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

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A Legendary Man- 10TV Sports

Ohio State football: What was Hayes like? Statue tells the story
By Tim May
The Columbus Dispatch?Thursday February 14, 2013

As the bronze statue of the late Woody Hayes was hoisted yesterday afternoon, about to be put in place in front of the Ohio State athletic center bearing his name, his son Steven noted the belt fitted around his father?s neck and blurted good-naturedly, ?They?re lynching him.?

And as he reflected, ?There were years when they probably wanted to run him out of town and lynch him, and it would be real popular in Ann Arbor.? He laughed. But then it was pointed out that the nickname painted on the side of the crane truck was ?Big Blue.?

?Oh no,? he said, ?we?ve got to do something about that.?

His father did decades ago. On the way to becoming Ohio State?s leader in football coaching years (28), wins (205) and national titles (three), he went 16-11-1 against Michigan, a record skewed somewhat by three straight losses at the tail of his career, which ended in 1978.

But statues are seldom erected to coaches based on record alone. Artist Alan Cottrill of Zanesville started the piece five years ago as a tribute to a man he saw as much more than a coach. There?s more to the detail of the piece than just the Block O cap, the short-sleeve shirt, the loose tie, the watch on his left arm and the cleats on his feet.

?The pose bespeaks the intensity and the ferocity,? Cottrill said. ?But I think the face and the eyes, the subtleties in that expression speaks to the kindness and the intelligence.?

Steven Hayes concurred.

?It?s got his intensity, his drive,? he said. ?It?s there. I?ve not seen that in other statues. ? There he is, leaning forward, hands on his hips, chin jutted out. Well, that?s him.?

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My wife made my favorite breakfast this morning and had her hair done this afternoon. I was impressed that she understood how important today is. She asked me what we're doing tonight and I said, "Celebrating Woody's 100th birthday by watching the BTN special about him that's on the DVR, of course". Then she got mad at me. Seriously. What am I missing? What else could she possibly expect from me today?
 
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My wife made my favorite breakfast this morning and had her hair done this afternoon. I was impressed that she understood how important today is. She asked me what we're doing tonight and I said, "Celebrating Woody's 100th birthday by watching the BTN special about him that's on the DVR, of course". Then she got mad at me. Seriously. What am I missing? What else could she possibly expect from me today?
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Just a heads up for you bro, its Kentucky Snowplow day.
 
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Why Woody Hayes Remains College Football's Most Complex Yet Underappreciated Subject

You can't measure Woody Hayes in yards or feet, New Year's Day victories or national titles. If you did, the old man would stack up well with the best of 'em -- Bryant, Paterno, Rockne. But no, those are measuring sticks for college football's great coaches. Woody Hayes was more than a coach. To size up Hayes -- to understand how he won 205 games during his 28-year stay at Ohio State, and why, to this day, his former players abide by his life lessons -- requires measurements foreign to a football field.

Hayes was a teacher. He was a friend. He was a cheerleader for the ill and a lighthouse for the lost. He was all things great men can be. He was also controlling, quick-tempered, and, at times, irrational.

Woody Hayes may be college football's most complex subject, and yet, on the 100th anniversary of his birth (Feb. 14, 1913) and more than a quarter century since his passing, he is largely forgotten outside the state of Ohio and underappreciated by many of those working in his profession.

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An absolutely wonderful article.
 
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Archie talks Woody- 10TV Sports

Why Woody Hayes Remains College Football's Most Complex Yet Underappreciated Subject
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Written by: Mike Beacom

You can't measure Woody Hayes in yards or feet, New Year's Day victories or national titles. If you did, the old man would stack up well with the best of 'em -- Bryant, Paterno, Rockne. But no, those are measuring sticks for college football's great coaches. Woody Hayes was more than a coach. To size up Hayes -- to understand how he won 205 games during his 28-year stay at Ohio State, and why, to this day, his former players abide by his life lessons -- requires measurements foreign to a football field.

Hayes was a teacher. He was a friend. He was a cheerleader for the ill and a lighthouse for the lost. He was all things great men can be. He was also controlling, quick-tempered, and, at times, irrational.

Woody Hayes may be college football's most complex subject, and yet, on the 100th anniversary of his birth (Feb. 14, 1913) and more than a quarter century since his passing, he is largely forgotten outside the state of Ohio and underappreciated by many of those working in his profession.

History judges Hayes not by success (.759 career winning percentage) or by his good deeds (too many to list, many more undocumented) but by a punch. A half-cocked right forearm, to be precise. Hayes squared up Charlie Bauman in the closing minutes of the 1978 Gator Bowl and landed a blow beneath the Clemson middle guard's chinstrap. It was his last football act -- Hayes was fired swiftly the next day -- and because of this it is what fans reference first. Say Woody Hayes and someone is sure to remind you of the punch, as if to stop dead anything good you might have to say about the man.

And they'll remind you of other incidents, too ? a sideline stomp at a cameraman, a broken yard marker or two -- all of them unbecoming of what a college football coach should be, as if anyone can construct such a definition. Is a model college football coach a winner? A molder of men? A man of great integrity? Someone who shows compassion for those he coaches, both on and off the field? Hard to argue Woody was not all of those things. And yet, how many of the great coaches of today can the same be said?

For more than three decades Woody Hayes has been used as the example for what college coaches should not become -- a lesson for where greatness can go wrong. In truth, he is what the vast majority of today's coaches are no longer willing to be, yet what fans, players and administrators so desperately crave from the leader of their program.

The qualities of a good coach? See for yourself how Wayne Woodrow Hayes' portfolio stacks up ...

Teacher: Some coaches talk education; Woody demanded it

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Bob Hunter commentary: Woody: as fascinating a character as he ever was
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Michigan coach Bo Schembechler, left, wrote of Ohio State?s Woody Hayes: ?He was simply fascinating.?
Sunday February 17, 2013

Last week marked Woody Hayes? 100th birthday and it would be interesting to see how the legendary Ohio State football coach would have responded to all of the events that were planned around it.

He doubtless would have been happy that the Friday-night tribute honoring him and his wife, Anne, raised money for the university. But ?shoot, shoot, shoot,? as Hayes would say when he got mildly irritated, he?d probably say we?re all a bunch of damned fools to erect a bronze statue of him and make such a big deal out of him.

Maybe we are, but he remains the most fascinating character to live in Columbus in my lifetime, and possibly ever. He was a human enigma, a generous, kind-hearted soul who visited sick kids in hospitals when nobody was looking and went to enormous lengths to help his players graduate, and a foot-stomping, profanity-spewing masochistic brute whose hair-trigger temper often got him in trouble.

Almost 26 years after his death and more than 34 years since he was fired for hitting Clemson linebacker Charlie Bauman on the sidelines after Bauman intercepted an Art Schilichter pass near the end of the 1978 Gator Bowl, most of his former players still swear by him and he is revered by many fans. His football success has a lot to do with the latter ? he won three consensus national titles (1954, ?57 and ?68) and 13 Big Ten championships, and took his team to eight Rose Bowls ? but just about everyone who met Hayes has a special memory of him.

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