Wayne Woodrow Hayes

[jschultzVII]

We're going up north and we're going to pound them and pound them until they quit!

FIGHT FOR O-HI-O!

GO BUCKS!

[MrCincinnatian]

1 person can go suck Denard Robinson's dick.

[offintotheblue]

I think how people deal with adversity says a lot about their character. In fact, probably nothing says more about a person's character. Woody was a sore loser. When he lost he was angry, misanthropic, spoiled, and childish. He was a great football coach, if how much you win and how you win is the measure--if you don't think that being a role model for the student athletes is important. I can't help thinking the recent total erosion of character at The Ohio is his legacy.

[jpm4444]

i'm still a young man but anyone not respecting and appreciating what this guy did for college sports and for life in general doesn't know college football. I love OU but this is one of the great MEN of all time in college sports. The GREAT Woody Hayes.

[TheBuckeyefan12]

man, Hayes was a bad ass!, he didnt give a damn about anyone but the bucks!

[kentamitchell]

Woody and Anne are buried at the Union cemetary,just north of the OhioState campus. Whenever I visit;their headstone always looks like an OhioState gift shop-buckeyes,scarlet and grey banners,et.al. That is quite a tribute to a man who died 24 years ago.

[kentamitchell]

When President Ford cametoColumbus in 1975 todeliver the Commencement Address at OhioState,he shookhandswith Woody,and commented,"I know exactly how the Columbus Dispatch will run this picture: on the front page,about the fold, with the caption 'Woody Hayes and Friend'"

The editor of the Dispatch had a sense of humor; that is exactly what they did!

[kentamitchell]

Woody died in his sleep, in his own bed. The next day,he was due to give a talk to a

group of fifth graders. (Archie Griffin later filled in for him)

[kentamitchell]

Woody was the first head coach in the Big Ten to start a black kid at quarterback,and was the first Big Ten head coach to hire a black assistant coach.

It was Woody's endorsement that helped launch Ben Espy's political career as city councilman and as an OhioState senator.

[kentamitchell]

One of my most prized possessions is a *personally* enscribed copy of "You Win With People"

[kentamitchell]

Woody enlisted in the US Navy seven months before Pearl Harbor.

He could have stayed at Great Lakes outside Chicago for the whole war, but he volunteered for sea duty. Four years later,he was Lieutenant Commander Hayes,the skipper of the destroyer escort USS Rinehart.

[kentamitchell]

28 years at Ohio State

13 BigTen titles

4 Rose Bowlvictories

2 Heisman Trophy winners

3 Heisman Trophies.

[kentamitchell]

Just north of the OSU campus, on 2194 Olengtangy River Road, you'll find the Woody Hayes Atheletic Facility. It cost 21.5 million dollars-but none of that was tax money-all private contributions. A wonderful monument to a great man.

[kentamitchell]

Those of us who had the good fortune to know Woody, loved him...warts and all!

[kentamitchell]

The last time Iever saw Woody wasa few months before he died. When I was growing up, he seemed like he was going to live forever,but by then, I knew he wasnt long for this world. Just before I left, I managed to say,"Coach, I've alwaysloved you like a favorite uncle". I'll never forget how broadly he smiled. Rest in peace,Woody!

[Buckeye9311]

Im too young to know Woody, as im only 16, so I cant fully appreciate him. But I have and will continue to love Ohio State, and from all the stories I've read, heard from my dad, and seen, Its obvious he was the best. God bless Woody, and God bless the Buckeyes. GO BUCKS!!!

[45has2]

When men were men. Now: oh, he made me sit in a dark room, he slapped me, he said he was going to send me back to the ghetto. It is a man's game bitches or rather it used to be. My high school coach used to throw us around by the face mask and kick us in the ass, so what, that was nothing compared to contact drills. Man up little girls and play some football. Woody is God, period.

[woodyhayes68]

God Bless you Woody. 7 days and were up north. I'm sure you will be watching.

[PsychoCedBenson32]

Woody was god. The destruction of the first down marker was the best. The next play he had Randy Gradishar club UMs QB. Epicness at its fullest. Go Bucks!!!!!

[twodaysthere]

Even though i dont like UF at all, i have to agree with floridagator96. He nailed it. But, since im an OSU fan, god bless woody and go bucks.

[Kirke182]

A great coach doesn't run out onto the field and punch an opposing player in the throat because he intercerpted a pass and is forced to retire the next day in disgrace. Integrity, my ass.

[duanekuiper]

God Bless Wayne Woodrow Hayes. Go Bucks.

[camarorider67]

dont get me wrong tressel is a good coach but i would give him up in a heartbeat for another woody but alas he was truley one in a million

1:37 best picture

[jonrickly]

god bless woody!!

michigan can kiss my butt!!

[chemicalculus]

i love the music here even though i do not go to ohio state. makes me feel calm and relaxed.

[FloridaGator96]

While I don't give a crap about either Ohio State or Michigan, I would say that if you claim to love college football, you MUST read, "War As They Knew It", by Michael Rosenberg. Just published in Sept. 2008. Very good book, but it doesn't change my opinion on Hayes a bit. I know he did a lot of good but punching an opposing player during a game is insane. Hayes took the whole "war" thing a little too far there.

[OSUGreatestOfAllTime]

Woody Hayes is a better coach than the gators have ever had, at least he doesn't leave the gators for money (Steve Spurrier). Real Commitment, huh?

[kvjhedfbv]

OSU can not compete with the big boys.

The Big Ten is nothing more than ancient history.

[fiddlenut24]

bullshit buddy

[chagg2]

Well if thats so it is known that history repeats itself therefore the Big Ten will rise

again.

