Ohio University to play Ohio State in 2008

[Buckeye Nut]

In 2002, yes, he did. In 2003, Iowa came back with a vengeance. Poor Big Ben. 4 picks.

Sorry, I was kidding I should've used sarcasm font.

 

[daveeb]

Sorry, I was kidding I should've used sarcasm font.

2002 Big Ben: 33-51, 343, 2, 1.

I'd say that he did do quite well against Iowa in 2002.

 

[Mike80]

It would seem that OhioCatFan has strapped on his Depends, put a fresh set of tennis balls on his walker and made it down to the rec room to use the communal computer. Hilarity ensues:

BobcatAttack.com - For Fans of Ohio University Sports

I think it's hilarious that loser feels the need to reference 46 and 47 year old Basketball game results as his example of "BuckNut anti-venom", whatever the fuck that is.....



I wonder if his parents had any children that lived

 

[Buckeye Nut]

2002 Big Ben: 33-51, 343, 2, 1.

I'd say that he did do quite well against Iowa in 2002.

I was referring to 2003 when they were beat down 21-3.

 

[Tlangs]

I have to admit that the one thing with which I find myself in agreement with the Fear and Loathing crowd over at bobcatattack or miamicocktalk is the bizarre phenomenon of students of the The Other State Universities continuing to root for Ohio State after enrolling elsewhere. While I can certainly see an exception for someone who went to say Kenyon or out of state, continuing to root and focus on Ohio State after enrolling in another D1, public university (if only a Fredo University) just doesn't make sense.

While I have to admit to getting a certain amount of pleasure from the fits and seizures that it induces among the true believers, it is a rather odd phenomenon--particularly given the antagonistic and at times bitter relationship between the universities involved. I just couldn't imagine myself rooting for the sports teams of another school with whom my own alma mater has had such a contentious and hostile history. Bizarre, indeed!
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I was a fan of OSU since I was a kid. I'm sure you have heard the whole song and dance before....dad took me to games, told me stories about all the great historical games, etc.

When it came time to pick a school, I didn't pick it due to sports programs (I know it is hard for some to believe). I picked the school that fit me the best. I wanted a smaller school with a small town atmosphere. My sister was at OU at the time, it just seemed to be the best fit for me personally.

The fact that I enrolled at OU doesn't erase the 18 years I spent rooting for the Buckeyes. It's not a switch that you can just turn off. I still attended OSU football and basketball games whenever possible. I also attended OU sporting events.

I also don't think that the average 18 year old would research the history of OSU vs. other instate universities and decide whether or not to root for a team based on an "antagonistic and at times bitter relationship" between them. I could care less about the relationship between the two schools. I had a great 4 years

I have loved Ohio State Athletics for 31 years and OU Athletics for 13 years. And trust me, I know that most of the posters on Bobcat Attack are delusional. I don't post their but my dad does, his handle is Big Willy. He spends a lot of time putting the delusional MAC fans in their place.

To each his own I say. And just to throw you for a loop, I am a huge University of Dayton Basketball fan as well. My family has had season tickets since 1978 and my wife attended UD undergrad and grad school. I am a fan of 3 schools in the great state of Ohio. I just enjoy watching sports


Oh.....and to keep the thread on topic, I say Beanie gets about 115 in the first half and only plays the first series of the second half . The Bucks then get Boom some work.

 

[Piney]

I was a fan of OSU since I was a kid. I'm sure you have heard the whole song and dance before....dad took me to games, told me stories about all the great historical games, etc.

When it came time to pick a school, I didn't pick it due to sports programs (I know it is hard for some to believe). I picked the school that fit me the best. I wanted a smaller school with a small town atmosphere. My sister was at OU at the time, it just seemed to be the best fit for me personally.

The fact that I enrolled at OU doesn't erase the 18 years I spent rooting for the Buckeyes. It's not a switch that you can just turn off. I still attended OSU football and basketball games whenever possible. I also attended OU sporting events.

I also don't think that the average 18 year old would research the history of OSU vs. other instate universities and decide whether or not to root for a team based on an "antagonistic and at times bitter relationship" between them. I could care less about the relationship between the two schools. I had a great 4 years

I have loved Ohio State Athletics for 31 years and OU Athletics for 13 years. And trust me, I know that most of the posters on Bobcat Attack are delusional. I don't post their but my dad does, his handle is WillyLangs. He spends a lot of time putting the delusional MAC fans in their place.

BINGO!

