At 12 we moved to Ohio just south of Columbus, some school coaches thought this was the way to be. I ended up with an abusive coach in junior high. Coincidently our school system was a rival to where Art Schlicter played (he was in high school at the time). My coach was an abusive jerk. Quitting that team remains one of the best things I have ever done. And before anyone says anything about how soft I was, a decade later I graduated from Navy Officer School and did 4 years active duty, part of it in a combat zone. In the Navy I worked with true leaders not egotistical abusive idiots.
@lbowsk This coach wasn't just verbally abusive. If you lined up out of position he'd run up and kick you. He sometimes had us kicking each other. Drills between players were brutal, they frequently degenerated into staged fights. The worst were the endless practices. Starters and others expected to get a lot of playing time got no rest at all, those just "on the team" ended up standing around much of the time. Full speed full contact every day, before a game, day after a game. We were supposed to finish by 6:30 but it was usually closer to 7. Often on Saturday. My one regret was that I didn't give my parents all the brutal details. Many years later I did, and my father was horrified. Had he known at the time dad would have destroyed him.
Too often, coaches see others like Hayes, Vince Lombardi, Bobby Knight or Bear Bryant, and assume this is the way to be tough - but they only take one side of the coach as the only side.
Unfortunately assholes like this still exist in youth sports. Maybe not the physical abuse that you withstood back in the day but there are still plenty of “coaches” and “adults” who make it so unbearable that quitting is seen as the healthy alternative, and these same “leaders” wonder why participation in youth sports has been declining for decades.
he did more behind the scenes for his players than you will ever know ..... his high morals kept many players on the straight and narrow ..... one great coach and man ! RIP Woody ..... God knows the truth about you and accepted your temper tantrums .....
@@WilliamMurray-lr1bb. You have got to be the biggest fool in the country. Hayes was a piece of shit, just like the Ohio State players, Coaches and the school. Ohio State is the most coward team in college football. Hayes was maybe a good coach and maybe and I doubt it a good man but he showed who he really was the day he hit that player from Clemson. He hid who he really is but we know now who he really is. He will always be associated with the trash that needs to be taken out of college football.
@@ralphmelvin1046 I died laughing when he physically attacked the cameraman. Oddly, when his top ranked Buckeyes were shockingly upset by UCLA and lost the national championship, he seemed gracious and a good sport. Ya never could tell with Woody!
@@ralphmelvin1046 I recall a Sports Illustrated article at the time saying Woody Hayes was like Adolf Hitler. But the writer then added, "But wait a minute, up in Ann Arbor we've got Schembechler, who's about as charming as Idi Amin." Those were the days!
@@LineMountain Had OSU won the NC in 1975 he would have retired after that season. But they traveled to Southern California and lost to an inferior UCLA team
@@rayjr62Yes. They had beaten them earlier in the year, out there. Coincidentally, UCLA pulled the same stunt 10 years earlier. They lost to Duffy Daugherty's powerful Michigan State team early in the regular season but lost to them in a Rose Bowl rematch.
If you read Woody's profile he had several run-ins it wasn't just the game in 1978 that got him fired he had a long history of fighting and assaulting players, camera men and that's just what was known.
philldholes Yea he was a madman on the field. People said he was one of the nicest, most outgoing people once you were on campus or in his class at OSU.
Hayes voluntarily taught all his first year players a course in grammar and linguistics. When he would recruit high school prospects, he would never talk about football, just education, political issues and history. He turned down an offer of a raise by the university, choosing to keep his salary below $50,000 per year, after 4 national titles. That’s the good side of Woody Hayes. But all that is no get-out-of-trouble card. His behavior on the field was often infantile and insulting. They should have fired him long before this.
This isn't "passion." This is anger mismanagement and immaturity, and he got away with it because he won some football games. If he acted like that in line at the bank he'd be arrested for assault. Guy was a sore loser and a hypocrite.
When I was 19 (1979) I worked on a framing crew that built a 6,800 sq/tf house in Bell Canyon for Freedman (the camera man), paid for by the University of Michigan.
+jerry hello Nick Saban of Alabama acts that way sometimes. Doesn't resort to hitting people but has stormed out of news conferences a time or two. But Hayes was the worse, his tantrums dated back to the 1950s.
+Mark Muffs hahahahahaha Not at all like that. Being angry is a natural thing in some situations.....hitting someone because you are angry is something else altogether.
who do you think is the real authority in Ohio at that time. Some cop or Woody Hayes. Wanna go back to the precinct with a bunch of Ohio State fans and tell them you just arrested the coach?
