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OUPride
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Well, This Is Ridiculous

Posted: 1/15/2015 11:29:36 AM

I'm clearly not an Ohio State hater who can't bring themselves to even grudgingly admit anything good about the school.

On the other hand, writing an article that you are an Ohio State FAN is going far too far. This is the kind of stuff that actually could bump me into the unreconstructed hater camp.

http://www.athensnews.com/ohio/article-44106-irsm-both-a-...

TheBobcatBandit
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RE: Well, This Is Ridiculous

Posted: 1/15/2015 12:42:56 PM

These people are all over and I hate it. Nothing in life makes me more upset than OSU fans and that's not an exaggeration.

Valley Cat
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RE: Well, This Is Ridiculous

Posted: 1/15/2015 1:52:31 PM

I actually almost posted a comment under the article. What a joke. Drives me crazy.

OUcats82
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RE: Well, This Is Ridiculous

Posted: 1/15/2015 2:26:50 PM

TheBobcatBandit wrote:

These people are all over and I hate it. Nothing in life makes me more upset than OSU fans and that's not an exaggeration.

OSU created oxygen you know.....

Ohio-The State University

perimeterpost
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RE: Well, This Is Ridiculous

Posted: 1/15/2015 4:27:42 PM

TheBobcatBandit wrote:

These people are all over and I hate it. Nothing in life makes me more upset than OSU fans and that's not an exaggeration.

not all OSU fans are created equal. The ones that graduated from Ohio like this dude are THE WORST.

MY STATE. MY TEAM.

Y-CityCatFan
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RE: Well, This Is Ridiculous

Posted: 1/15/2015 4:54:36 PM

The sad part is that they really don't see the problem in any of this. They can't see the big picture. I have sooooo many friends who are Ohio grads posting all kinds of Buckeye pride on Facebook, but when Ohio has a game, I never see anything from them. In fact, I get treated like some kind of crazy or fanatical fan because I display the same type of pride in Ohio that all of these people display for the Buckeyes!
I don't have a problem with an Ohio student/grad being a fan of OSU. What I do have a problem with is when they show more "pride" and put in more effort into being a fan of OSU then they ever do for OHIO.
I hate the excuses too...
"Well, Ohio will never see a national championship..."
"Ohio and Ohio State are in different levels of competition..." (IGNORANCE!!)
"They aren't even rivals!"

I HATE THE BRAINWASHING!!!

**Sorry, I think this post kind of rambled...

Y-CityCatFan
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RE: Well, This Is Ridiculous

Posted: 1/15/2015 4:58:55 PM

Oh, one more thing...
If you want to get really fired up, take a look at the "You know you went to OU if" facebook page

Last Edited: 1/15/2015 4:59:12 PM by Y-CityCatFan

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RE: Well, This Is Ridiculous

Posted: 1/15/2015 5:27:14 PM

perimeterpost wrote:

TheBobcatBandit wrote:

These people are all over and I hate it. Nothing in life makes me more upset than OSU fans and that's not an exaggeration.

not all OSU fans are created equal. The ones that graduated from Ohio like this dude are THE WORST.

Nothing makes me more upset than OSU fans who didn't go to OSU*

OhioCatFan
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RE: Well, This Is Ridiculous

Posted: 1/15/2015 5:44:51 PM

Y-CityCatFan wrote:

+1 Somewhere we obviously share a little bit of the same DNA! ;-) I certainly could have written ever word in your post.

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RE: Well, This Is Ridiculous

Posted: 1/15/2015 5:51:58 PM

Let me add that this year, for the reasons indicated in my previous post on the subject, I was just a little bit happy that OSU won the "championship" game. (Quote marks go off when it's at least an eight team playoff.) However, Y-CityCanFat, the obnoxiousness of many OSU fans, particularly their stealing of our name and the history of that whole bit of shenanigans, is something that continues to irk me a whole lot.

Ohio69
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RE: Well, This Is Ridiculous

Posted: 1/15/2015 6:20:05 PM

This guys is a Tory.

He thinks I just don't get it.

Nah, I get it, I just want nothing to do with it.

I'm with the Bobcat revolution.

This redcoat can suck it.

Last Edited: 1/15/2015 6:22:45 PM by Ohio69

Can somebody hit a pull up jumper for me?.....

Y-CityCatFan
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RE: Well, This Is Ridiculous

Posted: 1/15/2015 6:47:51 PM

OhioCatFan wrote:

Y-CityCatFan wrote:

+1 Somewhere we obviously share a little bit of the same DNA! ;-) I certainly could have written ever word in your post.

Darn good DNA if you ask me! ;)

LuckySparrow
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RE: Well, This Is Ridiculous

Posted: 1/15/2015 8:20:09 PM

perimeterpost wrote:

TheBobcatBandit wrote:

These people are all over and I hate it. Nothing in life makes me more upset than OSU fans and that's not an exaggeration.

not all OSU fans are created equal. The ones that graduated from Ohio like this dude are THE WORST.

