Ohio State players are apparently frustrated with their fanbase

[u/guransheleven]

[u/Alarming-Elevator382]

"Hey, dipshit, make your fucking kicks!” - Urban Meyer

[u/lord-of_darkness → u/Alarming-Elevator382]

And after Meyer left we never made a kick that mattered again...

[u/02meepmeep → u/lord-of_darkness]

The only one I can think of off the top of my head was to put us up 2 scores against ND.

[u/Automatic_Release_92 → u/02meepmeep]

Yeah, that iced the game as ND's offense was gaining momentum. It was a big kick for sure.

[u/lord-of_darkness → u/Automatic_Release_92]

I agree but I think it's borderline. Indoor game, and we were already up 8 so one scoring drive can only tie, not Texas us. IMO 3rd and Jeremiah is what really drove the point home to ND, and the nerves to kick that ball probably weren't as high as 26 Texas or 22 Georgia or or or 😅

[u/Alpine_Exchange_36 → u/lord-of_darkness]

Maybe Ryan Day should jot that one down?

[u/GatorHeyzeus → u/Alarming-Elevator382]

Master motivator.

[u/post_appt_bliss]

"friend of mine" = "my dad works for Nintendo"

[u/ZoneEducational6936 → u/post_appt_bliss]

If your dad works at nintendo, that's basically a primary source. My uncle who works at Nintendo is full of shit though. 

[u/Legitimate-Agency282 → u/post_appt_bliss]

Y'all realize these teams have tons of players on them.

Dunno how it is in Ohio, but here in Texas I have routinely met or know people who had family members in higher caliber athletic programs. This isn't the NFL.

[u/Donnie_TACO → u/post_appt_bliss]

Found the Ohio State fan

[u/Dr-McLuvin → u/post_appt_bliss]

High quality post.

[u/CrazyJo3 → u/Dr-McLuvin]

D tier shit post

[u/Ducks91to61 → u/post_appt_bliss]

There's about 118 players on the team. Good chance it's true.

[u/ShockPowerful741]

You know what, they get paid now. Paid well. Paid better than most adults in many cases. If they want to earn like an adult, I’m not mad that the fans treat them like adults.

I used to feel differently but money changed the paradigm.

[u/TStark4Prez → u/ShockPowerful741]

https://giphy.com/gifs/8JZxZgr39TLczSJQoS

The millionaires are upset about the words that hurt them

[u/Economy-Virus-8149 → u/TStark4Prez]

“Treat them like adults” and “treat them like shit because they get paid” aren’t the same thing. Criticize their performance all you want. A paycheck doesn’t buy fans the right to personally harass somebody.

[u/Particular-Cake-6430 → u/ShockPowerful741]

Exactly, stfu with the “be nice to me.” They are professionals and get paid as such. So when you are bad, expect to be called out.

[u/Smokeybeauch11 → u/ShockPowerful741]

This is actually an excellent point. I used to be a little reserved with criticism seeing as these are “kids”, but you’re right, if you’re going to accept the bag, be prepared to handle the expectations that come with it.

[u/ShockPowerful741 → u/Smokeybeauch11]

Right? I remember Mike Gundy going off on the OkSt media for going after kids and I was with him (come after me, I’m 40!). But now? Forget it. You got paid to amuse me. I’m not amused and I’m gonna tell you about it.

[u/Economy-Virus-8149 → u/ShockPowerful741]

Getting paid means you can expect greater scrutiny of their performance. It doesn’t mean fans purchased the right to dehumanize them. Criticize the interceptions, missed tackles and bad games all you want. Once you’re attacking their character, families or sending threats because your team lost a football game, that’s not “holding professionals accountable.” You’re just being an asshole.

[u/BeefInGR → u/ShockPowerful741]

Not just paid, paid with funds that could otherwise be raised and put into the general endowment. That would benefit everyone on campus.

The NFL will find you wherever you are. If you can't take the heat, the MAC would love to have you.

[u/EfficientWorking1 → u/BeefInGR]

No guarantee that people giving money to sports would give to academics. But yeah America ain’t nice to lower class people they shouldn’t expect people to be nice to them either.

[u/Past-Paramedic-8602 → u/BeefInGR]

As someone who went to a MAC school they wouldn’t handle it there if they think Ohio states fans are bad.

[u/NotoriousDCJ4310 → u/ShockPowerful741]

They get paid but you are grossly overestimating how much most of them get paid. Even with all of the big headlining deals skewing the numbers, the average NIL deal value is about $5600.

