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Ohio Bobkittens (Beavis, FredOU, Hocking Jackassery)

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Buckeye86 said:
I like the idea of them fighting back by trying to put Ohio State stuff on their Bobcat merchandise. Only problem would be that once you put Ohio State stuff on something, including the O-H-I-O chant in its various forms, it ceases to be OU and becomes OSU no matter what color it is.

"Oh look, a green OHIO shirt. Cool, I didn't know they made St. Patrick's Day themed Ohio State shirts, I want one!"
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Hmmmmm
 
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Mike80 said:
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here ya go ORD

http://www.bobcatattack.com/messageboard/topic.asp?FromPage=1&ForumPID=6&PID=162378
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Without bricks, or books, or stadium lights, a university has life. And Ohio University, like all universities, derives quality of life from the contributions of alumni, students, staff, and fans alike.

I am proud to be an alumni of Ohio University. I couldn’t ask for a better student experience. And I don’t hesitate to preach the highest praises of what I believe to be the best undergraduate college experience in the state of Ohio.

But when I look to my future experience as alumni, I’m discouraged.

Positive alumni experiences are strongly correlated to athletic successes of the university. Football foremost, and basketball to a slightly lesser extent, create these positive experiences more often in their “good years” than otherwise.

I’m discouraged because I see Ohio University alumni standing in their own way of “good years”. I’m discouraged because of the number of negative contributions I see on this message board. When I say “standing in their own way” I don’t mean quibbling over a 6-6 season, or relevance of a bowl game. When I say “standing in their own way”, I mean actively attempting to devalue the product (football) without having a significant ability to add value to the product.

At best a message board poster’s opinion on coaching staff is worthless (unacknowledged). At worst, the cumulative effect of the opinion of the dissenting public at large leads to tangible change. But in almost all cases where a disgruntled public leads to tangible change (the dismissal of a coach, or teacher, or CEO, or congressman), the dissenters have no significant control over the replacement. When dissenters rely on the authority of the existing system to replace the allegedly unqualified coach (etc), the dissenters are vision-less.

The historical athletic powers all had a vision. Just look at Ohio State’s extreme efforts to leverage the value of the name “Ohio”. The best thing ever done for this athletic program was changing the name of the university from American Western, to OHIO. Someone had a vision back in 1804. Branding efforts have all gone downhill from there. And Ohio State has capitalized. Vison-less blunders of this university include (but are not limited to):

- Changing the name of the football stadium to Peden Stadium, instead of Ohio Stadium (now utilized by Ohio State)
- Not fighting Ohio State’s first attempts to use a block O on uniforms/equipment
- Not rebuttaling the first script Ohio marching band formation by Ohio State with a script Ohio marching band formation
- Not rebuttaling the first “OH-IO” cheers for Ohio State with “OH-IO” cheers for Ohio University
- Removing the state of Ohio outline from the Convo basketball court (the outline is now utilized by Ohio State)
- BONUS: Not fighting the University of Oklahoma’s first attempts to refer to itself as “OU” (founded 84 years after Ohio University)

The university may never be able to fully overcome the negative effects of these missed opportunities. And if OHIO is to ever overcome these blunders, success will be attributed to the positive contributions of the People associated with the university.

Frank Solich has made more positive contributions to this university than most nearly all OHIO alumni. He is a Hall of Fame coach and I hope he will be honored accordingly by OHIO in the years to come. If you trust (or allow) authority to find your replacement for Frank Solich or any of his assistants, then trust the same authority to know when it’s time for that replacement.

If you are making a negative contribution to Ohio University, what do you have to say for yourself? Afterall, what is a university but the People?
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Ohio Stadium was built in 1922. Peden Stadium was built in 1927. For a fan base so concerned with plagiarism, not stealing the name of Ohio Stadium 5 years after it was built is an interesting gripe.

Also, Ohio Stadium was built for $1.3 million with a capacity of 66,210 while Peden Stadium was built for $185k with a capacity of 12,000.

Everyone knew they were an afterthought from the very beginning and no amount of obsession over letters and abbreviations was ever going to change that.
 
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It's just pathetic. None of those things matter one single bit had they been done differently on either side. For them, the plane had already crashed into the god damned mountain. Ohio State would still be The Ohio State University and OU would still be OU. Their, along with Fredo's, fate was sealed through their own incompetence and bitchassery before Ohio State opened its doors. Had either one of them chosen to take their fifty year head start and work to provide the citizens of Ohio with a proper flagship university, Ohio State would never have been created. They, however, didn't, and Ohio State was.

The rebellion of the 1960s and 1970s has given some of them an illusory view that things can be different, that all the schools can be equal. Sorry, but that was a twenty five year aberration to the history of Ohio higher education since 1862, and no Ohio State president will ever allow conditions to reach the point where they can try again. My condolences, OU. Your revolution failed. The bums will always fail. You hear me, Fredo; the bums will always fail.
 
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Read down a little bit further. This guy is BWI level certifiable.

It may have seemed irrelevant at the time to the Ohio University administration that Ohio State put a block O on their hats, they might have thought it was irrelevant that Ohio State started cheering "OH-IO", or started performing script Ohio. The list goes on. But everything on that list is an inch OHIO forfeited. And the quality of OHIO University life is still feeling the effects today of those forfeited inches.
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ORD_Buckeye said:
It's just pathetic. None of those things matter one single bit had they been done differently on either side. For them, the plane had already crashed into the god damned mountain. Ohio State would still be The Ohio State University and OU would still be OU. Their, along with Fredo's, fate was sealed through their own incompetence and bitchassery before Ohio State opened its doors. Had either one of them chosen to take their fifty year head start and work to provide the citizens of Ohio with a proper flagship university, Ohio State would never have been created. They, however, didn't, and Ohio State was.

The rebellion of the 1960s and 1970s has given some of them an illusory view that things can be different, that all the schools can be equal. Sorry, but that was a twenty five year aberration to the history of Ohio higher education since 1862, and no Ohio State president will ever allow conditions to reach the point where they can try again. My condolences, OU. Your revolution failed. The bums will always fail. You hear me, Fredo; the bums will always fail.
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You had me at bitchassery.
 
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ORD_Buckeye said:
The loids are going full BWI over there now, complete with e-mail harassment campaigns and talks of protest rallies. It takes a serious kind of stupid to justify even a stretched comparison with the cult, but I think these guys have dug down deep, given it their all and grapsed that brass ring of stupidity.

http://www.bobcatattack.com/messageboard/topic.asp?FromPage=1&ForumPID=6&PID=150091
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Holy shit. That mod's sig is "Ohio men will play for Ohio. Michigan survived without Frieder. Ohio will survive without anyone who doesn't want to play here." What the fuck does that even mean?

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And the quality of OHIO University life is still feeling the effects today of those forfeited inches.
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Yeah, the reason no one gives a shit about your university is not because it is in the middle if nowhere and unremarkable in every way other than being the pot smoking capital of Ohio, it's because the powers that be failed to copyright and defend the word Ohio.
 
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For those interested in such things (@Steve19), it's getting interesting over on BeavisAttack. They've moved on from pledging their love for Oregon and crying about name usage into whining about decisions that were made over a century ago and how it has all been sooooooooo unfair to them. One even gave some long winded dissertation as to why he resigned from the alumni board---hint: some of them rooted for STATE.

Somebody actually tried to present some FACTS! and EVIDENTS, but he's getting pretty roundly shouted down.

http://www.bobcatattack.com/messageboard/topic.asp?FromPage=1&ForumPID=6&PID=166069#FirstNew
 
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