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

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FCollinsBuckeye;1772445; said:
The author (very) poorly paraphrased the letter Dennis Doss published on CBS website which was linked a few posts back.

Michael Heaton is evidently a hack and a d-bag. What a combo.
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This is what I found about Mr. Heaton. His sister was Ray Romono's wife in the sitcom "Everybody Loves Raymond"....

About Michael Heaton

Michael Heaton is an award-winning columnist and reporter. His byline has appeared regularly in the Plain Dealer since 1987. Prior to that he was a critic and columnist for the San Francisco Examiner and a reporter for People magazine. He is a graduate of Kent State University. He is co-author of the New York Times bestseller Motherhood and Hollywood by his sister, actress Patricia Heaton, and co-author of I?ll Be Right Back, the autobiography of TV host Mike Douglas. A book collecting his Plain Dealer columns, titled Best of the Minister of Culture, was published in 1992. The son of legendary Plain Dealer sportswriter Chuck Heaton, he lives in Bay Village, Ohio.
 
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The guy's a Kent State graduate and sees OSU as just a football team with a university attached to it? Whatever Fredo.

What's actually more galling, and typical of far too many people, in my opinion, however, is that he writes about his "relationship" with Hayes. Really? You saw the man punch a dude on TV once and you have a "relationship" with him? The conflation of one's internal monologue reality with actual reality that many people regularly show is a pet peeve of mine.
 
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More about Woody Hayes
Published: Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Other Voices

The next time that Michael Heaton chooses to write about former Ohio State University coach Woody Hayes, perhaps he should do some research into the man's life rather that just portray him as a "hotheaded football jerk" (Minister of Culture, Friday).

Was Hayes a tyrant on the field? Without question.

He also served his country in World War II, seeing heavy action as a naval commander on a ship. He was a well-read intellectual who could quote Emerson and Thoreau, and a noted historian who taught classes on the subject at OSU.

No coach was a stronger advocate for education than Hayes. He pushed all of his players to earn a degree, frequently phoning those who had left school without having graduated to implore them to return to complete their studies. He held mandatory vocabulary and English classes for freshmen players. There was no length to which he wouldn't go to assist a former player who was in trouble.

Hayes spent countless hours in Columbus hospitals, visiting patients without fanfare or cameras. Perhaps his most admirable quality was that everything Hayes achieved, he earned himself, without the benefit of family connections to further his advancement.

Martin Daniels, Cleveland Heights
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http://blog.cleveland.com/letters/2010/09/more_about_woody_hayes.html
 
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Buckskin86;1772350; said:
http://www.cleveland.com/ministerofculture/index.ssf/2010/09/woody_hayes_osu_and_the_paperb.html
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Someone else in the comments section also referred to Ohio State as nothing more than a football factory:

Ooooo, you are a brave soul tackling the big man that way. I once was at a lazer light show in downtown Columbus and they were doing faces and up comes Woody Hayes in lazer lights. I had been doing well guessing all the others, but couldn't figure this one out. I turn to my husband and asked, "Who is that?", he tells me and I said, "You mean the coach that punched that player?" Oh my, that was a mistake! My husband put his hand over my mouth, but too late, everyone there was giving me the evil eye. We left. I learned never to bring up his name in vain again while living in Columbus. Now that I live here though, I can say I'm totally with you... a football team with a university (and city) attached to it. I'm tired of dumb football factories, we need science factories!!
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I love it when people make themselves look stupid on the interwebs.



We really need a face palm smilie here on BP.
 
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Tate: Results same for Woody, Tressel
By Loren Tate
Friday, October 1, 2010

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Late Illini football coach Ray Eliot would smilingly quip: "When Woody had the best team, he won. When I had the best team, I won. When the teams were equal, I won!"

Woody Hayes, of course, was never short of talent in 28 seasons at Ohio State. He was 205-61-10 while claiming five national championships in 1954-57-61-68-70, was 24-4-2 vs. Illinois, and 6-2-1 against Eliot before the latter retired in 1959.

