BobcatAttack.com - For Fans of Ohio University Sports

Welcome Guest!
Create an Account

site search

about us

advertise with us

help

BobcatAttack.com Message Board

Ohio Football

Topic: Reason #6259 to be glad you didn't go to OSU

Topic: Reason #6259 to be glad you didn't go to OSU

Author

Message

Pataskala
General User

Member Since: 7/8/2010
Location: At least six feet away from anybody else
Post Count: 9,365

Status: Offline

Reason #6259 to be glad you didn't go to OSU

Posted: 10/23/2010 5:10:05 PM

Pressure to Win. It's homecoming in Cowtown, so my office building had a tailgater lunch yesterday and invited everyone to wear their OSU crap. I, of course, wore OU garb. I was talking with some non-OSU coworkers about why OSU people are never happy: wins aren't big enough and losses are the end of the world. OSUers have been deeply depressed all week about the loss to the Cheesers, even though winning out would likely keep them in the hunt for the Big Televen title and maybe the national championship. Losing...no matter how good the effort, is not acceptable to Cowtowners.

I'm glad I went to OU, where the first loss of the season means it's probably September and is acceptable if the effort is there.

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

OhioCatFan
General User

Member Since: 12/20/2004
Location: Athens, OH
Post Count: 14,781

Status: Offline

RE: Reason #6259 to be glad you didn't go to OSU

Posted: 10/23/2010 6:06:07 PM

Correction: ZERO changes for national title game for A&M now.

The only BLSS Certified Hypocrite on BA

"It is better to be an optimist and be proven a fool than to be a pessimist and be proven right."

Note: My avatar is the national colors of the 78th Ohio Veteran Volunteer Infantry, which are now preserved in a climate controlled vault at the Ohio History Connection. Learn more about the old 78th at: http://www.78ohio.org

Big Willy
General User

Member Since: 12/29/2004
Post Count: 195

Status: Offline

RE: Reason #6259 to be glad you didn't go to OSU

Posted: 10/23/2010 6:40:33 PM

Pataskala wrote:

I'm glad I went to OU, where the first loss of the season means it's probably September and is acceptable if the effort is there.

You wouldn't think a loss was acceptable if you read this board. I guess you didn't read it after the Toledo game. You would have thought the world was coming to an end.

bobcatsquared
General User

Member Since: 12/20/2004
Post Count: 5,419

Status: Offline

RE: Reason #6259 to be glad you didn't go to OSU

Posted: 10/23/2010 8:56:02 PM

Willy,

As someone who has lived nearly five decades in Central Ohio, I can compare the two situations and confidently state that there is absolutely no similarities.

None.

Pataskala,

As a teacher in a city next door to your Licking County town, I too wear green in a sea of red on Fridays at my school. Except one Friday late in November every year when I wear a Michigan shirt just to confuse the sheep.

Pataskala
General User

Member Since: 7/8/2010
Location: At least six feet away from anybody else
Post Count: 9,365

Status: Offline

RE: Reason #6259 to be glad you didn't go to OSU

Posted: 10/23/2010 10:23:56 PM

Big Willy wrote:

Pataskala wrote:

I'm glad I went to OU, where the first loss of the season means it's probably September and is acceptable if the effort is there.

You wouldn't think a loss was acceptable if you read this board. I guess you didn't read it after the Toledo game. You would have thought the world was coming to an end.

I did read this board after the Toledo game, and I was one of those who questioned if OU would win more than three games this year. The loss was not acceptable because it lacked effort; the play-calling by the coaching staff was bland and predictable, and the execution by the players was so-so. Based on the way the team (coaches and players) performed that night, it really did look bleak. But things have gotten better, mainly because the coaching staff is calling plays that take advantage of the players' strengths. In fact, there was general acceptance of the Marshall loss because of the play-calling and the execution by the players. Solich's decision to go for two was questionable but not insane. If Tressel had made the same decision with the same result, the OSU faithful would still be bitching about it.

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

Pataskala
General User

Member Since: 7/8/2010
Location: At least six feet away from anybody else
Post Count: 9,365

Status: Offline

RE: Reason #6259 to be glad you didn't go to OSU

Posted: 10/23/2010 10:27:03 PM

bobcatsquared wrote:

I wouldn't go quite that far, mainly because I can't stand Rich Rodriguez.

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

bobcatsquared
General User

Member Since: 12/20/2004
Post Count: 5,419

Status: Offline

RE: Reason #6259 to be glad you didn't go to OSU

Posted: 10/23/2010 10:32:30 PM

Pataskala,

This tradition pre-dates RichRod. And I'm not even a Wolverine fan. I haven't done it yet, but I've thought about purchasing a t-shirt for every an o$u opponent and wear it the day before they meet an o$u.

medler
General User

Member Since: 12/21/2004
Location: Chicago, IL
Post Count: 197

Status: Offline

RE: Reason #6259 to be glad you didn't go to OSU

Posted: 10/23/2010 10:38:00 PM

bobcatsquared wrote:

Willy,

Pataskala,

As a teacher in a city next door to your Licking County town, I too wear green in a sea of red on Fridays at my school. Except one Friday late in November every year when I wear a Michigan shirt just to confuse the sheep.

I will never cheer for Michigan...

Medler's Top 3...
1. Notre Dame: Not now, not ever....I cheer for them to make the game close and then to have them suffer a terrible disaster at the end.
2. Michigan: Maybe it's some sort of subconscious thing. I hate the helmets, the b.s. Maize and Blue thing (twenty times worse than Scarlet and Gray), their relationship with the movie "The Big Chill" (I'm sorry, there's nothing worse than a group of Baby Boomers recognizing their mortality around a Michigan football game on TV, and this vast misunderstanding of their place in the college football lexicon (almost as bad as ND).
3. Miami: Today was wonderful. Seriously...they cannot lose enough for me.

Let's GO HAWKS!

Showing Replies:	1 - 8 of 8 Posts
Jump to Page:	1

View Other 'Ohio Football' Topics

There are 283 Active Visitors on BobcatAttack.com

283 Guests
0 Registered Users

There are no other users looking at this page.