Notice the game was being played in Michigan. Assuming that cop standing there was from Ohio accompanying the team then he would have really had no jurisdiction and would have been more or less security.
Woody was a fiery, fired up coach who coached with emotion. Sometimes, he was way too emotional, as is shown here. But Woody is and will always be an Ohio State legend.
@@dennissvitak5475 Then there’s Bo. Who knowingly, for years, let his players be sexually assaulted and molested by a Doctor for team physicals. I’ll take Woody any day.
Can we also appreciate that someone had the wherewithal to film this? Looks like it was done with a camera pointed at the TV. Both audio and video quality are pretty good for the time. The toys we have today make it easy, but back then it took money, skill, and a bit of luck. Note also the "graphics" of the day - simple block lettering, all one color. And a simple abc-in-circle logo. There were also only six or so major "bowl" games. A post season appearance was something special, not something handed out to any team with six wins.
I’m a Michigan fan and I actually really like Woody Hayes. I wish we had more people who were that passionate about their players, their state and their fans. Makes the game more fun. But I feel like somebody should’ve gotten Woody Hayes a punching bag for the sideline, or a stress reliever squishy toy lol. Bo vs Woody was the greatest coaching rivalry (and friendship) in college football history.
Was actually a great human being who loved his players and focused on education. Also way ahead of his time on civil equality and black players. Fuck you.
That cameraman was unwise to be filming Hayes in the middle of a breakdown . He should’ve just walked over and filmed the players and that wouldn’t have happened
This guy was like the Bobby Knight of college football'/!!! That's nothing compared to what he did to the Clemson linebacker after he intercepted a pass in the 1978 Gator Bowl game'/!!!
Harlan Ellison went to Ohio State until he was expelled for hitting a professor during an argument about literature. Then there’s OSU alum Phil Ochs, the great folk singer who lost his mind and became a street person. QB Art Schlichter went to prison, as did Maurice Clarett. And Jack Tatum was Jack Tatum. Must be something bad in the water on the Buckeye campus!
Close. Knight did a lot of bullying, shoving and a slap. Woodie balled up his fist and and let it rip. Woodie was a true brawler of a coach. Knight wasn’t.
To add to what's already been said, Woody also tore up the yardage markers during one of the Ohio State/Michigan games, and threw a projector at his assistant coach Bill Mallory during a film session.
@@brianarbenz1329 Punching a player for the other team was just the last straw, Hayes had various other instances of inappropriate sideline behavior, including attacking officials carrying down markers on the sideline.
Man child! As a Coach one of the most important things one could teach is losing with grace and Sportsmanship! It doesn’t matter how many championships he won these tantrums will always color it!
Keith Jackson never had the guts to actually report what he saw if it was negative. In the infamous Gator Bowl game, Woody punched a Clemson player in the neck for intercepting a pass (or recovering a fumble) and then punched his own player for trying to restrain him. I was watching the game on tv. Jackson’s NEVER SAID A THING about the incident. I lost total respect for him at that moment.
I was watching that game as well and remember when that happened. I like your take and appreciate you saying that. I agree with you, Keith Jackson should've kept it real and commented on what he and the rest of us were witnessing in real time. He didn't want to say anything bad about Woody Hayes. Ironically, a short time later, I think a few days, Woody Hayes was fired and never coached again.
It was a diff era. He didn't literally hurt any kid, he was just passionate. He is seriously the reason tOsu turned into a monster. Your talking about a cfp legend who gets carnations on his grave.. this week
From what I've seen(granted only two incidents) his players fucked up and he took it out other non-ohio state people. At least Bobby Knight had the decency, not to say good form, to strike his own players when they made mistakes.
I’m not an Ohio State fan, but my god I love Woody Hayes and I don’t care what anyone says. I use to love watching him on ABC back when I was a kid, and my dad boss was a Clemson alumni who took us to the Gator Bowl and I was there for that famous game lol 😂
Why didn't that cop(?) standing there arrest Hayes? Assault and battery. Sad that a puke gets a pass just because he's the coach and makes a lot of money.
I am assuming that it was a cop from Ohio accompanying the team providing security for the coach who would be outside of his jurisdiction since it was at Michigan Stadium.
Lol John Wooden was widely known to break NCAA rules at every turn😂🤣 Guy was the king of illegally paying players. No one won more because of "good players" than Wooden.
