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

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TGfan06;1770663; said:
Well this is the first game I will go to as an OU alumni. Should be interesting as it will also be the first time I go into the shoe wearing colors other than Scarlet and Grey.

As for those people on the OU message boards I have two responses. First, I had no idea we even had our own message board! Second, I can assure you that most students down there do not have a problem with OSU. In fact most actually root for the bucks. It is mostly faculty members who hate Ohio State. Thier complaints got old quickly.

I was tempted to call for the upset this weekend, but common sense prevailed in the end... OU 21, OSU 17
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It's a decent board as long as they aren't talking about Ohio State. It is great during basketball season, but during football season half the threads get into Ohio St issues. The guys that complain are normally idiots that aren't from Ohio or grew up Domer or Michigan fans. Or were never into college sports growing up and when they go to college throw everything they got into the school they went to.

Basically it is 10-15% of the overall student population and unfortunately about 80% of posters.

But feel free to sign up as a fellow Ohio alum.. but just visit the basketball forums :wink2:
 
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TGfan06;1770663; said:
Well this is the first game I will go to as an OU alumni. Should be interesting as it will also be the first time I go into the shoe wearing colors other than Scarlet and Grey.

As for those people on the OU message boards I have two responses. First, I had no idea we even had our own message board! Second, I can assure you that most students down there do not have a problem with OSU. In fact most actually root for the bucks. It is mostly faculty members who hate Ohio State. Thier complaints got old quickly.

I was tempted to call for the upset this weekend, but common sense prevailed in the end... OU 21, OSU 17
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ORD_Buckeye;1770494; said:
I also like their historical ignorance in attempting to use Ohio A&M as an insult when their institution lobbied, begged, pleaded and did everything short of offering to toss Rutherford B. Hayes' salad for the honor of being designated as Ohio's land grant university but were rudely rejected by the Governor, legislature and business leadership of the day as an unworthy craphole of a college that had done next to nothing in its first sixty years of existence towards providing the state of Ohio with a proper public flagship university. They went to the trouble and expense--making them completely unique among Great Lakes states--of founding an entirely new university to fulfill this role rather than taking the chance that the existing school would eff it up.

Here's something for them to think about. If their school hadn't been such a freakin' joke, Ohio State would never have been created.

Ohio U....were passed over.
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Ohio wasn't even a state until March of 1803; so it's fair to discard the American Western name. The University's name was changed 11 months after statehood. It probably took that much time to Pony Express the proper paperwork between Athens and Washington. As far as Guv'nor Hayes is concerned... I find it more than coincidental that he was an outspoken advocate for A&M, helped found A&M, and denied land grant opportunities to Ohio University?

That's not the only break you guys got. The Eagleson Bill of 1906 locked out all of Ohio's public universities from doctoral education and research except The Ohio State University. (Why this was good for the state blows my mind, but probably not those in Columbus) Six years later the Big 10 picked up the Buckeyes. The Big Ten Conference is comprised of world-class academic institutions who share a common mission of research, graduate, professional and undergraduate teaching and public service. If no one in Ohio was allowed to conduct research or graduate education in the state of Ohio except Ohio State of course the Big 10 chose them. They wanted Ohio's population and rich football history as a state to be a part of their conference.

I know you guys don't like to play in the past because of all of the recent successes in Columbus so I'll let you know the Eagleson Bill is obviously no longer legal and Ohio University is #1 in the state in research royalties (which means we invent stuff that makes money) and Ohio University had a Nobel Prize Winner in 2009.

Without some critical legislation early in OUr state's history, Ohio University might have been the shepherd for all of these sheep.
 
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JeffreyDahmer2;1771232; said:
Ohio wasn't even a state until March of 1803; so it's fair to discard the American Western name. The University's name was changed 11 months after statehood. It probably took that much time to Pony Express the proper paperwork between Athens and Washington. As far as Guv'nor Hayes is concerned... I find it more than coincidental that he was an outspoken advocate for A&M, helped found A&M, and denied land grant opportunities to Ohio University?

