Game Thread Ohio at tOSU, Sat Sep 18, 12 ET, BTN/Overflow

[kc286496]

First, I'd like to congratulate you on that Nobel winning alum. That means that all 12 of The Other State Universities combined now have exactly half as many Nobel Laureate alumni as their glorious Flagship University in Columbus.

As for the little bit of patent and royalty money that OU makes on its research, that just shows that you are in the B (or C) leagues. Ohio State's research (720 million dollars last year/9th most of any public or private university) is focused on the more prestigious primary research. That's why Ohio State physicists are part of the CERN team working on the fundamental questions of string theory and quantum dynamics or why our astronomers--working at the Arizona observatory that we co-own with the University of Chicago, the Max Plank Institute and the Vatican--are doing fundamental research into the formation of the galaxy. We'll leave inventing the better mousetrap or perfecting the next leap forward in plunger technology to our little brother schools....

Really? Is this what we are arguing about on a football forum? I've said it before and I'll say it again. I'm an OU alum and I hope the Bobcats get absolutely PASTED on Saturday. THERE ARE SIX PEOPLE IN ATHENS WHO CARE ABOUT OU FOOTBALL. SIX. The other 20,000 students make fun of those six losers. I would root for OU against tOSU in a Journalism Contest, but not on the gridiron. The entire Mid-American Conference exists solely so that kids from the OCC (who don't get OSU offers) can have a chance to play college football close to home. In Athens, there are two things to do--drink and smoke weed. On Saturdays in the fall in Athens, we get to do those two things while watching Buckeye football. Anybody who wants to pretend to be a Bobcat fan for an afternoon a couple times per decade when they come into the 'Shoe is a POSER! You didn't go to the games when you were a student because the games are about as exciting as an Otterbein/OWU matchup. So stop pretending to be hardcore fans now. We are what we are--drunk potheads. And that's okay.

 

[cjmik_75]

Really? Is this what we are arguing about on a football forum? I've said it before and I'll say it again. I'm an OU alum and I hope the Bobcats get absolutely PASTED on Saturday. THERE ARE SIX PEOPLE IN ATHENS WHO CARE ABOUT OU FOOTBALL. SIX. The other 20,000 students make fun of those six losers. I would root for OU against tOSU in a Journalism Contest, but not on the gridiron. The entire Mid-American Conference exists solely so that kids from the OCC (who don't get OSU offers) can have a chance to play college football close to home. In Athens, there are two things to do--drink and smoke weed. On Saturdays in the fall in Athens, we get to do those two things while watching Buckeye football. Anybody who wants to pretend to be a Bobcat fan for an afternoon a couple times per decade when they come into the 'Shoe is a POSER! You didn't go to the games when you were a student because the games are about as exciting as an Otterbein/OWU matchup. So stop pretending to be hardcore fans now. We are what we are--drunk potheads. And that's okay.

 

[Piney]

Dang, I don't check in on BP for over a day and shit blows up

It's funny to me that he would point out admission standards from the past as a "burn."
Our incoming freshmen have an ACT score range (middle 50%) of 25 ? 30. (Link)
OU has an ACT score range (Middle 50%) of 21-26 (Link)

To claim OU brings in a better grade of student is laughable. Having to go back thirty years to try and "hurt our feelings" is fucking funny.

30 years? When I was looking into colleges Ohio State welcomed anyone with a pulse and OU had the higher standards... damn... I'm old, that was 20 years ago... ok nevermind then.

And I thought I hated Duke! Your level of hatred towards OU is rather frightening, ORD. I am actually thinking of rooting for OSU just so I don't have to see what you do if the Bobcats were to win.

I understand that you have every right to feel that way, and clearly some of the fans deserve that treatment. But seriously, lay off the academics. OU is a great institution that has been very good to me and gave me a great education. To say otherwise is just stupid. That is one of the reasons I ended up down in Athens rather than Columbus or Happy Valley.

I would also like to appologize on behalf of Ohio University for producing Jay Marriotti. If it is any consolation, we hate him too.

ORD has some hard-on for talking down the other universities in Ohio. Has been doing it for years, I just try to ignore him. All I know is 100 years ago the decision for what university in this state was going to get the upper hand. For whatever reason it was given to a new university that had one powerful ally (Hayes). Was there other reasons? Probably, and I am sure there was some dirty politics involved, but it was OVER 100 YEARS AGO!!! So I doubt anyone here other than BB was around to witness it, and alot of the real reasons for it happening aren't really easily available. And really, I don't care. It happened and it's water over the bridge.