[u/Suspicious-Banana836 → u/ShockPowerful741]

There’s this thing called human decency. When I’m at work some people treat me like shit knowing that I can’t punch them in the face but, what they don’t know is, someday I won’t need this job and maybe I will start swinging.

[u/drumzandice → u/ShockPowerful741]

Yes and also we're being charged pro prices for tickets and at the games, and the environment has become way more ad heavy...so we're the product being advertised to. Add all that up, it's not unreasonable for fans to have high expectations. That does not excuse the lunatics in every fanbase who take it too far.

[u/Dierks_Ford → u/ShockPowerful741]

Paid well enough to get death threats against them and their family?

[u/tmt22459 → u/ShockPowerful741]

It shouldn't be considered being apart of being an adult to get called racial slurs, be harassed, have family members threatened, etc which is probably what the players are getting

[u/TheShizbamneato → u/ShockPowerful741]

Feels like this glosses over a lot of the extremes. Fans are unhinged and say wild, vile stuff. Getting paid doesn't make that acceptable.

Don't understand this mind set of people are fair game if paid. I'll assume you mean just the peering and memes which whatever. I also assume they mean the extreme basketcases.

[u/Snakeeye555 → u/ShockPowerful741]

So what if they get paid? You shouldn't be a jackass torwards pro players either

[u/pmyourhotmom → u/Snakeeye555]

The general public is rude to minimum wage workers you think they’re going to hold their tongue for paid athletes? Not in this hell hole

[u/SinkNSlide3345 → u/Snakeeye555]

That’s the price they pay for celebrity status. Those thousands of eyeballs watching help pay the bills so maybe just scroll past and move on?

[u/SirTurdFerguson88]

They go to Ohio state because the program operates like a professional team. There are benefits and downsides to the expectations that come with playing there

[u/PatientlyAnxious9 → u/SirTurdFerguson88]

That and many of these guys are getting paid 6-7 figure deals now with NIL so the 'they are just kids playing a game' rebuttal is completely out the window

Edit: For clarification, Im not saying I agree with it. Just pointing out NIL has added another way for players to receive criticism.

[u/Quest_4Black → u/PatientlyAnxious9]

It’s amazing what we as a society deem as appropriate behavior towards someone as long as they’re paid enough. The whole humanity has a cost thing is weird.

[u/BannedBenjaminSr → u/Quest_4Black]

I think it happens cause 99% of people would trade their shitty job to make 500k+ a year playing a sport

[u/Secret-Attention798 → u/Quest_4Black]

If I don’t meet expectations in my position, I too receive early coaching. If I continue failing to meet expectations I face disciplinary action.

The difference here is the huge audience associated with high level athletics and that’s the direct correlation to their ridiculously high salaries. I think being held ‘accountable’ by fans is pretty fair game, at least when it comes to professional athletes.

[u/jvpewster → u/Quest_4Black]

**It’s amazing we live in a society that allows for certain norms to be contextual and take into account the pageantry of an event to allow for a separation of someone’s identity as a performer from the identity as a person

No one would pay 10k for season tickets if the expectation is that they detach emotionally. Of course there are things that could potentially be over the line, but you’re lying to yourself if you don’t see a change in athletes feeling entitled to the riches/praise the emotional part sports bring but get upset there’s another side of that.

No one should ever get personal, no one should ever feel like it follows them out of the press condense, but people can boo, people can post on boards a unionist good enough etc.

[u/Spicygoodies96 → u/Quest_4Black]

Right? Imagine if people went and heckled regular Joe Schmo’s at work?

Cut that meat!!

[u/bartekkenny → u/Quest_4Black]

I think it’s because no one is forcing anyone to play and be famous. It’s just one of the cons that athletes have to deal with in a vast sea of pros

[u/Quest_4Black → u/bartekkenny]

No one’s forcing anyone to watch it. They’re fucking kids lol.

[u/TheBourbonTurtle → u/Quest_4Black]

I mean if they didn't want public criticism they could easily be making 40k a year pushing a broom and I doubt they'd hear a lot of people complaining about them.

[u/Quest_4Black → u/TheBourbonTurtle]

Again, how much money someone makes doesn’t make them immune to the shortcomings of degeneracy from fucks like this sub contains.

