All you UC basketball fans

[Thegreatone]

Really need to hop on board with the football team too. I know many of you probably grew up ND, Florida or OSU fans but it is time to switch.

You can still root for those teams. But it is time that UC becomes united in their athletic fanhood.

LivingLegend this is your callout. Florida can still be your boys but they got to be behind UC. It is a hometown team and it is your favorite colleges football team. Time to man up and get behind them.

I know many like UC football but consider them the 2nd school on their list but it is time to make the switch.

 

[swg]

UC has made a move just at the right time. Amidst the talks of expansion, UC coming off 3 straight top 20 finishes certainly doesn't hurt. The program does need more fan support...more interest.

 

[Little Danny]

Having gone to UC and now living in Columbus, I feel qualified to say what I am about to say. If you are from the city of Cincinnati and/or a UC alumnus, student or you just went there for a few quarters take note: Rooting for OSU football as a Cincinnatian is plain stupid. OSU fans and alumni do not respect you at all.

If you are a UC alumnus and/or someone who did not go to college who is from Cincinnati, OSU and its fanbase do not like you. They mock UC and the Big East (Big Least as they say) every chance they get. They want UC to fail. They have more respect for the Ohio MAC schools than they do UC. In their perfect world, UC needs to go back to where they were pre-2000. As far as UC's basketball success, they perceive we benefitted from playing in a crappy league and having a "renegade program".

As far as the city, in their eyes, Ohio is Central Ohio and Northeast Ohio. Grerater Cincinnati, to them, is an extension of Kentucky. Sure some of them are Reds fans (most are Indians fans btw) and they don't mind coming down to Kings Island, but believe me when I tell you this, Central Ohio and Northeast Ohio have an affinity to each other that is not shared to SWO. They would much rather go to somewhere in Columbus, Cedar Point, Cleveland, etc. than support SWO.

 

[david aka the TYZ]

Even a lot of people in Dayton support Cleveland teams over Cincinnati teams. It is weird that Cincinnati is not considered part of Ohio to a lot of Ohio.

I agree whole heartedly greatone that we need to start calling people we know out. This city as a whole needs to embrace the Bearcats. Would be nice to get NKY as well, but they're too stuck on UK. It really burns me to see the amount of Ohio State gear around town. I realize there are a decent amount of OSU alumnus locally and those people should root for their alma mater. At least the last three years Bearcat gear has come out again. The early part of the decade you couldn't find anyone rocking UC gear around town.

 

[Little Danny]

Even a lot of people in Dayton support Cleveland teams over Cincinnati teams. It is weird that Cincinnati is not considered part of Ohio to a lot of Ohio.

I agree whole heartedly greatone that we need to start calling people we know out. This city as a whole needs to embrace the Bearcats. Would be nice to get NKY as well, but they're too stuck on UK. It really burns me to see the amount of Ohio State gear around town. I realize there are a decent amount of OSU alumnus locally and those people should root for their alma mater. At least the last three years Bearcat gear has come out again. The early part of the decade you couldn't find anyone rocking UC gear around town.

Dayton is so pro-OSU it is disgusting. UC really needs to make strides to getting into that area. There have been a lot of talented players who came out of the Dayton area who went on to star in CFB (usually in the B10) and in the NFL. They need to recognized they are SWO too. Cleveland is a world apart.

Maybe their needs to be another marketing blitz- "Represent SWO"

 

[david aka the TYZ]

Dayton is so pro-OSU it is disgusting. UC really needs to make strides to getting into that area. There have been a lot of talented players who came out of the Dayton area who went on to star in CFB (usually in the B10) and in the NFL. They need to recognized they are SWO too. Cleveland is a world apart.

Maybe their needs to be another marketing blitz- "Represent SWO"

Yeah it would be nice to convert some of Dayton to UC. The best way to do that might be to heavily recruit regular students from that area to come to UC as opposed to Miami or OSU. Your best fans and supporters tend to be alumni. I think UC is getting a lot of future supporters now with its current student base. Obviously it'd be nice to get some of their talent (FB and BB) to come our way as well.

 

[bearcat jeff]

I'm already on board.

 

[TheLivingLegend]

Playing LSU, Tenn, Georgia..... and playing Rutgers and Uconn are just not comparable.

 

[Thegreatone]

I get that. But you were all about UC basketball in C-USA even though the Big East and ACC were better. Nice teams though as all those teams sucked last year.

No it is time LL. You can like UF and you should, but as your number 1 team. UC finished number 8 in the country last year. Time to step your game up.

