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Posted: 3/6/2012 10:21 PM

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I really wish the Ohio University Alumni Association Facebook Page folks would get this right. At least they don't seem to use "OU" as much as they used to, but it still slips into their posts sometimes.

I just recently got my first smart phone and downloaded the Ohio Sports app (I think it's from CBS Sports). When I fire it up it displays the Attack Cat logo nicely but then asks me to "Select your University of Ohio sport." When I select a sport I'm greeted by a headline, above which is the phrase, "University of Ohio News." Sigh.

I also downloaded the university's official app. The icon looks pitiful - a green square with a very generic, round, GOLD-colored "O". It kind of looks like the "O" used by Oregon. Underneath the icon it says, "OhioU." Ugh!

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Posted: 3/6/2012 10:39 PM

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Most of my Ohio stuff says simply Ohio, in green and white or gray. I've never had anyone look at it and say buckeye this or that. Maybe those that do are just too stupid to be acknowledged?

or live outside the state

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Posted: 3/6/2012 10:56 PM

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I don't have a problem with the inadvertent use of OU to purely alumni audiences, mainly because I find myself doing it so often (a habit left over from my undergrad days, '01-'05). Alumni know who i'm talking about, and most of the ones I talk to, like me, and always careful to use OHIO when in mixed audiences or on facebook, etc.

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Posted: 3/8/2012 9:56 PM

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Does Mix read this board? It's only the pregame, but already Mix has called us "OHIO" twice. Let's see if he can keep it up when under game pressure.

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Posted: 3/8/2012 10:33 PM

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Yeah, but Stevie "Thomas" is a typical Mixism.

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Posted: 3/8/2012 10:53 PM

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That was Reghi. What a clown.

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Posted: 3/8/2012 10:56 PM

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Again, Mix is spot on when critiquing our post players' offensive weaknesses. Baltic is being guarded by a 6-4 player and he's fading away?

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Posted: 3/8/2012 11:38 PM

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I grew up in NW Ohio and used to love Rockets. I wish Steve Mix had just stayed with the Rockets as a broadcaster so I would not have to listen to him. He is just hard to listen to, IMHO.

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Posted: 3/8/2012 11:40 PM

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Again, Mix is spot on when critiquing our post players' offensive weaknesses. Baltic is being guarded by a 6-4 player and he's fading away?

Arkley's been harping on that all night.

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Posted: 3/9/2012 12:00 AM

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"Ohio's Bobcats and Toledo's Rockets." Man that got annoying.

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Posted: 3/9/2012 12:06 AM

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"Ohio's Bobcats and Toledo's Rockets." Man that got annoying.

I like the big oaf back in the STO studios who says, "OU" and then hems and haws and corrects himself and says "Ohio U." His partner said "Ohio" each and every time without the need for any modifier. Just thought it was strange that the Big Oaf couldn't get our name straight to save himself and his partner had no trouble with it. On this subject he seemed to be a understudy of Mix.

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Posted: 3/9/2012 3:33 AM

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Watched the Clippers vs. New Jersey last night. Must have been a retro uni thing for the Nets; it was very disconcerting to see them wearing "New York" jerseys while they were playing as, and being called, 'New Jersey.'

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Posted: 3/9/2012 6:26 AM

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It probably has more to do with playing at Toledo back in the days when we were Ohio U.

Our jersey's even back then said simply "Ohio." We did various "OHIO" cheers when he played. Our announcers referred to us as Ohio, though others did not. He knows quite well that we are Ohio, but he just can't bring himself to say it hardly ever. He's got an attitude, and it gives me an attitude just to listen to him.

A lot of you guys make way too big a deal out of this "Ohio" thing. I went to "OU" from 1966-1970 and I never once heard us referred to as "Ohio." It was either Ohio U, Ohio University, or OU, mostly OU. To this day I have a hard time saying Ohio. It just sounds funny. When you've been saying something one way for almost 50 years, it's kind of hard to change. If I'm asked where I went to school I normally say OU, or I might say "Harvard on the Hocking." To me we will always be "OU".

But your'e not a professional announcer. Mix is paid to do it right, and he doesn't. In the 1966-70 era we had several OHIO cheers. Did you never join in the fun? Did you not listen to our sports broadcast back then on WOUB? The announcers -- including George Tyll and Joe Tate -- always said OHIO. How do you refer to Indiana University in a sports context. Do you usually say "Indiana U.," or "IU," or simply "Indiana"? Come on, say "OHIO," it's really not that hard.

Edit: I was George Tyll's color man once for baseball broadcast. I'm really glad they don't still have a tape of that one.

Big Willy, when I was in school during the 60s, I recall using and hearing similar lingo -- provoked mainly to make it clear we weren't and aren't TMAPOE (The Most Arrogant Place on Earth), TOSU aka TEE (The Evil Empire).

The full-court press, so to speak, to use just Ohio is the result of the arrogance of TEE, which got into the habit of depicting itself simply as Ohio.