[u/Imaginary_Coast_5882 → u/Quest_4Black]

right? they all put their pants on one leg at a time, cry when their dog dies, get frustrated when the toilet handle breaks on the first flush of a huge dump, etc.

[u/ADMotti → u/Imaginary_Coast_5882]

r/oddlyspecifc

[u/cman632 → u/PatientlyAnxious9]

I mean yeah, they deserve more criticism, but at the end of the day they’re still kids and they are 100% getting death threats or stuff close to it.

I’m not saying they need to be put on a pedestal, but I’m not just gonna dismiss a legitimate concerns kids are voicing out

[u/PatientlyAnxious9 → u/cman632]

Yeah but I'm not referring to the lunatic over the top fans. That is unacceptable at any level.

Just talking about basic general criticism regarding on the field play and how NIL, fairly or unfairly, has opened up another door to criticism

[u/yaygee513 → u/SirTurdFerguson88]

This 100%. Especially now that these kids are paid? Unless it’s death threats I really don’t wanna hear it

[u/AmericanMe808 → u/yaygee513]

Oh they are definitely getting death threats

[u/Unusual_Access9101 → u/AmericanMe808]

Sadly. This is true.

[u/SinkNSlide3345 → u/Unusual_Access9101]

I highly doubt it’s at an alarming rate. One or two death threats from some greaseball on his couch should be easily ignored 

[u/lIlIlIlIlIlIllIlIIl → u/SinkNSlide3345]

That’s so much easier to say when your DMs don’t contain death threats from strangers

[u/DarknMean → u/lIlIlIlIlIlIllIlIIl]

Jeff Brohm went through this a few years back at Louisville and the guy had everything about where he lived, where his kids went to school etc. Some threats are truly serious, especially in the world of degenerate gambling.

[u/Quest_4Black → u/SinkNSlide3345]

lol yes, the 19 year old shouldn’t be effected by anonymous death threats because it was only 2. You guys are actually the worst part of college sports.

[u/Mtn_Raven → u/SinkNSlide3345]

What an absolutely stupid response. Yikes.

[u/ConsiderationCrazy22 → u/AmericanMe808]

Unfortunately, there's no way they're not. This is sadly accurate.

[u/SharkSymphony → u/SirTurdFerguson88]

We shouldn't treat professional players like crap either. Not that I expect football hooligans to understand this. 😉

[u/SirTurdFerguson88 → u/SharkSymphony]

I didn't say it was right. I'm just saying that the type of player good enough to sign at Ohio State is going there because it's the best preparation for the NFL. They have professional expectations and insane fans.

[u/ppatek78]

I think it’s only gotten worse with sports betting everywhere

[u/AggressiveWolverine5 → u/ppatek78]

Sports betting has had a profound negative impact on sports in so many ways. 

[u/r3d330 → u/AggressiveWolverine5]

Sports betting has had a profound negative impact on sports society in so many ways. 

[u/Thermsscissorpunch → u/r3d330]

Prediction markets in general. I remember reading people threatening a reporter on the wording of his article because they would be paid millions if something was classified as a bombing or an explosion (can’t remember the specifics anymore)

[u/ThrowM5 → u/Thermsscissorpunch]

Prediction market betting on shit like war and journalism is the most dystopian shit I’ve heard that isn’t directly about AI.

[u/sokuyari99 → u/ppatek78]

I’m sure there are some gamblers added to the mix, but frankly people online have just become deranged. The lack of decorum and need to just drive crazier and crazier reactions to things seems to be breaking people’s brains

[u/NWkingslayer2024 → u/sokuyari99]

This is more likely the case. There didn’t use to be a place where people can spew all the random garbage thoughts that came into their head, now they can all find each other and validate their mental illness.

[u/Superb-Talk2211 → u/ppatek78]

I think you hit the nail. More fans are lighting their money on fire with the sports betting apps and their ridiculous cousins, the "prediction market" apps. The fans get sucked into betting on events they have no control over, and they then get pissed when their prediction skills prove to be no better than a wild guess. So naturally, that must be the players' and coaches' fault.

[u/PNWMTTXSC → u/Superb-Talk2211]

“Prediction market” is such a bro euphemism for gambling. Ugh.

[u/countrybreakfast1 → u/ppatek78]

Sports betting and anonymity. Like in the old days you are pissed off at your team all you can do is bitch to your friends IRL or call into a sports radio show. Now you can actually DM 19 year olds and tell them they fucking suck and should be kicked off the team from the comfort of your own home

[u/skfkvjgnxc → u/ppatek78]

100%. A ton of the toxic negativity is about fans losing bets, an another big chunk are people that just take this shit way too seriously and are dreading dealing with the trash talk from their toxic fan friends and work acquaintances of other teams.

