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Urban Meyer calls Ohio State fans 'complete, absolute nut-jobs' for their passion

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Fox Sports analyst Urban Meyer has coached at some of the biggest programs in college football, including Ohio State, Florida and as an assistant at Notre Dame. Meyer feels that the passion Buckeyes fans have is different from any other school in the country.

On The Triple Option podcast he recently went through the most passionate fan bases in every conference and shared that in his opinion, none compare to Ohio State Buckeyes fans.

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I went North, so I went the Wolverines, Penn State and Notre Dame. I went hard South – Florida, Miami and Florida State. I went SEC – Alabama, Auburn, Tennessee, Georgia, I know I’m going to miss a couple. Texas, A&M and Oklahoma from the center of the country. And then you’ve got USC and the newcomers Oregon and Washington.

“The one thing you have to ask yourself is, there’s really one place, and I’m biased because I’m from the great state of Ohio, where football is born in your blood.”

As Urban Meyer pointed out, at some cities in Ohio, literally moments after you are born, you become an Ohio State fan.

“You realize when you’re born in Columbus, Ohio, they give you a ‘Beat the Team Up North’ shirt. The baby has a ‘Beat the Team Up North,'” Urban Meyer explained. “In Canton, Ohio, you’re born, in Massillon, they put a football, if you’re a boy, in your crib when you’re born.”

Yes, that leads to Ohio State fans being incredibly passionate from a young age on, but Meyer doesn’t view that as a negative.

He isn’t taking a shot at Ohio State fans when he calls them “nut-jobs.” Instead, he is doing the opposite. Yes, you can argue that there are some negatives when you have such a passionate fan-base, but there are also plenty of positives and Meyer chooses to focus on those.

“And people say that’s insanity, I agree — you’re out of your mind,” Meyer said. “But I’d tell you one thing, you can never worry about an open seat at Ohio Stadium. You can never worry about a program that’s not going to be funded by the people, because they are complete, absolute, nut-jobs.”