 

[Thegreatone]

And we may not play in the best conference but we still play WVU, Pitt, OU and if the trend keeps up a BCS team.

I understand why many didnt always follow UC football. They have finished 17,17 and 8 in the most recent polls.

I can not stand people who are huge UC basketball fans but bash the football program and root for OSU. That is the worse. At least with LL he will root for UC football and not bash them but it is time for UC to be THE team.

IF someone asks what is your favorite college and your first though is UC then you need to make UC football number 1 too.

 

[Thegreatone]

Also, I dont want this thread to sound like we are some small fanbase that is struggling. We are growing. We brought well over 20,000 people to the Sugar Bowl last year. We outnumbered UF.

LL go to the OU game down at PBS. It wont be the same as a game at Nippert but if you go to that and are not sold then I will digress.

 

[Little Danny]

I get that. But you were all about UC basketball in C-USA even though the Big East and ACC were better. Nice teams though as all those teams sucked last year.

No it is time LL. You can like UF and you should, but as your number 1 team. UC finished number 8 in the country last year. Time to step your game up.

Very true. I guess LL got all giddy when UC played St. Louis or UAB in basketball but a UC/WVU or Pitt footabll game is not watchable? That logic is so flawed.

 

[Thegreatone]

Yeah.

LL doesnt bother me too much because he is loyal to UC. He is a big UC hoops fan and is coming around to UC football.

I hate hate HATE when people claim to be UC bball fans and rip the football program and are huge OSU fans. I understand that it is in Ohio and I have no issue with people rooting for OSU years ago but times are changing. To me UC has always been my university. I was a ND football fan growing up as well as going to some UC games. When you are 12 it is not as easy to go to UC games when they lost a bunch and didnt know any players.

I dont expect everyone to flip a switch and drop alligence to OSU, UF, or ND but you should support and root for UC with that. At the VERY least they should be your second favorite team that you always root for unless they meet up with your #1.

 

[cincycpaw]

Agree.

Plenty of room to jump on board, and everyone is welcome. If you go to UC or graduated from UC...you really have no excuse.

 

[BearcatAlum1]

Having gone to UC and now living in Columbus, I feel qualified to say what I am about to say. If you are from the city of Cincinnati and/or a UC alumnus, student or you just went there for a few quarters take note: Rooting for OSU football as a Cincinnatian is plain stupid. OSU fans and alumni do not respect you at all.

If you are a UC alumnus and/or someone who did not go to college who is from Cincinnati, OSU and its fanbase do not like you. They mock UC and the Big East (Big Least as they say) every chance they get. They want UC to fail. They have more respect for the Ohio MAC schools than they do UC. In their perfect world, UC needs to go back to where they were pre-2000. As far as UC's basketball success, they perceive we benefitted from playing in a crappy league and having a "renegade program".

As far as the city, in their eyes, Ohio is Central Ohio and Northeast Ohio. Grerater Cincinnati, to them, is an extension of Kentucky. Sure some of them are Reds fans (most are Indians fans btw) and they don't mind coming down to Kings Island, but believe me when I tell you this, Central Ohio and Northeast Ohio have an affinity to each other that is not shared to SWO. They would much rather go to somewhere in Columbus, Cedar Point, Cleveland, etc. than support SWO.

Everything you said is accurate, IMO.

It amazes me how many tO$U fans wants UC to fail, and fail badly.

I was always told people that sense a threat try to dismiss it as irrelevant or name call. O$U fans take the cake on that one...

 

[Thegreatone]

I will say it can go both ways. Some OSU fans do want UC to fail but I think that can happen because they are tired of seeing the bUCkeye state shirts.

I have been told by OSU fans that they will never respect UC until they win a bcs game.

 

[Little Danny]

I would say for the most part OSU fans (the ones outside of Greater Cincinnati), UC was irrelevant prior to the past couple of seasons. I moved to Columbus in 2001. I remember wearing a polo shirt with a C-paw a few years ago and a co-worker asking me what that was. When I told her it was UC, she said she didn't even realize we had a football team (she was being serious--- and this is a woman who is a big football fan and whose husband played for OSU and in the NFL).

The folks up here had a lot of respect for the MAC schools though, particularly Miami, Ohio U. and Bowling Green. They did not command the same respect as a B10 school, but in their eye it was a good alternative if a kid was not good enough to play in the B10 and they saw the academics as top shelf. Even in 2003 when Miami had their nice season they did not get all upset about, it was another opportunity for them to gloat on a national audience the strength of Ohio football.