Programs will tolerate anything as long as you're winning. Look at SMU, look at Penn State. As long as Hayes was winning titles, the university looked the other way. It's wrong, but that's how it is.
So... he "just" did what all other coaches didn't do because they had enough restraint to not assault innocent people due to anger over the outcome of a GAME. Are you saying you're ok with what he did?
People have to remember they really just started getting more and more cameras on the side lines during this era. So there wasn’t any awareness like there is now. No way does that give him a pass but in the early 70s it had to be a different world w cameramen getting in the way. Especially for an old crabby ass like Woody.
I'll never understand why so many people revered this guy. He was an immature bully who couldn't even control his temper or emotions in his senior years, for God's sake.
I remember this. I saw it live on TV back in 1971. Jack Tatum even wrote about this Hayes temper tantrum in his book. It's really too bad that Hayes was given to such inappropriate behavior, he was apparently quite beloved in Columbus, OH, by many.
As long as Woody kept winning championships, OSU was wiling to put up with his temper tantrums. When the Buckeyes weren’t winning Big 10 Championships and Rose Bowls they were finished with him. He was allegedly fired for punching an opposing player on the sidelines, but if Ohio State was undefeated and won the National Championship that year, he could have punched the Governor of Ohio and not been fired.
Good god people I understand how he overreacts to things and all but this man was a great coach and will always have his name in the history books. I'm a Michigan guy and I still have great respect for the man.
Yeah, he was a great coach who won a lot of games... so it's ok that he occasionally had violent outbursts just because he was angry about a GAME. Coaches like him are exactly why I quit football. They take things way too seriously, as if their whole life depends on every play... watching my teammates get their asses chewed for every little mistake... takes all the fun out of it.
I rather a person care to much then not care at all. He was a person that put it all on the line.You could tell it was more than his job but his life.Woody you were one of a kind and I would have loved to play for a coach like that. One old tuff son of a bitch. They don’t make em like that nomore
I thought for sure when I saw this happen in real time that he would get fired......so we had to wait another year when he snapped and did the same thing to a Clemson player in the bowl game in that 1978 season......temper, temper!!!
ohio state has no class. He punched a Clemson player in the neck during the '78 gator bowl (in which osu lost). That's right, he hit A PLAYER. How was this guy not arrested multiple times for assault?? Just goes to show what kind of people ohio state produces
clogger3030 Hahahaha... The man spent years terrorizing everyone, including his own school's administration. Assaulting and abusing players, assistants, cameramen, reporters, coaching dirty play, running out on the field to scream at refs, throwing stuff around on the sidelines, and tearing up yard markers like a petulant little kid when he didn't get his way. Loathed by everyone not within a 100 mile radius of Columbus, with a career that ended when he punched an opposing player on national TV for making a good play against his team. And your defense of him is that he had one of the most disgraced and criminal presidents in U.S. history speak at his funeral? I call that a case of like sticking up for like.
Al O Actually his career ended as a Hall of Fame coach and one of the winningest coaches in NCAA history (9th all time) with 5 national championships and 13 Big Ten championships. No one will ever make a statue of you. Deal with it.
clogger3030 Just because his players won a bunch of football games doesn't mean that he wasn't a psychopathic bully. Certainly no one I'd be jealous of. The fact that there's a statue of him just shows how delusional and morally bankrupt over football success folks at OSU still are. At least Penn State had the good grace to remove their Paterno statue.
At 12 we moved to Ohio just south of Columbus, some school coaches thought this was the way to be. I ended up with an abusive coach in junior high. Coincidently our school system was a rival to where Art Schlicter played (he was in high school at the time).
My coach was an abusive jerk. Quitting that team remains one of the best things I have ever done.
And before anyone says anything about how soft I was, a decade later I graduated from Navy Officer School and did 4 years active duty, part of it in a combat zone. In the Navy I worked with true leaders not egotistical abusive idiots.
Sadly, guys like Woody are everywhere. I applaud you on your decision.
@lbowsk This coach wasn't just verbally abusive. If you lined up out of position he'd run up and kick you. He sometimes had us kicking each other. Drills between players were brutal, they frequently degenerated into staged fights. The worst were the endless practices. Starters and others expected to get a lot of playing time got no rest at all, those just "on the team" ended up standing around much of the time. Full speed full contact every day, before a game, day after a game. We were supposed to finish by 6:30 but it was usually closer to 7. Often on Saturday.
My one regret was that I didn't give my parents all the brutal details. Many years later I did, and my father was horrified. Had he known at the time dad would have destroyed him.