OCF, the only part I can remember was the line, "Give 'em hell, Ohio!" (and, of course, the line in "Stand up and Cheer"). Were there others? But to your point, we had no cheers that included "Ohio University." Being from Pittsburgh, I always preferred "OU" to "Ohio" because our speech (as opposed to OUr speech) tended toward lazy idioms. "OU" is two syllables while "Ohio" is three. (That's yinzes' Pittsburghese lesson for today.)

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Posted: 3/9/2012 7:48 AM

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Anyone else catch when we tried the alley oop for Ivo off the opening tip and Mix said something like "Groce likes to run that play on the first offensive possession, and I've never seen it work..."? Did we not draw up the same play at Kent State for Jon Smith and score on the first possession?? That game was on STO, and it was only a week ago. That really bothered me that he couldn't remember back that far.

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Posted: 3/9/2012 7:59 AM

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Yes, and I'm not sure we have led the game off with that play any other time....So actually Mix, you've seen us go 1 for 2 in attempting that play.

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Posted: 3/9/2012 9:19 AM

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Whoever was responsible for making Reghi's twitter account blow up for getting Stevie's name wrong, THANK YOU.

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Posted: 3/9/2012 9:22 AM

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Whoever was responsible for making Reghi's twitter account blow up for getting Stevie's name wrong, THANK YOU.

Sounds more like JSF was told about it via Twitter while he was tweeting for MacReportOnline.com and he walked over to them and told them about it.

I was hoping we could blow up twitter to get Mix to stop talking all together.

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Posted: 3/9/2012 10:13 AM

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I wonder why Indiana or IU, who, one could argue, is a more prestigious university in many ways, doesn't feel slighted by saying "IU" when referring to itself. Could it be that we have an inferiority complex?

Because the University of Iowa calls themselves UI and the University of Idaho calls themselves U of I, not IU.

You are missing the point.

No, actually, I think you missed HIS point. Indiana doesn't have a problem with IU, so why do we waste so much energy on this meaningless issue?

Maybe it's because Indiana's fight song says "We will fight for the cream and crimson and the honor of old IU." Our fight song uses "Ohio", not "OU." Plus, they're one of the three the 800-pound gorillas in the state; Indiana State is their "little brother down the road."

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Posted: 3/9/2012 10:23 AM

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It would be a long time coming (if ever), but I'd love to see the day when OUr situation is similar to that in North Carolina. If you are a Tarheel you say you went or go to "Carolina" If you are a member of the Wolfpack, you went or go to "State".

I will try to work that when I see someone wearing O$U gear here in KC. I'll say "Oh, did you go to State?" (more often than not, they didn't, but are just on the football bandwagon). But if they respond yes, I'll say, "I went to Ohio".

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Posted: 3/9/2012 11:55 AM

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I will try to work that when I see someone wearing O$U gear here in KC. I'll say "Oh, did you go to State?" (more often than not, they didn't, but are just on the football bandwagon). But if they respond yes, I'll say, "I went to Ohio".

Nice. I'll use that too. A few years ago when OHIO blanked State in volleyball at St John's Arena in the NCAA tourney, there was such a sign displayed that read: "We're OHIO You're State"

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Posted: 3/9/2012 11:57 AM

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Pataskala wrote:expand_more

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Because the University of Iowa calls themselves UI and the University of Idaho calls themselves U of I, not IU.

You are missing the point.

No, actually, I think you missed HIS point. Indiana doesn't have a problem with IU, so why do we waste so much energy on this meaningless issue?

The preamble to the alma mater - sung by the Singing Men of Ohio - includes "old OU."

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Posted: 3/9/2012 12:08 PM

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INice. I'll use that too. A few years when OHIO blanked State in volleyball at St John's in the NCAA tourney, there was such a sign: "We're OHIO You're State"

I've seen t-shirts that complete the sentiment with "We're Cats, you're nuts"

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Posted: 3/9/2012 12:24 PM

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Again, Mix is spot on when critiquing our post players' offensive weaknesses. Baltic is being guarded by a 6-4 player and he's fading away?

Arkley's been harping on that all night.

Coach Groce made this point against Ivo the first time against Toledo and it didn't seem to change his shot selection this time around.

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Posted: 3/9/2012 1:19 PM

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INice. I'll use that too. A few years when OHIO blanked State in volleyball at St John's in the NCAA tourney, there was such a sign: "We're OHIO You're State"

I've seen t-shirts that complete the sentiment with "We're Cats, you're nuts"

Would love to wear this shirt in Central Ohio, especially at my school where 97% of the teachers are sheep who wear osu inc. clothes every Friday in the fall.

Additionally, the staff will have a meeting every August, or I'll be at a district-wide teachers' meeting, where each teacher has to share their professional experience and education (with a majority of the teachers having gone to osu inc.). When my turn comes up I always tell the group that I have a degree from "OSU and The Ohio University."

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Posted: 3/9/2012 9:57 PM

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But, if you're from the Mother of Secession (aka SOUTH Carolina), you say, "Carolina What?" In fact, the war over the use of "Carolina" between USC and UNC-Chapel Hill is the closest thing I know of to the war between A&M and Ohio on the use of the word "Ohio." The University of South Carolina a few years ago put "Carolina" on the front of their football jerseys.