Last Saturday would have been Woody Hayes' 113th birthday.
That's how a lot of us will always think of Valentine's Day. Amorous for mainstream greeting card and flowers/chocolate industrial complex reasons, but still eternally romantic because that's when Buckeye football's patriarch made his world debut in Clifton.
The program has been nationally relevant ever since the university took a chance on a 37-year old to change the fortunes for what at the time was known as the Graveyard of Coaches. Five guys over the previous 11 years. Woody ended up sticking around for 28 seasons.
The basketball program hasn't quite been as fortunate.