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Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
Yeah, it's always nice to see the former athletes eventually get their degree.
I'm not sure he actually devolved the information himself, it reportedly came from a couple anonymous "OSU Faculty" letters that somehow SI got a hold of. I'm guessing the anonymous faculty member (who was apparently pissed of that a football player appeared to be getting preferential academic treatment) also sent copies to SI, etc:
BLACK EYE FOR THE BUCKEYES HOW OHIO STATE KEPT LINEBACKER ANDY KATZENMOYER ELIGIBLE
SI has obtained copies of two anonymous letters--both signed "Sincerely, OSU Faculty"--that were sent to Ohio State president
William Kirwin last summer and that offer new details about Andy's excellent academic adventure. "The special treatment
football player Andy Katzenmoyer has received this summer in order to be academically eligible is ridiculous," said the first
letter, dated Aug. 14. "Something is definitely wrong when the only grade given in [a mass communications course Katzenmoyer
had taken in the first summer semester] is an A or A- for all 22 students enrolled, even though there was normal grade
distribution/range for the course in previous quarters."
The letter also questioned how Katzenmoyer, who it claimed had earned a 1.72 average or lower in five of his seven semesters,
was "suddenly able to perform at the scholar-athlete level (3.0)" for the first summer term, and how he'd been squeezed
into the golf class, which was full.
The second letter, dated Aug. 24, asked how, eight weeks into the summer session, Katzenmoyer had been granted a grade change
for an art education class he had failed the previous spring. "The academic integrity of this University has become a joke,"
the letter concluded.
Kirwin, who had a team of administrators investigate the claims, acknowledges that the basic facts in the letters were correct.
He doesn't agree with the letter's interpretation, however. "I certainly don't think we're an academic joke," Kirwin says.
"From everything I learned, nothing was done for Andy Katzenmoyer that can't be done for any other student of the
university. Some will take those facts and see it one way. I saw that no rules or regulations were broken."
When asked by SI to explain the spate of A's in Katzenmoyer's mass communications course, Presentational Speaking, the
instructor, John Love, noted that there were "a fair amount" of athletes in the course. "This course is very
performance-oriented, and athletes are used to the notion of executing and performing," Love said. When asked to explain why
she had changed Katzenmoyer's grade from an E (Ohio State's version of an F) to a C+ in the spring art course, Introduction
to the Computer and the Visual Arts, teaching assistant Paula DiMarco said, "This is uncomfortable. I really don't want to
talk." As for how Katzenmoyer got into the golf class, the graduate student who taught it is now in New Zealand and could
not be reached.
"The only advantage Mr. Katzenmoyer may have had is that he has people looking out for him who know the rules of the
university," says art education department chairman Jim Hutchens. "Grade changes are discussed in the university
handbook. That others don't know that only means they haven't read the handbook. I don't think it's as suspicious as it may
look."
Entire article: https://vault.si.com/vault/1999/06/...ate-kept-linebacker-andy-katzenmoyer-eligible
Here's a nice article 21 Aug 2021) from Land-Grant Holy Land:
Interview: Catching up with ‘The Big Kat’ Andy Katzenmoyer
One of OSU’s greatest players looks back on his career — and forward to the 2021 season
Entire article: https://www.landgrantholyland.com/2...tate-football-andy-katzenmoyer-interview-2021
Also FWIW, he might be selling insurance now:
https://hosketulen.com/about-our-agency/professional-directory/team-member/andy-katzenmoyer/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/andy-katzenmoyer-33246817
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