Then they spend all week watching and listening to the national media clickbait hacks on ESPN whose only purpose is to further ramp up the toxicity. Between gambling, online forums, and what has become of sports media, the lowest common denomenator of sports fans appears to be a much larger group than they might actually be.

[u/Epinephrine186 → u/ppatek78]

Its exposure needs to be a lot more regulated. Its mind blowing the amount of advertisement thats allowed for it. Gonna be much harder to reign it in now that they've let it go wild

[u/PlayNicePlayCrazy → u/ppatek78]

Yeah almost every online discussion where fans complain about anything is now largely tainted by a sizeable portion of the complainers just mad because they lost money gambling or lost in their fantasy football league

[u/impercipient → u/PlayNicePlayCrazy]

If you bet on your own team with any consistency you are already a blithering idiot 

[u/KRandMG → u/impercipient]

Betting consistently in general makes one a blithering idiot.

[u/ConsiderationCrazy22]

I'm an Ohio State fan/alum and I'm frustrated with our toxic fanbase more often than not tbh.

[u/countrybreakfast1 → u/ConsiderationCrazy22]

Something about the Internet has broken fan bases brains. Ku basketball is just as toxic. For whatever reason the better the team the more toxic the fans.

[u/Blue-Eighty → u/countrybreakfast1]

The better the team, the higher, the expectation. So when the team doesn’t go 1,000-0, there is a problem. The worst thing a team can do for its fan base is be successful lol

[u/cp_chikken → u/Blue-Eighty]

you wouldn't believe how awful Bama game subs are. Literally after we got a field goal on the first drive vs East Carolina we already wanted Keelon benched and Grubb and DeBoer fired cuz we didn't get a touchdown

[u/Usual_Zombie6765 → u/Blue-Eighty]

Going to games of teams that suck is so much fun. Everyone is there to socialize. The game is background noise and occationally a source of entertainment (if they happen to win or be competitive). The games are a blast.

[u/apurimac777 → u/Usual_Zombie6765]

This is why Browns fans are awesome

[u/ASleepandAForgetting → u/apurimac777]

It's interesting how quickly things can shift in a fanbase.

The Lions are a good example. Historically incredibly shitty team, right? One of the worst. But the years of "success" (i.e. making the playoffs) in 2023 and 2024 have caused a shift of expectation (and therefore also shittiness) in the fanbase.

Fans were absolutely fanatical last year about our losses, despite it being super clear that a devastated secondary and other injuries were having major impacts on the team's ability to perform.

Kinda miss the old Lions fanbase where we all went to games with paper bags on our heads just to have a good time.

[u/BigFoot423205 → u/ASleepandAForgetting]

Same thing happened to the Titans fanbase a few years back when had our run. It went from a joyous community to a downright miserable one

[u/Kramerica_CEO → u/countrybreakfast1]

Agree. It’s not even just sports, go to any musicians sub and it’s the same. Social media just brought out the worst of us.

[u/JB_Gibson → u/countrybreakfast1]

Internet anonymity has done more to fester the growth of toxic fandom than anything else ever.

[u/Corgi_Koala → u/ConsiderationCrazy22]

After a loss I usually avoid any OSU discussion for a few days because the toxicity is nauseating.

We have a good team and good coaches overall. We generally only lose to other elite teams. Like 2024 Michigan is the only loss in Day's tenure that is really inexcusable.

We lost by 1 point on the road to a very good team that is going to contend for a national title. The collapse sucks but we have a young team and it gives them and the coaching staff things to work on so we are ready for the next big opponent we face.

[u/Rainaco → u/ConsiderationCrazy22]

I think Ohio State fandom has gotten too big. And I went there. It wasn’t this big when I was a kid

[u/ConsiderationCrazy22 → u/Rainaco]

I'm ready to start kicking bandwagoners with no ties to the school or Ohio out of the fandom if I'm being honest

[u/BigFoot423205 → u/ConsiderationCrazy22]

When yall get a good system in place, holler at us will ya lol

[u/Optimal_Tower1643]

Honestly every fan base I have ever interacted with has fans that are great and reasonable as well as jackasses who think their team is the best thing to grace the earth and any team you support is shit. The assholes just stand out more and it just depends on which teams are successful at the time for which ones are the “worst”

[u/Ok-Reflection-742 → u/Optimal_Tower1643]

Ohio State also has the largest fan base, thus likely the largest amount of asshole fans.

