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Ohio Bobkittens (Beavis, FredOU, Hocking Jackassery)

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Sounds like I'm in the opposite boat: I DID grow up in Ohio. I know someone who went to most of those schools. Well, not one guy who went to all of them - it's a bunch of guys. But through them all, I got most of those schools covered. Also, I know nothing of the academics and top-end crap and politics and all that junk for any of them - including Ohio State. My knowledge is based on talking to those guys about athletics, and from different forums (mostly linked by ORD). For the most part, the people I know who went to those schools are OK about Ohio State. Most even root for Ohio State over their schools. Others root for their schools when they play, but root for Ohio State otherwise.

That said, the forums I've seen rival BWI in a "that's hilarious that people actually believe that" way.
 
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ORD_Buckeye said:
I didn't grow up in Ohio either, and that's probably why I can look at them with a little more detachment since I didn't have relatives or high school friends attending. Those schools are essentially nothing to me other than how they've related to Ohio State over time. My disdain for Fredo and OU comes from the history of those schools doing everything they could to essentially cripple Ohio State in the 60s and 70s and hold it back relative to the other Big Ten schools in some petty attempt to undo the previous century of bitterness and jealousy over Ohio State having been founded and placed in the state's flagship role instead of them. We all laugh at Nebraska getting booted from the AAU, but that may very well have been our fate had Rhodes and the former Miami President who ran the Ohio Board of Regents under him (Millett) had another five or six years. Rhodes was long gone by the time that I came to Ohio State, but the damage was still being undone, and I wrote a research paper on it where I spoke to several principles as well as went through the university's oral history project. Trust me. Anyone who truly cares about Ohio State and wants it to succeed at the highest levels possible should have nothing but disgust for Fredo and Beavis.

The rest certainly didn't help Ohio State and were hoping to get their share of the spoils. Nonetheless, they weren't the primary drivers behind this, so I don't really view them with the disgust that I do Fredo and OU. Cincy wasn't really even part of the state system for most of this time, so their hands are actually quite clean here.
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Some of that is just schools trying to carve out their niche and survive, no?
Maybe it's also that I was born in the 80s and moved out of state in Middle School. 60s and 70s kind of feels like water under the bridge at this point, though at least I can understand the ire - playing politics/favoritism with the governing bodies is never good (UAB and ATM Gov trying to screw UT come to mind).
I don't really feel anything about the MAC & lower schools, except maybe Clev State (local and dad got his Masters there, BA from tOSU).

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Sounds like I'm in the opposite boat: I DID grow up in Ohio. I know someone who went to most of those schools. Well, not one guy who went to all of them - it's a bunch of guys. But through them all, I got most of those schools covered. Also, I know nothing of the academics and top-end crap and politics and all that junk for any of them - including Ohio State. My knowledge is based on talking to those guys about athletics, and from different forums (mostly linked by ORD). For the most part, the people I know who went to those schools are OK about Ohio State. Most even root for Ohio State over their schools. Others root for their schools when they play, but root for Ohio State otherwise.

That said, the forums I've seen rival BWI in a "that's hilarious that people actually believe that" way.
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Oh yea the stuff people post here from their forums is hilarious and well worth with it.
Just wondering if it's really mainstream... cuz my take is that these are just the fringe nutters that have found their fellow crazies; and don't reflect on the people who went there or the Universities themselves. Not unlike a Juggalo event :wink:
 
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ORD_Buckeye said:
Can't make these guys up. They have another thread where they're are attempting to discern through voice inflection and facial expression whether Alex Trebeck is making fun of Ohio State when he corrects a contestant on "The" Ohio State University.
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Obvious question being if they put said patch on their jersey, who the fuck is going to see it?

The 80 or so guys on the other team and a couple thousand friends and family in the stands?
 
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Zurp said:
This guy must be new. The first two letters in "our" are supposed to be capitalized.
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Not new. He's probably the chief Ohio State hater, which is ironic since he apparently has a Master's Degree from Ohio State. However, he left Ohio State after the Masters and finished his doctorate at Marshall. Now, let me be very succinct about this. Nobody voluntarily leaves a doctoral program at an AAU university to finish up at a place like Marshall. It is highly likely that he was told to leave after his Masters, which explains his foaming at the mouth hatred of The Flagship
 
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Child of the 60s reporting for duty. Upon graduation my high school friends and I spread out evenly amongst the state colleges. Ohio State wouldn't schedule the sister institutes in just about anything in those days, so there was little to nothing to develop a rivalry with - the exception being the two NCAA basketball championships Cincinnati snatched from the Buckeyes, but UC was not a state school then. My friends seemed to enjoy their MAC rivalries - especially Ohio, Miami and Bowling Green. The ones who went to Kent only spoke about the amazing skedaddle each Friday as all the Cleveland - Akron - Youngstown students headed home.

At our reunions it is clear that they almost all root for Ohio State. Why? I suspect that some of it has to do with the fact that their school never played OSU, so they never had a reason to root against the Bucks. Also they had friends who went to Ohio State and they grew up in a time when the Dayton papers gave the Bucks the top spot on the Saturday/Sunday sports pages during football season.