[kentamitchell]

Those of us who had the good fortune to know Woody Hayes loved him, warts and all. He was a man with a brilliant mind, a kind heart and a rotten temper- which he tended to lose on national television. For the last 8 years of his life, he devoted himself to *every* charity in central Ohio.

Ohio State 42 Michigan 7

Somewhere, Woody is smiling. :)

[oldkerryman]

Hays was an arrogant shithead. Period

[jonrickly]

wrong!!

he was a kind, old school man.

he cared about his players and his country.

and he was into his team...

ok, maybe to a falt....but...

god bless woody hayes!!

[oldkerryman]

I lived in Columbus in the 1950s, and was subjected to a ton of mindless boosterism and boorish small-town athletic mania for OSU. The Sunday Dispatch and Citizen News ran the OSU game on the front page, above the fold. At the center was Woody Hays. And despite his charity work, the man was a smug, self-centered oaf. When he couldn't recruit players who loved the T-formation and couldn't win bowl games against even the weakest opponents, he became even more of an oaf. And was fired. Rightly so.

[MrDickMoore]

@jonrickly piece of shit coach punched a clemson player. he sucked.

[Bronwyn51]

I agree, I grew up on the OSU campus as my dad was a professor at OSU, and I knew coach hayes from the time I was born till he died, and he was a brilliant man, almost genius level, and a lot of people didn,t understand that, and those last years he was coaching he wasn,t a well man, and a lot of people didn,t know that. but those of us who knew him loved him and understood his mood swings. he was a kind caring man and will never be forgotten

[woodyhayes68]

kent...glad to see you still visit this page. I was at the game last year. 5 consecutive gold pants.....what a pleasure and privilege it was to witness. Yes, Coach Hayes is indeed smiling.

GO BUCKS!

[nearfall76]

What a jackass! how could you punch a player? he obviously has no class. and i dont even care if that was one time, thats all it takes.

PSU> OSU

GO LIONS

[twodaysthere]

Forever in our hearts this great man will rest. He will never ever be forgotten. Same with Bo. Both just great coaches. To good for words. These men will stay with us throughout the history of OSU and MU these men will always be in our hearts and love for football. R.I.P both of these great men and coaches. O-H

[azaman1794]

IO!

[duanekuiper]

OH-

[kentamitchell]

I recently drove up to Union cemetary and visited Woody's grave. He's been gone for over 20 years now, but is gravesite looks like an Ohio State gift shop. Woody's friends still love him and miss him after all these years.

[kentamitchell]

Gee, you're *so* well-informed- what was Bear Bryant's record against Notre Dame? Four games, four losses.

[pgraybengal]

You just remember the 1 thing Hayes did wrong you don't remember the money Hayes raised for the university library, the money he took out of his own pocket to make up the difference in a under graduate program where black players were paid less then white players for doing the same job, I'm a young white male who knows the good in people and Coach Hayes had a good and soft heart for those in need.

[kentamitchell]

AMEN!!! Yes, Woody had a rotten temper- that is something people in Columbus have known since 1951, when Woody first came to OSU. The last eight years of his life was there a single charitable event in Central Ohio that Woody missed? I kinda doubt it! Does anybody want to guess what the Woody Hayes Practice Facility cost the Ohio taxpayers? Nada! They built it from donations from Woody's friends. OSU also endowed a chair at the History Department- entirely from private contributions.

[quaker91]

I know you decided a long time ago that you wanted to be an annoying asshole for life, but it's worth your realization that Hayes was a tremendously important calming force on campus during the turbulent '70s. He was the one administrator students truly respected. He also gave thousands of his own dollars to children he would visit at the OSU hospital. And he was a brilliant and learned man - who would study military history and quote famous authors in the context of his speeches.

[hawkandpanther]

The annoying assholes are people like you who

worship Hayes. I never said he did not do the things he accomplished. The very sad part is that people honor him as if he was immortal.

Alas, we are not.

I am more than aware that Hayes gave thousands of his own money to people --so does Joe Paterno. He was a learned man and I know of his love of military history--I too share that.

The sad part is Hayes was frustrated because OSU could and STILL cannot compete with the SEC or most southerners!

[quaker91]

...which is why Hayes' teams went 16-5-2 against teams from the southeast...because they couldn't compete?

Stop being so accusatory. Who said anything about Hayes being a god? and btw I've never heard Paterno quote Hawthorne and Longfellow.

The point about Hayes is - he was a great coach, he was an honorable and learned man, and he was a tremendous force of good for his players, OSU, and Columbus during his years at Ohio St...more than any other coach I've ever read of anywhere.

[quaker91]

and no, Hayes actually went nuts against Clemson because he'd been struggling against scUM and in bowl games in general. From '75-'78 he was 1-3 against UM and 1-3 in bowls. Others were accusing his offenses of being mundane. The problem was he wasn't getting the offensive linemen he'd had before. His frustrations had nothing to do with his 0-1 record in 28 years against the SEC.

[hawkandpanther]

So are you actually defending the legendary Hayes with his actions.

We all get frustrated---from the highest well known person to the average work a day one to those in a remote village.

It is what we do and don't do with that frustration. Again---it is just a game.

Talking with a buckeye fan such as yourself is futile becuause you will never see or admit the other side of the coin at all.

Wins and losses come and go.

Hayes knew that---a gentlemen knows when it is time to leave.

[ChevelleFreak93]

mIcHiGaN sUcKs

[lasigmaman]

He sure could choke the crap outta an opposing layer. I give him that much!

[lasigmaman]

layer. lol.

[mcnutty4]

u kicked ass woody we miss u

[kirkoa]

I still love him!

[BCQHU]

the greatest college football coach ever...R.I.P Woody...Go Bucks!

[mspell350]

O H

[sutcliff]

I O

[kcg5000]

the man.

fuck michigan