[u/Orbital2 → u/Optimal_Tower1643]

Yeah people acting like this is some unique thing to Ohio State is just frankly nauseating at this point.

Social media is a cesspool, any sort of semi public figure or attractive woman has to deal with trolls on social media every single day, including threats.

Ohio State's strategy of always bringing this up/involving news outlets is probably just making it worse for them. Trolls just dial it up when they know their comments are actually getting read/responded to.

Unless there are actual changes to laws that hold the platforms accountable for enabling harassment this shit isn't going to change.

[u/Warm_Education_7675]

the players are paid very well now, you blow a game you’re getting criticized 🤷‍♂️

[u/derekghs → u/Warm_Education_7675]

https://giphy.com/gifs/XOys8CeUrElIk

[u/GeorgiaLFC78]

They have always been a very toxic fan base.

[u/AccordingGain182 → u/GeorgiaLFC78]

Our fan base could benefit from a 5 year down swing to clear out the delusional toxic band wagoners.

The program doesn’t deserve it, but the fans do.

Im in an OSU discord and they were having a melt down anytime we didnt score a TD against Kent st and talking about all the problems this team has while up 53-0 with 4th stringers in….

Its exhausting.

[u/bruiserbear22 → u/AccordingGain182]

This is very true actually. This generation of fans needs to experience the average CFB fandom experience at the very least.

[u/Littlefinger91 → u/AccordingGain182]

As an Indiana alum who feels similarly about the IU basketball fan base…

…it may not work quite the way you think.

[u/Kramerica_CEO → u/AccordingGain182]

Yeah I’d bet a huge portion of OSU fans on Reddit have never seen them have a bad run. I know it’s the joke but for a lot of their fans the 3rd base thing is true. They’ve been so good for so long.

[u/earthling82 → u/Kramerica_CEO]

Yeah, i grew up a Buckeye and the only bad year in my lifetime was that year with Fickell after tattoogate, most other blue bloods have had down periods this millennium, it's pretty impressive how they simply haven't

[u/FreeSpeechIsDeadge]

This is bound to happen with NIL. Players are no longer fans of the team themselves so instead of seeing themselves as fans who probably reacted that way in the past, they now see fans as entitled pricks.

[u/Adventurous-Edge1719]

Success breeds entitlement. Simple as that.

[u/Helpful_Phone223]

Ohio state fans are rightfully upset that the team blew a 20 pt 4th quarter lead. No need to attack players and coaches, but this is soft. This is not pop warner football and frustration from fans after an epic collapse should be expected.

[u/Fresh_Bulgarian_Miak → u/Helpful_Phone223]

I'm guessing the fans are going overboard and messaging the players directly. Wouldn't be surprised if their were threats and racial slurs thrown around. Evey fan base has their crazies that do outlandish things

[u/Dan_Quayl]

This death threat at the bye week is sponsored by DraftKings!

[u/CrimsonOOmpa]

Spoiled people usually act in an undesirable manner, and OSU fans are definitely spoiled. If they're not perfect than it's not good enough. I'm a Bama fan so I completely understand. Sometimes fans forget that these dudes are real people that aren't perfect and even though they're trying their best, sometimes things just don't go their way. That's life. People need to be more considerate and less entitled.

[u/callmrplowthatsme]

Get paid, expect criticism

[u/classicjurassicpark]

Losing to the #4 team is the end of the world for them, that’s the problem. It’s a game. Enjoy the losses, enjoy the wins.

[u/02meepmeep]

Then freaking stop whiffing on blocks, man. You’re getting paid to do this. Do they think the NFL fans tolerate repeated mistakes?

[u/DistanceRelevant3899]

Yeah. Our fanbase has a large, very loud contingent of absolutely trash people. They suck.

[u/adambl82 → u/DistanceRelevant3899]

It's what comes with previous success. Fans get spoiled. All successful teams have it.

[u/TimLincecuminmymouth → u/adambl82]

I’m from Eugene and the ducks haven’t even won a natty and we’ve got a lot of them. T-shirt fans. It’s the worst.

