{"id":756892,"date":"2026-07-11T15:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T15:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/756892\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T15:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T15:14:11","slug":"florida-state-fires-woody-hayes-no-not-that-woody-hayes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/756892\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida State Fires Woody Hayes (No, Not That Woody Hayes)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>      <a id=\"main-content\"\/><\/p>\n<p>              <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/162985_h.jpg\" width=\"904\" height=\"490\" alt=\"Florida State's mascot at a football game\"\/>              <\/p>\n<p>USA TODAY Sports via Reuters Connect<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tFlorida State University has relieved longtime Doak Campbell Stadium public-address announcer Woody Hayes\u00a0of his duties, setting off a brief but intense period of confusion among Florida State and Ohio State fans.\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tHayes said he learned of the decision by phone call after 16 years in the booth.\n\t<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\">\n\t\t\t\u201cI\u2019m hurt. I\u2019m deeply hurt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a voice that everyone who goes to a Florida State football game knows.<\/p>\n<p>Woody Hayes spoke to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WCTV?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">@WCTV<\/a> how he was blindsided by the University\u2019s decision to relieve him of his public announcer duties at Doak, but especially, how he found out. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ow5uCaM0zm\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/ow5uCaM0zm<\/a>\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\u2014 Alison Posey (@AlisonPosey14) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AlisonPosey14\/status\/2075709818191364376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">July 10, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&#8220;I&#8217;m more than happy to take constructive criticism,&#8221; Hayes said. &#8220;But I&#8217;ve received nothing like that. I&#8217;m hurt. I&#8217;m deeply hurt.&#8221;\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tAs of now, Hayes plans to stay on as the voice of Florida State men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s basketball.\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&#8220;I&#8217;m always going to be a professional in what I do, but awkward is probably a good word,&#8221; Hayes said to WCTV. &#8220;I&#8217;m probably looking over my shoulder wondering if the hammer is going to drop in basketball, too.&#8221;\n\t<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>      <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"USA TODAY Sports via Reuters Connect Florida State University has relieved longtime Doak Campbell Stadium public-address announcer Woody&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":756893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":["post-756892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=756892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/756893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}