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Topic: What Could Have Been

Topic: What Could Have Been

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gobobcats606
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What Could Have Been

Posted: 10/28/2012 1:04:10 PM

This is one of the most painful losses I have ever experienced as a sports fan. This is far and away the most painful REGULAR SEASON loss I have ever experienced. Why does this hurt so much? We still have a real shot at getting to the MAC Championship and winning that damn thing, we still are going to a bowl game and hopefully winning our second bowl game in history, and we are still a 7-1 Ohio University Bobcats football team. If you said we would be in that situation in the beginning of the season I would have been elated. So again, why does this hurt so much? Well its all about what could have been. For the first time ever I fell in love with college football. For years I have been a college football hater because the little schools have no chance and Ohio has never been relevant. Don't get me wrong, I still would watch every OU game but I would have no interest in anything else in the college football landscape. Now I see why people love this sport. These past two months have been an absolute blast. Ohio was on peoples' minds. For once we weren't just some mid-major school that will maybe get to a meaningless bowl game that no one but us Bobcat lovers care about. No. We were very much cared about. By everyone. To the point where we were the #24 team in this whole nation with a chance to bust the BCS and be everyones "little team that could." And because of this I found myself interested in college football in a way that I never had before. I loved to love college football. And now I feel that it is all gone. No more watching CFB Daily on ESPNU hoping to hear OUr name pop up in conversation even just once. No more getting excited for the Sunday polls to come out to see where we lay amongst all the other top teams. No more BCS buster talk. And that is a sad sad thing. Even if Tettleton found Foster in the back of the endzone at the buzzer or if we pulled out the W in overtime there was still ZERO guarantee that we would be that undefeated BCS buster team. Odds are we wouldn't have been. But I never wanted this feeling of such hope and excitement to end. Even just one more week would have been unbelievable. But now it is over and we still have MAC Championship aspirations, but right now all I can think about is what could have been.

Bobcatzblitz
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RE: What Could Have Been

Posted: 10/28/2012 1:09:45 PM

Hard to not imagine this team with all guys back from last year and no injuries but this is still a very good team. Some of you are completely ridiculous in acting like 10-2 or 9-3 is a failure.

gobobcats606
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RE: What Could Have Been

Posted: 10/28/2012 1:13:04 PM

9-3 or 10-2 is not a failure at all. I would take that every single year. I was just saying it was a lot of fun to be nationally recognized for a couple of months

Ozcat
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RE: What Could Have Been

Posted: 10/28/2012 1:14:53 PM

We are currently sitting at #36, with Toledo, NIU and Kent all ahead of us now. We know we play Kent and likely the winner of the Toledo/NIU game, so it's VERY realistic to think we could be back in the top 25 if we win out.

To me, that's a testament to how far we have come.

Deciduous Forest Cat
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RE: What Could Have Been

Posted: 10/28/2012 1:22:25 PM

We have zero shot of returning to the top 25. Zero.

ohiobobnorthguy
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RE: What Could Have Been

Posted: 10/28/2012 1:28:43 PM

We can easily return to the top 25. We are still recieving votes! If we finish the season 11-1, we will be back in the top 25 before the MAC championship game I guarantee it. Especially with the way Kent is playing, they will be 11-1 as well and in the top 25. The MAC has 4 teams that each have 1 loss. This loss hurts yes, but all of our pre-season goals are still in place. We can regroup and still have the best season in Ohio Football History! Think about that. The BCS was a crapshoot of a dream and it was fun to talk about for a while, but now lets finish strong and finish the end of the season in the top 25 like basektball did!

brucecuth
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RE: What Could Have Been

Posted: 10/28/2012 1:55:02 PM

not dissappointed in the loss, only the way we lost. nonetheless, still a great season. anyone who thinks 7-1 is the end of the world obviously did not live through the 70s, 80s, most of the 90s and the 00s until frank arrived.

My guess is 10-2. hope we do better. but 10-2 would be a tremendous season.

Pataskala
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RE: What Could Have Been

Posted: 10/28/2012 1:59:53 PM

La Tech dropped out of the Top 25 after a loss two weeks ago, but they're back in it. You never know.

We will get by.
We will get by.
We will get by.
We will survive.