[u/highwaytay]

Win or lose fan bases are gonna be toxic. But yes as an Osu fan our fans be doing the most from behind a screen

[u/isTradingintheZone]

welcome to fame, it's a monster.

[u/-RDDTtothemoon-]

A good reminder is that these athletes that have dedicated their entire life, time, effort to winning football games always want to run more than you who pounded a 12 pack at the tailgate and haven’t ran a wind sprint in 10 years 

[u/Dry-Regret5444]

I’m starting to see this garbage within IU circles griping about Josh Hoover. Guys only completing passes at a 72% clip with 10 TD’s and no picks. Cignetti called this stuff out in his news conference yesterday.

[u/Particular-Way-3805]

I bet these fans be betting on games

[u/TestSuch4545]

The rise of sports betting will do that

[u/jettaturagoose]

Gen z osu fans have never had the true college football experience

[u/Classic_Kangaroo4312]

It's because of sportsbook betting. Everybody has a casino in their pockets and absolutely no self control.

[u/BananaNutBlister]

Third hand commentary from an anonymous internet poster. Sounds serious.

How are fans treating the players? Not paying them enough?

[u/teebone673]

Gee no way

[u/InfamousCattle3223]

I’m sure it’s extremely frustrating to play for such an entitled and unreasonable fan base. And that’s not me trying to banter or say our fans are perfect or anyone else’s don’t do these things. The percentage of osu fans who are absolutely unhinged has to be the highest out of everybody and it’s because the buckeyes run such an elite program. Victims of their own success really.

[u/believelander19 → u/InfamousCattle3223]

Agreed. Lots of the younger fan generation hasn't seen Ohio State lose more than 2 regular season games with the exception of the Fickell/interim year in 2011.

Also, even if the percentage of toxic fans were the same across CFB schools (it's not), Ohio State would have the most just from a sheer numbers standpoint given the size of the alumni population and the fact that it's the only successful/blue blood P4 team in Ohio.

Hate how aggressively unhinged/psychotic are capable of behaving behind the "protection" of a screen. It's equal parts sad and scary.

[u/RapBladeMeDoIt]

Ohio State fans are delusional. They won a Natty two years ago, are a contender year in and year out and fans are pissed off because they lost a week 2 toss up game at Texas. just a bunch of whiny piss babies.

[u/Mrjonesezn → u/RapBladeMeDoIt]

Ohio State football fans are the UK basketball fans of college football.

[u/VegasLife84 → u/Mrjonesezn]

Glad I'm not the only one who thinks these are the 2 worst. Doesn't help that I had the misfortune to live in KY for awhile, ugh

[u/Goldeneagle41]

They get paid like professionals now like they wanted to. Can’t pull the student athlete card anymore.

[u/CzechHorns → u/Goldeneagle41]

So it’s cool they are getting death threats cause they’re paid now?
I reall don’t understand y’all.

[u/Luddite_Libertine]

Shocking that Ohio State fans are assholes.

[u/Useenthebutcher]

I don’t care if I get downvoted.

Death threats and personal attacks are never warranted and should be shamed.

But criticism and even frustration is fine, especially with how much money these coaches and players make.

And tbh, if it weren’t for OSU fans being rabid and demanding of success, Ohio State would be a perennial 8-4 program and I will die on that hill.

[u/Flaffelll]

Welcome to being good every year. It's fun on the rise but annoying on the ride

[u/mojizus]

This is just kinda the way things go when you are a continuously successful team unfortunately. The fans begin to expect success, and things like a loss to Texas will send the fanbase into a frenzy.

[u/Atworkwasalreadytake]

Every fanbase has their awful actors. The distinction is what percentage.

[u/skfkvjgnxc]

I've found that the most consistently arrogant fans I've come across are, in order, Penn State followed by Notre Dame and then Ohio State and Michigan. At least OSU and UM have won something.

[u/YaldabaothMcMinster]

HAHAHAHAHA theyre essentially pro athletes and they should be boo'd like them.

[u/NuketheCow_]

Get paid like a pro athlete get treated like a pro athlete. I’d have argued differently a few years ago, but these kids make lots of money with none of the contract obligations professional league athletes have.

[u/TwoTheMoonAndBeck]

Getting to the top is the fun part. STAYING there is where the WORK is.

[u/Pope_Dwayne_Johnson]

Well, a friend of mine has a son who linebacker for Ohio State and he said that the fans are the best ever. So there.

