"It's annoying as hell. Half (probably more) of Ohio students are OSU fans, and if they'd take the kid blinders off and pay attention they'd realize OU has some killer ass history. Ohio had one of the first 10 players EVER taken in the NFL Draft, not OSU. Ohio had Mike Schmidt, not OSU. Ohio had Walter Locket, the top basketball recruit in the nation when he signed with Ohio.
The Cats have been great, and could be again, but in the age of the Internet and widespread broadcast deals, the Bobcats can't do it if half the student body would rather sit in their dorm and cheer on a school they didn't even want to go to. It's a frustrating life as an Ohio fan who grew up in the Buckeyes' city. But it makes my experience richer when we do what we did two years ago and go into The Schot with an almost entirely new basketball roster and take their ranked squad to the wire.
The scare is so bad they won't schedule us for another 20 years ,and they'll convince themselves it's because we're not good enough, but the facts are it's because with 1/5 the resources we can be just as good on any given day. They pretend there's this huge gap, but with a little bit more support Ohio could close that gap and give them a run for their money every year, if only OSU weren't too scared to play." - Bryan Vance
(click web address below for full article)
http://www.underdogdynasty.com/2015/10/17/9483059/confesssion-of-g5-groupies-in-a-power-five-world
The Cats have been great, and could be again, but in the age of the Internet and widespread broadcast deals, the Bobcats can't do it if half the student body would rather sit in their dorm and cheer on a school they didn't even want to go to. It's a frustrating life as an Ohio fan who grew up in the Buckeyes' city. But it makes my experience richer when we do what we did two years ago and go into The Schot with an almost entirely new basketball roster and take their ranked squad to the wire.
The scare is so bad they won't schedule us for another 20 years ,and they'll convince themselves it's because we're not good enough, but the facts are it's because with 1/5 the resources we can be just as good on any given day. They pretend there's this huge gap, but with a little bit more support Ohio could close that gap and give them a run for their money every year, if only OSU weren't too scared to play." - Bryan Vance
(click web address below for full article)
http://www.underdogdynasty.com/2015/10/17/9483059/confesssion-of-g5-groupies-in-a-power-five-world
