Your least favorite Buckeye
If you are on MGoBlog, chances are you don't like many, if any, Buckeyes. We all have that one guy who, more than the rest, powers the turbines of hatred we have for our OSU rivals.
I nominate LB Andy Katzenmoyer.
As a freshman, Andy Katzenmoyer was the 90's version of James Laurinaitis, during a simpler time when Road Warrior Animal was the only member of the Laurinaitis clan you were familiar with.
From a hype machine standpoint, he was AJ Hawk without the Brady Quinn's sister sideshow. He started his first game as a true freshman, a fact that Brent Musberger wouldn't let you forget about over a three year period. He was God's gift to football, a self absorbed prodigal son who would see his play decline in the years following his tremendous frosh season. Everyone noticed he wasn't as good as his reputation- everyone except the media who decided to award him the Butkus Award and make him a 1st team All America his Junior season. He would ride his undeserved reputation to becoming a 1st round pick of the pre-Belichek Patriots, for whom he would play less than 3 years and be universally accepted as an awful bust.
From an academic standpoint, he set the low standard to which Terrelle Pryor would eventually aspire. It became common knowledge he was only able to stay eligible by taking "Golf" and was the beneficiary of having a very influential booster base who was adamant that academics would not interfere with OSUs on field success.
After losing in his first two attempts to beat Michigan, his team got it done in his junior (and final) season, winning comfortably at the Horseshoe. I was there, suffering with my fellow student road trippers just barely a year after we had stormed the field and celebrated with roses in our mouths and pepper spray in our eyes. The face of 1996-1998 OSU football, Andy Katzenmoyer. I don't like him. Who don't you like?
BEAT OHIO
November 21st, 2012 at 9:49 PM ^
are you any relation to BigBoutros?
November 21st, 2012 at 5:38 PM ^
Ted Ginn.
November 21st, 2012 at 5:39 PM ^
These are the Buckeyes I hate most. Specifically, every father and grandfather that lines the streets outside the stadium on the day of The Game every even-numbered year. They hold their young sons and daughters with one hand, and give me and everyone else in Maize and Blue the middle finger with the other other hand. The cycle goes on and on.
November 21st, 2012 at 5:40 PM ^
Urban Meyer, though we need to hate quickly as he'll likely implode again in another 2-3 years
November 21st, 2012 at 5:45 PM ^
Don't hold your breath on that.
November 21st, 2012 at 5:41 PM ^
Beanie Wells/T. Pryor
November 21st, 2012 at 6:06 PM ^
Pryor
November 21st, 2012 at 5:41 PM ^
What, no votes for Smith & Gee?
November 21st, 2012 at 6:58 PM ^
They say shit rolls downhill, so with that in mind: Gee, Tressel, Gene Smith. In no particular order.
November 21st, 2012 at 5:43 PM ^
http://bigkatzbigdreams.blogspot.com/
This blog might have been written by the WLA. I can't remember for sure, but it's still awesome.
November 21st, 2012 at 5:47 PM ^
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4. Gordon Gee 5. Gene Smith
November 21st, 2012 at 5:53 PM ^
Tressel.
Pryor.
Meyer.
All the rest.
November 21st, 2012 at 5:54 PM ^
November 21st, 2012 at 8:50 PM ^
Eddie George is a f'in douche. Glad he was outshined his last game by Biakabatuka.
November 21st, 2012 at 5:56 PM ^
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November 21st, 2012 at 6:12 PM ^
Jim Tressel and it's not even close.
November 21st, 2012 at 6:14 PM ^
November 21st, 2012 at 6:16 PM ^
I'm with B-Nut-GoBlue in that I can't hate on people 10 years younger than me for choosing to play for another program that is very similar to the program I root for.
Jim Tressel though, was all the worse since he was a bigger cheater than any SEC coach we love to hate, and yet cloaked himself in the utterly cynical "Senator Tressel" thing. Can the media ever credit a coach for "doing it right" again after being burned by Tressel and Paterno? Plus the mafia-like "sacred brotherhood" culture he established there still pervades the school and its fanbase, and spread via Dantonio to MSU since. Unlike Woody, on whom at least there is general accord on the fact that he was a good ol' coach who choked a player and was rightly removed for it, Tressel wasn't even officially "fired"--just allowed to resign and retain benefits and be part of the program. It's a testament to just how sick of a place he turned Ohio State into that he remains revered by most OSU fans while Herbstreit, one of their own who suggested Tressel should be fired, was chased out of the state with death threats.
