“The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.” – Woody Hayes
To go on with
my testimony from Ohio State: During my sophomore year I applied for a job at
the Faculty Club and got it. I was a waitress/busser for their lunch shift and as
a result I saw some of the real bigwigs of the university.
For instance,
I helped serve lunch more than once to OSU President Edward Jennings (who served from 1981-1989) as he held a closed-door meeting.
I was still in my “movie star realm” to some
extent and so when he left behind half of his club sandwich (with turkey breast
and bacon) after one such meeting, I took a big bite out of one section before
putting it on the bussing cart! I would then go on to bragging to friends about doing this!
Another time,
and this is a story I loved to tell people when informing them about my time at
Ohio State (in Chicago, NYC, etc.), I took a pen Woody Hayes (then a history professor) left behind one
afternoon as he sat in his usual spot at the end of a long dining table
specifically designated for seasoned professors eating alone. He was eating a
bowl of chili that day. I remember so strongly about how he was "holding court," as he often did, with all of the professors on his end intently listening to him.
Everyone has always
asked me, “Do you still have the pen?” The answer is no.
The funniest
thing about Woody Hayes, though, is I actually met him in high school at some
republican donors event held at Ashland College (now a university). My best friend
Marcy’s father was the vice president of the college (which has attracted many top conservative
leaders to its campus to speak and, in fact, had its public affair school
dedicated by none other than Ronald Reagan in 1983, the year after I graduated
high school) and so she got the two of us into the event with Woody.
Afterward, I
went up to Woody to introduce myself and I remember clearly what a sincere man
he was. He asked me if I was going to college and even gave me a little pep
talk about succeeding in life! He signed his name on the program I had from the event (and
I do still have that, currently in my storage unit), writing in ball pen ink, “Lisa,
Good luck to you. YEA, OHIO!”
The thing about
Ohio State is I feel like I got the best it could offer me and, by the time I
left, I had an incredible resume, including paid summer internships at the Cincinnati
Enquirer (as a copy editor and feature writer) and the Cleveland Plain
Dealer as a sportswriter who actually broke a front-page national story (including
on Dan Rather’s newscast) all through my own doing!
I have
written about this before so I am going to go into my archives to try and find
it. In the meantime, I found this online a bit ago:
Hayes coached the Ohio State football team for 28 years and took General George Patton as his model of leadership. His hard-nosed discipline gained him a reputation for being fiery. He was very difficult to please, had little tolerance for failure, and sometimes crossed the line when disciplining a player. Over his career, Hayes amassed an incredible win-loss record, but he also created a long list of offenses against players, parents, fans, and sports reporters. During the 1978 Gator Bowl, an opposing player intercepted an Ohio State pass and wound up on the Buckeyes’s sideline. Infuriated, Woody Hayes slugged the boy, nearly knocking off his helmet—all on national television.
Appropriately, Ohio State fired him the next day. But in the weeks that followed, the nation raged, reporters mercilessly piled on, and anyone with a grudge vented his spleen on the humiliated coach. He retreated in silence and shame behind drawn drapes and locked doors.
During that time, Coach Tom Landry was to attend a prestigious banquet in New York and he was free to ask a guest to join him. Normally, he would have taken his wife, Alicia. But this time he appeared with Woody Hayes. Landry’s poignant act of grace lifted Hayes out of his shame and silenced his tormenters. Grace has a way of doing that.
I asked Coach Landry about it at our next board meeting. He said, “I figured that since everybody else was beating up on him, he needed somebody to put an arm around him and tell him he still loved him.” Can you imagine how that felt for Coach Woody Hayes? When he was bent low, feeling ashamed . . . deserving nothing, Landry bent down, lifted him up, and embraced him.
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Revelation
7:9: [9] After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man
could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood
before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in
their hands;
"Here
are the people who get through that 'great day of His wrath' and go into the
kingdom. It's talking about the Believing Remnant in Israel and they come from
every part of the nations out there and God gathers them all back together.
"That's
who you see in Nahum 1:7: [7] The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day
of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him.
"That's
what you read about in Revelation 7 and Nahum is picking up on what Micah told
you--what Revelation ultimately explains.
