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Posted: 11/27/2010 6:46 PM
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Here's my perspective.......

We lost to a team we should have beat.....it happens....reference OSU losing to Purdue
That's why the pads are put on each week.

We have 22K stadium and sell tickets for an average of 20 per seat.......400k revenue per game.......how many big names are going to call us and say "What do you thing about us coming up there this year". Hell maybe we can talk Cal or UCLA to travel here and play for 100K. OSU brings in 7m per game think we can talk them into coming down here????

Solich is trying to build a winning tradition......you call it a house of cards......I call it a mentality.

Maybe at that point we build something more then a high school stadium on steroids....then maybe people start to realize that this is Division 1 college football.....not Football Friday night.....that is not a slam on the prices we pay currently....as I won't pay 50 bucks to have Toledo come in

Bottom line is as long as we are in the MAC this is our lot in life.

We still need new facilities......or at least upgraded to 40K plus.....at least then we have a debate to bring in some higher grade opponents
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Posted: 11/27/2010 8:18 PM
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2. We beat ABSOLUTELY NOBODY leading up to this game. This, to me, was the most telling piece of foreshadowing that hinted at what the end of the season was going to hold for us.

Wins: Wofford, EMU, BG, Akron, Miami, La La, Buffalo, and Temple
Losses: Ohio State, Marshall, and Toledo

People, let's get real. Our wins are a joke. Our losses are unspectacular. I'm just not sure why you expected a better performance out of a team that didn't beat anybody worthwhile all year long.


We went on the road and beat the other two teams at the top of the East.  Great wins?  No, but certainly good, solid wins.  Calling them a joke is an insult to this team.
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Posted: 11/27/2010 8:25 PM
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cc cat wrote:expand_more
2. We beat ABSOLUTELY NOBODY leading up to this game. This, to me, was the most telling piece of foreshadowing that hinted at what the end of the season was going to hold for us.

Wins: Wofford, EMU, BG, Akron, Miami, La La, Buffalo, and Temple
Losses: Ohio State, Marshall, and Toledo

People, let's get real. Our wins are a joke. Our losses are unspectacular. I'm just not sure why you expected a better performance out of a team that didn't beat anybody worthwhile all year long.


We went on the road and beat the other two teams at the top of the East.  Great wins?  No, but certainly good, solid wins.  Calling them a joke is an insult to this team.


There is a good chance that MAC Temple will have beaten a BCS Bowl team in UCONN.  UCONN = good enough for a BCS Bowl Bid = NOT good enough to win the MAC East.  


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Posted: 11/29/2010 11:04 AM
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Is football really economically viable for Ohio University? I attended every home game this year, and there were at least 10,000 empty seats every game, and attendance is not likely to improve next year. There appears to be no significant demand in the region to indicate that we'll ever fill the seats. Our recent bowl games have been controversial because they've resulted in big financial liabilities. We're no longer the perennial cellar dweller, but that, in part, is because many other teams in the MAC have regressed. 


Simply not true... 10,000 empty seats at every game?  How did we break the 20K mark for at least two games this season then?  Why is attendance not going to improve next year?  We are 8-4 for God's sake... we've had back to back winning seasons for the first time in God knows how long with quite possibly one of the best teams in Ohio History on the horizon next year...  

But, by all means be sure to keep bringing up these half-truths at your next faculty senate meeting... 


At no time did we have 20,000 fans in Peden Stadium this year.  Half of our games were easily under 15,000 in actual attendance.
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Posted: 11/29/2010 3:07 PM
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There's no way you will ever get 40,000 to come to a game. I quit coming years ago because I could not get a hotel room within 30 miles and that's when I lived in N.Ky. I certainly wouldn't drive from S.Carolina and then have to drive to Parkersburg to spend the night.
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PhiTau74 wrote:expand_more
There's no way you will ever get 40,000 to come to a game. I quit coming years ago because I could not get a hotel room within 30 miles and that's when I lived in N.Ky. I certainly wouldn't drive from S.Carolina and then have to drive to Parkersburg to spend the night.


I haven't tried to book a room on a football game weekend recently, but there has been a pretty significant influx of chain hotels into Athens over the last few years.  I suspect that room shortage isn't nearly as much of an issue now as it was a decade or so ago.
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