That the Bucks now play the MAC schools may have changed some of that attitude, but I suspect it has more to do with out of state students who never bonded with the Buckeyes before college.
 
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Was playing golf in the OU summer golf league final tournament today and saw a couple of college age folks walking on the bike path near the 7th tee (for you old timers, that would be near the 3rd green). The young man had on an osu national championship tee shirt. I called out politely and slightly in jest to the young lady that she needed to take her boy friend up to the College bookstore to buy him a proper tee shirt. He pulled out his ear buds and I repeated my suggestion. The conversation then went like this:

Me: Did you go to ohio state?
Young man: No, I go here.
Me: Then why are you wearing that shirt? Where's your OU shirt.
Young man: I'll wear one of those when they win a national championship.

Somehow I then proceeded to hit my best drive of the year on that hole - 265 right down the middle.

I give up - these folks are beyond reason.
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Yes, Beavis. Clearly the person beyond reason is the guy walking down a bike path with his girlfriend and minding his own business. I'm in my 40s now, and I take great pride in not being the object of some twenty-something's story at the bar that night that begins, "Bro, guess what some crazy old guy did today!"
 
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https://www.10tv.com/article/ohio-u...ng-110-allegations-cites-cultural-issues-2020

Ohio University completes investigation into Marching 110 allegations; cites cultural issues

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ATHENS, Ohio — Ohio University’s Office for Community Standards and Student Responsibility has completed its investigation into hazing allegations related to the Ohio University Marching Band, the Marching 110, and found cultural issues that must be addressed, according to the university.

In October, the school announced it received a report of hazing allegations made against members of the marching band.

Investigators discovered the cultural issues after numerous meetings with students, faculty and staff within the organization.

According to a memo from the university's Office for Community Standards and Student Responsibility, the investigation found several "unsanctioned behaviors," including consuming alcohol and using marijuana. One section also allegedly watched pornography together "for several years."

As a result, the university says the findings were referred to the College of Fine Arts, which will work to “implement measures that support a positive and healthy culture for the Marching 110.”

Band members were also evaluated based on behavior and possible consequences included individual performance action plans up to and including possible removal from the band.

The Marching 110 was released from the limited cease and desist as of March 2.

In the future, the university says every student in the Marching 110 has been asked to sign a behavior expectations agreement that outlines expectations related to behavior representative of the goal of being “Better than the Best Ever.” Additional staffing has also been recommended to help provide reporting, training and supervision.
 
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According to a memo from the university's Office for Community Standards and Student Responsibility, the investigation found several "unsanctioned behaviors," including consuming alcohol and using marijuana. One section also allegedly watched pornography together "for several years."
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Whaaaaat?

No...
 
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Dryden said:
https://www.10tv.com/article/ohio-u...ng-110-allegations-cites-cultural-issues-2020

Ohio University completes investigation into Marching 110 allegations; cites cultural issues

PUBLISHED: ABOUT AN HOUR AGO
ATHENS, Ohio — Ohio University’s Office for Community Standards and Student Responsibility has completed its investigation into hazing allegations related to the Ohio University Marching Band, the Marching 110, and found cultural issues that must be addressed, according to the university.

In October, the school announced it received a report of hazing allegations made against members of the marching band.

Investigators discovered the cultural issues after numerous meetings with students, faculty and staff within the organization.

According to a memo from the university's Office for Community Standards and Student Responsibility, the investigation found several "unsanctioned behaviors," including consuming alcohol and using marijuana. One section also allegedly watched pornography together "for several years."

As a result, the university says the findings were referred to the College of Fine Arts, which will work to “implement measures that support a positive and healthy culture for the Marching 110.”

Band members were also evaluated based on behavior and possible consequences included individual performance action plans up to and including possible removal from the band.

The Marching 110 was released from the limited cease and desist as of March 2.

In the future, the university says every student in the Marching 110 has been asked to sign a behavior expectations agreement that outlines expectations related to behavior representative of the goal of being “Better than the Best Ever.” Additional staffing has also been recommended to help provide reporting, training and supervision.
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Knowing a number of the 110 from when I was in grad school in Athens, I can say that if this is the first of them realizing that there were ‘cultural issues’ in the band then they have their heads buried up their asses deeper than I could have imagined. If that group were a fraternity they would have been thrown off campus decades ago. They are rivaled by, perhaps, only Stanford’s band in terms of debauchery.

And I say the above with all due respect and admiration. Those fuckers could party.
 
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sparcboxbuck said:
Knowing a number of the 110 from when I was in grad school in Athens, I can say that if this is the first of them realizing that there were ‘cultural issues’ in the band then they have their heads buried up their asses deeper than I could have imagined. If that group were a fraternity they would have been thrown off campus decades ago. They are rivaled by, perhaps, only Stanford’s band in terms of debauchery.

And I say the above with all due respect and admiration. Those fuckers could party.
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These are all facts
 
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