That was just the times we were in(as kids)
Too often, coaches see others like Hayes, Vince Lombardi, Bobby Knight or Bear Bryant, and assume this is the way to be tough - but they only take one side of the coach as the only side.
Unfortunately assholes like this still exist in youth sports. Maybe not the physical abuse that you withstood back in the day but there are still plenty of “coaches” and “adults” who make it so unbearable that quitting is seen as the healthy alternative, and these same “leaders” wonder why participation in youth sports has been declining for decades.
Woody Hayes a beacon of sportsmanship.
He's a beacon alright. Every year UofM wins, you got a different constellation of lights from him
Bumper stickers in Ann Arbor during the 10 year war read “Woody is a Pecker”.
he did more behind the scenes for his players than you will ever know ..... his high morals kept many players on the straight and narrow ..... one great coach and man ! RIP Woody ..... God knows the truth about you and accepted your temper tantrums .....
@@WilliamMurray-lr1bb. You have got to be the biggest fool in the country. Hayes was a piece of shit, just like the Ohio State players, Coaches and the school. Ohio State is the most coward team in college football. Hayes was maybe a good coach and maybe and I doubt it a good man but he showed who he really was the day he hit that player from Clemson. He hid who he really is but we know now who he really is. He will always be associated with the trash that needs to be taken out of college football.
He was already feeling the effects of dementia.
If I were a college football cameraman during the Woody Hayes era, I'd be demanding hazard pay!
As well as wear a Red Man impact suit!🤣🤣
No, that's Hayezrd pay.😂
I would sue him and Ohio State University. He was a disgrace
At least wear a helmet
I'm a long time Michigan fan, but gotta say, I miss ole Woody. He was sumthin else!
Same here I loved beating him!! GO BLUE 🏈
@@ralphmelvin1046 I died laughing when he physically attacked the cameraman. Oddly, when his top ranked Buckeyes were shockingly upset by UCLA and lost the national championship, he seemed gracious and a good sport. Ya never could tell with Woody!
@@malcolmmarshall5946 yes I remember that Rose bowl against UCLA, he went over and shaked Dick Vermeil's hand very graciously
@@ralphmelvin1046 I recall a Sports Illustrated article at the time saying Woody Hayes was like Adolf Hitler. But the writer then added, "But wait a minute, up in Ann Arbor we've got Schembechler, who's about as charming as Idi Amin." Those were the days!
@@malcolmmarshall5946 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
SNL skit John Belushi playing the part of Woody was Gr8!😂🤣
Wasn't that where he lost a chess game to his wife, hurled the table and everything up in the air and slugged his wife?
Per your request
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Never knew that. Lookin it up now!!😂
@@malcolmmarshall5946 it was Checkers
He was living on the edge...with his antics. Eventually they nailed him.
No he had other incidents and sideline meltdowns before this incident
@@LineMountain Had OSU won the NC in 1975 he would have retired after that season. But they traveled to Southern California and lost to an inferior UCLA team
@@rayjr62Yes. They had beaten them earlier in the year, out there. Coincidentally, UCLA pulled the same stunt 10 years earlier. They lost to Duffy Daugherty's powerful Michigan State team early in the regular season but lost to them in a Rose Bowl rematch.
My correction, I meant UCLA won the Rose Bowl rematch with MSU.
Woodie kind of did it to himself. and losing some of those Bowl games didnt help, so they got tired of putting up with him
If you read Woody's profile he had several run-ins it wasn't just the game in 1978 that got him fired he had a long history of fighting and assaulting players, camera men and that's just what was known.
He vividly punches an MSU student after the 1974 game at Spartan Stadium.
Yes this was the event that finally brought it to ha head but he had gotten trouble lots of times for violent outbursts.
philldholes Yea he was a madman on the field. People said he was one of the nicest, most outgoing people once you were on campus or in his class at OSU.
Some people are a Jeckle and Heide and have that switch that turns on and off.
philldholes I think you mean JECKEL and HYDE !!
Hayes voluntarily taught all his first year players a course in grammar and linguistics. When he would recruit high school prospects, he would never talk about football, just education, political issues and history.
He turned down an offer of a raise by the university, choosing to keep his salary below $50,000 per year, after 4 national titles.
That’s the good side of Woody Hayes. But all that is no get-out-of-trouble card. His behavior on the field was often infantile and insulting. They should have fired him long before this.
