What do most ND fans think of Woody Hayes?

What do most ND fans think of Woody Hayes?
by irisharab (2013-02-14 10:41:42)

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I'm assuming that he wasn't well liked, but I can't imagine that he was despised to the extent that Bo Schembeckler was. I don't remember whether ND and OSU played each other while Hayes coached the Buckeyes.

I read this morning that Hayes would have turned 100 today.

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Never has a man accomplished so little with so much- - OldIrishFan 2013-02-19 09:55:26
Switzer commented a few years later... - N261842 2013-02-17 16:37:47
He was the lead moran. And he was never in my kitchen. * - NDscott 2013-02-17 15:38:41
pretty sure he's dead * - cujaysfan 2013-02-16 23:37:16
3 yards and a cloud of bore - tbonesays 2013-02-16 18:44:59
I regard him as the LBJ of college football. * - RocketShark 2013-02-16 18:10:07
I am sure he, Paterno, and Bo are - NW Ohio Irish 2013-02-15 22:25:52
He ducked ND for years and years. - ndsqueak 2013-02-15 17:57:28
Great coach whom I would never want to play for. * - GeronimoRumplestiltskin 2013-02-15 09:51:52
Charlie Bauman wasn't his only target - Hipster 2013-02-15 08:28:20
- Hayes ensured nobody would remember that incident - ShermanOaksND 2013-02-15 15:55:31
- He's no Ed Hall - gadomer 2013-02-15 09:06:28
  - A similar thing once happened in the Cotton Bowl - sprack 2013-02-15 16:40:28
    - IIRC, both players appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show - gadomer 2013-02-16 10:44:13
      - Dick Moegle (Rice) and Tommy Lewis (Alabama) (link) - 59er_jim 2013-02-16 11:34:03
    - The Palpably Unfair Act - tbonesays 2013-02-15 17:46:19
His wife said she would never divorce him - SanBarIrish 2013-02-14 22:41:23
Well living in Columbus everyone thinks he is a Saint. - Irish11410 2013-02-14 16:01:24
FWIW, Holtz said the two men he most respected/admired - irishrock 2013-02-14 15:35:42
- FWIW, the three men I admire most - Shifty 2013-02-15 11:04:05
  - they caught the last train for the coast * - jt 2013-02-15 11:08:00
    - I forget what day that was......... * - Knute of Indy 2013-02-15 14:18:25
      - And they were singing . . . * - tf86 2013-02-16 05:53:51
- I've never seen that before. - SWPaDem 2013-02-14 21:00:24
He said he wanted to play one big game a year - Fifer 2013-02-14 14:35:38
- I despise Ohio State, but I'll give them at least partial- - JACC1203 2013-02-15 12:43:14
My dad was reprimanded as an assistant football coach - MistakenD 2013-02-14 14:00:11
- I'll never forget that game vs Clemson. - mkovac 2013-02-14 17:47:58
RMK's biological father. * - Knute of Indy 2013-02-14 13:45:25
He was a bit off in the head - ndgotrobbedin97 2013-02-14 13:08:08
"Why did you go for two?" - MiddleAmerican 2013-02-14 12:56:13
- Here is that scene that you are talking about... - BuckeyeJohn05 2013-02-14 16:06:19
  - Woody reminds me of Lou Holtz. Speech and all. * - billweber72 2013-02-15 08:21:49
- It was 50-14 and Michigan got their revenge in 1969. (link) - G.K.Chesterton 2013-02-14 13:52:39
When I lived in Columbus I went to a kick off luncheon - ProV1x 2013-02-14 12:47:34
He was an a-hole * - MDDomer 2013-02-14 12:38:45
- Ditto...... * - Wolfetone 2013-02-14 18:12:14
Lou was one of his assistants at Ohio State. - mkovac 2013-02-14 12:36:45
- Listening to Woody, it is clear he had a big influence - Sweetlou88 2013-02-16 08:22:47
- Holtz discusses working for Hayes in his autobiography. * - G.K.Chesterton 2013-02-14 13:53:40
Hayes was a freaking lunatic. - irish-al 2013-02-14 11:29:12
- He's John L. Smith with a better win-loss record. - akaRonMexico 2013-02-14 11:39:04
Woody told midwest recruits to go to Notre Dame, if they - NDND 2013-02-14 11:27:13
- And he made sure he'd never have to play them * - ndgotrobbedin97 2013-02-14 13:09:05
I think he, along with Generalissimo Francisco Franco, - slick 2013-02-14 11:26:06
I think Ara worked for him @ Miami (OH), and liked him * - oldtownirish 2013-02-14 11:09:00
- Woody had coached at OSU for 13 years before Ara came to ND. - odschool 2013-02-14 11:35:25
- Didn't Ara play for him at Miami, as well? * - irishhawk49 2013-02-14 11:23:54
  - No. He succeeded him as HC at Miami. - odschool 2013-02-14 11:38:35
I think Woody was despised much more. He famously described - odschool 2013-02-14 10:56:24
- Woody didn't want to "split the Catholic fans" in Ohio. - dbldomer7375 2013-02-14 12:44:21
- Pretty sure Hayes admired ND... - BuckeyeJohn05 2013-02-14 12:09:54
  - That is a true story, and the player was Steve Heimkreiter - sprack 2013-02-14 13:55:10
- And, thus, ND never played OSU during Hayes's tenure - ShermanOaksND 2013-02-14 11:02:24
  - Crable over the top? I love Frank Broyles description"Good g - mac811 2013-02-14 17:43:56
  - The '35 game and Bill Shakespeare contributed to ending - odschool 2013-02-14 11:28:08
    - You may not know this but - gadomer 2013-02-14 19:23:12

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