That is the difference in a nutshell. If you were raised right you rooted for Ohio State growing up. But I didn't use that as a basis to choose my college. I chose Ohio University becuase it just felt right. I loved the beautiful campus and it felt like home.

That is the vast majority of students that went to mid-major school. It is hard to go from rooting for a bigtime athletic program to a program that can't compete because the system is against them. You are use to rooting for a team that wins the vast majority of thier games, watching them on TV, playing big games and bowl games. But it is an athletic culture shock going to a "smaller school"

Yes you root for your school... but you see the bigger picture. The weird thing is when your alma mater goes up against Ohio State. You either react 2 ways. You root for your alma mater, but you aren't heart broken if they lose as you shrug it off as "We had no chance" & "At least Ohio State might win the National Championship". Or you default back to the big program you have always rooted for. I fall in the first category. But it is hard for me to find fault with those that fall in the 2nd category.

Now, the "haters" at each of these mid-major schools normally did not follow or have a rooting interest in college athletics growing up (or they are not from Ohio). So they wrap around their school and follow them. Of course they then realize the system is stacked against them so they lash out at Ohio State because they are part of the system that keeps them down and they are the closest college in the area.

I am sure the directional Michigan schools have this same hate towards Michigan, and I am sure it is the same for mid-major schools in any other area of the country.

It is just the way it is.

 

[Kickdown02]

Solid posts, tlangs and Piney. You basically said everything that I feel in regards to the OU-OSU relationship. I will be like you, Piney. Wearing green on that Saturday afternoon, knowing that it is a win-win situation all around.

One thing that I don't understand about the "delusionals". To them, it's not ok to root for OSU but you can root for Notre Dame, Michigan, Kentucky, etc. I have never gotten a good answer to this position.

 

[Tlangs]

I know that most of the posters on Bobcat Attack are delusional. I don't post their but my dad does, his handle is Big Willy. He is a Bobcat fan that spends a lot of time putting the delusional MAC fans in their place.

see below post....I come from a pretty reasonable family. He is responding to a post about OSU suing OU and how "inconceivable it is" to root for both.

Big Willy
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RE: Florida @ Ohio State
Posted: 12/27/2007 7:17:17 PM
I find it amusing that everyone gets into a hissy fit over OSU. And rooting for OSU is not like rooting for the Axis powers and the Allies at the same time. Miami is on our level. Marshall is on our level. OSU is on a different level, whether anyone wants to admit it or not. Geez, the 9th place team in the Big 10 just beat our champion - enough said. So I guess you could say that while I bleed green, my favorite BCS team is OSU, just like some like Notre Dame or Texas or Oklahoma or USC. Jim Tressel didn't sue me, so I have nothing against him.

 

[daveeb]

I was a fan of OSU since I was a kid. I'm sure you have heard the whole song and dance before....dad took me to games, told me stories about all the great historical games, etc.

When it came time to pick a school, I didn't pick it due to sports programs (I know it is hard for some to believe). I picked the school that fit me the best. I wanted a smaller school with a small town atmosphere. My sister was at OU at the time, it just seemed to be the best fit for me personally.

The fact that I enrolled at OU doesn't erase the 18 years I spent rooting for the Buckeyes. It's not a switch that you can just turn off. I still attended OSU football and basketball games whenever possible. I also attended OU sporting events.

I also don't think that the average 18 year old would research the history of OSU vs. other instate universities and decide whether or not to root for a team based on an "antagonistic and at times bitter relationship" between them. I could care less about the relationship between the two schools. I had a great 4 years

That pretty much sums up how I feel. Raised Buckeye, now I go to OU cause I like the school.

 

[Kickdown02]

The delusionals have another reason to hate OSU:

Ohio's Carlston Resigns as Head Volleyball Coach :: Carlston to take OSU position

 

[GoodLifeSean]

Let's not forget this isn't Ben we're talking about. It's OU... two different offenses two different levels. That Miami team was probably the best MAC team in the past 5 years. Next year is OU without thier big dog McRae... The kids from Athens are going down hard.

 

[HailToMichigan]

I am sure the directional Michigan schools have this same hate towards Michigan, and I am sure it is the same for mid-major schools in any other area of the country.

It is just the way it is.

