KENT: Kent State coach Paul Haynes spent seven years as an Ohio State assistant and for every home game he never failed to visit two memorable spots in Ohio Stadium.
From 2005-11, Haynes would go to the 16-yard line in the south end of the Horseshoe because he ran for a 16-yard touchdown in 1985 to help St. Francis DeSales win the state high school football championship.
Then Haynes would find the spot in the same end zone where his relay team dropped the baton that cost DeSales a state track title.
“It wasn’t me. It wasn’t me,” Hayes said of the offender. “We had three seniors and a sophomore and the sophomore dropped it.”
Even though the track that ringed the field is no longer there, Haynes will stick to his routine when he takes the Golden Flashes (0-2) to Ohio State on Saturday for a noon game against the 22nd-ranked Buckeyes (1-1).
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