OSU Spring Game in Cincy

[hipal88]

Dang this hisses me off. Why not play it in Detroit...same difference. I guess the city (and mostly Mike Brown) get some money, but I say stay the **** out of our neighborhood. I loathe that university up north more and more each day.

[RedRocker]

Soooooo...they can come down for a practice game, but not a real game vs. our Bearcats? What a bunch of chickensheets! Now if UB decides to schedule us home and home (at PBS) down the road then I'll gladly eat my words.

[Ran513]

Why is this happening, and does Florida hold spring games in Miami?

[Bearcat Otto]

The horseshoe is undergoing renovations and they need a place to have their spring game for a year.

No big deal.

[cpawstoney]

Yea, I didn't know what this was about until I found this article:

An Ohio State spokesman confirmed today that the Buckeyes are in primary discussions to play the 2013 spring football game in Paul Brown Stadium in Cincinnati while some renovation work to Ohio Stadium ensues.

http://www.buckeyextra.com/content/s...incinnati.html

It's not a done deal yet, but if they give the Bengals enough money, I wouldn't be surprised to see it happen.

[bcatsandbucks10]

It's so sad that people in Cincinnati are upset about this.

This will do wonders for the city. Why not let all the people from Columbus/Cleveland/rural Ohio come in to Cincinnati, book up surrounding hotels for a night, and pack the Banks and downtown's restaurants and bars for a weekend?

In reality, this does not affect UC at all. Period. If anything, this will hurt OSU's recruiting a bit because the Spring Game is a chance to bring dozens of recruits to campus.

Can someone please explain the beef with this idea to me?

[Bearcat1996]

Originally Posted by bcatsandbucks10

It's so sad that people in Cincinnati are upset about this.

This will do wonders for the city. Why not let all the people from Columbus/Cleveland/rural Ohio come in to Cincinnati, book up surrounding hotels for a night, and pack the Banks and downtown's restaurants and bars for a weekend?

In reality, this does not affect UC at all. Period. If anything, this will hurt OSU's recruiting a bit because the Spring Game is a chance to bring dozens of recruits to campus.

Can someone please explain the beef with this idea to me?

Explanation: most Cincinnati residents (taxpayers who funded the stadium) do not care for osu.

[Binturong05]

Originally Posted by bcatsandbucks10

It's so sad that people in Cincinnati are upset about this.

This will do wonders for the city. Why not let all the people from Columbus/Cleveland/rural Ohio come in to Cincinnati, book up surrounding hotels for a night, and pack the Banks and downtown's restaurants and bars for a weekend?

In reality, this does not affect UC at all. Period. If anything, this will hurt OSU's recruiting a bit because the Spring Game is a chance to bring dozens of recruits to campus.

Can someone please explain the beef with this idea to me?

Exactly. I detest the bourgeois attitude of Ohio State homers as much as anyone but I see very little wrong with these fanatics coming down to Cincinnati and spending their money in my hometown.

I had an experience similar to the sentiment being expressed in this thread while at the Tigers-Reds series a few weeks ago. I'm there courtesy of a business associate 'cause god knows I can't afford tickets 4 rows behind the Reds dugout but evidently a few true Detroit fans could and they came en masse to support their team. A group of four twenty or thirtysomething guys who were pounding 24 ouncers all game and were irreverent after about the fifth inning started yelling out insults to Tiger fans in the eighth inning after it became clear the Reds were going to lose the game. It got to the point where I, as a Reds fan, became embarassed and leaned forward to the family in front of me who had Detroit gear on and informed them those jackoffs didn't speak for all of us Cincinnati fans.

Here we had three days of sell outs at Great American Ballpark and according to Brenaman the highest attendance on any day other than an Opening Day courtesy of Detroit fans and a group of knuckleheads takes it upon themselves to surely drive away more than a few fans, leave a blackeye on the Reds fanbase, and see to it that the City of Cincinnati loses out on a few sales tax and hospitality tax dollars as well as parking fees etc. in the future as probably a dozen families think twice about visiting Cincinnati for anything in future. This is the kind of behavior we hear Bengals fans experience in Pittsburgh. Are we not better than this, Cincinnati fans?

[BearCatMarcher]

Originally Posted by Binturong05

takes it upon themselves to surely drive away more than a few fans,

So if I go down with a group of pals to the OSU spring thing and heckle them for 4 solid quarters, they won't come back?

