Ohio University to play Ohio State in 2008

[FCollinsBuckeye]

My preference would be, once our ten year commitment is over, to stop playing them entirely. I'll settle for no more than one per year.

One in-state D-IA (or FBS, or whatever the hell they're calling it now) per year is reasonable and I think is a good tradition, what with 7 mid-major schools to rotate between. This year was over the top, especially with YSU. I hope we're done scheduling D-IAA (FCS??) after next year's YSU game.

As has been said, nothing (for us) to gain, everything to lose.

 

[OZoner]

Wow, there sure is a lot of rancor here. Fun, isn't it?

I wasn't around the last time Ohio played Ohio State, but I surely will be looking forward to this one. I will be proudly wearing green while my Bobcats are offered as the ritual sacrifice on the Buckeye altar. And I won't bow my head... mainly because I know it's coming.

But it should be a lot of fun, I intend to throw a lot of insults and jokes the Scarlet and Grey's way. Why? Because it's fun! Don't tell me you guys go to someone else's place and toss some bombs out. Afterwards I'll shake hands with the people around me, wish them a good season, and get back on 33 toward Athens and my concerns with your team will be gone for another few years. But let's not be so thin-skinned to let every barb get to you. That sign thread on Bobcat Attack was in good fun (most of it).

Despite what the very bitter person earlier in the thread contends, there are "true" Bobcat fans out there, and I'm one of them. There aren't a ton of us (at least for football), but we show up and we cheer. As painful as it was watching Brian Knorr's 'Cats struggle with Buffalo to see who sucked more, it's my school and my team and I'll endure it.

I just hope at the end, we can all just get along... no? OK then. Yeah, there's a ton of Ohio State fans here. And why not? People like to cheer for a winner. Stop winning and they'll find someone else to cheer for. Conversely, if we were playing for a national title three out of six years or so, we'd be up to our ears in fans as well.

Also, can someone tell Thad to schedule a game with us? That would be swell.

Looking forward to September! Go Bobcats! Muck Fiami!

 

[Buckeye Chris]

Wow, there sure is a lot of rancor here. Fun, isn't it?

I wasn't around the last time Ohio played Ohio State, but I surely will be looking forward to this one. I will be proudly wearing green while my Bobcats are offered as the ritual sacrifice on the Buckeye altar. And I won't bow my head... mainly because I know it's coming.

But it should be a lot of fun, I intend to throw a lot of insults and jokes the Scarlet and Grey's way. Why? Because it's fun! Don't tell me you guys go to someone else's place and toss some bombs out. Afterwards I'll shake hands with the people around me, wish them a good season, and get back on 33 toward Athens and my concerns with your team will be gone for another few years. But let's not be so thin-skinned to let every barb get to you. That sign thread on Bobcat Attack was in good fun (most of it).

Despite what the very bitter person earlier in the thread contends, there are "true" Bobcat fans out there, and I'm one of them. There aren't a ton of us (at least for football), but we show up and we cheer. As painful as it was watching Brian Knorr's 'Cats struggle with Buffalo to see who sucked more, it's my school and my team and I'll endure it.

I just hope at the end, we can all just get along... no? OK then. Yeah, there's a ton of Ohio State fans here. And why not? People like to cheer for a winner. Stop winning and they'll find someone else to cheer for. Conversely, if we were playing for a national title three out of six years or so, we'd be up to our ears in fans as well.

Also, can someone tell Thad to schedule a game with us? That would be swell.

Looking forward to September! Go Bobcats! Muck Fiami!

People like you are what I like to call true sports fans. Everyone who loves the game and knows they are no match for other teams (no offense) and can joke with other fans is alright in my book. Eveyone here should know im a Cincinnati fan and I know when were going to lose. But I will smask talk until the game is over and I wont be a sore loser about it.

I also will be waiting for this game. I live in a southern town in ohio (Ironton) and there mixed matches down here of tOSU and OU. But we all get along very well.