Yup.

What a day at the Convo.....Wow!

Monroe Slavin
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RE: Well, This Is Ridiculous

Posted: 1/15/2015 8:43:11 PM

OUPride wrote:

http://www.bobcatattack.com/messageboard/topic.asp?FromPa...

Let's leave aside the 30-45 of us regulars here who will root for O H I O every time and disregard the junior institution in columbus absolutely. We few will root for UO and the gree of Oregon, not columbus. Never columbus.

Then you have the rest of the OHIO contingent, which is, effectively 100% of the OHIO friends/alumni. 100%.

We have OHIO at 15-16 over the last 31 against some of the worst teams in football, no MAC title in 45 years and a staff that's 10 years without a MAC title.

And some of you expect OHIO fans not to root for columbus? (I'm not talking about who they should root for. I'm talking about what is, unfortunately, reasonable to expect.)

You expect them not to root for columbus? You are delusional.

So, go on. Keep enabling it. Keep being satisfied with the status of our program over the most recent 2.5 years.

Sure, it's gonna change next year. Sure it is.

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WHERE"S THE BAND?!

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RE: Well, This Is Ridiculous

Posted: 1/15/2015 9:00:27 PM

Well, Monroe, football things are going to change for the positive in Athens before they do in Cleveland, in all likelihood. Can I use your logic to explain why statistically it appears a higher percentage of Brown fans root for OSU than Bengal fans? I find your logic very, very interesting. Perhaps, others on here can figure other applications of your new fan loyalty theory.

Y-CityCatFan
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RE: Well, This Is Ridiculous

Posted: 1/15/2015 9:15:24 PM

Monroe, I am 100% appreciative of all of your contributions to Ohio and wish I could do a 5th of what you do for our school, but man, you have become quite jaded. I hope you can someday find some satisfaction again in being an Ohio fan. Frank came in and completely changed an entire culture, and for that, I will forever be grateful and feel that he has earned the right to end his career on his terms. I do not accept mediocrity and wish we could win some MAC titles (and beyond) but we went from the absolute bottom of the football world to being respectable, try to focus on that!

Last Edited: 1/15/2015 9:16:49 PM by Y-CityCatFan

cc-cat
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RE: Well, This Is Ridiculous

Posted: 1/15/2015 9:33:39 PM

OUPride wrote:

My NC license plate is also OUCATS

http://www.bobcatattack.com/messageboard/topic.asp?FromPa...

I too will post a link to a comment of mine from another thread

Last Edited: 1/15/2015 9:36:04 PM by cc-cat

perimeterpost
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RE: Well, This Is Ridiculous

Posted: 1/15/2015 10:39:41 PM

Monroe wants us to believe that you root for teams because of their record, not what they represent. There is no such thing as loyalty or identity in Monroe-ville-land, everyone just follows the trends.

MY STATE. MY TEAM.

The Optimist
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RE: Well, This Is Ridiculous

Posted: 1/15/2015 11:46:14 PM

Monroe Slavin wrote:

Let's leave aside the 30-45 of us regulars here who will root for O H I O every time and disregard the junior institution in columbus absolutely. We few will root for UO and the gree of Oregon, not columbus. Never columbus.

Then you have the rest of the OHIO contingent, which is, effectively 100% of the OHIO friends/alumni. 100%.

Monroe, I am going to ignore your usual drivel and focus on the above statement. Did you read the article? Are you capable comprehending what you read?

There are two direct quotations from the article I would like to draw attention to.

Quote:

It's (Athens) also the place where I would get heckled for parading my other team, my hometown pride, my Ohio State Buckeyes.

Quote:

many fellow students would give me guff. You know how it goes in Athens.

There are still plenty of Buckeye fans in Athens, many hailing from Columbus. You can still find red on the streets (especially in years like this) with fans crowding bars to watch games.
There is also a growing and sizable precentage of the student body that does not support Ohio State. The fact is, it isn't just "30 or 45" anymore that don't support OSU. It is a very sizable number. They wear "The Real O-H-I-O" and "OSwho?" shirts and heckle kids in OSU gear. It is somewhat good-natured, but it certainly isn't just teasing. It is a little deeper than that. There is some real dislike towards Ohio State on campus these days in Athens. This isn't just a lack of support for Ohio State in Athens. This is a rivalry.

"Rival" is a term many of the OSU supporters on this board don't seem to get. "We're not rivals."

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It had nothing to do with a university or even football for that matter. It had to do with pride for my state and the knowledge that others around the country had to pay attention to where I was from, even if it was just for a second.

"It had nothing to do with a university"

I think a sizable % of current students don't share that view and that is why more current students would be likely to call Ohio and Ohio State rivals.