Actually this whole thread has been a source of some amusement for me because there is much less of this going on in Michigan. If you're Michigan-raised, and you go to a directional school, you tend to retain your allegiance to whichever team (U-M or MSU) that you grew up with, because you still have somewhere to direct your hatred, and chances are you live next door to one or work with one so you're going to be reminded of it constantly. So most E/C/WMU alums keep their Michigan or MSU rooting interest. And you almost always see great support for the directional schools even from those who don't have a direct interest (i.e. alums or family of alums). I'd say at the Motor City Bowl there were 55,000 CMU fans in the place and no more than 1/3 to 1/2 of them could have been actual CMU grads/students. LOTS of folks cheering for the Chips and wearing a Lions jersey or a Tigers hat or a Michigan sweatshirt, just because CMU was the instate team.

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

Actually this whole thread has been a source of some amusement for me because there is much less of this going on in Michigan. If you're Michigan-raised, and you go to a directional school, you tend to retain your allegiance to whichever team (U-M or MSU) that you grew up with, because you still have somewhere to direct your hatred, and chances are you live next door to one or work with one so you're going to be reminded of it constantly. So most E/C/WMU alums keep their Michigan or MSU rooting interest. And you almost always see great support for the directional schools even from those who don't have a direct interest (i.e. alums or family of alums). I'd say at the Motor City Bowl there were 55,000 CMU fans in the place and no more than 1/3 to 1/2 of them could have been actual CMU grads/students. LOTS of folks cheering for the Chips and wearing a Lions jersey or a Tigers hat or a Michigan sweatshirt, just because CMU was the instate team.

Hail, you stil see the same phenomenon at the Ohio MAC campuses with OU, BG or Miami of Ohio students wearing Ohio State jerseys to their own football games...or blowing the game off entirely in order to watch Ohio State on tv. If you read their message boards, you'll find that it's a never ending source of frustration and anger for the diehards.

I have a few questions though about the directional Michigans.

Do all the students at the directionals constantly say, "well, I got into UM but liked Central better...or Western was better for my major." In other words, all statistical data to the contrary, is it impossible to ever meet a directional student who'll actually admit that he was rejected by UM or even MSU?

Do they have an embittered core of delusional fans who hate everything about Michigan and refuse to give it any credit whatsoever?

Are you a UM alum and if so do you know anything about the institutional relationship between UM (and to a lesser degree MSU) and the directionals? In other words, as academic institutions do the directionals act like the Fredos do in Ohio: refusing to give the flagship U any credit or even acknowledge that it holds an elevated role in the state system? Are the directionals constantly trying to stab UM in the back with the legislature? Has the president of a directional ever said something as ridiculous (in a formal speech no less) as "there's no difference academically between UM and Central/Western/Eastern/Northern?" Do the directionals constantly point to one peripheral, secondary program at their campus that has a national reputation and somehow try to argue that it somehow makes them UM's academic equal on an overall basis?

 

[Tlangs]

Hail, you stil see the same phenomenon at the Ohio MAC campuses with OU, BG or Miami of Ohio students wearing Ohio State jerseys to their own football games...or blowing the game off entirely in order to watch Ohio State on tv. If you read their message boards, you'll find that it's a never ending source of frustration and anger for the diehards.

I have a few questions though about the directional Michigans.

Do all the students at the directionals constantly say, "well, I got into UM but liked Central better...or Western was better for my major." In other words, all statistical data to the contrary, is it impossible to ever meet a directional student who'll actually admit that he was rejected by UM or even MSU?

Do they have an embittered core of delusional fans who hate everything about Michigan and refuse to give it any credit whatsoever?

Are you a UM alum and if so do you know anything about the institutional relationship between UM (and to a lesser degree MSU) and the directionals? In other words, as academic institutions do the directionals act like the Fredos do in Ohio: refusing to give the flagship U any credit or even acknowledge that it holds an elevated role in the state system? Are the directionals constantly trying to stab UM in the back with the legislature? Has the president of a directional ever said something as ridiculous (in a formal speech no less) as "there's no difference academically between UM and Central/Western/Eastern/Northern?" Do the directionals constantly point to one peripheral, secondary program at their campus that has a national reputation and somehow try to argue that it somehow makes them UM's academic equal on an overall basis?

Are you posing a question to HTM or just trying to restate your thoughts from post #216?

http://www.buckeyeplanet.com/forum/...ty-play-ohio-state-2008-a-15.html#post1073366

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

Are you posing a question to HTM or just trying to restate your thoughts from post #216?

Hail, you stil see the same phenomenon...

Seeing as the first word of the post directs it personally to Hail, my guess is that one of moderate literacy would be able to infer that it is a question to Hail to share his thoughts on UM's relationship with the directionals and how that may or may not compare with OSU's relationship with the Fredos.