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  • I root for The Ohio State Ball teams . I took classes there .

  • @blowe said:

    Just like people from Florida cheer for the gators, Texans cheer for UT, Alabama cheers for the Tide, and people who were born and raised in ohio cheer for the Buckeyes. They are the face of their state and they represent their home. You are just a hater. My dad cheered for the Buckeyes and raised me to do the same. There are people from outside of Cleveland that cheer for the Browns because back when the Browns were the greatest team on Earth their fathers cheered for them. When you are raised with something you become attached to it.

    And as for the OSUcks comment...

    since Jim Tressel became coach

    2002 national champs with the first 14-0 season since 1897. No, not 1987...1897.

    3 National Championship appearances

    9 Bowl games

    4 BCS bowl wins

    So what if they lost 3 bowl games in a row? Not the end of the world. It is a winning program, period. HATE on HATER...(I would hate too if I went to Akron. I went to a few parties there and aside from them being total sausage fests 90% of the girls there I wouldn't have touched with a steel pole let alone my own pole.)

    Unless you graduated from the school, I don't care. You have no room to talk any trash. You're just one of the thousands of people who go to their nearest walmart and buy a cheap knockoff red jersey and call themselves a diehard. I don't care if my school loses every game at least I am a part of it.

    @feartheroo said:

    Unless you graduated from the school, I don't care. You have no room to talk any trash. You're just one of the thousands of people who go to their nearest walmart and buy a cheap knockoff red jersey and call themselves a diehard. I don't care if my school loses every game at least I am a part of it.

    hate hate hate on hater. you are just being ridiculous now

    you don't know me...so your presumptions over the internet don't mean shit to me. crackron can kiss my ass for all I care...shithole city, shithole school. embrace the failure (and this is me stating observations from my encounters with the city and the school, not some presumption about someone posting on an internet forum)

  • there's nothing wrong with cheering for the buckeyes if you didn't go to school there. however, i do take issue with the people who are overly zealous buckeye fans that have never enrolled there. it is both redneck and Retarded.

  • I also don't understand why people root for college teams when they have no real connection to the school. It doesn't make a lot of sense especially in Ohio since there are two pro teams to choose from.

  • I also don't understand why people root for college teams when they have no real connection to the school. It doesn't make a lot of sense especially in Ohio since there are two pro teams to choose from.

    @samoth said:

    I also don't understand why people root for college teams when they have no real connection to the school. It doesn't make a lot of sense especially in Ohio since there are two pro teams to choose from.

    my buddy says it's because he doesn't like the nfl. i think that it has more to do with being able to cheer for a winning team.

  • I also don't understand why people root for college teams when they have no real connection to the school. It doesn't make a lot of sense especially in Ohio since there are two pro teams to choose from.

    @samoth said:

    I also don't understand why people root for college teams when they have no real connection to the school. It doesn't make a lot of sense especially in Ohio since there are two pro teams to choose from.

    Its pride, is not living in Ohio a connection? Ohio State, see the connection? They represent Ohio, I root for them to represent me well....whats wrong with that.

  • @samoth said:

    I also don't understand why people root for college teams when they have no real connection to the school. It doesn't make a lot of sense especially in Ohio since there are two pro teams to choose from.

    Its pride, is not living in Ohio a connection? Ohio State, see the connection? They represent Ohio, I root for them to represent me well....whats wrong with that.

    nmills said:

    Its pride, is not living in Ohio a connection? Ohio State, see the connection? They represent Ohio, I root for them to represent me well....whats wrong with that.

    I am from Ohio and went to Ohio U and you dont see me wearing white and green every day of my life. Columbus is like a different world with the Buckeye fanatics, 75% of which never took one class at OSU.

  • nmills said:

    Its pride, is not living in Ohio a connection? Ohio State, see the connection? They represent Ohio, I root for them to represent me well....whats wrong with that.

    I am from Ohio and went to Ohio U and you dont see me wearing white and green every day of my life. Columbus is like a different world with the Buckeye fanatics, 75% of which never took one class at OSU.

    @samoth said:

    I am from Ohio and went to Ohio U and you dont see me wearing white and green every day of my life. Columbus is like a different world with the Buckeye fanatics, 75% of which never took one class at OSU.

    You dont think its like that at any other major campus around the country? Who would of thought Buckeye fanatics in Columbus...wow surprise there. Who cares if you take a class, its football. Its were our top Ohio Highschool athletes go to play ball, they represent Ohio football....your argument makes no sense

  • I guess I see your point. I will never understand why college sports are popular, but to each their own.

  • I guess I see your point. I will never understand why college sports are popular, but to each their own.

    @samoth said:

    I guess I see your point. I will never understand why college sports are popular, but to each their own.

    College sports were popular before there were pro sports.

  • @samoth said:

    I guess I see your point. I will never understand why college sports are popular, but to each their own.

    College sports were popular before there were pro sports.

    @thaak said:

    College sports were popular before there were pro sports.

    yes but that doesn't answer the question of why people who didn't attend the college are fans of the team. whatever.

  • @thaak said:

    College sports were popular before there were pro sports.

    yes but that doesn't answer the question of why people who didn't attend the college are fans of the team. whatever.

    @samoth said:

    yes but that doesn't answer the question of why people who didn't attend the college are fans of the team. whatever.

    Many universities are funded by the states.. hence tax dollars.

    Tuscaloosa, Alabama doesn't have a football team. Many people there are Saints fans, but the fact is that they regionally identify with the Crimson Tide.

