John Calipari’s got an old saying (he’s got a lot of sayings) that he likes to pull out every time he wants to praise Kentucky basketball for being the zaniest, most passionate fan-base in the sport. He drops it two or three times a year, and only at the most appropriate of all moments, when the absurdity of Big Blue Nation is truly on display. “You people are crazy,” Calipari is keen on saying. It’s certainly applicable to Kentucky basketball fans, however it might be even more appropriate to a broader group of people as well: College football fans. To quote John Calipari, ‘you college football fans are crazy,’ something we once again learned Saturday as spring games were played all across the country. And while thousands turned out across the country, the craziness of college football fans was on full display in two places specifically: Columbus, Ohio and Athens, Georgia. Let’s start in C-Bus, where Urban Meyer urged his fans all week long to come out and support his new look Ohio State squad. Heck, he didn’t just “urge” them, he flat-out peer-pressured them, proclaiming that he wanted 100,000 fans at ‘The Shoe on Saturday. Well, Ohio State fans followed Meyer’s lead like Pavlov’s dog, and by the time the festivities were over on Saturday, over 100,000 scarlet-and-grey clad-fans made their way through the turnstiles in Columbus. They got quite a show as back-up quarterback Joe Burrows threw for three touchdowns, and former quarterback Cardale Jones even outshined his buddy J.T. …
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