Deciduous Forest Cat
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RE: What Could Have Been

Posted: 10/28/2012 2:01:46 PM

Pataskala wrote:

La Tech dropped out of the Top 25 after a loss two weeks ago, but they're back in it. You never know.

Not a relevant comparison. They've got a much better resume overall and a very close loss against another top team. We scored 20 points against a bottom 20 defense.

Ozcat
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RE: What Could Have Been

Posted: 10/28/2012 2:19:30 PM

Deciduous Forest Cat wrote:

We have zero shot of returning to the top 25. Zero.

With all due respect, you're wrong. It is very possible if we win out.

Only one OHIO
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RE: What Could Have Been

Posted: 10/28/2012 6:04:14 PM

I think we can be back in the top 25 if we win out and if we do it will be a great season. However, up until yesterday, we were on track for an incredible season. I still hope we win out, but that was a deflating loss. Now instead of talking about BCS games and seeing Ohio on the bottom line, we don't even control out own destiny. I just wanted one more week...and for it not to end with Fiami.

Doc Bobcat
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RE: What Could Have Been

Posted: 10/28/2012 6:09:33 PM

Championships are made or broken in November.....Thursday......Release the Kraken!!!!

Bobcat110alum
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RE: What Could Have Been

Posted: 10/28/2012 6:15:02 PM

Ozcat wrote:

Deciduous Forest Cat wrote:

We have zero shot of returning to the top 25. Zero.

With all due respect, you're wrong. It is very possible if we win out.

I have to agree. It's very possible we play a ranked Kent State team on the road to finish out the year, and if things play to our advantage and we win out the rest of the season, we have a great opportunity to play another ranked NIU/Toledo in the MAC championship. Two wins against ranked conference teams will do wonders for our credibility, despite the loss to Miami. It will.

I had to stay away from the board all day because that loss hurt, but it's time now to refocus and win that MAC championship. The ranking was a lot of fun, but I think I'll appreciate the future ranking even more if it means we did it by beating the best teams in our conference. If we get it again, we will definitely deserve it.

Of course, this is if everything goes our way.

B.S. Journalism, 2012.

OU-Barker
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RE: What Could Have Been

Posted: 10/29/2012 1:46:36 AM

Deciduous Forest Cat wrote:

We have zero shot of returning to the top 25. Zero.

Ok Lee Corso.

We win out, we will be in the final top 25 of the season. It may only be #24 but we will be. We would jump a lot of teams that are ranked but lose due to being in a bowl game. Remember, half of all bowl teams get a loss in the last week of the season. That is a lot of teams you can jump.

sargentfan
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RE: What Could Have Been

Posted: 10/29/2012 11:23:22 AM

We have a shot to get back in the top 25 only because our conference has put up some good wins against BCS competition. La Tech got back in because they have such an amazing QB that is garnering alot of interest.

Bobcat36
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RE: What Could Have Been

Posted: 10/29/2012 2:24:56 PM

Ozcat wrote:

I can't believe I'm saying this but I agree with Oz...Yikes...

Winning out, considering the wins our remaining opponents have already put up and the fact that one or more of them might be ranked by the time we play them, puts a 1 loss Conference Champion Bowl Winner back in the top 25. No doubt in my mind.

The best part is, if we manage to finish in the top 25 (considering the strength of the returning team) there's a good chance that for once, Ohio benefits from those completely bogus preseason rankings.

We can walk away with the MACC (2012's primary goal) AND not have to climb our way into the rankings to start the 2013 season.

Hopefully we can look back at this as a learning experience for the Coaching Staff and credit this loss with the fact that they finally trust (unleash) our offense regardless of game situation. This loss may have been exactly what we needed to let this team show its true potential. Now that the D has grown up and shown its teeth, if we can let the O function under its true potential, Ohio can not only win out, but do so in dominating fashion.

GoBobcats!!!! Always have been and always will be... Ohio's First and Finest!

Mark Lembright '85
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RE: What Could Have Been

Posted: 10/29/2012 2:31:56 PM

gobobcats606 wrote:

Try being a Cleveland sports fan. We suffer one of these kind of heartbreaking losses every other year (I'd say yearly except that we never have a good sports team two years in a row).

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