Being a hilljack I can understand your wife's predicament exactly.  I can navigate well in hill country with winding roads and visual landmarks.  Usually the second time around in a particular area I'll have the landmarks and the lay of the land memorized well enough to know where I am and where I'm going, with only an occasional need to look at a map.  Put me down in a big flat city or countryside, and I'm lost without constantly looking at a map or using some kind of GPS.  Grid layouts are so damn boring and they all look alike.  How is one to know which is which?  Very confusing for us hill folk.  You flatlanders can have your geometrically symmetrical grids, I'll take an asymmetrical hillside anytime.  If you don't understand what I'm saying, just ask your wife, she'll be able to translate for you!   

P.S.  My wife's a flatlander from the wastlelands of central Ohio, so I have the opposite problem.  She gets lost on hillly country roads but can navigate a grid with ease.

I am proud of our fan base (and still very ashamed of our students). I'd venture a guess it was the best crowd of a last place team in late-February in MAC history. Perspective...

Without looking it up, I believe Miami started 6 for 7 from 3...that was insane. Then they ended up 13 for 37. Seemed to me that our defense did well and forced them to jack up ill-advised 3s. Miami seems about as talented as they've been in several years.

Did anyone catch that Kirk was trying to foul when Miami had the ball with 10ish seconds left and down 2? I am fairly certain he thought we were up 3. He was bailed out by a Miami TO just before he committed his foul. He had a simialr slip-up against Buffalo.

Loved the way Gavin Block played, that is the way he needs to be. Mixing it up and picking his carefully selected spots for shooting.

Mike Laster has had a rough senior MAC season, no way to sugarcoat it. His mid-range touch isn't there and he just isn't making as many plays. He could flip the switch at any second and make us a dangerous draw.

Dartis & Kirk were great again. This team is better than a last place team...I am hoping we can finish strong and get to about 7-11.

Got you fam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QULSYLHuPo8

I love it when someone actually remembers, and saw Don Hilt play for the Bobcats!
He was one bad dude!!

Ohio will not be a dangerous draw this season.

At least you didn't state that Ohio could be the team no one wants to play in the tourney. And for that, thank you.

That's why I said to the naked eye...The highlight was disappointing. I think the most impressive part was the angle and timing of it. When watching live, it looked like not only was he not going to be able to put it back, he wasn't going to be able to even get the rebound...then in the blink of an eye he is slamming it down.

Apathy is contagious, but so is engagement.

I was in town for a well-attended football game on a beautiful Saturday last year. Afterwards, I was walking uptown behind an undergrad couple. She was expressing amazement at the fact that a football game seemed to be kind of a big deal based on the crowd, traffic and tailgating. He agreed. She said, “We should really go to a game this year,” as if it was the first time she’d ever thought of it. He agreed. Baby steps, I suppose.

My point is that you can control a lot of factors that go into whether a student attends something or not. You can’t turn back the clock to before cellphones, cable and the internet, but you can make the experience fun. It took years, but football Saturdays in Athens feel like a true event now. Conversely, for years, students and others made the Convo a special atmosphere. Combine taking that support for granted with a bad team, stale atmosphere and onerous security and you have what you’re seeing this year.

The “good old days” may never return but some more wins and a commitment to improving the gameday experience could go a long way to restoring things.

My response would be I almost guarantee those 2 have not yet went and never will go to a football game. When push comes to shove, they won't go.

I place very little blame of the crappy student involvement on the athletic department. Not saying they should just stop trying, but right now it is hopeless. And honestly if we were 10-4 instead of 4-10, I don't think it would be really any different.

I saw him play and he was a keeper. He looked a lot like some of the boxers of that day more than a BB player.

I disagree too and can we PLEASE stop using "have went." It makes us seem to be the uneducated party school louts that some claim we are. Anyway, the game day experience is pathetic. We've listed the reasons many times. Heck, I posted today that I have a ticket for tonight's game because we're going to see the Birdland All Stars at Mem Aud and not one person wanted the ticket. Without much effort or money, going to the Convo could be an event again.