That's not the only break you guys got. The Eagleson Bill of 1906 locked out all of Ohio's public universities from doctoral education and research except The Ohio State University. (Why this was good for the state blows my mind, but probably not those in Columbus) Six years later the Big 10 picked up the Buckeyes. The Big Ten Conference is comprised of world-class academic institutions who share a common mission of research, graduate, professional and undergraduate teaching and public service. If no one in Ohio was allowed to conduct research or graduate education in the state of Ohio except Ohio State of course the Big 10 chose them. They wanted Ohio's population and rich football history as a state to be a part of their conference.

I know you guys don't like to play in the past because of all of the recent successes in Columbus so I'll let you know the Eagleson Bill is obviously no longer legal and Ohio University is #1 in the state in research royalties (which means we invent stuff that makes money) and Ohio University had a Nobel Prize Winner in 2009.

Without some critical legislation early in OUr state's history, Ohio University might have been the shepherd for all of these sheep.
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JeffreyDahmer2;1771232; said:
Ohio wasn't even a state until March of 1803; so it's fair to discard the American Western name. The University's name was changed 11 months after statehood. It probably took that much time to Pony Express the proper paperwork between Athens and Washington. As far as Guv'nor Hayes is concerned... I find it more than coincidental that he was an outspoken advocate for A&M, helped found A&M, and denied land grant opportunities to Ohio University?

That's not the only break you guys got. The Eagleson Bill of 1906 locked out all of Ohio's public universities from doctoral education and research except The Ohio State University. (Why this was good for the state blows my mind, but probably not those in Columbus) Six years later the Big 10 picked up the Buckeyes. The Big Ten Conference is comprised of world-class academic institutions who share a common mission of research, graduate, professional and undergraduate teaching and public service. If no one in Ohio was allowed to conduct research or graduate education in the state of Ohio except Ohio State of course the Big 10 chose them. They wanted Ohio's population and rich football history as a state to be a part of their conference.

I know you guys don't like to play in the past because of all of the recent successes in Columbus so I'll let you know the Eagleson Bill is obviously no longer legal and Ohio University is #1 in the state in research royalties (which means we invent stuff that makes money) and Ohio University had a Nobel Prize Winner in 2009.

Without some critical legislation early in OUr state's history, Ohio University might have been the shepherd for all of these sheep.
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Success isn't recent in Columbus.
 
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JeffreyDahmer2;1771232; said:
Ohio wasn't even a state until March of 1803; so it's fair to discard the American Western name. The University's name was changed 11 months after statehood. It probably took that much time to Pony Express the proper paperwork between Athens and Washington. As far as Guv'nor Hayes is concerned... I find it more than coincidental that he was an outspoken advocate for A&M, helped found A&M, and denied land grant opportunities to Ohio University?

That's not the only break you guys got. The Eagleson Bill of 1906 locked out all of Ohio's public universities from doctoral education and research except The Ohio State University. (Why this was good for the state blows my mind, but probably not those in Columbus) Six years later the Big 10 picked up the Buckeyes. The Big Ten Conference is comprised of world-class academic institutions who share a common mission of research, graduate, professional and undergraduate teaching and public service. If no one in Ohio was allowed to conduct research or graduate education in the state of Ohio except Ohio State of course the Big 10 chose them. They wanted Ohio's population and rich football history as a state to be a part of their conference.

I know you guys don't like to play in the past because of all of the recent successes in Columbus so I'll let you know the Eagleson Bill is obviously no longer legal and Ohio University is #1 in the state in research royalties (which means we invent stuff that makes money) and Ohio University had a Nobel Prize Winner in 2009.

Without some critical legislation early in OUr state's history, Ohio University might have been the shepherd for all of these sheep.
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JeffreyDahmer2;1771232; said:
Without some critical legislation early in OUr state's history, Ohio University might have been the shepherd for all of these sheep.
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Yes, because when I think 'Intelligent, academic institution' I think of OU. Also, when I think of dynastic football programs, I think of Kent State.

OU is the strung out, slutty feminist of Ohio colleges. Although I dislike the idea of stacking the deck in OSU's favor, I don't see Athens as ever being a bastion of anything that is worthy to be the state college.
 
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