1. There are some really uptight people on this thread. 

2. LOVED the OU / OH Yeah cheer on Saturday. Have never been a big fan of the cheer myself but the way you guys used it to get the stadium to interact with each other was brilliant, and it was the best and most fitting the cheer has ever been. 

3. Don't overthink it. You're getting a lot of opinions ("it has to be done every game during pregame, and at the start of the 1st and 3rd quarters, and let's make sure it's when TV is back from commercials, and don't disturb the offense, and blah, blah, blah"). Organic cheers are the ones that survive. Finding 2 or 3 appropriate times a game to do it is great, driving it into the ground will make everyone like it about as much as the wave. 

4. The OH-IO ship has sailed. That's OSU's cheer. We're clever enough to come up with something that can be our own. 

5. For those aching to have OHIO incorporated in a cheer, you're aware of the O *clap, clap, clap* H *clap, clap, clap* etc. cheer, right? I know this will be shocking to 99% of you but instead of shouting O!!!!! at the end of that, you're actually supposed to say "OHIO!!!!" (which if you think about it makes more sense, since we're cheering for the school OHIO, not the letter O).

The 110 has been saying OHIO at the end for as long as I've been in the band, and I'm sure it's been that way a while.  

I was in the 110 too. And I said O.

I understand why you say that, but do you understand how mad that made OSU fans?

Sounds to me like you owe some belated laps for being wrong then.

It's the same chant as the conversion into the Diamond OHIO during pregame... So unless you predate 1967, I'm having a hard time believing that you said O at the end of that. 

Mid 80s actually. And as I said, I never had a lesson on the matter, and did, in fact, say "O," so I'll accept the laps. Maybe I'm just stubborn, but I don't really see the significance between the two. Most of the crowd can't really distinguish the difference in sound, and either one represents us.

Plus, I can imagine how people will respond if a group of "cheer police" begin trying to make people say Ohio instead of O. The whole thing comes off a bit ridiculous, don't you think?

Because you're not looking? I think I've seen them at CBS and Universitees.

Okay, this thread is really starting to annoy me. I appreciate all our fans, and all the support they give the OZone, but why is it that we try to do something good and people still complain? We did something that's never been done to that magnitude before, something PRETTY MUCH EVERYBODY admitted was amazing, and yet, there are still people complaining and whining that it's "not Ohio." You're right, it's not Ohio, we have other cheer for that which have been mentioned. This is something that can unify the stadium (which it did) and bring together the Ohio University community as a whole. Please, stop complaining, and lets all actually just enjoy something special which has been brought to this great university. Can't we all just get along?