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 6:58 PM ^
Art Schlichter.
The guy didn't even pronounce his last name correctly. And he was a complete tool while playing for OSU and after he left.
I will add the caveat that I don't extend "hate" to OSU players because I don't think enough of them to expend the effort.
November 21st, 2012 at 6:59 PM ^
November 21st, 2012 at 7:28 PM ^
And all the while he was gambling at OSU and with its future coach, Earle Bruce.
The only good thing he did was throw that interception that led to Woody Hayes hitting the Clemson player (which led to Hayes getting fired for those unaware).
November 21st, 2012 at 9:39 PM ^
Hayes started Schlichter as a freshman in 1978 instead of senior Rod Gerald, who had been the starter the year before. Gerald played at wingback instead Schlichter struggled most of the year, throwing a bunch of picks in losses to Penn State, Michigan, Purdue and Clemson.
November 21st, 2012 at 7:21 PM ^
November 21st, 2012 at 6:58 PM ^
The Borens, every last one of them. I hate traitors, and those related to them.
November 21st, 2012 at 7:35 PM ^
because it's all about "family values"....
November 21st, 2012 at 6:59 PM ^
Terry Glenn
November 21st, 2012 at 7:03 PM ^
Katzenmoyer broke his neck in the NFL, so it's hard to label him a "bust."
November 21st, 2012 at 7:29 PM ^
He was a bust well before injuring himself.....that just put him out of his misery a little quicker. A snippet from a fascinating read at the link below: "Maybe things under Belichick, Year 2, got a little tough for the Big Kat. Regardless, he's been dead weight around here."
November 21st, 2012 at 7:03 PM ^
For me, it's a tie between EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM, EVER.
November 21st, 2012 at 7:08 PM ^
Damn I hated that guy when I was a kid. Archie Griffen can go F himself too, though I don't remember him as a player, his legend makes me puke in my mouth a little.
November 21st, 2012 at 7:53 PM ^
He was very good. Not as great as being the only double Heisman would suggest, but he was a very good college back and probably was the best player in the country the two years he won.
November 21st, 2012 at 7:10 PM ^
...frickin steamroller.
Also, how has no one mentioned the omnipresent and omnipotent Kirk Herbstreit yet?
November 21st, 2012 at 7:18 PM ^
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Troy Smith
Vernon Gholston
Terry Glenn
Ted Ginn
Dan Wilkenson
Craig Krenzel
Maurice Clarret
I could go on and on....
November 21st, 2012 at 7:32 PM ^
November 21st, 2012 at 7:40 PM ^
Robert Smith, Spielman, Boston, George, Clarett, BWells ....you know after reading this whole thread I just can't stand them all
November 21st, 2012 at 7:44 PM ^
It's got to be the Borens. I'll go off the beaten path: James Laurinaitis. They hyped him up because of his Dad being a former pro-wrestler and stuff. The guy was a decent player and all but another example of an OSU guy being hyped up for no particular reason than he was on OSU.
November 21st, 2012 at 7:53 PM ^
who suggested that Troy Smith (and therefore Ohio) were justly punished, when Smith took money from a booster. BJR argued that this punishment "showed" that Ohio and the NCAA really cared about these transgressions--and the signal they gave about a deeper underlying problem..
That could not be further from the truth. Troy Smith this year said that he "took the rap' and that he would get a lot of other players in trouble if he talked about it. It was obvious that, at the time, the NCAA did not "care' enough to do a proper investigation. They never interviewed Clarret. It took the SI reporter a few days to find out what the NCAA said it couldn't in months. Even that would not have happened if not for a federal investigation that shined a bright light on Tressel's lying and cheating. It is now obvious that Tressel had long been covering up broader NCAA violations--just as Troy Smith (and many other buckeyes) recently intimated.
November 21st, 2012 at 10:56 PM ^
Most circles agree the SI article was 75% fiction and 25% insanity. The idea that the NCAA refuses to investigate OSU is so incredible that I can't evn suggest a logical reason why that would be a thing? Because they want to protect OSU? Why? It's just silly. I don't think Kroger is sold out of tin-foil yet, you may want to hit it up.
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November 21st, 2012 at 7:51 PM ^
I chose Tressel, but this is an excellent point.
November 21st, 2012 at 7:50 PM ^
I hated Woody. But it was fun to hate Woody because he way Woody. Just like I'm sure the Ohio folks felt about Bo. My least favorite without a doubt is the sweater. Hypocritical cheating dirtbag.
November 21st, 2012 at 7:52 PM ^
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That guy was terrible.
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November 21st, 2012 at 9:47 PM ^
Not only his 4 FG's to beat M 12-10 in 74 but how he said Lantry choked.
November 21st, 2012 at 9:48 PM ^
November 21st, 2012 at 9:49 PM ^
long hair.
November 21st, 2012 at 9:52 PM ^
Least favorites:
1. The Borens
2. Pryor
3. T. Smith
4. Boston
5. Tressel
6. E. Turner
7. Sullinger
The only two I can stand:
1. Herbstreit
2. Nugent (I'm a Bengals fan)
November 21st, 2012 at 10:25 PM ^
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November 21st, 2012 at 10:29 PM ^
He was probably the fastest guy at the meet...
November 22nd, 2012 at 8:22 AM ^
November 21st, 2012 at 10:03 PM ^
I think it's got to be Boren.
November 21st, 2012 at 10:33 PM ^
David Boston, not only because he was a douche in college and bust in the NFL, but because he recently went to jail for assaulting a woman.
November 21st, 2012 at 10:46 PM ^
Grudgingly favorite-Spielman
November 21st, 2012 at 10:58 PM ^
These guys are all dead on, especially Boston, but easily the most annoying was little Jay Burson. 86-89 was before most of your time but he made Danny Ainge seem likeable.
November 21st, 2012 at 11:23 PM ^
Hate is pretty strong word to use. Especially when you're talking about college kids playing a game. Respect your rivals and they'll bring out the best in you.
November 21st, 2012 at 11:32 PM ^
Troy Smith. Jim Tressel is a close second.