    Austin, Texas has over a million people in its metropolitan area and no professional football team. UT's football stadium can pack over a hundred thousand attendants.

  • I root for The Ohio State Ball teams . I took classes there .

    @neweradawg said:

    I root for The Ohio State Ball teams . I took classes there .

    i grew up in cbus.

    clark kellogg was in my calculus class at OSU.

    i root for The OSU

  • I guess if anyone can root for OSU then why not OU? They have Ohio in the name? People from Ohio play for them? They are named after your state? why not trade in red jerseys for green?

  • I guess if anyone can root for OSU then why not OU? They have Ohio in the name? People from Ohio play for them? They are named after your state? why not trade in red jerseys for green?

    @feartheroo said:

    I guess if anyone can root for OSU then why not OU? They have Ohio in the name? People from Ohio play for them? They are named after your state? why not trade in red jerseys for green?

    OSU is the face of this state's college football programs, OU is not. If anything I don't like OU because I went to school at your rival MAC school, Kent State.

  • I also don't understand why people root for college teams when they have no real connection to the school. It doesn't make a lot of sense especially in Ohio since there are two pro teams to choose from.

    @samoth said:

    I also don't understand why people root for college teams when they have no real connection to the school. It doesn't make a lot of sense especially in Ohio since there are two pro teams to choose from.

    😆 People root for Ohio State because they're the regional PRO college football team. Compared to the other Ohio colleges, they're the 600 pound gorilla of football competing on the highest level, you're never going to see a MAC school competing for the national championship. Ohio State on the college level (especially since Tressel took over) is what the Browns used to be on the pro level back in the 50s and 60s. Now you could consider people that live outside of Columbus and never went to the school frontrunners, and that's OK to each their own.

    BTW, I don't root for OSU's Basketball with anywhere near the same intensity.

  • i really hope that Ohio U. pulls the upset of the century over the buckeyes this fall. that would make my year. it would be like watching the browns beat the steelers last season.

  • I guess if anyone can root for OSU then why not OU? They have Ohio in the name? People from Ohio play for them? They are named after your state? why not trade in red jerseys for green?

    @feartheroo said:

    I guess if anyone can root for OSU then why not OU? They have Ohio in the name? People from Ohio play for them? They are named after your state? why not trade in red jerseys for green?

    "Your state?" If you go to Akron, Ohio is your state too.

    And, FYI, if and when Ohio U. is in some kind of a big game, I do root for them. I believe just earlier this year they made some noise in the NCAA tournament, didn't they. Beat Georgetown if I recall.

    I may not "root" for them if they are playing a MAC game against Akron or KSU, but vs. an outside team, absolutely I am in their corner. And sure, it would be fine if Ohio U. got a little more run, but OSU just has a much higher profile.

  • Let's face it also. The Big Ten is a much higher profile conference than the MAC. The MAC does not get an automatic BCS berth, the Big Ten does. Plus, overall, the size of the schools in the Big Ten are generally bigger than the MAC (but not as much larger as I originally believed before I did the following research:

    Big Ten Student populations:

    Illinois: 31,000

    Indiana: 31,000

    Iowa: 21,000

    Michigan: 26,000

    Mich. St.: 36,000

    Minnesota: 38,000

    Northwestern: 8200

    Ohio St.: 40,000

    Penn St.: 38,000

    Purdue: 31,000

    Wisconsin: 29,000

    Nebraska: 18,000

    MAC Student populations:

    Akron: 28,000

    Bowling Green: 19,000

    Buffalo: 28,000

    Kent State: 25,500

    Miami: 20,000 (though when my son applied there they said there were only 14K...so who knows about these numbers)

    Ohio U: 20,500

    Ball St: 20,000

    Cent. Mich: 27,000

    East. Mich: 23,000

    West. Mich: 25,000

    No. Ill. : 25,000

    Toledo: 21,500

    The oddity here is Northwestern. A smaller private school with a much higher academic profile in amongst the larger state schools. It seems to me that NW would be better off in a conference that would be made up of similar schools. Private with high academic profiles including the likes of Notre Dame, Duke, Vanderbilt, Boston College, Rice, Wake Forest, and maybe Georgetown and Stanford. Call it the "Big Brain" Conference.

  • @samoth said:

    I also don't understand why people root for college teams when they have no real connection to the school. It doesn't make a lot of sense especially in Ohio since there are two pro teams to choose from.

    😆 People root for Ohio State because they're the regional PRO college football team. Compared to the other Ohio colleges, they're the 600 pound gorilla of football competing on the highest level, you're never going to see a MAC school competing for the national championship. Ohio State on the college level (especially since Tressel took over) is what the Browns used to be on the pro level back in the 50s and 60s. Now you could consider people that live outside of Columbus and never went to the school frontrunners, and that's OK to each their own.

    BTW, I don't root for OSU's Basketball with anywhere near the same intensity.

    @hoorta said:

    😆 People root for Ohio State because they're the regional PRO college football team. Compared to the other Ohio colleges, they're the 600 pound gorilla of football competing on the highest level, you're never going to see a MAC school competing for the national championship. Ohio State on the college level (especially since Tressel took over) is what the Browns used to be on the pro level back in the 50s and 60s. Now you could consider people that live outside of Columbus and never went to the school frontrunners, and that's OK to each their own.

    BTW, I don't root for OSU's Basketball with anywhere near the same intensity.

    Then why do people in Florida not all root for Florida? There are a lot of Flordia State and Miami fans out there.