In a legendary career, Hayes set the unofficial record as the most bombastic and cantankerous, the most famous, the most temperamental, the most history-conscious, the most profane and, for the people of Ohio, the most beloved coach in Big Ten football history.

"I think about him every day," said two-time Heisman winner Archie Griffin, now CEO of the Ohio State Alumni Association. "Woody used his outbursts to motivate. He knew what he was doing. We would pass the ball when it was necessary, but he wanted to control the game on the ground. Woody has one thing in common with Jim Tressel. Both care so much about the university."

True, for both, this was their dream job. No bouncing from place to place. No interest in the NFL. They are native Ohioans. And a debate is developing: Who is the better coach, Hayes or Tressel?

Illini coach Ron Zook, also raised in Ohio, has an excellent way of putting it: "Woody was the 20th century. Jim Tressel is the 21st century."

Tressel has the Buckeyes on an incredible run as they tackle the Illini on Saturday at Memorial Stadium. They're 98-21 since he left Youngstown State, beat Miami in the 2002 national championship game and have won five straight Big Ten championships. Their current 10-game win streak includes a 26-17 Rose Bowl triumph against Oregon.
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http://www.illinihq.com/news/football/2010/10/01/tate_results_same_for_woody_tressel
 
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Paterno enjoyed games vs. Hayes
Friday, November 12, 2010
By Rob Oller
The Columbus Dispatch

Nick Buonamici lives near Hershey, Pa., in the heart of Penn State country, where the only thing sweeter than what flows through the city's famous chocolate factory is the sugary sentiment that flows toward the Nittany Lions' 83-year-old football coach.

Joe Paterno is beloved in central Pennsylvania, where Buonamici is surrounded by Penn State fans. But the former Ohio State defensive tackle never misses a chance to jab his neighbors with the sour reality that Paterno was 0-2 against Woody Hayes and the Buckeyes during the mid-1970s.

Hayes and Paterno squared off three times, with Ohio State winning the first two games - 17-9 in 1975 and 12-7 in 1976 - and Penn State winning the third game 19-0 in Woody's final season in 1978.

"I know some people who formed the O-H-I-O outside (Beaver) Stadium, and for the "I" they used Joe's bronze statue, where's he's holding up his finger for No.1," Buonamici said, chuckling.

It was Hayes, not Paterno, who spent the majority of the 1975 season at No.1, although the Buckeyes were No.3 when they played hosted to the Nittany Lions in the second game of the season. Ohio State ended the regular season at No.1 but lost to UCLA in the Rose Bowl, 23-10.

Hayes already was a legend, having coached OSU to three national championships. The 1975 season looked like a lock for a fourth title as the Buckeyes featured quarterback Cornelius Greene, tailback Archie Griffin and fullback Pete Johnson, while the defense had Bob Brudzinski at end and Tim Fox at safety, among other notables.
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http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/buckeyextra/stories/gameday/2010/week11/history.html
 
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OSU-Michigan 1950: The loss that brought Woody Hayes to Ohio State
BY LARRY PHILLIPS ? News Journal ? November 26, 2010

COLUMBUS -- One of Ohio State's most crushing defeats took place 60 years ago today, but created an epic shift in the direction of the program.

Playing in 5-degree temperatures, amid approximately six inches of drifting snow and winds exceeding 30 miles per hour, Ohio State dropped a heartbreaking 9-3 decision to Michigan on Nov. 25, 1950. The game has come to be known as the "Snow Bowl" and it led to a coaching change that brought legendary Woody Hayes to Columbus.

"The field was totally covered with snow," Marv Homan told the Media Network of Central Ohio in a previous interview. "What many people don't realize is that the game was played with half the field covered with a tarpaulin because it was frozen to the ground.

"It didn't matter because there was so much snow on it."

Homan, the former OSU sports information director, did play-by-play for WOSU that day. It was no small chore. From the press box, the blowing snow made the action below little more than rumor.

"There were times when it snowed so hard I could not see the other side of the field," said Homan, who estimated a foot of snow had accumulated on the field by the end of the game. "It was totally enveloped in snow."

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http://www.bucyrustelegraphforum.com/article/20101126/SPORTS/11260307/1006/SPORTS
 
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