that none of his charges would be flown cross-country to drink and cavort and impede their thinking from 67-87-hut to 36-23-36. Who knew what vile, sordid practices took place behind the locked castle that was Hefner's mansion?

"He was a moralist," recalled Woody's late-1960s quarterback Bill Long. "He felt there were just some things you just didn't do. He didn't believe that you should have the trashy combination of girl books and college football picks."
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Mike Harden commentary: 'Playboy' wasn't in Woody's playbook | The Columbus Dispatch
 
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BuckeyeBill;1748342; said:
Saw this over on Stadium and Main. Didn't see it posted here (and yes, I use the search option). Great story...if true.


http://dennis-dodd.blogs.cbssp...ntryListMiniCnt
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I was just going to post this. It's a great story about Woody's paperboy, who grew up to be a US Marine, and was out of the country when Woody died. The story of what happens after that is a great read.

The guy asks Dodd to keep it to himself, so of course it's now on the CBS website.
 
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Woody Hayes, OSU and the paperboy story that almost changes my mind: Minister of Culture
Published: Friday, September 17, 2010
Michael Heaton, The Plain Dealer

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Woody Hayes is pictured in 1977 with five Big Ten championship trophies. His Buckeyes went on to win a sixth straight title in 1977.

I'm going to go ahead here and commit the sacrilege of admitting that I am not a huge fan of Woody Hayes and, by extension, Ohio State University.

I guess it all boils down to the fact that Hayes and the school gave the state of Ohio the reputation of being a big dumb football factory.

At the very least, he made OSU forever seem to be a big dumb football factory. And then, of course, there was the famous incident in the 1978 Gator Bowl against Clemson, when Hayes struck opposing player Charlie Bauman, who had just intercepted an Art Schlichter pass with just minutes to go in the game. A bench-clearing brawl ensued and Hayes was fired the next day.

Ever since then he has remained, in my mind, a hotheaded football jerk. Even though I have friends and family who attended OSU and had nothing but a fabulous experience there, I just think of it as a football team that has a university attached to it.

So recently I was forwarded a story by "Billy," who was Woody Hayes' paperboy. He said that he and coach Hayes often talked football and became close over the years. He wrote that he stayed in touch with Hayes even after he no longer had the paper route.
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http://www.cleveland.com/ministerofculture/index.ssf/2010/09/woody_hayes_osu_and_the_paperb.html
 
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