Follow to Running Scores Up
Link: http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=hruby/101115_running_up_score
1st, let me make it clear that I'm NOT ok with running up scores below the college level. Although I really don't care what people think about me in that regard.
Secondly I think Woody Hayes may have been one of the greatest college football coaches of all time simply from this part of a blog post I read:
10. Ohio State
Victory: Defeated Michigan 50-14 in a 1968 college football game.
Run-up: Up 44-14 late in the game, the top-ranked Buckeyes scored a superfluous touchdown, then eschewed a PAT kick to go for two against the No. 4-ranked Wolverines. The conversion attempt failed, but Ohio State's intent was clear.
Rationale: Two reasons, really: (A) The two schools hate each other; (B) then-Ohio State coach Woody Hayes really hated Michigan, so much so that he famously once refused to stop his almost-out-of-gas team bus in Michigan. Said Hayes: "Stop for gas?! We'll push the damn car all the way to the Ohio state line before I contribute one penny to any business in the state of Michigan!"
Quotable: Asked why he chose to go for two, Hayes replied, "Because I couldn't go for three."
Fun fact: The Wolverines famously upset the Buckeyes the next season.
Egregiousness quotient: Mild. All is fair in a rivalry this intense. Hayes' quote is probably the most honest thing a college football coach has ever said in public.
