There are several law suits winding through courts that the NCAA will likely lose and which will send them running to Congress for help.  Congress can protect them but will want some things in return, like the BCS schools not splitting from the NCAA I assume.

Coach K. is mouthing off. When conference commissioners and BCS bowl executives start talking about proposals to leave the NCAA then I would start to worry.

I know that Bob Huggins and others have been lobbying that the Big 6 conferences should have a separate b-ball tourneys for Big 6 conferences than the mid- and lower majors.  Don't see that happening any time soon so long as there's a Butler or a Gonzaga lurking out there.  I don't see them bolting the NCAA in football, either.  So long as they can keep on over-signing recruits or can make the coach the fall guy for lack of institutional control, they'll put up with the occasional wrist-slap from the NCAA.  It's perfect cover for legitimacy.

I'm not sure about this, Wes, but I think the field might have been where Porter Hall now is.  In my youth it was the Ohio baseball field, and I was told by old timers that it had been used for football.  I've also heard that the first football field was behind where McCracken Hall now is, where the old high school football stadium was in my day.  Perhaps, I can get Doug McCabe at the Alden archives investigating this burning question.  Of course this happened during a practice, so maybe it was in the old IPF, which I believe was in a large barn on the Slaughter farm on the top of what is now Second Street.  

BTW, they went ahead and played the game with WVU in Parkersburg and lost 16-0, the previous year Ohio had won in Athens 12-0.  Even back then having a good QB was apparently important.

Edit: Uncle Wes and Ohio69, hey, if Notre Dame can motivate players to "Win one for the Gipper," why can't Ohio occasionally "win one for Ralph"?  Maybe we need to give him a more catchy nickname. "Win one for The Blenny?"  Or, how about "Win one for the Chrysthanthemums"?  That's what the team was sometimes called then; it was way before the Bobcat mascot was chosen. 

You may figure out a way to trump O'Bleness's curse, but you'll have a harder time dealing with Cornstalk's.

It's not a curse, it's a motivational story.  Win one for The Blenny!

As for Cornstalk, his big battle was over there in West Virginia, so we'll let Pt. Pleasant High School deal with that one.

Fist, he was murdered in Pt. Pleasant, and according to the ever semi-accurate wikipedia:

Cornstalk was originally buried at Fort Randolph; in 1840 his grave was found and the remains moved to the Mason County Courthouse grounds; when in 1954 the courthouse was torn down he was reburied in Point Pleasant. Legends arose about his dying "curse" being the cause of misfortunes in the area (later supplanted by local "mothman" stories), though no contemporary historical source mentions any such utterance by Cornstalk.