We have always prided ourselves on maintaining a civil, intellegent discourse on this board. For the most part we maintain that status with the exception of a couple of schools each year. Curiously enough, one of them is not Miami. The schools I am referring to are Marshall and Temple. while both schools have excellent posters, it is offset by the number of trash talkers from those schools. Trash talking is nothing more than trying to make one feel better by putting another down without any facts behind it. We have a good natured back and forth with Miami, whithout the smack so it can be done. My heart felt a lot better when I saw the Marshall poster saying essentially the same thing.So here is an appeal for the board administrators to delete any post that talks trash and if they can't accept those rules then ban them completely from the board. Lets keep this board something we can be proud of, above board, where only intellegent football conversation takes place.

Roger

I think raising a little dander is a good thing -- with perspective intact, of course.

Ohio and Marshall have more in common than they do differences.  Sitting in Peden next to a Marshall and Ohio fan who came to the game together, I was reminded of that. That usually makes for a more intense, almost brotherly squabble.

This game is good for both programs. I hope they can keep it a little on the strongly dislike side. It makes for sell-out crowds, ticky-tacky fights on the field that actual enhance the game and gives Ohio a game they can circle every year.

As long as it all stays within the boundaries of a rivalry and not an Auburn-Alabama "I'm going to poison the trees on your campus because of football" thing.

I have this admiration for Marshall: Notice how their crowd sounded, looked like when their team took the field? What they sounded like when they scored that touchdown? It looks like they are cheering as one. They are loud. They roar. Ohio fans should aspire to look like that (from a macro sense: please, Ohio fans, bathe...see? poking fun is fun!) and sound like that. We're not there yet. Hopefully, we will be soon.

There is something special about a stadium when it can get thousands upon thousands of people to actively care enough to sound like that. Almost like a baseball hitting a power hitter's bat hitting a home run compared to a Juan Pierre home run. If Ohio keeps winning, I trust it will soon sound like that.

+1

I hate this idea.  I also don't particularly like trash talk and rarely engage in it, except with Mr. Swank!

We censor too much on this board already.  I certainly don't want to encourage more censorship.  [Yes, I know I'm not using the technically correct definition of censorship here but rather the colloquial meaning.]

There's really nothing good that comes out of it.....maybe some sophmoric hunor but that's about it.

You're just a super nice guy, that's all.

I'll agree that as a moderator/mullah, I tolerated flaming from Marshall fans that probably should have been deleted early in the week.  That is, to comply with our message board rules. 

Recovering Journalist: I do hope you saw my post that i do not condone it, regardless of the school. I'm just not sure if we as a civilized society have to wallow in the dirt. World Wars have started for less than what was on this board last week. First Marshall would talk trash then like they wanted us to do, we retorted. It just makes no sense to me.

Jeff: Maybe its just you and I who don't get it.