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UpSan Bobcat
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Conference opponents announced

Posted: 1/13/2014 6:01:55 PM

Ohio gets three MAC West foes, including NIU at home and CMU and WMU on the road. No game against UMass.

http://www.ohiobobcats.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/011314aad.html

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RE: Conference opponents announced

Posted: 1/13/2014 6:03:04 PM

Still no Toledo...I really thought we were due for them this year.

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RE: Conference opponents announced

Posted: 1/13/2014 6:29:43 PM

It's actually been longer since Ohio last played regular-season games against WMU (2008) and NIU (2009), but Toledo (2010) was next longest ago.

Ohio will play CMU for the third time in the last four seasons. If you count the 2010 MAC title game, Ohio has played the Chippewas five of seven years, including the upcoming one.

The Bobcats have played EMU three of the last four years and they played Ball State in back-to-back seasons before this year.

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RE: Conference opponents announced

Posted: 1/13/2014 8:21:45 PM

I don't mind not playing UT. I believe that the last time we beat them in football Ephraim Cutler was the head coach and W. T. Sherman was OC, running the flying wedge up the middle offense. DC was Little Phil from New Lexington, who favored the Shenandoah Thunder in the Valley defense. Toledo at the time was coached by yet another famous Ohioan, G. A. Custer, who had a premonition of Little Big Horn during this game.

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RE: Conference opponents announced

Posted: 1/13/2014 8:36:48 PM

OhioCatFan wrote:

I heard his wife was buried at the First Street Cemetary but the lucky guy at Gettysburg and the unlucky guy at the Little Big Horn was from Meechegan.

Last Edited: 1/13/2014 8:38:53 PM by Doc Bobcat

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RE: Conference opponents announced

Posted: 1/13/2014 8:36:53 PM

If I begin to row now, I may make it to Kalamazoo in time for our game there.

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RE: Conference opponents announced

Posted: 1/13/2014 9:02:40 PM

We get Fleck in Kalamazoo!!! #RTB

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RE: Conference opponents announced

Posted: 1/13/2014 10:41:46 PM

Doc Bobcat wrote:

OhioCatFan wrote:

I heard his wife was buried at the First Street Cemetary but the lucky guy at Gettysburg and the unlucky guy at the Little Big Horn was from Meechegan.

Well . . . not exactly:

G. A. Custer born in Ohio

And, it's not Mrs. Custer who is buried in the East State Street Cemetery, but his cook, Eliza Brown Davison. Mrs. Custer and Mrs. Davison became good friends. Libbie Custer apparently made many trips to Athens after Little Big Horn as she was writing her books to polish up her husband's tarnished image. She wanted Lizzie's stories of her days as a cook for Custer during the Civil War and her later service as the cook for the Custer family. During the Civil War Eliza got the nickname "Queen of Sheba" because the troops sometimes carried her on a chair suspended between two poles in "royal splendor" as they moved from camp to camp. She was a slave before rescued by the Union Army.

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RE: Conference opponents announced

Posted: 1/13/2014 11:04:31 PM

Huh.....didn't know Custer lived in Ohio and led an Ohio Cavalry Regiment.

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RE: Conference opponents announced

Posted: 1/13/2014 11:05:55 PM

Predictions?

[uh, oh...i must have hidden motive here]

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RE: Conference opponents announced

Posted: 1/13/2014 11:29:17 PM

NIU at home.

Sweet.

I've seen crazier things happen.

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RE: Conference opponents announced

Posted: 1/13/2014 11:42:20 PM

Doc Bobcat wrote:

Huh.....didn't know Custer lived in Ohio and led an Ohio Cavalry Regiment.

