Last night on one of the ESPN shows, the host (maybe Reece Davis?) said that tomorrow night's game between Ohio and USF sounded more like a matchup for the Motor City Bowl.  It got a laugh from the two basketball analysts sitting next to him.  But even though he meant it as a joke, I think it's a real compliment to the way Ohio's football program has progressed.  Just three or four years ago, "bowl" and "Ohio" would not have been used in the same breath.  Now there's such an automatic connection that even basketball people recognize it.  These truly are great days to be a Bobcat.

i am thrilled - THRILLED - with the success of football, men's basketball and women's volleyball.  Don't wanna sound greedy, but it would really be sweet if baseball and women's basketball could follow suit.   

Its always a golden time to be a BOBCAT, but the last couple of years have been quite enjoyable athletically.

Agreed Optimist.  I've always been a huge Bobcat sports fan, and made many Bobcat sports fans out of friends though they were initially hesitant to go to games at first.  I remember the first football game I went to as an actual student.  It was move in weekend in '03,  and I got suffer through the 35-0 debacle that was Northeastern (I-AA school that no longer has a football program).  Basketball was pretty rough as well that year.  It was never going to shake my fandom, but certainly it wasn't going to create any new fans or turn casual ones into big time supporters.  

Think about it.  This years junior class at Ohio has watched the basketball team go to the NCAA tourney twice, knock off Georgetown and Michigan (with more to come), set a school record for wins, and returns its entire team next season.  They've seen the football team go to two MAC Championship games (should have been three), three consecutive bowl games, including the first ever bowl win in school history, and set a school record for wins.

I just hope the athletic department and the school in general truly recognizes what's going on.  Now is when Ohio needs to capitalize on building it's fan base, because the kind of success we're experiencing in football and basketball hasn't been seen in Athens for a long time.