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03-20-2008, 12:27 PM
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I stoped reading your post after this part...anyting you had to say beyond 'cincitucky' was going to be biased and innacurate.
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you seem to have gotten a tad riled up over something you supposedly didn't even read. before you get your panties too far in a bunch that statement was ment as a joke. well, mostly ment as a joke. kidna 70/30 ish. ive lived in cincinnati for 10 years now. my gf is a uc grad. hell, my ex gf was a uc grad. most of the people i work with are uc or uk grads. while i do agree with cincibuck that the general mentality in cincy is a tad off and to be perfectly honest i don't think the people here realize they live in ohio. the reality is i like it here. good people and a good town.
as far as uc's football team is concerned, im extremely happy for them and root for them when they aren't playing tOSU. from hiring dantonio to kelley to joining the big east, i think they have made good decision after good decision. i was hoping the bucks would have come down to pbs. i was looking forward to the ribbing i was going to get. oh well, maybe next time.
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03-20-2008, 05:31 PM
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Since this, Cincy and OSU, is one of my favorite topics I hope people will continue to respond.
As I stated there are lots of reasons why OSU has a hard time getting ink and kids out of Southwestern Ohio. That's why I'd love to see the bucks and TBDBITL become a kind of once every five year fixture down here. You have to play OOC games anyway and this is an opportunity to maintain Big 10 superiority over one of the better programs in the Big East.
It gives me a chance to see the bucks in a good seat.
But I really think it helps to establish the program's presence in the mind of the locals. UK basketball has no problem coming in north so why should OSU find it so difficult to bus it down here?
If I were AD I'd book the Buckeye's in here once every four or five years and do the same in Cleveland and if there were a big enough stadium I'd play BG or Toledo up there once in a while to really put a pucker factor on the Michigan cross border raiders. Kinda like gunboat diplomacy, it's good to let the natives see the flag and smell the cordite.
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03-20-2008, 09:00 PM
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UK basketball has no problem coming in north so why should OSU find it so difficult to bus it down here? |
tOSU playing inside the state of Ohio, yet not in Ohio Stadium is akin to your wife being a super-model and your mistress being a TSUN cheerleader. |
03-20-2008, 10:13 PM
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tOSU playing inside the state of Ohio, yet not in Ohio Stadium is akin to your wife being a super-model and your mistress being a TSUN cheerleader.
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Yeah, but to the best of my knowledge my wife is not trying to recruit stud muffins.
If the Bucks are going to be stuck playing in-state rivals, and I think that's a political decision as well as an athletic one, then why not strengthen the base of your hold by going into the other two principal cities and playing an "at home" away game?
I could use my own argument 107K X $50 > 70K X $35, but you can't play 9 home games in a 12 game season and it makes more sense to play before 70K in Cincinnati or Cleveland than to play before 70K in Raleigh.
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03-21-2008, 12:30 AM
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I could use my own argument 107K X $50 > 70K X $35, but you can't play 9 home games in a 12 game season and it makes more sense to play before 70K in Cincinnati or Cleveland than to play before 70K in Raleigh.
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Why? The boys down in Cincy know tOSU pretty damn well, as do most Ohioans. The boys down in NC may have never seen tOSU play. We recruit nationally, do we not?
If Cincy plays us close, or Woody forbid, actually...beat...us  , then it would seem to negate any advances we had achieved in the area.
IMO, we have nothing to gain and everything to lose. I'm tired of tOSU looking out for little brother while little brother wants nothing more than to be the one to stick the knife in the back of the Ohio State program.
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03-21-2008, 12:53 AM
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Originally Posted by BUCKYLE
Why? The boys down in Cincy know tOSU pretty damn well, as do most Ohioans. The boys down in NC may have never seen tOSU play. We recruit nationally, do we not?
If Cincy plays us close, or Woody forbid, actually...beat...us , then it would seem to negate any advances we had achieved in the area.
IMO, we have nothing to gain and everything to lose. I'm tired of tOSU looking out for little brother while little brother wants nothing more than to be the one to stick the knife in the back of the Ohio State program.
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It keeps hundreds of thousands of dollars in the State of Ohio. That is far more important than the marginal benefit of making an out-of-state appearance for the purposes of being visible to recruits in that region. The age of barnstorming is over. You don't need to show up in town to get a kid to know about you. It's about playing in big games, being highly ranked, playing for championships, being on TV, and having players that win awards, break records and get drafted. Ohio State can accomplish all of those things while playing games against in-state opponents. We all saw the Buckeyes land Terrelle Pryor. Do you think he's coming to Columbus because of some of the reasons I just listed, or because the Buckeyes played a game in Happy Valley this past season?
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