good talk

It's been so long since I received a Valentine that I'm sure that this must be my year, I'm way overdue. Ohio State's late football coach, Woody Hayes, was born on February 14 which is why he was so sweet. In 28 years as Ohio State's head coach Woody won 3 Outright and 2 Shared National Championships, quite a good haul. Well known for his bad temper Woody was nonetheless a very honest and good person who really cared about his players, not only was Woody never found guilty of major NCAA infractions, he was never accused of any. By the end of his very lengthy tenure as Ohio State's Head Coach Woody was only the 5th highest paid in the Big 10, money meant little to him and he was listed in the phone book. Woody once walked into a restaurant that my brother Bob managed around the Campus and was sitting at the counter by himself, Bob asked him if he had heard of Larry Poole from Akron Garfield, Woody said he hadn't. I don't think that Poole was the greatest student in the world but he starred at halfback at Kent State and later played for the Browns and Oilers once scoring 3 touchdowns in a game----Bob's tip was a good one. I had a little Black friend named Leroy Peyton who was on the team (ha,ha, Leroy was the smallest one) and one Sunday evening Woody and his son Jeff, an only child and later a long-time Judge in Columbus, took Leroy out to dinner. Leroy said that Jeff Hayes was the only one who he ever heard talk back to Woody, the number wouldn't be too extensive. Woody was a tremendous recruiter who would recruit out of state if the prospect was really good. When Jack Tatum was a high school All-American at Passaic High School in New Jersey he walked into his house one day and saw his mother sitting in the living room talking to--Woody Hayes. He said that Woody looked up and said "Hi" and then resumed talking to his mother while Jack sat there. After this continued for a long time Jack said that he was wondering what was going on, he later said, "I knew that he hadn't come there to recruit my mother." Woody said that he would get on the good side of the parents and then let them influence their son's decision, it worked well. After Jack Tatum's career at Ohio State Woody said, "Jack Tatum could have played for us when he was in the Eighth Grade." In 1858 Abraham Lincoln ran against Stephen Douglas in the Illinois Senatorial Race where the burning issue of the day was Slavery which was repugnant to many of the people in the North while considered very good to many of the people in the South. The South was a Slaveocracy, there were 11 million free Whites in the South and 9 million Black slaves, the South was built on the labor of slaves. The Lincoln-Douglas Debates were mainly about slavery. Lincoln lost to Douglas but had come close to defeating the most powerful nothern Democrat, this made Lincoln a marked man in National Politics and gave rise to his ascension to the Presidency 2 years later. A couple days ago one Hispanic stabbed another Hispanic to death in the parking lot of that Wal-Mart across from Sam's Town. The one Hispanic, "57," had seen the shopping cart of the other Hispanic,"24," bang into the side of his vehicle. The ensuing argument developed into a fight with the predictable result of the young guy beating up the older one. Ah, but the old guy got up with a knife and stabbed the young guy to death. In places like San Diego, L.A. and Las Vegas most of the street crime is done by Hispanics, a high proportion of them are criminals and they're a drain on Society in that and a number of other ways. This isn't Mexico, what are they doing here?