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Cincinnati Bearcats (Juggalos official thread of Faygo)

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CincyInterloper;2322592; said:
Can you imagine the curb-stomping OSU would put on Michigan to make sure that didn't happen?
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The Buckeyes would be shown the damn bUCkeye state t-shirts the whole week leading to The Game to make sure they understood what BS they will see if they lose to a team the Juggalos beat.
 
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LovelandBuckeye;2324359; said:
The Buckeyes would be shown the damn bUCkeye state t-shirts the whole week leading to The Game to make sure they understood what BS they will see if they lose to a team the Juggalos beat.
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As a rule, UC is irrelevant. Even more so to The Game. The juggalos will never be mentioned during that week, ever, regardless of whether or not they beat TSUN earlier in the year.
 
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IronBuckI;2324510; said:
As a rule, UC is irrelevant. Even more so to The Game. The juggalos will never be mentioned during that week, ever, regardless of whether or not they beat TSUN earlier in the year.
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How long have you lived in Cincinnati?

IF UC beat Michigan, regardless of the outcome of the Ohio State - Michigan game, it would be a lead story with weekly follow ups for the local media. On Saturday TV the Bearcats are the lead story. UC shares the front page, above the fold position of the Sunday paper with the Bengals. If they're off to a good start, Notre Dame gets the below the fold spot and then the Buckeyes.

In basketball it's UK first, then UC, then XU. OSU gets page 2 --- sometimes.

Been that way since I moved here in 75.

Part of it is understandable. This is their town, a town that does not see itself as part of Ohio except when it useful to them. It's a town dominated by Catholic schools and a strong diocese and with little love for public schools and public universities. In their eyes the Buckeyes do not generate money for Cincinnati businesses. I suspect the locals resent folks like me who spend their sports dollars in Columbus.

As a result the Bengals, Reds and UC are the only sports teams that rate a beat reporter from the newspaper or the TV/radio folks.

In fairness to the locals how much coverage does the Dispatch and Columbus TV/radio give to the Reds, Bengals or UC? In my school days at OSU it was little more than box scores.

Finally, say what you will about juggaloes, UC is probably the only college in Ohio other than Ohio State whose athletic department is even close to self supporting.
 
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IronBuckI;2324639; said:
More specifically, I'm talking about "The Buckeyes" (i.e the football team) that were mentioned in the post that I quoted.
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I'm not disagreeing with your post(s) - or Muck's. What I'm saying is that Cincinnati and University of Cincinnati fall outside the norms for the rest of Ohio.

Some of it is institutional bias- the media acts on a notion that UC is the main college story - followed closely by Notre Dame and UK. Even XU fans bitch about this.

Some of it is money bias - local business takes the view that OSU draws money away from Cincinnati, money that could be spent on Reds, Bengals and UC or XU.

Some of it is religious bias - a strong, sometimes overwhelming, Catholic presence that adores all things Notre Dame. Ohio State is believed to be the home of Protestants and religious secularists, a dangerous place to send your kids.

Some of it is regionalism - we're the capital of the Tri-State, the cultural center of That State Up North, which in this case is the rest of Ohio.

Add to all of this the memory of Ohio State football and basketball coaches - Earl Bruce especially - complaining openly about Cincinnati kids who didn't work out in Columbus or chose to stay home and play, and you can begin to understand how and why the bUCkeye state shirts came about.

I'm not condoning or supporting the shirts, or the mind set that brought them about. I'm just saying that I can understand where it came from.
 
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cincibuck;2324696; said:
I'm not disagreeing with your post(s) - or Muck's. What I'm saying is that Cincinnati and University of Cincinnati fall outside the norms for the rest of Ohio.

Some of it is institutional bias- the media acts on a notion that UC is the main college story - followed closely by Notre Dame and UK. Even XU fans bitch about this.

Some of it is money bias - local business takes the view that OSU draws money away from Cincinnati, money that could be spent on Reds, Bengals and UC or XU.

Some of it is religious bias - a strong, sometimes overwhelming, Catholic presence that adores all things Notre Dame. Ohio State is believed to be the home of Protestants and religious secularists, a dangerous place to send your kids.

Some of it is regionalism - we're the capital of the Tri-State, the cultural center of That State Up North, which in this case is the rest of Ohio.

Add to all of this the memory of Ohio State football and basketball coaches - Earl Bruce especially - complaining openly about Cincinnati kids who didn't work out in Columbus or chose to stay home and play, and you can begin to understand how and why the bUCkeye state shirts came about.

I'm not condoning or supporting the shirts, or the mind set that brought them about. I'm just saying that I can understand where it came from.
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All of which supports the notion that it's lunacy to root for the juggalos to beat any Big Ten team....even (arguably, particularly) Michigan.
 
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ORD_Buckeye;2324702; said:
All of which supports the notion that it's lunacy to root for the juggalos to beat any Big Ten team....even (arguably, particularly) Michigan.
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I recall with angst the year the Bearcats topped Ron Dayne and the Badgers. Fortunately Penn State was an independent when UC best them. But what really sucks is the back-to-back loses Lucas, Havlicek, Nowell et.al. suffered in the NCAA championship games in 61 and 62. Lot's of Cincinnati folks still smoking that shit in their bongs.
 
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Your newest juggalo...Gunner Kiel...

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaaf...el-transfers-cincinnati-192400694--ncaaf.html


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