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 5:19 PM ^
November 21st, 2012 at 6:51 PM ^
Agreed on Turner. That buzzer-beater was the worst sports punch-to-the-gut I've endured.
November 21st, 2012 at 5:20 PM ^
I hate them all.
November 21st, 2012 at 5:22 PM ^
I agree! Is there a Buckeye that I shouldn't hate?
November 21st, 2012 at 6:42 PM ^
November 21st, 2012 at 8:23 PM ^
I can't hate Chris Spielman. From how he played the game to his time with the Lions and on to his support of his dying wife and her charity after she passed, he is a pretty stand up guy.
Now, AJ Hawk, Andy Katzenmoyer, and Troy Smith are three that I can easily hate. The worst might be that big mouthed, roid freak David Boston.
November 22nd, 2012 at 10:55 AM ^
November 22nd, 2012 at 12:49 AM ^
Gary Moeller was an OSU captain in 1963 and I don't hate him.
November 21st, 2012 at 5:20 PM ^
November 21st, 2012 at 5:20 PM ^
Pryor, Claret, Boren Vader.
too many to really name.
November 21st, 2012 at 6:18 PM ^
I love Pryor!! Why would anyone hate Pryor after all he's done to them?
November 21st, 2012 at 5:22 PM ^
November 21st, 2012 at 5:22 PM ^
November 21st, 2012 at 7:09 PM ^
Judas Boren
November 21st, 2012 at 5:22 PM ^
November 22nd, 2012 at 3:46 AM ^
Yep. First one that came to mind. Boston. Total thug. Visited Ann Arbor for recruiting only to talk smack about how he, and Ohio State were going to kick our asses. That play where he was sent sailing by a Michigan safety in '97, and landed on his ass and crumpled into a puddle, was one of my top 5 favorit plays vs OSU ever.
Troy Smith a distant second only because of how good he was against us. Without him we win 06 and another Game or two.
November 21st, 2012 at 5:24 PM ^
Troy Smith, I hated him so much, not just for his play, but he was the first public instance of Tressel and OSU cheating, and yet no one seemed to care about it at the time. See, I'm upset again. O*** is and will always be a four letter word.
November 21st, 2012 at 6:51 PM ^
How about a heaping helpful of Maurice Clarett?
November 21st, 2012 at 7:01 PM ^
If by "not care" you mean "repaid the money and was suspended for two games," then you nailed it.
November 21st, 2012 at 8:49 PM ^
That's adorable
November 22nd, 2012 at 11:06 AM ^
November 21st, 2012 at 5:25 PM ^
But really, I just hate all Buckeyes.
November 22nd, 2012 at 2:55 AM ^
Krenzel wanted to come to Michigan but his spot was taken by Drew Henson. I've met Krenzel, real nice guy. One of the few ohio players I don't hate.
November 21st, 2012 at 5:25 PM ^
I thought you were talking about AJ Hawk until the last sentence.
November 21st, 2012 at 5:29 PM ^
Hawk was easy to hate due to the slobber-fest that Brent Musberger always had with him when he played.
November 21st, 2012 at 7:15 PM ^
AJ Hawk was such an ugly kid
November 21st, 2012 at 5:25 PM ^
November 21st, 2012 at 5:26 PM ^
Oh, you only wanted one?
November 21st, 2012 at 5:27 PM ^
Boston. Hands down.
November 21st, 2012 at 5:27 PM ^
One of my favourite memories is the Marcus Ray hit on Boston in the 97 game. Also don't like Chris Spielman, but only because he didn't stick up to his father and come play for Bo!
November 21st, 2012 at 5:28 PM ^
It didn't help that he killed us, but there was always something about him that I didn't like. He was shady from the start at OSU when he accepted cash from a booster, and I can just imagine the things that went on with him while at OSU, all while Tressel turned the other way.
Second is Zach Boren.
November 21st, 2012 at 5:29 PM ^
It's a bit weird to just hate kids because they play for another team. If you have "sound" reasoning like the OP states, so be it, you can't help your feelings. I can't say that I hate any of the Buckeyes I've seen play through the years. I didn't like that Troy Smith torched us, but I sure as hell don't hate him.
How about this. This one I can be okay with. I hate Jim Tressel and most of what he stands for.
November 22nd, 2012 at 10:03 AM ^
I'll be your host on your tour through the internet. You could take the crash course at 4chan or you could gradually work your way through the subreddits of reddit. Many haters and n00b fagg0ts await you.
November 21st, 2012 at 5:29 PM ^
The fact that many OSU fans lionize Woody Hayes because of and not in spite of The Punch tells you everything you need to know about their fanbase.
November 21st, 2012 at 7:37 PM ^
Do we do the same for Gary Moeller? I didn't realize why he was fired until I watched the documentary about the '97 championship team.
November 21st, 2012 at 7:42 PM ^
Getting drunk and obnoxious at a restaurant hardly seems on the same level as punching a player. Unless you're talking about the Les Miles rumor, which as far as I know, is nothing more than a rumor. And still not as bad as punching a player.
November 21st, 2012 at 7:49 PM ^
The Michigan difference: we were all ashamed that Moeller acted like a jackass in public and consider it a black mark against an otherwise good record. Ohio diehards point to Woody's punch as proof positive of his passion to win.
November 21st, 2012 at 5:31 PM ^
Well I hate all of them, but my top 5 is very similar to the posters on the board
1. Pryor
2. Clarett,
3. Boren
4. Troy Smith
5. David Boston
November 21st, 2012 at 5:31 PM ^
David Boston:
1. He is from the Houston area and went to a school that knocked us out of the playoffs.
2. His dad was an NFL ref.
3. He used steroids.
4. He put his hands on Chuck.
Loved seeing him upended in the 'GAME' by Mr. Ray.
November 21st, 2012 at 5:40 PM ^
All the Borens.
EDIT (for the visual types):
November 21st, 2012 at 5:32 PM ^
my least favorite way to be poked in the eye?
Never a big fan of David Boston or that other WR who mouthed off before the game in the 90's.
November 21st, 2012 at 5:34 PM ^
Terry Glenn. But we shut him up too.
November 22nd, 2012 at 7:22 AM ^
I think you meant Michigan shut "her" up.
-Bill Parcells
November 21st, 2012 at 5:37 PM ^
Justin Boren
Jim Tressel (cheater or not, the guy had Michigan's number, and we all know it)
David Boston
November 21st, 2012 at 7:46 PM ^
I like and respect Jesse Owens. The look he put on Hitler's face..... Priceless. I'm good with buckeyes who stick it to Nazis.
November 21st, 2012 at 8:51 PM ^
November 22nd, 2012 at 1:10 PM ^
Genghis Khan got a bum rap.
November 22nd, 2012 at 10:02 AM ^
Did you know that Jesse Owens was set on coming to Michigan, then decided to go to OSU. Because of that alone, I think he's a fucking dick and probably my least favorite buckeye. There I said it.
http://mvictors.com/?tag=jesse-owens
November 21st, 2012 at 5:37 PM ^
He drives me nuts because his face is everywhere, pretends to be objective and professional. Makes me physically il when he blabbers on.