That's what I got from that post, and it's a great idea

[bcbearcat12]

Originally Posted by BearCatMarcher

So if I go down with a group of pals to the OSU spring thing and heckle them for 4 solid quarters, they won't come back?

That's what I got from that post, and it's a great idea

Prob wouldn't be too hard to pull off something epic...I hope.the Greek houses are scheming as we speak

[bearcatd]

If their scheme involves going to the Bearcat Bowl, I'm all for it. If we, as UC Alums/fans make a big deal about OSU coming to Cincy, it becomes a big deal. If we ignore it, mind our own business, and show up in record numbers for UC events, UC looks a lot better. OSU has generations and generations of fans and tradition. We're not going to compete with their attendance numbers and, frankly, having an influx of 70,000 (maybe 45,000 traveling into town) for the spring game for a weekend is good for the region. I think welcome to Bearcat Territory billboards throughout the area would be appropriate (especially coming down 71 starting around Wilmington or so). Otherwise, going down in Bearcat gear and taunting seems desperate and is immature, especially if we don't show up for our spring game (not to mention regular season games). I'm hoping moving to semesters will at least get students to the early regular season games. Anything desperate just gives them ammo to treat us like the little brother. Instead of acting like the little brother, and saying "it's not fair, OSU got a bigger bowl of ice cream then I", we should just ignore them and accept that we've got something good here too.

[jplog]

It's so sad that it has to be explained to you.

[Bearcat Otto]

Originally Posted by jplog

It's so sad that it has to be explained to you.

I didn't know that UC bought the rights to everything in Cincinnati.

It's one year...it does no harm to UC...It doesn't give OSU a recruiting advantage in Cincinnati; In fact it may hurt as the Spring game is usually a great opportuniity for coaches to bring recruits onto campus...It brings dollars into the city coffers.

All good.

[OCASCM07]

Screw it. I'll be down there rocking my UC bUCkeye State shirt. If they wanted an NFL stadium they should've traveled north to Cleveland though.

[cincycpaw]

Originally Posted by OCASCM07

Screw it. I'll be down there rocking my UC bUCkeye State shirt. If they wanted an NFL stadium they should've traveled north to Cleveland though.

There are no nfl stadiums in Ohio. Need to go to Pittsburgh.

[longtimefan]

With all of the Columbus people down here, that may be a good time to take a visit up there. I know they used to have a Zoo, but I think it may have closed; I heard somewhere that the duck died.

[Bearcat Chris]

Hamilton County has another $25 million shortfall this year (300 people may lose their jobs), and Mike Brown won't suffer any from that, as his lease (written by his stooge Bob Bengalhaus) allows him to keep all the $$ from O$U's venture here.

So, in other words, me (and the rest of Hamilton County residents) are subsitizing O$U football. Not happy.

B.C.

[SaintMartin]

Now is the time for Hamilton, Clermont, Warren, Butler, Kenton, Boone, and Campbell Counties to secede from their states and form the State of Cincinnati.

I'm not joking.

How long are we going to continue to send our tax dollars out of our region to Columbus and Frankfort? Those cities have nothing to do with Cincinnati and take every opportunity they can to bring us down.

I once asked ten people at a bar whether Cincinnati should be in Ohio, without giving my personal opinion, and nine said no. Hardly a scientific poll by any means, but overwhelmingly no.

Now to bring the conversation back to football, Pennsylvania aside, there is no other state where the two largest schools (BCS conference or otherwise - Colorado, for example) do not play each other. It is as deliberate in Ohio as it is in Pennsylvania.

[BearCatMarcher]

Originally Posted by SaintMartin

Now is the time for Hamilton, Clermont, Warren, Butler, Kenton, Boone, and Campbell Counties to secede from their states and form the State of Cincinnati.

I'm not joking.

New Delaware?

[CaptainProbasco]

Originally Posted by SaintMartin

Now is the time for Hamilton, Clermont, Warren, Butler, Kenton, Boone, and Campbell Counties to secede from their states and form the State of Cincinnati.

I'm not joking.

How long are we going to continue to send our tax dollars out of our region to Columbus and Frankfort? Those cities have nothing to do with Cincinnati and take every opportunity they can to bring us down.

I've been saying this for years. I'd throw in Brown, Dearborn, Franklin, Ohio, and Ripley counties as well.