Students today are spending tens of thousands of dollars to attend Ohio University. Ohio University students are competing against Ohio State University students when they walk into job interviews. For many current students and recent alumni, that makes it a rivalry between two UNIVERSITIES.

Ohio and Ohio State may not compete on the field in every sport every year, but you better believe we are two competing institutions. Constantly. 100% of the time. Ohio State and Marshall are almost identical in distance to Ohio University. The two closest Division One schools. Our local rivals.

I understand that kids growing up in Columbus and even the state of Ohio are going to root for the hometown and homestate team. That makes sense.
What also makes sense to me is giving absolute support to a school you have invested a lot of your time and money into.

A friend spoke with Rod McDavis on ICA spending and McDavis remarked that he felt you should want your school to be the best that it can be in every area possible.
I could not agree more. I wish that statement was on the record. I would root for Ohio University in football, a Classics and World Religions debate, chinese checkers, women's chinese checkers and tiddlywinks. I don't think it is only 30-45 people who agree with me. I think a sizable precentage of Ohio University students and alumni believe Ohio University is THE premier higher education institution in the state.

Lost in your crusade against the current coaching staff seems the "rest of the story." Something is happening in Athens. They aren't building a team. They are building a program.

I've seen crazier things happen.

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RE: Well, This Is Ridiculous

Posted: 1/16/2015 8:25:27 AM

Y-CityCatFan wrote:

We are all forgetting that it was Monroe, and only Monroe, who was there to show us all that Brian Knorr was not getting the job done and we needed a change. If not for his keen insight then we might still be seeking our first bowl appearance in the 21st century. If you don't believe me, just ask Monroe.

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RE: Well, This Is Ridiculous

Posted: 1/16/2015 11:36:59 AM

TheBobcatBandit wrote:

perimeterpost wrote:

TheBobcatBandit wrote:

These people are all over and I hate it. Nothing in life makes me more upset than OSU fans and that's not an exaggeration.

not all OSU fans are created equal. The ones that graduated from Ohio like this dude are THE WORST.

Nothing makes me more upset than OSU fans who didn't go to OSU*

If going to a school is a prerequisite to be a fan, then only 30% of the American population is allowed to be a fan of college athletics. That is laughable!

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RE: Well, This Is Ridiculous

Posted: 1/16/2015 12:49:31 PM

BillyTheCat wrote:

TheBobcatBandit wrote:

perimeterpost wrote:

TheBobcatBandit wrote:

These people are all over and I hate it. Nothing in life makes me more upset than OSU fans and that's not an exaggeration.

not all OSU fans are created equal. The ones that graduated from Ohio like this dude are THE WORST.

Nothing makes me more upset than OSU fans who didn't go to OSU*

If going to a school is a prerequisite to be a fan, then only 30% of the American population is allowed to be a fan of college athletics. That is laughable!

This reminds me of my next door neighbors. One is an alum of Muskingum, the other Akron. Both are lawyers, neither of whom, so far as I know, has ever stepped foot on a certain campus in Columbus. The spare tire cover on their crossover: Ohio State.

Last Edited: 1/16/2015 1:25:50 PM by Mike Johnson

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Y-CityCatFan
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RE: Well, This Is Ridiculous

Posted: 1/16/2015 1:19:43 PM

Mike Johnson wrote:

BillyTheCat wrote:

TheBobcatBandit wrote:

perimeterpost wrote:

TheBobcatBandit wrote:

These people are all over and I hate it. Nothing in life makes me more upset than OSU fans and that's not an exaggeration.

not all OSU fans are created equal. The ones that graduated from Ohio like this dude are THE WORST.

Nothing makes me more upset than OSU fans who didn't go to OSU*

If going to a school is a prerequisite to be a fan, then only 30% of the American population is allowed to be a fan of college athletics. That is laughable!

This reminds me of my next door neighbors. One is an alum of Muskingum, the other Akron. Both are lawyers, neither of whom, so far as I know, has ever stepped foor on a certain campus in Columbus. The spare tire cover on their crossover: Ohio State.

It's the OSU fans who are alums of different schools that put more energy into being a fan of OSU then their own school. Those are the ones that upset me. I really don't care if you are an Ohio and OSU fan (not that I understand the desire), but you darn better show more pride in Ohio then you do OSU!!
Look, I grew up 50 min from downtown Columbus. I know what it's like growing up in a culture that demands everyone to bleed scarlet and gray, and for a time, I was sucked in, but thank God I was able to outgrow it! ;)
I also try not to let the OSU fans who never went to college bother me. I just have to remember the source.

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RE: Well, This Is Ridiculous

Posted: 1/16/2015 6:21:20 PM

TheBobcatBandit wrote:

These people are all over and I hate it. Nothing in life makes me more upset than OSU fans and that's not an exaggeration.

I am interested in further details about your life.

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RE: Well, This Is Ridiculous

Posted: 1/17/2015 1:21:24 PM

Many OSU fans are mouth breathing hillbilly morons.

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