To me, the shameless clown here is ORD. It's pretty easy to take uninformed BB shots at a public figure you've never met, or haven't seen in various settings. I listened to him make a
guarantee 2 years ago at a small luncheon that he'd be at UC for 10 years. Your relentless dislike for anything University of Cincinnati has warped your perspective. Root for our beloved
Buckeyes, and find a constructive hobby.
Well, allow me to retort.
Uninformed? I may be uninformed about several things in this world but the Ohio higher education system and its history are not among them my juggalo friend. If you know so fucking much why don't you actually counter my points instead of hurling that vapid smack my way. The reality is that Ono is a self-serving clown, and what's pathetic is the way a certain segment of the Cincinnati population eats up his schtick. The reality is that the University of Cincinnati is not now, has never been nor will ever be a peer institution to the state's flagship university. In case you haven't been paying attention that would be THE Ohio State University.
And I don't dislike everything about UC. Hell, it's the only municipal university that the state should have saved from bankruptcy as an ongoing, independent four-year university. Toledo and Akron should have been rolled into BG and KSU respectively. That being said, Ono is highly irresponsible with his bullshit calls for "multiple flagships." Hell, the very fucking word is illogical. And if he's too stupid to actually know the history, Ohio tried that kind of bullshit for 20 years, and they've spent the last thirty trying to undo the weak, redundant and wasteful university system that resulted. That's why, when Ono gave his infamous "multiple flagships" interview, Kasich and the legislative leadership of both parties told him to go back and sit in the fucking corner and shut his fucking mouth.
Cincinnati had their chance to turn UC into something special. For a hundred years, it was a municipal university, and at the end of that hundred years what had Cincinnati built up? I'll tell you what they had created: a 4th tier, bankrupt commuter school that the taxpayers of Ohio had to save from insolvency, so I too would suggest that Ono and his groupies sit in the fucking corner and shut their fucking mouths and accept the role in the Ohio higher education system that is handed to them. UC is the fucking Cousin Eddie of the Ohio higher education system who dropped his bankrupt ass onto our doorstep and now, after we've let him use our shower and loaned him some clean clothes to wear, has decided he has some inherent right to sit at the head of the table and carve the motherfucking turkey. UC is not a co-flagship with Ohio State, nor will they ever be one.
I mean not only does that godforsaken clown college owe its very existence to Ohio State's founding (hint: UC was the result of a political compromise that Rutherford B. Hayes made with Cincinnati's politicians in order to found Ohio State and locate it in Columbus) but you don't even have the fucking common decency to say thank you. Instead we get bUCkeye state t-shirts, "Ohio's BCS School" and all manner of pathetic, tiny dicked, little brother bullshit coming out of that ghetto campus. Now, Ono is constantly tweeting pictures of UC people making a "U" and "C" with their arms. Gee, inquiring minds want to know where he ever could have thought that up? Seriously, you're the
Single White Female of higher education. It's embarrassing to the entire state, so knock it the fuck off.
Ono is a cheap grifter. He tells you that UC is something that it's not, that it can be something that it never will be and that all the failings and mediocrity are all the fault of that evil institution in Columbus holding it back. And then he tweets some inane, meaningless ranking (top 10 online programs in taxation! #HottestCollegeInAmerica) and you rubes eat it up likes he's the modern day version of Robert Maynard Hutchins. I don't blame his groupies. After all, you're juggalos and don't know better. I blame him and his cult of personality building bullshit for taking advantage of you imbecilic motherfuckers and promising you a college that he can never create and will never deliver.
In closing, I would just like to put this out there in case Santa J. Ono ever stumbles upon our little corner of the interweb tubes.