"There
are only three verses in all of Nahum that have any brightness in them and
verse 7 is the first one. You've got 6 verses of helter-skelter, wrath,
indignation and vengeance and now you got a verse-- 'Oh, there are going to be
some Believers.'
"Talking
about the kingdom, Verse 15: [15] Behold upon the mountains the feet of
him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace! O Judah, keep thy solemn
feasts, perform thy vows: for the wicked shall no more pass through thee; he is
utterly cut off.
*****
"He's
talking to Nineveh in Nahum 2:13: [13] Behold, I am against thee, saith
the LORD of hosts, and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword
shall devour thy young lions: and I will cut off thy prey from the earth, and
the voice of thy messengers shall no more be heard.
"God's
intention is to bring a complete end to the idolatrous system that gives birth
to the rebellious nations against His people. In Nahum, you see the Antichrist
show up and be a part of that system that comes out of Assyria.
"Just
like Obadiah talked about Edom, and the ancient hatred that the tents of the
Edomites have against Israel, now He's going to talk about Assyria, and not
just that ancient hatred that they had, but the source of it. It goes all the
way back to Nimrod.
Nahum 1: [8]
But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof,
and darkness shall pursue his enemies.
"Now
you're back in Genesis 1:2. That's God's judgment on rebellion.
"Talking
about Nineveh, Nahum 1:11: [11] There is one come out of thee, that
imagineth evil against the LORD, a wicked counseller.
In II
Thessalonians 2, Paul says about the son of perdition: [8] And then
shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of
his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
"Wicked
is that proper name given to the Antichrist. He counsels against the Lord.
Daniel 11 says he takes the kingdom by flatteries. In other words, he's got a
philosophy that he's putting out.
Daniel 8: [23]
And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the
full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall
stand up.
[25]
And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he
shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall
also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without
hand.
"What
you have there is the future of Greece and the Greek empire takes over the
Media-Persia empire and then the Greek empire is destroyed. Notice that
description of the Antichrist as the king of the north:
"He
understands dark sayings. He has some wisdom. He knows some things. He's going
to attempt to counterfeit God's ability to reveal secrets.
Verse 24: [24]
And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power: and he shall destroy
wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and
the holy people.
"From
Revelation 13 we know he's going to be standing in the power of Satan.
"Notice
this guy comes in with a peace policy. He's going to do what Nahum's talking
about. He's going to imagine evil against the Lord as a Wicked counselor. He's
going to counsel the world about how to bring in peace.
Daniel 11: [21]
And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the
honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom
by flatteries.
[22]
And with the arms of a flood shall they be overflown from before him, and shall
be broken; yea, also the prince of the covenant.
[23] And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully: for
he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people.
"The guy
knows how to talk. With good words and fair speeches he deceives people. When
it says it's a 'small people,' it's talking about how the Antichrist is that
'little horn'; he isn't going to need thousands of people to take over.
"By the
way, you don't need millions of people to take over a nation. Just take over
the government. When you have a coup, you just need to have people in strategic
points and places.
[24]
He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he
shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he
shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall
forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time.
[25] And he shall stir up his power and his courage against the king of
the south with a great army; and the king of the south shall be stirred up to
battle with a very great and mighty army; but he shall not stand: for they
shall forecast devices against him.
[26] Yea, they that feed of the portion of his meat shall destroy him,
and his army shall overflow: and many shall fall down slain.
[27] And both these kings' hearts shall be to do mischief, and they
shall speak lies at one table; but it shall not prosper: for yet the end shall
be at the time appointed.
"I love
that thing about how 'they shall speak lies at one table.' They're having a
counsel; they're having a negotiation and they're lying through their teeth to
one another. The way the Antichrist takes over is with a policy book.
"It's
funny, the Democrat and Republican parties, during a presidential election,
spend millions in their conventions and they draft a party platform. Now nobody
that ever gets elected pays any attention to the party platform.
"They
don't follow those things, but this guy has a party platform that he's going to
put forth and when he gets it across, he's going to do it! And it's a plan of
wickedness."
Revelation
7:9: [9] After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man
could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood
before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in
their hands;
"Here
are the people who get through that 'great day of His wrath' and go into the
kingdom. It's talking about the Believing Remnant in Israel and they come from
every part of the nations out there and God gathers them all back together.