 

[MililaniBuckeye]

6 losses

No losses to anyone who won a bowl game (only played 2 teams who went bowling, both lost)

Beat only 1 team who played in a bowl game (who lost by 56 in the bowl game)

Lost to 2 teams who lost to OSU this year

Lost to Buffalo by 3 scores

Remind me why I care again what they think...and I'm a graduate of the fine institution.

At least they're 2-0 all-time against Deaf & Dumb Institute. I shit you not, check here...

 

[BengalsAndBucks]

The legislature required us to do so for ten years as a condition of using state money on the Ohio Stadium renovation. Tressel has, in my opinion, taken it to ridiculous extremes by scheduling two and three games against them every year. He's putting the interests of "football in Ohio" ahead of the interests of the alumni who would prefer to see more interesting intersectional games and road trips to good locations.

My preference would be, once our ten year commitment is over, to stop playing them entirely. I'll settle for no more than one per year.

And ahead of the interests of the football teams who aren't used to 60 minute dogfights because they barely have to try for 8 games a season.

 

[Steve19]

At least they're 2-0 all-time against Deaf & Dumb Institute. I shit you not, check here...

Now THAT is amazing. Bobcats rock!

source

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

You have to love this OhioCatFan clown over there. He can't deal with the less than illustrious history of his university, so he attempts to discredit me by comparing me to a Confederate apologist and a neo-Nazi.:crazy:

I've read many of his posts over there. He's a frustrated, delusional old man who insists on believing in a romanticized, whitewashed history of OU as some great academic institution while at the same time refusing to give Ohio State the least bit of credit for anything.

FWIW, most of my understanding of these events come from the writings of a professional historian (later a university president) who had no ties (faculty or alumni) to Ohio State. The specific book was:

Kinnison, William A. (1970). Building Sullivant's Pyramid; An Administrative History of The Ohio State University, 1870-1907 ISBN 0-8142-0141-5

It is a peer reviewed, extensively sourced, book by a professional historian that was very well regarded by the reviews of other historians when it was published. I guess that this just can't stand up when compared to the wishful thinking of Athens Ohio's finest message board warrior.

He's a sad, bitter, doddering old man who attempts to pass himself off as a serious student of history but whose understanding of history is more akin to the simplistic musings of an eighth grader. A more rational society would have turned him into soylent green years ago.

 

[OZoner]

I also will be waiting for this game. I live in a southern town in ohio (Ironton) and there mixed matches down here of tOSU and OU. But we all get along very well.

OU Southern! Very nice.
It will be interesting to see how many OU student choose to root for us and how many choose to root for State. I don't really mind the ones that root for the Buckeyes, but really, don't root against your school.

OhioCatFan is actually an Ohio State graduate. I don't get what his problem is.

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

OhioCatFan is actually an Ohio State graduate. I don't get what his problem is.

Honestly, I'm willing to wager that he didn't do too well in his Masters program up in Columbus and has a psychological need to blame "a&m" rather than look at where the fault and shortcomings truly lay If the work on his Master's thesis was anything like his historical "arguments" on bobcattack, it's not too far of a stretch.. Personally, I'd love for him to come on here and attempt to dispute Kinnison's scholarship. It would probably make for a good laugh. But seriously, comparing me to neo-Nazis? That's just the rantings of a bitter old fool who can't make a reasoned debate against the scholarship I've cited.

All that being said, people here are always willing to engage in some good honest debate leading up to a game. The recent LSU thread is a good indicator as is the continued presence of one of our Florida visitors from last year. No one has a single problem with someone rooting for OU over Ohio State. They just need to leave the mindless "a&m" smack back at bobcattattack for the kool-aid drinkers to enjoy.

 

[Steve19]

OhioCatFan is actually an Ohio State graduate. I don't get what his problem is.

He has an audience, ok, a small audience, but an audience who want to hear the crap he is spilling.

I'm sorry, with all due respect, Ohio University is not a patch on Ohio State.

