Big Kat can’t avoid spotlight
Andy Katzenmoyer can't
escape the notoriety this
season has brought him
By Rusty Miller
The Associated Press
COLUMBUS — Pursuit is part
and parcel of Andy Katzenmoyer,
top-ranked Ohio State's premier
linebacker.
Opposing coaches gush over the
6-foot-4,255-pounder’s speed and
lateral movement as he sorts
through blockers like rag dolls be
fore arriving at the ball carrier with
a thunderous hit.
He roams the field, creating hav
oc and knocking offenses out of
synch. Running plays are designed
to avoid him. Receivers pray they
don’t run through his coverage
area.
But just as he pursues on the
field, Katzenmoyer feels he is pur
sued off it.
“I can’t do anything without it
being known,” the Butkus Award
winning junior said in a rare inter
view. “If I go out to eat, I hear about
it for two weeks. It’s difficult, so I
just keep to myself and keep to the
people I know I can trust. ”
Katzenmoyer feels he’s been
burned by the public’s demand to
know all it can about him. He sel
dom speaks with the media, and
skipped a national conference call
this week to discuss Saturday’s
game against No. 7 Penn State. His
reason? He says some of his trou
bles have been blown out of pro
portion.
In August, Katzenmoyer re
vealed that he had to pass three
classes — AIDS awareness, golf
and music—in order to be eligible
for the 1998 season.
Sports Illustrated declared Ohio
State No. 1 — only if Katzenmoyer
made the grade. The magazine pro
filed him inside, right after a two
page photo out of an old war
movie, featuring a crazed Katzen
moyer with limp bodies and bro
ken goalposts in his wake.
Katzenmoyer’s mother, Dianne,
was asked if she was saddened by
the low priority her son assigned to
education.
“Absolutely not,” she said. "We
sent him to college to learn how to
earn a living.”
Katzenmoyer was quoted as say
ing, “After next year, hopefully I’ll
be making mill ions and millions of
dollars.”
He eventually passed the classes
to remain eligible, but not before
dozens of national publications
had mocked or vilified him for his
class load.
The Buckeyes are 3-0. Katzen
moyer was at his best against No.
21 Missouri, recording a career
high 12 tackles.
“I’m playing like I always have,”
he said after the game. It was one
of only four times he has met with
reporters this season.
Coach John Cooper has little tol
erance for Katzenmoyer’s plea that
he has no private life.
“He better get used to that,”
Cooper said. “That goes with it.
The better player you are, the more
notoriety you’re going to have and
the more recognition you’re going
to get.”
Katzenmoyer’s popularity re
mains high in his hometown, how
ever.
With no major-league football,
basketball or baseball teams,
Columbus has to reach to the col
lege level to find its heroes. Katzen
moyer is the people’s choice.
Because Ohio State’s No. 45 jer
sey was worn by the only two-time
Heisman Trophy winner, Archie
Griffin, it has long been a common
sight around the city.
But these days, it is worn by
hundreds of kids who never heard
of Griffin, Woody Hayes or “three
yards and a cloud of dust.”
While still being recruited by
Ohio State, Katzenmoyer men
tioned that he wanted to wear 45,
the same number he had worn at
Westerville South High School.
Cooper checked with Griffin, now
an associate athletic director at
Ohio State.
"Hopefully, he'll make 'em for
get who wore it before,” Griffin
said.
So Katzenmoyer, literally and
figuratively, replaced a Buckeyes
great. But controversy came along
with the jersey.
On his official recruiting trip —
not much of a trip, since he grew
up just a few miles from campus—
a policeman walking down the
street looked in the window of a
bar and saw a young, square-jawed
kid sitting at a table. On the table
was a beer bottle. Katzenmoyer
was charged and later convicted of
underage possession of alcohol.
On the field, things went
smoothly. Katzenmoyer became
the first Ohio State linebacker to
start his first game as a freshman.
And the Buckeyes have produced
linebackers such as Chris Spiel
man, Pepper Johnson, Tom
Cousineau and Randy Gradishar.
Katzenmoyer was a second
team All-American on a team that
would finish No. 2 in the country
and earn Ohio State’s first Rose
Bowl victory in 23 years.
Although his sacks dropped
from 12 to 2 and tackles for a loss
from 23 to 13, Katzenmoyer was
acclaimed the best linebacker in
the country last season as a sopho
more. He moved up to first-team
All-America.
Sports briefs
Griffin catch earns
play of the week
Damon Griffin’s juggling
catch, followed by a determined
run resulting in a 35-yard touch
down vs. Stanford in Saturday's
62-28 victory, has earned offen
sive p lays-of-the-week honors
for the fourth week of the col
lege football season in a pro
gram co-sponsored by Compaq
Computer Corporation and the
College Sports Information Di
rectors of America (CoSIDA).
A select panel of judges pitied
the play front numerous entries
that were submitted nationally at
the Division I, n and III levels.
Compaq recognizes schools for
top offensive and defensive plays
in college football. This is the
only program of its kind that as
sembles judges and ranks the
best plays in college footbal 1 at all
levels of competition.
Oregon earned “Compaq Of
fensive Play of the Week” recog
nition for the second quarter
Akili Smith-to-Griffin reception
which gave the Ducks a 35-7
cushion with 6:09 remaining in
the first half. After running a
quick slant pattern, Griffin mo
mentarily juggled a pass at the
25 yard line, then ripped it away
from Stanford defensive back
Brian Taylor and gained control
at the 20. Griffin broke free from
the grasp of two other Cardinal
players en route to the touch
down. It highlighted a five
catch, 118-yard day for Griffin,
who helped lead Oregon to its
first 4-0 start since 1988.
The “Compaq Defensive
Play of the Week” belongs to
California’s Deltha O’Neal, a
tailback-turned-cornerback.
O’Neal picked off Washington
State quarterback Steve Birn
baum and returned it 76 yards
for a score, increasing the
Bears’ lead to 17-7 with 8:40
left in the game. Cal eventually
triumphed, 24-14.
Colleges and universities sub
mitting the winning entries each
receive $1,000 worth of comput
er equipment from Compaq
ComputerCorporation.
Compaq’s "Plays of the Week"
program will include weekly
highlights of football and men's
and women’s basketball.
Women picked third
by Pac-10 coaches
The Pac-10 women’s basket
ball coaches have chosen Ore
gon to finish third in the con
ference for the 1998-99 season,
garnering 77 points, including
two first-place votes.
UCLA, with five returning
starters from last year’s NCAA
Tournament team, have been
tabbed as the team to beat,
earning 94 points, including
five first-place votes.
The Duck squad is coming
off a 17-10 overall record (13-5
Pac-10) a year ago, advancing
to the NCAA Tournament for
the fifth-consecutive year.
Head coach Jody Runge en
ters the 1998-99 season with
four starters and seven letter
winners returning from a year
ago, including center Jenny
Mowe who sat out last season
due to injury but averaged 8.3
points and 7.0 rebounds her
freshman year. Runge, who en
ters her sixth season at the helm
of the Ducks, has led Oregon to
the NCAA Tournament in each
of her five seasons, posting a ca
reer coaching record of 95-47.
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