"That's
who you see in Nahum 1:7: [7] The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day
of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him.
"That's
what you read about in Revelation 7 and Nahum is picking up on what Micah told
you--what Revelation ultimately explains.
"There
are only three verses in all of Nahum that have any brightness in them and
verse 7 is the first one. You've got 6 verses of helter-skelter, wrath,
indignation and vengeance and now you got a verse-- 'Oh, there are going to be
some Believers.'
"Talking
about the kingdom, Verse 15: [15] Behold upon the mountains the feet of
him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace! O Judah, keep thy solemn
feasts, perform thy vows: for the wicked shall no more pass through thee; he is
utterly cut off.
*****
"He's
talking to Nineveh in Nahum 2:13: [13] Behold, I am against thee, saith
the LORD of hosts, and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword
shall devour thy young lions: and I will cut off thy prey from the earth, and
the voice of thy messengers shall no more be heard.
"God's
intention is to bring a complete end to the idolatrous system that gives birth
to the rebellious nations against His people. In Nahum, you see the Antichrist
show up and be a part of that system that comes out of Assyria.
"Just
like Obadiah talked about Edom, and the ancient hatred that the tents of the
Edomites have against Israel, now He's going to talk about Assyria, and not
just that ancient hatred that they had, but the source of it. It goes all the
way back to Nimrod.
Nahum 1: [8]
But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof,
and darkness shall pursue his enemies.
"Now
you're back in Genesis 1:2. That's God's judgment on rebellion.
"Talking
about Nineveh, Nahum 1:11: [11] There is one come out of thee, that
imagineth evil against the LORD, a wicked counseller.
In II
Thessalonians 2, Paul says about the son of perdition: [8] And then
shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of
his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
"Wicked
is that proper name given to the Antichrist. He counsels against the Lord.
Daniel 11 says he takes the kingdom by flatteries. In other words, he's got a
philosophy that he's putting out.
Daniel 8: [23]
And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the
full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall
stand up.
[25]
And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he
shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall
also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without
hand.
"What
you have there is the future of Greece and the Greek empire takes over the
Media-Persia empire and then the Greek empire is destroyed. Notice that
description of the Antichrist as the king of the north:
"He
understands dark sayings. He has some wisdom. He knows some things. He's going
to attempt to counterfeit God's ability to reveal secrets.
Verse 24: [24]
And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power: and he shall destroy
wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and
the holy people.
"From
Revelation 13 we know he's going to be standing in the power of Satan.
"Notice
this guy comes in with a peace policy. He's going to do what Nahum's talking
about. He's going to imagine evil against the Lord as a Wicked counselor. He's
going to counsel the world about how to bring in peace.
Daniel 11: [21]
And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the
honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom
by flatteries.
[22]
And with the arms of a flood shall they be overflown from before him, and shall
be broken; yea, also the prince of the covenant.
[23] And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully: for
he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people.
"The guy
knows how to talk. With good words and fair speeches he deceives people. When
it says it's a 'small people,' it's talking about how the Antichrist is that
'little horn'; he isn't going to need thousands of people to take over.
"By the
way, you don't need millions of people to take over a nation. Just take over
the government. When you have a coup, you just need to have people in strategic
points and places.
[24]
He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he
shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he
shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall
forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time.
[25] And he shall stir up his power and his courage against the king of
the south with a great army; and the king of the south shall be stirred up to
battle with a very great and mighty army; but he shall not stand: for they
shall forecast devices against him.
[26] Yea, they that feed of the portion of his meat shall destroy him,
and his army shall overflow: and many shall fall down slain.
[27] And both these kings' hearts shall be to do mischief, and they
shall speak lies at one table; but it shall not prosper: for yet the end shall
be at the time appointed.
"I love
that thing about how 'they shall speak lies at one table.' They're having a
counsel; they're having a negotiation and they're lying through their teeth to
one another. The way the Antichrist takes over is with a policy book.
"It's
funny, the Democrat and Republican parties, during a presidential election,
spend millions in their conventions and they draft a party platform. Now nobody
that ever gets elected pays any attention to the party platform.
"They
don't follow those things, but this guy has a party platform that he's going to
put forth and when he gets it across, he's going to do it! And it's a plan of
wickedness."