This isn't "passion." This is anger mismanagement and immaturity, and he got away with it because he won some football games. If he acted like that in line at the bank he'd be arrested for assault. Guy was a sore loser and a hypocrite.
When Woody punched the Clemson player in the 1978 Gator Bowl the Clemson band started playing "Woody Woodpecker".
😂😂😂😂😂😂
When I was 19 (1979) I worked on a framing crew that built a 6,800 sq/tf house in Bell Canyon for Freedman (the camera man), paid for by the University of Michigan.
That's Michigan tax dollars hard at work.
This little stunt cost Hayes $2,000 and he was placed on probation by The Big Ten.
+TheJman2600 in the pc culture today he would be fired and sent to jail and never hired again lol
+TheJman2600 Dear Lord. Was ANYONE as sore a loser as Woody Hayes?
+jerry hello Nick Saban of Alabama acts that way sometimes. Doesn't resort to hitting people but has stormed out of news conferences a time or two. But Hayes was the worse, his tantrums dated back to the 1950s.
+Mark Muffs hahahahahaha Not at all like that. Being angry is a natural thing in some situations.....hitting someone because you are angry is something else altogether.
@@hoss73ford yep, i call it "mount saban erupting" when he does that!! He looked that way during the iron bowl this past season 😂😂🤣🤣👍👍!!
I bet that was funny as hell to see live.
My dad always talked about it, cause he was watching it live.
I watched it live. I was 20. I thought, Did that really happen? Yep.
The smooth walk past after & the quick glare/look before the punch was classic woody
No, it wasn't. I cringed.
I saw both this incident, and the punching of the Clemson player, in that 1978 bowl game that got him fired, live.
funny part is cop is standing there watching him do it
Agreed...."Nothing to see here, move along"
who do you think is the real authority in Ohio at that time. Some cop or Woody Hayes. Wanna go back to the precinct with a bunch of Ohio State fans and tell them you just arrested the coach?
Police knew it was his job on the line
Notice the game was being played in Michigan. Assuming that cop standing there was from Ohio accompanying the team then he would have really had no jurisdiction and would have been more or less security.
@@jamessimms415 I am assuming it was an Ohio cop who would have been out of jurisdiction anyway since the game was being played at Michigan Stadium.
Woody was a fiery, fired up coach who coached with emotion.
Sometimes, he was way too emotional, as is shown here.
But Woody is and will always be an Ohio State legend.
Woody Hawes was a criminal, and got away with crap that would people in prison nowadays.
@@dennissvitak5475
Then there’s Bo.
Who knowingly, for years, let his players be sexually assaulted and molested by a Doctor for team physicals.
I’ll take Woody any day.
Yes, he was an Ohio State legend who was a petulant child and thought his excrement didn't stink,
He was a tyrant
Woody was a great coach, but he was wound a bit too tight at times. That punching the Clemson NG in the Gator Bowl in '78 did him in.
Yeah but it was boss!
Read somewhere that Woody never fired an assistant, the only coach he fired was himself.
I could only imagine how bad the players got yelled at in practice or just had the spit slapped out of there mouth in the locker room!😂
The "Bobby Knight" of football ...
Well said! Knight was another moron douche.
Can we also appreciate that someone had the wherewithal to film this? Looks like it was done with a camera pointed at the TV. Both audio and video quality are pretty good for the time. The toys we have today make it easy, but back then it took money, skill, and a bit of luck. Note also the "graphics" of the day - simple block lettering, all one color. And a simple abc-in-circle logo.
There were also only six or so major "bowl" games. A post season appearance was something special, not something handed out to any team with six wins.
Great play by John Anderson.
Great call by Keith Jackson.
yeah sure, this is pretty bad. But it's also pretty damn funny!
Hayes was a bully, and like all bullies, he was a huge coward.
Dan Heilman he would’ve kicked your sorry ass
Dan Heilman he would still kick your ass today.
@@CaptainKeithMark dude was a stud in world war 2. He probably killed you in a past life
@@mathiaskiwanuka1607awesome comeback 👍👍
That cameraman was an asshole
Same class as Bobby Knight.
+graftonreed Ironically enough, Woody and Bob Knight always had lunch every time Indiana basketball team played Ohio State in Columbus.
Bobby Knight played for Ohio State and took a lot of his cues from Hayes, which explains a lot.
2 winners on the field and in life
Piss off
Whenever I see Woody I always think of John Belushi on SNL.
I can only imagine how he treated his own players in practice with no cameras around'/!!!
How about his wife & dog?
