If there is one person who knows how difficult and fickle a passionate fanbase can be, it would be ESPN Game Day analyst and former Ohio State football player Kirk Herbstreit. It has been well documented that Herbstreit has had a love/hate relationship with Buckeye Nation.
There will always be people who will want Herbstreit to shed his professionalism while on television and act more like his Gameday colleague and Michigan legend Desmond Howard, who unapologetically defends his alma mater even when it makes him look like a clown. But that’s not Herbstreit’s style, or what got him to the pinnacle of college football broadcasting.