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Yahoo, Tattoos, and tOSU (1-year bowl ban, 82 scholly limit for 3 years)

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CleveBucks;1928016; said:
No, the "kids" need to grow up and follow the rules. We see the same jock sniffers in Los Angeles and everywhere else.
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Grant Achatz just tossed a Bulls player out of Aviary because he told them to get the cocktail menus off the table and bring him and his guests bottles of Grey Goose and mixers. Bulls player was told "that's not what we do" and shown the door. It's a different world.

Are there jock sniffers and groupies in Chicago? Sure. Are there nightclubs that put up with athletes' antics? Sure. The difference is that they don't define the city. For every person and/or business who worships these guys (or even just tolerates their bull[Mark May]) there's ten who could care less "who they are."

Columbus has a very dysfunctional relationship with Ohio State sports for a city of its size. The few years that I moved back to Columbus about 10 years ago, it was almost unbearable and, even though I had access to purchasing two season tickets, led me to kind of tune out Ohio State football. It became much, much easier to be a fan again when I left Columbus.
 
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Ord, where there is fame and opportunity there will always be those looking to exploit it. It doesn't matter if it's Columbus, Ann Arbor, Memphis, LA, SMU or elsewhere, people like taking stuff and others like the benefits from providing it.

Chicago doesn't have a college team, and collegiate athletes are much more accessible, affordable and exploitable.
 
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jwinslow;1928033; said:
Ord, where there is fame and opportunity there will always be those looking to exploit it. It doesn't matter if it's Columbus, Ann Arbor, Memphis, LA, SMU or elsewhere, people like taking stuff and others like the benefits from providing it.

Chicago doesn't have a college team, and collegiate athletes are much more accessible, affordable and exploitable.
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Northwestern and you might as well consider Notre Dame a Chicago team for all intents and purposes. SF, LA, Seattle, Boston and Minneapolis all have major college programs and don't have the attendant culture that Columbus has created. I won't speak for Atlanta or Miami because I haven't spent a lot of time in those cities, and they are in the South which skews the culture in and of itself.

For a city that likes to talk itself up as being big time, Columbus has just always struck me as having a very small time mentality when it comes to Ohio State sports. Something much more akin to Birmingham or Baton Rouge than even a smaller major city like Seattle or Minneapolis. A good comparison would be Austin. I'd be very interested in hearing from anyone who's lived there if the city and media have a non-stop obsession with UT athletics in the same manner that Columbus does with Ohio State.
 
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ORD_Buckeye;1928030; said:
Grant Achatz just tossed a Bulls player out of Aviary because he told them to get the cocktail menus off the table and bring him and his guests bottles of Grey Goose and mixers. Bulls player was told "that's not what we do" and shown the door. It's a different world.

Are there jock sniffers and groupies in Chicago? Sure. Are there nightclubs that put up with athletes' antics? Sure. The difference is that they don't define the city. For every person and/or business who worships these guys (or even just tolerates their bull[Mark May]) there's ten who could care less "who they are."

Columbus has a very dysfunctional relationship with Ohio State sports for a city of its size. The few years that I moved back to Columbus about 10 years ago, it was almost unbearable and, even though I had access to purchasing two season tickets, led me to kind of tune out Ohio State football. It became much, much easier to be a fan again when I left Columbus.
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Good for you???????????
 
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ORD_Buckeye;1928050; said:
Well, maybe Ohio State wouldn't find itself in this situation if a few more people and businesses stopped acting like a bunch of jock-sniffing hicks and started acting like people in the big cities to whom Columbus is always trying to compare itself.
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Man, fuck you. Everytime it's someone acting like a clown, they're hicks. It isn't people that grow fucking corn paying players.
 
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ORD_Buckeye;1928042; said:
SF, LA, Seattle, Boston and Minneapolis all have major college programs and don't have the attendant culture that Columbus has created.
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Most residents of SF probably couldn't tell you a damn thing about Stanford.

Seattle - well, if the Huskies could remain consistent I think you could see something similar. That goes double for Minny.

BC. Does anyone in Bean town know that school exists?

I mean, you've tossed out 3 teams. All of them (save for one in the past couple years) have very little in terms of football accomplishment post -WWII.

L.A. is a 50/50. Obviously the problems at USC we're all well aware of. So you really can't say you dont have quite the "jock sniffing" attitude in that town. It just depends on if they're having a down year or not.

The meat & potatoes of your argument comes from cities with traditionally mediocre or at best, slighty above average football accomplishments.

Fact is college football is a necessary evil on the Far West and East coasts. Its much more ingrained into society in the midwest and south.
 
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BUCKYLE;1928063; said:
Man, [censored] you. Everytime it's someone acting like a clown, they're hicks. It isn't people that grow [censored]ing corn paying players.
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Jesus, Dude. Are you in the bottle already today? Where did I equate hicks with farmers. You can be a god damned Columbus ghetto tattoo dealer and be a hick. You can be the producer of a mid-market local newscast and have the mentality of a small time, jock sniffing hick. My point is that too many people in Columbus seem to have nothing going on in their lives other than obsessing about and worshiping the players of Ohio State University's football team. To me that's entry into the hick hall of fame. They need to grow up and get a [censored]ing life.

I went to school there and lived there for three years a decade later. Columbus loves to talk a big game, but it is absolutely small time. My argument is that if people stopped acting like they live in Tuscaloosa and started acting like the cities that Columbus loves to compare itself to, we wouldn't be having this problem. Buying fucking gold painted pants trinkets because some 19 year old kid earned them. Jesus Fucking Christ. How much more small time can one possibly get.
 
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