Born in Ohio, Custer lived in Michigan with a relative and attended school there for about two years when he was about ten and then came back to Ohio and later went back to Michigan for more schooling. He was again back near his original home teaching at Hopedale, Ohio, before he entered the USMA. His wife was from Michigan, and after the war he usually acted like his home was Michigan, though in the Army he was all over the place. On a little note of totally uninteresting history, some ancestors of mine sold land to the Custers in the New Rumley, Ohio, area before George Armstrong was born; there was also a marriage, but this wasn't in any line tracing to GA. Whew! It's been several years since I looked at these records, so I can't get any more specific.

In the Late Rebellion G.A. was with a Michigan Calvary regiment, though he was a regular and not a volunteer.

Last Edited: 1/13/2014 11:46:52 PM by OhioCatFan

Steve
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RE: Conference opponents announced

Posted: 1/14/2014 12:06:23 AM

The Optimist wrote:

NIU at home.

Sweet.

Maybe sweet. Maybe not.

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RE: Conference opponents announced

Posted: 1/14/2014 2:17:40 PM

I will be curious to see how NIU does in the post-Lynch era. Something tells me the beat will go on but better to play them then than this past year maybe.

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RE: Conference opponents announced

Posted: 1/14/2014 2:31:10 PM

My only hope is that Ohio plays all 11 of their games before October 10th. That seems to be the time of year that we begin to watch a miserable decline.

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RE: Conference opponents announced

Posted: 1/14/2014 3:13:34 PM

All I can say is I think we will find out what we are really made of in 2014. Those are 3 very difficult MAC West teams. We know the MAC East will be our nemesises. throw in a tough non con or two and it could be a long year.

Or, guys work hard over winter, come together and play with a passion next year and not seen the last 18 games to surprise us all.

Which is it?

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RE: Conference opponents announced

Posted: 1/14/2014 3:53:19 PM

Casper71 wrote:

Those are 3 very difficult MAC West teams.

Which is it?

CMU was 6-6 but did improve as the season went on, but WMU was 1-11.

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RE: Conference opponents announced

Posted: 1/14/2014 9:26:03 PM

Saw a tweet earlier that said we will open the season on Thursday, August 28th at Kent St. 3 Road games to start the year. Not ideal. The positive is the bye week is moved from Week 1 to some point during the MAC regular season.

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RE: Conference opponents announced

Posted: 1/14/2014 10:40:15 PM

OUs LONG Driver wrote:

where did you see this?

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RE: Conference opponents announced

Posted: 1/15/2014 2:44:55 AM

Playing Kent State at the beginning of the year vs the end may change OHIO's luck; it couldn't get any worse against the Flashes.

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RE: Conference opponents announced

Posted: 1/15/2014 8:02:04 AM

bigtillyoopsupsideurhead wrote:

Casper71 wrote:

Those are 3 very difficult MAC West teams.

Which is it?

CMU was 6-6 but did improve as the season went on, but WMU was 1-11.

WMU can't get much worse, especially with all the talent they are bringing in (according to the ESPN Recruiting page that is). If Fleck learns how to coach, who knows what will happen!

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RE: Conference opponents announced

Posted: 1/15/2014 10:22:25 AM

MonroeClassmate wrote:

Playing Kent State at the beginning of the year vs the end may change OHIO's luck; it couldn't get any worse against the Flashes.

I have similar thoughts. We are usually playing the injury bug card by the time we play them so maybe we can actually be competitive and, gee, I don't know, actually beat them finally.

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RE: Conference opponents announced

Posted: 1/15/2014 12:27:15 PM

Here's the link citing the infamous "sources" about the opener....

http://msn.foxsports.com/ohio/story/mac-starting-2014-wit...

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RE: Conference opponents announced

Posted: 1/15/2014 1:22:53 PM

Not playing UMass eliminates one of our "sure wins" although even that might not be the case seeing how they gave us a tough game there two years ago.

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RE: Conference opponents announced

Posted: 1/15/2014 3:53:31 PM

UpSan Bobcat wrote:

Ohio gets three MAC West foes, including NIU at home and CMU and WMU on the road.

Is this a first for us?

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