@@IP0Monsturd I know I’m late but what the fuck is your profile picture
actually he treated them with respect, made men out of them, helped them achieve things they never thought they could
@@justinuptonn261 But just like Bobby Knight his ole school ways caught up with him'/!!!
@@kbrich-nn8od And we lose great teachers just because people are snowflakes
He hit a player 1 year later and it got his butt fired. Wonder what would happen today if a coach did that?
Wow real class there.
I'm a UofM Grad, and at first I came to see the wins... but now I come to see the Hayes!!!!!
I’m a Michigan fan and I actually really like Woody Hayes. I wish we had more people who were that passionate about their players, their state and their fans.
Makes the game more fun. But I feel like somebody should’ve gotten Woody Hayes a punching bag for the sideline, or a stress reliever squishy toy lol.
Bo vs Woody was the greatest coaching rivalry (and friendship) in college football history.
I don't think that would have worked for Ol' Woody! He enjoyed punching things to much :-D (GREAT Head Coach....bad temper control)
Was actually a great human being who loved his players and focused on education. Also way ahead of his time on civil equality and black players. Fuck you.
That's not passion. That's an anger problem and stupidity.
Great comment
Woody hayes should have gone to jail
Why
@@BumpyBilsko because he liked to hit players
That cameraman was unwise to be filming Hayes in the middle of a breakdown . He should’ve just walked over and filmed the players and that wouldn’t have happened
This guy was like the Bobby Knight of college football'/!!! That's nothing compared to what he did to the Clemson linebacker after he intercepted a pass in the 1978 Gator Bowl game'/!!!
Knight went to OSU. Woody was his idol. Explains everything.
Harlan Ellison went to Ohio State until he was expelled for hitting a professor during an argument about literature. Then there’s OSU alum Phil Ochs, the great folk singer who lost his mind and became a street person. QB Art Schlichter went to prison, as did Maurice Clarett. And Jack Tatum was Jack Tatum. Must be something bad in the water on the Buckeye campus!
Close. Knight did a lot of bullying, shoving and a slap. Woodie balled up his fist and and let it rip. Woodie was a true brawler of a coach. Knight wasn’t.
Clemson nose guard
To add to what's already been said, Woody also tore up the yardage markers during one of the Ohio State/Michigan games, and threw a projector at his assistant coach Bill Mallory during a film session.
Nowadays a coach would be immediately fired the very first time he pulled something like this.
You realize that Hayes was fired one year later for pulling something like that.
That’s why the game today is boring
That cameraman needed to back up
@@brianarbenz1329 Punching a player for the other team was just the last straw, Hayes had various other instances of inappropriate sideline behavior, including attacking officials carrying down markers on the sideline.
0:30 that man must have been a music major--his display of Dalcroze Eurhythmics is on point
You can't telecast a game without cameras. Let the guy do his thing. SMH
Man child! As a Coach one of the most important things one could teach is losing with grace and Sportsmanship! It doesn’t matter how many championships he won these tantrums will always color it!
And one important thing that cameraman needs to be taught is giving people plenty of space when they’re angry !!
Keith Jackson never had the guts to actually report what he saw if it was negative. In the infamous Gator Bowl game, Woody punched a Clemson player in the neck for intercepting a pass (or recovering a fumble) and then punched his own player for trying to restrain him. I was watching the game on tv. Jackson’s NEVER SAID A THING about the incident. I lost total respect for him at that moment.
I was watching that game as well and remember when that happened. I like your take and appreciate you saying that. I agree with you, Keith Jackson should've kept it real and commented on what he and the rest of us were witnessing in real time. He didn't want to say anything bad about Woody Hayes. Ironically, a short time later, I think a few days, Woody Hayes was fired and never coached again.
This coach assaulted people on several occasions. I can't believe he did get arrested
It was a diff era. He didn't literally hurt any kid, he was just passionate. He is seriously the reason tOsu turned into a monster. Your talking about a cfp legend who gets carnations on his grave.. this week
A monster? In the ‘70s, Hayes was 2 wins and 6 loses in bowl games.
Disgusting, in any era. The man could not control his emotions.
Was it earlier this season when OSU lost to Oklahoma and Woody shoved a Water Boy???
From what I've seen(granted only two incidents) his players fucked up and he took it out other non-ohio state people. At least Bobby Knight had the decency, not to say good form, to strike his own players when they made mistakes.
@@g.m.i.9771 My apologies if it doesn't read as such, but everything I wrote here about Bobby Knight was sarcastic.
