RIP - Bo Schembechler
Bo Schembechler, the legendary football coach at the University of Michigan, passed away this morning at the age of 77. He was the winningest coach in the history of football at the University of Michigan with a lifetime record of 194-48-5 over a span of 19 seasons with the Michigan Wolverines; a career that included 13 Big Ten Conference Championships.
He is best known for his legendary rivalry with Woody Hayes of Ohio State University, which was referred to as the Ten Years War. The fact that Schembechler played for Hayes at the University of Miami (Ohio) and was an a graduate assistant coach under him at Ohio State did nothing to ease the intensity of that rivalry.
He co-authored his memoirs in 2004 with Dan Ewald, Tradition: Bo Schembechler's Michigan Memories. In that book, he not only shared the invaluable memories that come with his almost two decades of head coach but he paid tribute to the coaches that came before him.
He will be missed by everyone in the Great Lakes State.