UC's run the last few years was different. I would say even before the t-shirts they were less comfortable at UC's success. I have always maintained OSU was happy for the MAC schools because they knew that deep down any success they had would be short term and at the end of the day, those people were OSU fans at heart too. I think when it comes to UC, they realize the loyalty to OSU is not the same. That bothers OSU fans. When you throw in the t-shirts, the WLW jingles and whatnot, it makes it intolerable for them. OSU fans don't like to be disrespected, particularly by people they believe are supposed to be fans of their school.

When I moved up here in 2001, my eyes were opened as to how people up here view the city of Cincinnati as a whole. I can tell you they don't like it. Not in the manner that they speak with pride about other parts of Ohio-- Columbus, Cleveland, Akron, Youngtown, Massilon, etc. They perceive Cincinnati as an extension of Kentucky, not one of their own. To be fair, the city of Cincinnati sees itself differently too, maybe that is what bothers them. Go to all of these other towns I mentioned and the highlight of their life is likely some momment they went somewhere in Columbus or Cleveland. In Cincinnati, we all know people who have never left their side of town, let alone venture up to Cleveland.

For this reason, UC will never get full support up here--- and as I indicated before and to use a crude analogy, if you are a Cincinnati native or UC student/alum, being an OSU fan is like being someone in Isreal who supports the terrorists.

 

[Thegreatone]

I would say for the most part OSU fans (the ones outside of Greater Cincinnati), UC was irrelevant prior to the past couple of seasons. I moved to Columbus in 2001. I remember wearing a polo shirt with a C-paw a few years ago and a co-worker asking me what that was. When I told her it was UC, she said she didn't even realize we had a football team (she was being serious--- and this is a woman who is a big football fan and whose husband played for OSU and in the NFL).

The folks up here had a lot of respect for the MAC schools though, particularly Miami, Ohio U. and Bowling Green. They did not command the same respect as a B10 school, but in their eye it was a good alternative if a kid was not good enough to play in the B10 and they saw the academics as top shelf. Even in 2003 when Miami had their nice season they did not get all upset about, it was another opportunity for them to gloat on a national audience the strength of Ohio football.

UC's run the last few years was different. I would say even before the t-shirts they were less comfortable at UC's success. I have always maintained OSU was happy for the MAC schools because they knew that deep down any success they had would be short term and at the end of the day, those people were OSU fans at heart too. I think when it comes to UC, they realize the loyalty to OSU is not the same. That bothers OSU fans. When you throw in the t-shirts, the WLW jingles and whatnot, it makes it intolerable for them. OSU fans don't like to be disrespected, particularly by people they believe are supposed to be fans of their school.

When I moved up here in 2001, my eyes were opened as to how people up here view the city of Cincinnati as a whole. I can tell you they don't like it. Not in the manner that they speak with pride about other parts of Ohio-- Columbus, Cleveland, Akron, Youngtown, Massilon, etc. They perceive Cincinnati as an extension of Kentucky, not one of their own. To be fair, the city of Cincinnati sees itself differently too, maybe that is what bothers them. Go to all of these other towns I mentioned and the highlight of their life is likely some momment they went somewhere in Columbus or Cleveland. In Cincinnati, we all know people who have never left their side of town, let alone venture up to Cleveland.

I think this is a great write up on how OSU feels about UC. Very good perspective.

I know it does bother OSU fans that the Enquirer barely covers them. I know they feel like Cincinnati news papers should have a OSU beat writer and they don't.

 

[adrock]

My opinion in general of tO$U fans' attitude toward UC is summed up well by this Gandhi quote:

First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win.

They are currently moving from ridiculing us to fighting us...and in a couple years, we will have won...both on the field of play against their team, and in the hearts of lifelong Cincinnatians that used to be their fans.

 

[david aka the TYZ]

I was in Hawaii a couple of years ago when we played there and met a couple from Columbus that were OSU fans. We were standing at the base of a waterfall in Maui. That part doesn't matter, but I just wanted to rub it in. He saw me in my Bearcat gear and said how great it was for two teams in Ohio to be making a BCS bowl. I thought that was an interesting take coming from an OSU fan. I wonder how many fans really hate UC. I doubt they feel threatened by us. I realize the Buckeye State shirts might have rubbed people the wrong way. I'm know local OSU fans get real defensive about UC, but I'm guessing across the state they still don't pay much attention to us.