It drives me nuts at how blatant it all was--the Troy Smith lone gunman thing, the cars of Clarett to Pryor and how the taken-back testimony of Maurice turned out to be true 10 years later as well and yet the NCAA still couldn't make the case. How Pryor had to be compelled to provide even the shred they got OSU on (traveling to signing schlock ceremonies with his benefactor) by the NFL. How Santonio Holmes admitted to an agent who later came clean about his payments to players that Holmes and his buddies were already taken care of, and nobody but nobody was at all surprised. How when FINALLY all this repeated crap everyone knew about over a decade-long span became something NCAA would investigate, OSU lawyered up, gambled the NCAA wouldn't have the balls to fight a total war, and won just a one-year postseason ban while leaving the program in such a shape that Urban Meyer agreed to take it over.
Every Big Ten fan from our age will forever after walk with his head and eyes bit lower because Jim Tressel was one of ours. College football shall be forever worse because he was a part of it. He might be the greatest shame in Big Ten history, certainly in my lifetime, if not for the Penn State awful thing.
George Steinbrenner is next on the list. He took Henson from us.
November 21st, 2012 at 11:19 PM ^
November 21st, 2012 at 6:16 PM ^
Boston and the traitor.
November 21st, 2012 at 6:21 PM ^
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Mr. Plow.
November 21st, 2012 at 9:25 PM ^
that name again is?
November 21st, 2012 at 6:22 PM ^
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November 21st, 2012 at 7:52 PM ^
When you say 'stupid fat guy that's at every OSU game', you're gonna really have to narrow it down from a pool of about 90,000
November 21st, 2012 at 6:23 PM ^
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November 21st, 2012 at 6:26 PM ^
Guy seems like a skeeze and his lame attempts to try to match Hoke's rivalry bravado are weak.
November 21st, 2012 at 6:36 PM ^
Players...Art Schlister. Liar cheat disgusting human. etc. epitomizes Ohio.
November 21st, 2012 at 6:40 PM ^
Tough choice. Boren has to be tops because you don't like the way Michigan football was being run by its coach, it's your choice to leave. But to Ohio? That's bottom-level, hellish ice pits stuff right there (sorry for the obscure Dante's Inferno reference).
Guys that personally rubbed me the wrong way... David Boston, Clarett, Ted Ginn Jr.
November 21st, 2012 at 6:43 PM ^
at YSU and Ohio, it finally caught up with him, and years later he's still being honored and revered despite the disgrace.
Meanwhile, Ohio got a coaching upgrade and a slap on the wrist.
November 21st, 2012 at 10:51 PM ^
HOW COULD YOU FORGET THE RAFFLES?!
November 21st, 2012 at 6:44 PM ^
Hmmmmm, I have to go with either David Boston or Rutherford B. Hayes.
November 21st, 2012 at 6:44 PM ^
November 21st, 2012 at 6:47 PM ^
That Big Head is really just a Fat Head
November 21st, 2012 at 6:52 PM ^
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November 21st, 2012 at 7:05 PM ^
I don't know much about Winfield, but I do remember him well from that EPIC 1997 Game. After Woodson, I thought he was the next best player on the field. Dude could play.
November 21st, 2012 at 6:54 PM ^
the bucknuts had a running back named Jeff Logan. I remember him saying something like "I'm just glad I don't have to play against my own defense because they hit so hard." We owned them that year, and I loved it when he carried the ball and got hit by the M defense. Typical big mouth bucknut who couldn't back it up.
November 21st, 2012 at 6:53 PM ^
Also, Buckeyes.
November 21st, 2012 at 6:54 PM ^
David. Freakin'. Boston.
Although our boy Charles put the stake through his heart... I just could never stand that guy.
Other finalists include Nate Clements, Troy Smith, Katzenmoyer, and who could forget Nick Mangold. Ape.
November 21st, 2012 at 6:54 PM ^
Boston.
Troy Smith.
Boren.
Robert Smith because someone lets him try to talk on TV.
November 21st, 2012 at 6:54 PM ^
Evan Turner for obvious reasons. I am not a big basketball fan, but still catch every UM game from the comfort of my laptop.
Terrelle Pryor - I was convinced we'd land him way-back-when.
Stoneburner - because he has a badass name.
I can tolerate most everyone else, from Herbie to Robert Smith.