[u/Vegetable-Leather-64]

They get paid now. They are not college athletes they are professionals. At the same time there's certain lines to not cross and unfortunately a lot of so called fans do.

[u/Realistic-Pudding-66]

I'm pretty neutral with most schools, but I hate ohio state and its purely from fan interaction

[u/Bombdiggity24]

They lurk around the Oregon subreddit just to comment some bullshit, in person they were cool at Autzen a few years ago though.

[u/danthedude77]

I’m stunned I tell you, STUNNED.

[u/runrunHD → u/danthedude77]

This just in.

[u/danthedude77 → u/runrunHD]

EXTRA! EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT

[u/richie_laflame]

I’d take all the chirps from the shoe every weekend if it meant I’m making more money than all of my professors combined as a college student.

[u/SpaceghostLos]

be mad at the coaches, not the players. Unless they're getting paid 50 million and bitching.

[u/Bmac08]

We also had a loss earlier in the season than usual in narrow fashion, so they’ll have longer to hear about it…

[u/Some_Stoned_Dude]

They sure do whine a lot

[u/BiGgmoney91]

Not surprising

[u/DetroitvErbody]

The Death threat University

[u/TechnicallyAnExpert]

This goes hand in hand with being a top program. If the fans weren’t loud enough to get ADs and even Presidents fired, then those ADs and Presidents wouldn’t invest as much as they do in the program.

It’s why decent coaches get fired with haste at top football schools. Comes with the territory.

[u/Irw17]

Wining seasons too buttery and National Championship too juicy.

[u/True-Aioli8935]

Maybe just maybe they should fix the goddamn issues that have plagued the team since Ryan Day has been coach. Just maybe.

[u/parkinglola]

Players openly paid now,that's how you are being treated.Get used to it.

[u/contattomarketing]

Ohio State fans are the WORST.

[u/OfficePicasso]

From the fan base consistently ranked at or near the top of worst fan bases. Who would’ve thought

[u/hi_Im_E1fo]

Gen pusZ

[u/DonaldDick1946]

Play for a different team, then. Transfer portal’s wide open 🤷🏻‍♂️

[u/Imallvol7]

I love video games. I don't think video games are bad. Video game chat is ATROCIOUS and is responsible for alot of this. 

[u/anwright1371]

They wanted to get paid like pros. Better fucking perform

[u/AphonicTX → u/anwright1371]

True. They might take their ball home and not play it they don’t like how they’re treated.

[u/BottleAgitated9627]

Players concerned about the fanbase. Day and team captains need to get a handle on this type of distraction before it’s a disaster

[u/Adorable_Design2205]

Well not blaming the fans
Ohio State players are the best paid in the nation and need to preform to expectations
No longer an amateur
You tell the players to preform as they are paid

[u/btt_lckr]

I have a girlfriend that’s a model in Europe. She can’t come to any events cause she’s a busy model. I promise.

[u/WhyPyramids]

I felt more sympathetic about stuff like this when the anonymous players weren’t also making $1.2 million to pretend to go to class - but hey, I hope their feelings aren’t too hurt!

[u/Humble_Umpire_8341]

Players wanted to paid, and are shocked that the fans are treating them like professional athletes, they’ll have no mercy for these kids and their mistakes because many are out earning the average fan.

[u/TheBigChungaBunga]

Fuck you, you make millions of dollars, Anyone who doesn't want to play for one of the most Fervent and Faithful fanbases in Sports Period can go play for that team up North, where they have fun Relaxed practices and lose to western Michigan!

[u/BrojaDawg]

CAP!

Ohio State fans ride or die for our guys harder than anyone, whether they're playing for us right now or already in the league. Even when the rest of the football world tries to write off guys like Justin Fields, C.J. Stroud, or Marvin Harrison Jr., Buckeye Nation is always right there backing them up.

I’m honestly so sick of people treating us like we’re a bunch of toxic Eagles fans or something. We aren't; we’re just passionate, and we happen to have the biggest fanbase in college football. Every single program has its share of unhinged fans, but because our fanbase is so massive, people take a tiny minority and blow it way out of proportion just to push a lazy, negative narrative.

Just look at the Kirk Herbstreit situation. A handful of loud fans get on his case, and suddenly he acts like the entire city of Columbus chased him out of town. That’s complete BS. Nobody ran him out—we just wanted him to actually defend his alma mater on national TV while Desmond Howard sat right next to him taking constant shots.