World Top 500:
Ohio State #61, University of Cape Town #201, Ohio Univerity unranked.
Academic Ranking of World Universities - 2007

Times Higher Education World Rankings:
Ohio State #120, University of Cape Town #200, Ohio Univerity unranked.
QS Top Universities: Study abroad guides, undergraduate university degrees, THES - QS World University Rankings, Grad School, Student Finance
Times Higher Education - Education news, resources and university jobs for the academic world

Webometrics World Rankings (webometrics dramatically underrepresent universities that are less web-active, see wikipedia, but at least Ohio University is ranked, well, sort of:
Ohio State #71, University of Cape Town #380, Ohio Univerity #1110.
World Universities' ranking on the Web: top 4000 World Ranking

OK, they're not a patch on the top African university either, but they are ranked in the top1...,er 1500!

 

[Piney]

OhioCatFan is actually an Ohio State graduate. I don't get what his problem is.

I tend to tune him out over there when he starts ripping Ohio State, and I do the same whenever anyone rips them as I avoid those threads. At first I tried, but sometimes ya just have to know when to pick your battles and when ya should just tune them out.

But needless to say I know I will be rooting for Ohio to beat Ohio State. And then will be rooting for Ohio State to kick the shit out of USC the next week

 

[Steve19]

I tend to tune him out over there when he starts ripping Ohio State, and I do the same whenever anyone rips them as I avoid those threads. At first I tried, but sometimes ya just have to know when to pick your battles and when ya should just tune them out.

But needless to say I know I will be rooting for Ohio to beat Ohio State. And then will be rooting for Ohio State to kick the shit out of USC the next week

And we all respect that. A degree from any of the world's top 2000 universities is probably going to really add value to a young person's career development. At the undergrad level, there is very little difference in what students are getting, provided that they are reading the books and making sure that they get everything available.

It is tiresome to hear this constant harping, jealousy, and misrepresentation of even the academic quality of programs at Ohio State by Ohio University people. For goodness sakes, if Ohio is playing anyone, I would root for them just because it's Ohio. That's my home state. Those are my people.

To see the gloating over a respectable loss in a national championship by a team in a rebuilding year and then all of these chump comments, well, it's a disgrace. Moreover, as the rankings I posted, and any others they might like to find, would show, Ohio State is one of the world's top universities. So, no one is convinced except this little crowd of deluded souls, who just embarrass themselves in front of everyone else.

It's like the poor people I grew up with who constantly said how they "wouldn't want all that money". "No sirree, they ain't never happy, it's just problems and problems. I'm just fine with my little place here in the sun." Then, every week, they went out and played the numbers or the lottery or something else, trying to get a piece of all that misery.

When you are ranked behind at least a dozen African universities on objective criteria, it's time for a reality check. Ohio University is a good state university and has some excellent departments, but it is not even comparable to Ohio State. On any meaningful dimension. Nor does it need to be for a kid to go there and come out with some very good competencies.

Why can't those guys just be happy that they got a good university education and wish all of their home state teams well?

 

[OZoner]

Well, everyone is always going to do the "my school is better than yours" thing. It's "my dad can beat up your dad" 20 years later. Ohio State, obviously, is a good school. So is OU. I don't care which one ranks higher in the magazines, because I never considered Ohio State. Nothing about it appealed to me. Conversely, a lot (and I mean a lot) find things in Ohio State that they do like. Super. We're two very, very different schools and comparing them in the first place is just silly. Of course, US News & World Report sells a lot of issues doing those same silly rankings every year...

What were we talking about again?

 

[Steve19]

Well, everyone is always going to do the "my school is better than yours" thing. It's "my dad can beat up your dad" 20 years later. Ohio State, obviously, is a good school. So is OU. I don't care which one ranks higher in the magazines, because I never considered Ohio State. Nothing about it appealed to me. Conversely, a lot (and I mean a lot) find things in Ohio State that they do like. Super. We're two very, very different schools and comparing them in the first place is just silly. Of course, US News & World Report sells a lot of issues doing those same silly rankings every year...

What were we talking about again?

Source

Uh, is that you Baghdad Bob?

 

[Mike80]

Come on, what's Ohio U known for?

Halloween parties

Riots due to the parties

and Hippies.....

that's it, seriously....unless you want to count rampant jealousy judging from the Bobcatattack site...