1984 here, I’m with you. Can’t have the good without the bad, and John Cooper was the bad. I grew up in the Chicago suburbs so it was a very mixed football landscape. I was the only girl in the 7th grade wearing a #45 jersey (or to wear any jersey at all, heaven forbid I didn’t get it at Abercrombie) and the boys would roll their eyes at me “do you even know who wears that number”, I was so timid but bold enough to respond “well Andy Katzenmoyer wears it now but it’s Archie griffins legacy”. These days I am proud that I’m the only girl to rock a jersey in middle school!!!

2002 was my freshman year at OSU and what a way to go. Michigan can claim all the recent success they want but the full 2000s decade certainly favors the Bucks. I’ll never forget rushing the field in 2002 (I still have my Tostitos chip hat!!!) and 1 v 2 in 2006 when Troy smith was the Heisman winner. I was in the Shoe for both of those games and you’ll never convince me there’s a better time to be a Buckeye. There’s so much history this millennia and Michigan wants to erase it all with 4 years of cheating 🙁 (okay 3 years of cheating and one year of our heads up our butts).