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Woody Explaining the Triple Option (Video)

By Brutus Greyshield -15 February 2013
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Chris Brown (smartfootball.com) has unearthed this video of Woody explaining the triple option (around the 18-minute mark).

BME_Buckeye on 15 Feb 2013 - 5:58am #

My thoughts on this video

Woody is an excellent teacher and I would have love to have him as a professor. I don't follow all the plays ran or understand the formations but I learned a lot just listening.

It was awesome watching OSU beat the snot out of UW in the replays. Suck it Sconnie!
Good to hear Woody speak for the first time ever.
I now know to fall over the ball and not on it.
Meyer is following in Woody footsteps giving players post game recognition which is good. Tressel never did this and I like that Meyer does this.
Buckeye Federal has too many commercials.
Look at the size of the Arby's burger and compare it to what you can get now (I don't eat there) and see on TV. Americans are having a hard time with servings and eating a large amount of food in one setting.
Watching this, why doesn't Meyer get his own show?
Woody loved his players.

Good find!

Ohio State's band SLAUGHTERED Michigan's band. If this were a football game, it would have been Florida State vs. Savannah State. - SB Nation following OSU vs. UM 2012

buckguyfan1 on 15 Feb 2013 - 7:08am #

Dog Gonnit I love that guy!

~Naples Buckeye - "May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't." - General George S. Patton, Jr.

Knarcisi on 15 Feb 2013 - 9:45am #

At the 13:32 mark ... "And here's that guy, that wants to knock his head off, now". I love it.

AndyVance on 18 Feb 2013 - 1:26pm #

I was struck by a few things:

God the '79 Mustang was an ugly automobile.
Wow, those Arby's commercials were terrible.
Who knew the concept of automatic bank transfers was controversial in '78?
Now we know the source of the great "Ross Fulton's Breakdown" graphic.
Woody Hayes was a man's man, and obviously extremely intelligent. I loved how he threw the word "prosaic" out in the first two minutes of the same show in which he used the phrase "knock the guy's head off."
Weren't those cute little microphone necklaces neato?
Golly, TV graphics sure have come a long way in 30 years...
I wish there was an Urban Meyer TV show with a blackboard.
Player injuries were apparently an issue of discussion even way back then...

M Man on 18 Feb 2013 - 2:43pm #

Does Urban Meyer not have a weekly in-season tv program? I cannot believe that he wouldn't.

One thing that has changed from the Hayes-Schembechler era is that no coaches (at least none that I know of) still do same-day review programs. Back in Woody's day, there was less television pressure to flop around scheduling of noon, 3:30 and 8:00 games. Most everything was at 1:30, which allowed everyone to plan on the coach being in a studio to film that evening.

Nobody wants to do that anymore. It would be near-impossible after a night game (although I think that both Hayes and Schembechler did it when they needed to). But to a great extent, they want to spend all day and all evening on Saturdays with the team, before the game, and with recruits and team families after.

I know that "Michigan Replay" on Sunday mornings was an article of faith for most Michigan fans, for decades. It looked just like this program. But now the program (renamed "Inside Michigan Football" because of somebody's ownership of the old name I think) is a Monday night broadcast, that is recorded after Saturdays. It is just one of the little things that is ironically lost to modern television and recuriting imperatives.

If we had had the oppotunity to have seen Woody's show as well as Bo's show back in those days I think it would have been fantastic. I simply cannot get enough of this stuff; Woody as teacher, historian, analyst, raconteur, motivator, tactician. How lucky some OSU students must have been, to have him as a prof.

AndyVance on 18 Feb 2013 - 3:33pm #

Apparently WBNS-TV did produce Game Time with Urban Meyer, though aside from this "collectable" DVD I can't find much evidence of its airing out there... I may have to buy the DVD just to see what it was like, now that Woody has me all pumped up for more coaching television!

AndyVance on 18 Feb 2013 - 3:36pm #

...and you're right on, btw: the changes in TV over the past 30 years, not to mention the demands on the coaches, etc., have certainly changed how these types of shows play out and are produced. The candor of Coach Hayes in the clip above was really striking, and I can imagine that in a similar setting Coach Meyer would be just as blunt/candid/honest.

Would love to see some of that out Replay footage you mentioned - Maybe it's because I'm a hopeless romantic, but I love the old Woody and Bo stuff... Just a brilliant era in the sport.

M Man on 18 Feb 2013 - 10:10pm #

Here's one quick little sample I found on YouTube. Bo was good on these programs. Smart guy; he knew how important it was, and that the show was a big part of his creating his own personal brand, before anybody thought about personal branding.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rgH2BZ-50g

I think Urban Meyer would be v-e-r-y good on one of these programs. He was an absolutely terrific tv analyst when he was away from coaching.

AndyVance on 19 Feb 2013 - 9:59am #

Great stuff, M - thanks for digging that up (don't tell anyone else here that I actually enjoyed watching it - they'll break out the pitchforks and torches and come to my house).

Agree, Urbz would be stellar on a replay show - I'm going to have to break down and buy that DVD now. I'll let you now how it goes :)