@@g.m.i.9771 As a Michigan Wolverines fan in everything, I understand and fully support your efforts when those opportunities are presented.
@@g.m.i.9771 Well said.When the Wildcats play the hoosiers and the buckeyes, I hope they rip them apart.
I’m not an Ohio State fan, but my god I love Woody Hayes and I don’t care what anyone says. I use to love watching him on ABC back when I was a kid, and my dad boss was a Clemson alumni who took us to the Gator Bowl and I was there for that famous game lol 😂
Was his blood sugar extremely low when he did that as well?
So went his career.
Knew the sport, but lacked character discipline. Very immature at controlling his emotions. Not a good leader in that category.
Why didn't that cop(?) standing there arrest Hayes? Assault and battery. Sad that a puke gets a pass just because he's the coach and makes a lot of money.
@@shawnb6775 yeah such a man that he punched a guy doing his job over a game. What a pussy
I am assuming that it was a cop from Ohio accompanying the team providing security for the coach who would be outside of his jurisdiction since it was at Michigan Stadium.
Bob Knight, Woody Hayes......ot role models. They just won with good players.
John Wooden....role model, won more than anyone.
Lol John Wooden was widely known to break NCAA rules at every turn😂🤣 Guy was the king of illegally paying players. No one won more because of "good players" than Wooden.
@@e2go Well Wooden did cheat and pay for a players girlfriend to have an abortion. But he was one hell of a coach no mistaken that.
Programs will tolerate anything as long as you're winning. Look at SMU, look at Penn State. As long as Hayes was winning titles, the university looked the other way. It's wrong, but that's how it is.
Exactly..when Ohio state started slipping…only then did he get fired.
I wish the Cleveland Browns had a coach like Woody Hayes….They would make a run for the division every year….not like this slug we have now………
To quote Buddy Ryan sometimes words are not enough.
Looks to me like Woody Hayes was a sore loser even as an old man.
No kidding! This century, it is 13-2 OSU.
Nah the cameraman needed to turn to someone else
Woody was a great coach but he had an awful temper. He hated to lose.
Ya think?
Is there some kind of woody Hayes rennaisancr going on ?
Woody's greatest hits
Didnt he run on to the field and tackle opposing team's player in a game once?
Gotta be frustating for Woody afterall 4 outta his last 5 teams didnt even cross the goaling against Michigan!!
Woody was an icon at Ohio State
Watching Pop Woody go off was sometimes the best part of the game. 😆🥊
Woody knew how to deal with the media!
Woody just acted out what all other coaches were and still are thinking when frustrated
He had huge anger problems but, like you, there's no shortage of apologists for that type of behavior.
So... he "just" did what all other coaches didn't do because they had enough restraint to not assault innocent people due to anger over the outcome of a GAME. Are you saying you're ok with what he did?
Wonder if he used the old left hook like he did in the Clemson game.
Love Woody! He would have a field day in today's world!
People have to remember they really just started getting more and more cameras on the side lines during this era. So there wasn’t any awareness like there is now. No way does that give him a pass but in the early 70s it had to be a different world w cameramen getting in the way. Especially for an old crabby ass like Woody.
Hitting a Clemson player did him in. The game always had an opposing team, so no excuse there.
After seeing the OSU strength coach body slam that fan, I thought I'd come re-live some of that asshole Woody Hayes' worst moments.
…. Annnnnd how is he an asshole
Can you imagine him in this era, with everyone a cameraman?
I'll never understand why so many people revered this guy. He was an immature bully who couldn't even control his temper or emotions in his senior years, for God's sake.
Him and Bobby Knight were 2 of a kind'/!!!
Woody belted my grandmother with an uppercut. Legend.
Hahaha
Woody was awesome!!!👏🏻
I remember this. I saw it live on TV back in 1971. Jack Tatum even wrote about this Hayes temper tantrum in his book. It's really too bad that Hayes was given to such inappropriate behavior, he was apparently quite beloved in Columbus, OH, by many.
1971? The video says 1977.
Who was more entertaining, Woody Hayes or Bobby Knight. Johnny Carson lover them both!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Woody Hayes made Bobby Knight look like a choir boy! He had to be bi-polar!
Should have been Arrested.
There was also that one time he attacked a player on the opposing team.
