Lol.

I've seen my argument treated as if, somehow, I have nothing to gain by OU becoming the next TCU tomorrow.

It's as if I don't have the emotional investment in OU that others somehow have?

It's as if I didn't sit through that NIU game in person two weeks ago. It's as if I didn't drive down to Kentucky and Marshall this year only to come home empty handed.

I literally failed a structural theory midterm my Junior year because I drove to Philly with good friends to see Tuesday night MACtion against Temple.

I've got a big 1804 tattooed on my bicep.

I'm emotionally invested folks.

I don't want a MAC Championship next week. I wanted a MAC Championship five (5) years ago.

Have I not demonstrated a willingness to confront a person I believe to be a problem?

Would it really be more difficult to indirectly berate Frank Solich rather than directly berate Monroe Slavin?

What I want from this program cannot happen overnight, or really within a decade considering the initial state of the program. What I want can only be found at the end of a long hard road. My mind says Frank Solich puts OHIO in the best position to weather that long hard road. My heart gets no say in business decisions. I can be ruthless when it comes to evaluating matters of fact. Have I not made that clear???

Who can we hope to be like?

Boise State: They're not Cinderella. According to a stat L.C. posted recently, Boise had nearly a dozen consecutive seasons at or above 0.500 before making their claim to fame against Oklahoma in that now famous bowl game.

And TCU: Before TCU was in the Fiesta bowl in 2010 and the Rose Bowl in 2011, TCU played in ten (10) bowl games between 1998 and 2009. TCU won seven of those ten bowl games over that period. They beat USC. They beat Iowa State. They beat NIU and Boise in those bowl games. And after a decade of winning more bowl games than they lost, TCU finally broke through and won that Rose Bowl.

I grow weary of the justification of financial mediocrity. As I've stated earlier, I don't recall seeing plans for the to-be-constructed Monroe Slavin Running Backs Facility.

If Frank Solich is mediocrity, then Monroe Slavin's financial contributions to OHIO University don't even register on the graph.

The only tangible effect an alumni can have on this program is money $$$, more money than the long distance cost of ownership of a Bobcat Black seat.

For a number of reasons alumni cannot or choose not to make and/or invest the type of money required to make a tangible impact on the football program. That's fine by me. But that doesn't change what's required to succeed.

And why should anything but money separate football programs?

If I have a dream for OHIO football at age 24, and some other 24 year old has a dream for their university at age 24, why shouldn't the tie breaker come down to the guy with the money to get shit done? Should it really be some other way?

Like I said in another thread, reading complaints on a regular basis about the state of the program from 50+ year old alumni is like listening to a father complain to his kids about the size of their house. It's like dad, you had your chance to make hay while the sun shined. The small house is on you.

What is a university but the people?

Let me put it bluntly, you are delusional. . Emotional investment - write a check - a big one and then you might have some cred.

I don't hold 695 in the highest regard, but he is absolutely spot on with this argument, especially the last couple of sentences about how successful people don't just sit back on their accomplishments once they've made it big.

You just flat out don't make sense at some points. When I do it, I'm kidding around. You do it as if you're really making some grand point

You can put up all the irrelevant, old facts that you want. By performance on the field, we're still just the barest bit above the bottom of the MAC over the last 35 games.

Assertion that we are about to be markedly better is debatable. What we've been over the last 35 is not...except in your alternate, wound-too-tight universe.


I do thank you for your self-righteous rants. They give me stuff to quickly poke fun at, knowing that you'll always fire back rapidly and repeatedly without the least bit of good humor or amiability. And with plenty of random.

+1

Frank has many years of experience and he learns from each year. Several years ago he put in a new OL blocking scheme; after Troy he went to the no-huddle offense; this year he put in a new defensive scheme; he's always looking for ways to innovate and improve. He's not some old coach who has packed it in and is just waiting for the right time to retire. He is much more like Bill Snyder than any coach in the plus 65+ age category in the nation.

TS, can answer for himself, but to me it has no real significance. It's an arbitrary timeframe, and totally ignores the extenuating circumstances that have affected OHIO for the last two years. And, BTW, we beat a Penn State team in September of 2012, and PSU went on to an 8-4 record, and their coach was named the B1G coach of the year. Frank schooled him in that game. Oh, how soon we forget.

You are right, he also cleverly frames his qualifiers so it doesn't include OHIO's victory over on 9/7/13 over the North Texas Meanies, who finished the season at 9-4, which included a victory over the UNLV Running Rebels in the Heart of Dallas Bowl. Oh, is he the king of selective use of statistics. Remember the old saw, statistics don't lie, but liars use statistics. I'm not calling Monroe a liar, I actually still like the guy, but he does play fast and loose with things when he's trying to make the same point 850 different ways. Lighten up, Monroe. Frank is staying until he wants to leave, which hopefully is a long way in the future.

This has been discussed over and over. The simple, KISS, answer is fans should be overjoyed with a consistent contender for the East Division. If the Bobcats can remain first or second in the East a MACC with eventually happen. So if we get to this point and see the Bobcats 1st or 2nd in the East, be happy. If you have to have more than that then I suggest you change allegiances to, oh I don't know, OSU.

+1 I would love to see some change at offensive coordinator. I fear we will fall for the next best head coach and shoot ourselves in the foot like Indiana did when they fired bill Mallory in the 90's. I think they've been bolwing twice since then. It's not as criminal as some here make it to want improvement.

The balls on you.

What's embarrassing is that we have fans who want to fire one of the best coaches not only the MAC but in the country.

Do me a favor. Find the 'We Albin' thread that I started. I've listed there, as I recall, about ten or a dozen obvious things that we could do..could have done...that would likely have brought us better results.

Tell me how many of those things we tried...Tell me why we didn't try many/any in the face of rather stunning failure to win any of about the last dozen (13?) games we've played against MAC teams with an overall record of .500 or aboe.

There seems to be this concept that current staff is composed of totally solid, experienced coaches who have this deep well of theoretical knowledge. ....

Yeah, but the results on the field lately do not support that at all.