COLUMBUS — For many years, one phrase trumped them all in summing up Ohio State football: Three yards and a cloud of dust. Forty years after Woody Hayes coached his last game, the mantra synonymous with his name still seems to linger in the room whenever discussing the Buckeyes offense. >>RELATED: Buckeyes pick up commitment from Cincinnati prep star Even when Ohio State has a high-powered passing attack, there tends to be a feeling the return of the ground-and-pound offense is just a graduation away. And that is justified. While Hayes’ conservative reputation was well-earned, he himself deployed a productive passing game at two different junctures in his career (1952 and ’68-69) but moved away from it each time. Successor Earle Bruce, a long-time Hayes assistant, came across more like Hayes than not, no doubt helping lock in the program’s reputation for another decade even though Bruce allowed his quarterbacks to…
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