Or Matt Lauer?

Don't mess with my fellow classmate! Had a few beers and shot some stick with him at Night Court on our graduation night. The hot college girls that threw themselves on him were priceless and it was great to be right there to console them for failing to try to get a piece of him.

 

[kc286496]

Don't mess with my fellow classmate! Had a few beers and shot some stick with him at Night Court on our graduation night. The hot college girls that threw themselves on him were priceless and it was great to be right there to console them for failing to try to get a piece of him.

So you're the one person who ever went to Night Court.

 

[Buckeyeskickbuttocks]

So you're the one person who ever went to Night Court.

No. One of two. Lauer was there too, apparently.

 

[Tlangs]

So you're the one person who ever went to Night Court.

I was a Pub/Junction/Pigskin guy

 

[Piney]

So you're the one person who ever went to Night Court.

The Night Court was a cool place to hang. Then again when I took the bartending class it was taught by Bill who owned the place and he hooked me up plenty of times. So it was stupid not to go there now and then.

I was a Pub/Junction/Pigskin guy

Pigskin was really my #1 place. Was there when it first opened. AWESOME food.

My haunts back in the day was the Union (great live music), Pub, Junction and there was another place that had good live music, but the name escapes me at the moment. It was right across from the BP Gas Station and had that lower entrance... dang it. Will remember eventually...

So many awesome bars that could fit whatever mood you were in at that time.

 

[AKAK]

The Night Court was a cool place to hang. Then again when I took the bartending class it was taught by Bill who owned the place and he hooked me up plenty of times. So it was stupid not to go there now and then.




Pigskin was really my #1 place. Was there when it first opened. AWESOME food.

My haunts back in the day was the Union (great live music), Pub, Junction and there was another place that had good live music, but the name escapes me at the moment. It was right across from the BP Gas Station and had that lower entrance... dang it. Will remember eventually...

So many awesome bars that could fit whatever mood you were in at that time.

Dugout...

The Union? Really?

Hippie.

 

[Fungo Squiggly]

My haunts back in the day was the Union (great live music), Pub, Junction and there was another place that had good live music, but the name escapes me at the moment. It was right across from the BP Gas Station and had that lower entrance... dang it. Will remember eventually...

yOUr OU education is showing. :p

 

[Piney]

Dugout...

The Union? Really?

Hippie.

Yep... the Dugout!!!

Hey, the only time I went to the Union was when they had a decent band.

yOUr OU education is showing. :p

Never said I was a journalism major I'm an accountant, now if I mess up with numbers then you can blame my education

 

[kc286496]

My haunts back in the day was the Union (great live music), Pub, Junction and there was another place that had good live music, but the name escapes me at the moment. It was right across from the BP Gas Station and had that lower entrance... dang it. Will remember eventually...

So many awesome bars that could fit whatever mood you were in at that time.

It was the Dugout for a long time and then it became Mama Einstein's. $0.75 Icehouse drafts and free pool at Happy Hour on Wednesday. Best deal in Athens except for the $1 Guinness pint special at the Skull! If you like live music, you can't leave out the Swindlefish. Ekoostik Hookah used to play there! You see, folks, this is the stuff that OU grads should be talking about. Let's leave the football talk to the experts in Columbus.

 

[Buckeyeskickbuttocks]

I would point out that not only does Ohio State have better football, we also had Hookah.

Thank God for Wednesdays at the 'Berg!

 

[DaddyBigBucks]

Ohio State and Iowa are playing very similar teams on Saturday.

Both are playing opponents that have played Toledo and a team from the FCS.

Sure, Iowa's opponent put up 518 yards on the Rockets while the Bobcats managed 183; but other than that they're exactly the same.

 

[FCollinsBuckeye]

I drove down to see Hookah at the Dugout one time.

Good times.



BKB - did you go to Hookahville when it was at Songbird Amphitheater?

 

[kc286496]

Never said I was a journalism major I'm an accountant, now if I mess up with numbers then you can blame my education

I didn't realize you had to be a Journalism major to put a sentence together with subject/verb agreement. That's like saying only Accounting majors know how to count to ten.

That's why I'm staying away from the arguments on here about which school is better. I have plenty of friends who have degrees from OU or OSU and most of them are still idiots. With the exception of some specialized programs, these are both pretty mediocre academic universities that produce a lot of mediocre graduates. Just sayin'...