Shouldn't that be "Urban Meyer®"?

I applaud PK for the shout but the truth is I wouldn't want their fans infesting OUr town.

I'm more interested in getting middle-tier Big Ten schools to come to Athens. I'll take home games against Indiana, Illinois, Purdue, Northwestern. Those games interest me. They would be good games.

Essentially, I want Toledo's schedule.

That would be nice. Officially, Glass Bowl's capacity - 26,248 - isn't much larger than Peden's. But it has hosted 10 crowds of 31,000+, although none since 2004. Its largest-ever crowed was in 2001 when 36,852 watched the Rockets host Navy.

I think it likely that Toledo enjoys another advantage - an airport close by.

It's why I wish Columbus Crew Stadium were a tad bigger. I'd love to play a game against a Power Five school in Columbus every year. I just don't want to play it in Ohio Stadium or in a three-quarters empty First Energy Stadium. A 40,000-seat stadium unaffiliated with another program in the state that would give access to an airport.

I'd say Infocision would be perfect...if it weren't Akron's stadium.

I think we'd have more than that if we were playing the type of team he suggested: a middle-tier Big Ten school. But it would be more like a road game.

Because we were discussing teams not willing to come to Athens because it lacks an airport. That was the whole point of putting the game in Columbus. Of course we'd rather play it in Athens in a vaccum. The reality is, Virginia Tech would rather buy its way out of a game in Athens than play one here.

Oh, no doubt my idea is terrible. I'm just brainstorming.

If I were AD, I'd go full-on Bill Veeck and turn gameday into a circus. It would be a DISASTER when I booked a Gary Richrath-less REO Speedwagon for a post-game concert right after we played in shiny silver uniforms that blinded everyone in the sunlight and handed out real-life bobkittens for the "Take Home A Bobcat" giveaway for the first 500 fans.

And just think of how cranky those bobcats would get when people rode the cramped, crowded gondola up to the new Ridges parking lot, which — coincidentally — bankrupted the university to build.

Also, everyone entering the stadium wearing Ohio State gear would have to take it off and be given an old, stinky, guano-encrusted 1990s sweatshirt from a theoretical lost and found box taken from the attic of the president's infested house.

I'd be a terrible AD.

The reality is that OHIO asked VT to redo the 2-1 deal into a 2-0 deal for our own financial reasons. If we hadn't taken the initiative VT would have come to Athens as per the original contract. VT runs as a fairly honorable operation, and doesn't usually welch on its agreements. Also, another reality is that when UConn came to Athens they flew in and out of Parkersburg, which is about a 45 minute drive to campus. Most schools flying into big cities take at least that long to get to the campus area of the school they will be playing the next day.

How many times do MAC schools schedule Youngstown State to be their opponent? Shouldn't Akron, Kent and OHIO be giving a regional team a financial lift vs Texarkansas Amalgamated?

Seems a bit hypocritical to call out Columbus; at least nowadays they schedule MAC teams for paydays.

I get laughed at for this, but I will repeat. There is a simple clause that should be included in EVERY Ohio University coaching contract, as part of the buy-out that allows the coach to leave for another job: Should the coach leave for a head coaching position at a "Power 5" conference school, he is obligated to schedule a game against Ohio University IN ATHENS to take place within 4 years of his leaving. Failure of the contest to be scheduled within two years and take place within four will result in a payment to Ohio University of $XXX (depending on sport). This should be standard for the men's basketball coach, women's basketball coach, football coach (yes, I know Frank isn't taking another job!) and the volleyball coach.

Had this been in place the last 10 years, we'd have seen Illinois men's hoops, OSU women's volleyball, and Boston College would be on the schedule for basketball within the next two years.

Other schools do this, I wish I could recall the school, but some big school in the South had to visit their coach's smaller former school for a basketball game a couple of years ago.

The payments in lieu of the game taking place should be realistic, but punitive to the point that it makes a LOT more sense just to come to Athens. Maybe $150k to $250 K for football, $75 to $100k for basketball.

Frankly, I am disappointed that the athletic department never was able to get Groce to come back here for a game. I'm not certain that they tried very hard. And I damnwell would have prevented Christian from leaving the convo without a signed contract for a BC visit (yes, I know that's impossible, but you get the point).

Peden would not be a home game against OSU. Think of how many students who are OSU fans would show up to cheer for the Buckeyes (seriously, they would line up hours before the game to get in to make it a "homefield advantage"). I welcome any other D1 top tier team, but not the Buckeyes. It would do us no good, advantage-wise.