Drives me nuts, when will they learn? Does anyone call Indiana  Indiana U?  Of course not. Other pet peeves of mine

is why does Kansas go by KU? They're Univ. Of Kansas, or Univ. of Oklahoma stealing OU, I guess someone was asleep at the switch when they registered that as their mark.

Maybe when the boys beat UNC then they might get it right.


Go Bobcats

I guess I will go on record here and say that this really does not bug me at all.  This has been discussed on this board ad naseum (I think thats the right saying!!!) as if it is going to be the cause of some strange identity crisis that will cause a failure in getting the Ohio brand name across to the national media or as if it represents some kind of lack of respect to the university...and I dont think that's the case. 

Heck, if you ask 20 students on Court Street what university they go to, you will get every answer from Ohio, to Ohio U, to OU, to maybe even..I dunno (this one maybe more if you ask after 11pm)

And yes...for the record, I did about a month ago change my screen name from OUPTgrad, to just PTgrad because of a well written opinion article by Dr. Alden that was linked here....

So while I technically agree with the underlying argument here, I just think its great that we are still being talked about in Mid March, no matter what the initials are....as long as the end name is always the same.....GO BOBCATS!!!!!

Good points PT and Capital........better ways to think about it!

It bugs me more that Bilas and company broke down the Midwest bracket last night and mentioned only UNC and Kansas and what they had to do to make it to the FF.   I would have loved if they had called us the wrong name instead of not mentioning us at all.

The more time I spend living in a state far from Ohio the more I think this whole naming issue has less to do with OSU and more just on there being so many colleges these days (Especially in Ohio) and people from all over the country in the workplace that really have no idea about schools in other states.

  When people ask where I went to school I typically reply "Ohio" as most of us here would, but there is always a hitch in the conversation as it is clear they think I meant the state of Ohio, as in, "ok well which school" so I have to follow up with "Ohio University".

  So really I am getting pretty comfortable with saying Ohio University. That having been said OSU's effort to make all things "Ohio" refer to them is worth resisting in any way possible.  They need to embrace 'state' just the same way someone would say they went to "Ohio Northern" or "Michigan State" and honestly I have no clue why they don't.  To have a part of your name that makes you unique and to not use it is really confusing.  It's like a square calling itself a rectangle for the exclusive purpose of getting recognized more often.

Good points, OU didn't know.  Let me just add that a certain head coach at a certain state university in the Wolverine State knows who OHIO is now.  The a week before he was clueless.  I really liked seeing the video of our fans chanting "We are OHIO" right in his ear.  

The old timers like Vitale are cooked.  Its solely because of Ohio State.  They'll never change.

What gets me is the younger announcers with no apparent ties to the midwest at all who have been told to call us Ohio but still instinctively call us Ohio U.  That is just bizarre.

Anyway, I hope we beat U North Carolina Friday.  I think we can take U Kansas and/or North Carolina State U.

Actually, in a sense you just proved my point.  The academic brand and the athletic brand are a bit different.  Of all those schools listed above, the "U" is never added in a sports reference except for Ohio.  It's either UC, Cinci, or Cincinnati.  Miami is Miami.  Georgia is Georgia or UGA.  Houston is Houston or UH.  Purdue is always Purdue.  Syracuse is Syracuse or 'Cuse.  I have no idea about Case Western.

The U in an academic sense in most cases is needed to differentiate between colleges and universities that share the same name, such as Columbia College and Columbia University, two very different schools.  I guess if we want to base it off Georgia, maybe we should be OH U...lol

The whole thing to me is if we have the right to name OHIO and we were the first institution in the state, we should be fighting for that right to use it and do whatever we can to establish the brand when the opportunity is there.  That time should be when your university is put on display for a worldwide audience.  

The home page for OUr university isn't ohiou.edu, though it will get you directed to the right spot.  It's OHIO.edu  It doesn't say Ohio U on OUr homepage, it says Ohio or Ohio University.  You'll never see Ohio U on one of our uniforms, so why should we accept being called that?  

I don't care if we're being talked about nationally or not, we are Ohio and that's what we should be represented as.  Would you be satisfied if the team was just happy to be in the MAC tournament, or if they were just happy to have gotten into the NCAA tournament?  If they can claw and fight and proudly represent the green and white, isn't fighting for our right to be called Ohio the least we can do as fans and alumni?

I will only accept us being called Ohio U when the following universities all use the "U" suffix in the same manner

Maryland
West Virginia
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Florida
Alabama
Mississippi
Tennessee
Kentucky
Arkansas
Michigan
Indiana
Illinios
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Iowa
Missouri
Kansas
Nebraska
Oklahoma
Texas
Colorado
New Mexico
Arizona
Utah
Oregon
Washington

Does anyone happen to know how UConn and UMass feel about the U?

Aren't we playing one of the universities in the North Carolina system:  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, UNCCH???

Do any of these schools have other D1 colleges in their state?

Delaware, Delaware State, South Dakota, South Dakota State, North Dakota, North Dakota State, Montana, and Montana State all play in Division 1.

Peter King, one of our most illustrious grads, refers to us as Ohio U.  Frankly, that's how it was known when I went to Ohio, i can remember buying an "Ohio U" decal for my 1968 Dodge Dart.  If this is what we're worrying about, then we have nothing to worry about...