0:18 Woody was the Man that knocked it loose I do believe"
Haven’t seen a beating like that since the gophers jumped the whole Ohio state team. Great stuff
Luke Witte
And they say Harbaugh has fits lol
As long as Woody kept winning championships, OSU was wiling to put up with his temper tantrums. When the Buckeyes weren’t winning Big 10 Championships and Rose Bowls they were finished with him. He was allegedly fired for punching an opposing player on the sidelines, but if Ohio State was undefeated and won the National Championship that year, he could have punched the Governor of Ohio and not been fired.
Good god people I understand how he overreacts to things and all but this man was a great coach and will always have his name in the history books. I'm a Michigan guy and I still have great respect for the man.
Yeah, he was a great coach who won a lot of games... so it's ok that he occasionally had violent outbursts just because he was angry about a GAME. Coaches like him are exactly why I quit football. They take things way too seriously, as if their whole life depends on every play... watching my teammates get their asses chewed for every little mistake... takes all the fun out of it.
I rather a person care to much then not care at all. He was a person that put it all on the line.You could tell it was more than his job but his life.Woody you were one of a kind and I would have loved to play for a coach like that. One old tuff son of a bitch. They don’t make em like that nomore
Bobby Knight or Woody Hayes... which is the bigger...??? Tough one!
Lmao! 😂😂😂😂😂
Woody Hayes is my hero!!
Woody Hayes nearing the end of his college football coaching career so sad
Just make sure you don't punch an opposing player, Woody.
Was this before or after he punched the Clemson player 🤔? Woody beat the crap out of a lot of people.
Did this idiot ever get prosecuted for any violent behavior?
hayes should have gone 2 jail
0:23 "Boy Woody really did a Job"
...and he didn't get fired for that?
I thought for sure when I saw this happen in real time that he would get fired......so we had to wait another year when he snapped and did the same thing to a Clemson player in the bowl game in that 1978 season......temper, temper!!!
Woody vs Bo
What’d you expect? Fireworks!
After Bear beat him 35-6 Woody died.
RedElephantStampede guess u could say the same for Bryant after auburn beat him 🤷♂️
So glad this type of A Whole coach is no longer coaching anywhere.
Looked like he Kicked the cameraman. Or, is that term not allowed anymore. CameraMAN.
I still say "actress." Screw the word police.
Sportsmanship to Woody Hayes seemed to be: Every call against my team is wrong, and if a cameraman shows it, I get to beat him up.
Heard about Woody Hayes from Bill Burr.
What a coach
Hey ❌ichigan, are you still looking for a win thats not over a decade old againts your biggest rival
Shows what OSU is all about with a lack of character, respect, dignity and integrity. That's why I am proud to be a MICHIGAN WOLVERINE.
Justin Lyons Michigan is very charitable, thanks for the easy victories every year haha.
Rick Thomas hahahahahahahahahahahahajajaja you're a tool
"You're a tool" wow, if I wanted a better comeback I would've scrapped it off your lips.
Michigan Sucks Ass...Losers.
Is that all you have? Something that happened 40 years ago shows what we are all about??
LOL....now coaches are the complete opposite. They come to the game wearing lipstick and dresses.
"Well,you know,
Woody was just MOTIVATED and hyped up!!!"
BUT
If a black player or coach does this.........
ohio state has no class. He punched a Clemson player in the neck during the '78 gator bowl (in which osu lost). That's right, he hit A PLAYER. How was this guy not arrested multiple times for assault?? Just goes to show what kind of people ohio state produces
The man had a President of the United States of America speak at his funeral. Show some respect.
greenmean1 It tells me he's already more important that you can comprehend.
clogger3030 Hahahaha... The man spent years terrorizing everyone, including his own school's administration. Assaulting and abusing players, assistants, cameramen, reporters, coaching dirty play, running out on the field to scream at refs, throwing stuff around on the sidelines, and tearing up yard markers like a petulant little kid when he didn't get his way. Loathed by everyone not within a 100 mile radius of Columbus, with a career that ended when he punched an opposing player on national TV for making a good play against his team.
And your defense of him is that he had one of the most disgraced and criminal presidents in U.S. history speak at his funeral? I call that a case of like sticking up for like.
Al O Actually his career ended as a Hall of Fame coach and one of the winningest coaches in NCAA history (9th all time) with 5 national championships and 13 Big Ten championships. No one will ever make a statue of you. Deal with it.
clogger3030 Just because his players won a bunch of football games doesn't mean that he wasn't a psychopathic bully. Certainly no one I'd be jealous of. The fact that there's a statue of him just shows how delusional and morally bankrupt over football success folks at OSU still are. At least Penn State had the good grace to remove their Paterno statue.