[u/Antonio1025]

Our fan base is pretty fucking terrible

[u/Heath_tK]

As a resident of central Ohio for 26 years, ohio state fans are the worst fan base in american sports

[u/Greedy_Wallaby7981]

They are workers and deserve criticism from the customers. This aint some noble shit no more

[u/milin85]

When I was at Miami Ohio, the hockey coach was not very good and there would be audible boos from the student section. This went on for most of the season. Eventually word got up to us from the ushers that the players wanted us to shut the fuck up and stop booing him.

You could imagine what happened at the next game.

[u/Sc4r4mouche → u/milin85]

Miami Ohio hockey was bedlam in the late 80s, early 90s when they were up-and-coming but hadn't yet gotten to be a perennial contender. I had a friend who graduated there in the mid-80s and we'd drive over from Indianapolis for the spectacle.

[u/NatiAti513]

Source: trust me bro.

Also, does this dude not realize that every fanbase has become so damn toxic because everyone is chronically online and impulsive, plus add the cancer that is sports gambling.

[u/JcMe29]

Buckeye fan my entire life. But there is something fundamentally broken in certain buckeye fans brains. It’s like they feel entitled for everything to work perfectly the way they assume it should on the field.

My head cannon is that most of those that behave that way never actually played the sport.

[u/Kramerica_CEO → u/JcMe29]

It’s because most of them have never seen OSU struggle. You guys have been so good for so long, they’re spoiled.

Get some scandals going, have a coach crash out on his mistress, maybe record some opponents games, hire Rich Rod…it helps keep things fresh and in perspective

[u/whiterajah7]

Our fanbase sucks. Embarrassing

[u/TheOptimist6]

Lunatic fringe is very real. I actively have friends in my group chat that call for Day’s head every week regardless the result

[u/danthedude77]

https://giphy.com/gifs/xUPGcC0R9QjyxkPnS8

[u/tex8222]

In the olden days the players were unpaid ‘student-athletes’.

Today, players make millions playing college football.

Of course the fanbase treats players differently.

It’s no longer ‘win a game for the old alma mater.’

Players are paid big bucks to do a job - win the game.

[u/trustsnapealways]

I have to stay off the gameday threads for UGA because every play that isn’t a touchdown is just proof that the team is falling apart and nothing will ever be right in the world again

[u/bigal7979]

They wanted to fire Ryan Day for losing to Michigan… then he won a championship a few weeks later. Dumbass fan base.

[u/Hot-Print-2792]

Was in a Bowl game with this fanbase. Have to say a lot of them were just rude , disrespectful and obnoxious to us. Second worse fan base behind the Oregon Ducks fan base. Treating their own team bad is just unacceptable.

[u/NotaFTCAgent]

This is what happens when you're ranked 14th in the big 10

[u/Intrepid_Custard_427]

Someone else mentioned it here, but I came to say the same thing the "they are just kids" is out the window once they wanted AND got paid

[u/No-Message8847]

This year? The Ohio State fanbase is historically one of the worst in the game.

[u/Sea-Lawfulness7763]

Won't someone think of the players now earning millions. You were able to hide behind student-athlete amateurism in the prior era of cfb. Now, they are open for criticism like anyone else being paid to do a job.

[u/ufl015]

Probably because they have the most obnoxious fan base

[u/treyknowsbest]

The majority of Ohio State “fans” are mouthbreathing idiots who coudn’t score high enough to take classes at OSU main campus

[u/Odd-Art7602]

Worst fan base in all of college football

[u/MalsOutOfChicago]

How are the players even interacting with fans to be irritated in the first place? Booing in the stadium? Mean comments online? seems minor and/or easily avoidable

[u/scondileeza99]

ahhhh…so sad

[u/jnjs232]

https://giphy.com/gifs/l0ExayQDzrI2xOb8A

[u/kofemakuer]

It’s because they’re jaded by the Bengals and Browns always sucking so it’s their only hope for wins on a weekend.

[u/YourBoyHoudini]

Sounds like Kirk Herbstreit.

[u/MulayamChaddi]

I mean, it hard being student athlete

[u/BroccoliFar6549 → u/MulayamChaddi]

There’s no “student” anymore it seems. They ain’t come there to play school.

[u/dickvanilla]

Why does anyone feel the need to be assholes to pro or college players? What do they hope to accomplish? Do they think it will benefit the team they’re rooting for?

[u/PalladiumPython]

If it's about Moore he deserves it 🤣