reports are saying, he passed away about 5 minutes ago
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reports are saying, he passed away about 5 minutes ago
the Coach is confirmed dead ......
RIP Coach Schembechler
Kind of ironic he'd die this week.
Updated: Nov. 17, 2006, 12:14 PM ET
Schembechler collapses, dies at 77
Associated Press
DETROIT -- Former Michigan football coach Bo Schembechler has died, television station WXYZ is reporting.
Schembechler, He was 77.
Schembechler collapsed Friday during the taping of a television show and was taken by ambulance to a hospital.
He became ill at WXYZ-TV in Southfield the day before the Ohio State-Michigan showdown, the station said. Schembechler also was hospitalized Oct. 20 after falling ill at the same studio.
Earlier Friday, Southfield police spokesman John Harris could not provide specific medical information, but said: "I don't think it was good."
Police were sent to the station about 9:25 a.m. with the city's fire department, and they escorted an ambulance to Providence Hospital, Harris said.
Messages were left with the university, Schembechler's office and the hospital.
Schembechler met with the media this week to discuss Saturday's game between the No. 1 Buckeyes and No. 2 Wolverines. He also talked about the device that was implanted to regulate his heartbeat after he was hospitalized last month. He said the device covered about half his chest, and doctors still were adjusting it.
Schembechler said he did not plan to attend the game in Columbus, Ohio, and he doesn't go to road games anymore.
Schembechler had a heart attack on the eve of his first Rose Bowl in 1970 and another one in 1987. He has had two quadruple heart bypass operations.
The seven-time Big Ten coach of the year had a 194-48-5 record at Michigan from 1969-89. His record in 26 years of coaching was 234-64-8.
Copyright 2006 by The Associated Press
wonder how it will affect the game, if at all......
i wondered the same thing
he was aweful pumped up for the game this week, dunno if all the excitement had something to do with it or what
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Michigan will come out like they've been shot out of a cannon. Emotion like this can be good or bad-will just have to see. They'll certainly want to win this one for Bo.
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Listening to Drew Sharp (Detroit Free Press) who is in Columbus covering tomorrow's game, and he is talking about walking out into the street today, talking to OSU fans who are grief-stricken. The hated enemy, gone, but so much respected for what he meant to the game. The same was true in Ann Arbor when Woody Hayes passed away. These men saved what may be the greatest rivalry in the game. Steve Smith (Michigan QB in the 80's) was talking about how after seeing Bo for the first time in 15 years, that Bo called his mother by name, asking about her. That's pretty neat-remembering a player's mom's name when you have coached hundreds since you saw him last 15 years.