If you continue to win MAC East titles, you will get to play in Big Games against the likes of Marshall, Norfolk State, Marshall, Louisiana-Lafayette, Marshall, Wofford, Marshall, and Marshall again.

Good for Toledo. Shows me they care about their fan base and don't want to bore them to tears with 6 years of god-awful football scheduling. In fact, they put a good opponent in front of their fans year-in and year-out.

Our fans just lineup to take a suckle at the Schaus/Solich teet with 4,200 other people to watch the lowest rungs of D-1 football parade themselves through Peden.

2 MAC East title with horrible scheduling and I see absolutely no residual interest building in the program. Same season ticket sales, same stale marketing, same lemming fans willing to accept this garbage.

Time to try something different. Time to take a radical approach that will actually put students and new fans in seats. Time to schedule.

Quit moaning about more MAC East titles...it won't matter if we win 10 in a row. Beat somebody. Plain and simple. Stop showing off these Patzy opponents between the lines at Peden like some ugly girl forced into a debutante ball. 

Say what you want, but right now - this football program is a laughingstock. Toledo/Miami Fl only cements it. Complete embarrassment to me as an alumnus and now 5 year season ticket holder. I really can't take much more of this.

How hard is it to actually work the phones and email to get a quality opponent into the place??????? Obviously it makes the Manhattan Project look easy.

I'm throwing down the gauntlet right now...If I don't see a press release by 1/1/11 stating that one of the following opponents is scheduled to play Ohio at Peden Stadium in the next 4 years - I'm done giving all monies to the Athletic Department. No more Bobcat Club. No more basketball tickets. No more football tickets. All monies will go to the College of Business.

Florida State
North Carolina State
North Carolina
Syracuse
Iowa
Purdue
Michigan State
Penn State
Wisconsin
Nebraska
Tennessee
Texas A&M
Missouri
Kansas
Kansas State
Texas Tech
Boise State
Oregon
UCLA
Oregon
LSU
Arkansas
Auburn
Alabama
Virginia Tech (could have solved this whole problem already)
Mississippi State
Mississippi

The Toledo news changes the whole game. It used to be about getting name-brand opponents into Peden. That ship has sailed baby. Now it's about getting name-brand GOOD opponents into Peden. I just can't deal with the garbage coming out of Peden any longer. It's time to be a real program or lose fans. I'm talking with my wallet now.

LOVE

PS - As far as Hocutt is concerned, this is all I need to see from that clown:

http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/06TH9Jp6SagE3/610x.jpg

Love is yelling so I just thought I'd help by putting it in approp-sized type.

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If you continue to win MAC East titles, you will get to play in Big Games against the likes of Marshall, Norfolk State, Marshall, Louisiana-Lafayette, Marshall, Wofford, Marshall, and Marshall again.

Good for Toledo. Shows me they care about their fan base and don't want to bore them to tears with 6 years of god-awful football scheduling. In fact, they put a good opponent in front of their fans year-in and year-out.

Our fans just lineup to take a suckle at the Schaus/Solich teet with 4,200 other people to watch the lowest rungs of D-1 football parade themselves through Peden.

2 MAC East title with horrible scheduling and I see absolutely no residual interest building in the program. Same season ticket sales, same stale marketing, same lemming fans willing to accept this garbage.

Time to try something different. Time to take a radical approach that will actually put students and new fans in seats. Time to schedule.

Quit moaning about more MAC East titles...it won't matter if we win 10 in a row. Beat somebody. Plain and simple. Stop showing off these Patzy opponents between the lines at Peden like some ugly girl forced into a debutante ball. 

Say what you want, but right now - this football program is a laughingstock. Toledo/Miami Fl only cements it. Complete embarrassment to me as an alumnus and now 5 year season ticket holder. I really can't take much more of this.

How hard is it to actually work the phones and email to get a quality opponent into the place??????? Obviously it makes the Manhattan Project look easy.

I'm throwing down the gauntlet right now...If I don't see a press release by 1/1/11 stating that one of the following opponents is scheduled to play Ohio at Peden Stadium in the next 4 years - I'm done giving all monies to the Athletic Department. No more Bobcat Club. No more basketball tickets. No more football tickets. All monies will go to the College of Business.

Florida State
North Carolina State
North Carolina
Syracuse
Iowa
Purdue
Michigan State
Penn State
Wisconsin
Nebraska
Tennessee
Texas A&M
Missouri
Kansas
Kansas State
Texas Tech
Boise State
Oregon
UCLA
Oregon
LSU
Arkansas
Auburn
Alabama
Virginia Tech (could have solved this whole problem already)
Mississippi State
Mississippi

The Toledo news changes the whole game. It used to be about getting name-brand opponents into Peden. That ship has sailed baby. Now it's about getting name-brand GOOD opponents into Peden. I just can't deal with the garbage coming out of Peden any longer. It's time to be a real program or lose fans. I'm talking with my wallet now.

LOVE

PS - As far as Hocutt is concerned, this is all I need to see from that clown:

http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/06TH9Jp6SagE3/610x.jpg

Yeah.  That works.

I understand your anger. If we are to be a big time program, we have to face big time opponents. I also understand the logic of: If you want to put fans in the stands you need to bring in someone besides a FCS school or a FBS patsy.

My Logic is different, and I want you to think about it. Our focus shouldn't be on OOC games at all. If we win the MAC East year in and year out we will be in a bowl game every year and create support. If we do that, then we can compete with the lower and mid tier teams in the BCS Confrences. In order to play those teams home and home they need something to gain. Toledo is playing Miami(FL) because Ohio is a huge recruiting ground and this gives them exposure here (along with their game with State). We should be trying to get games against Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Purdue, Syracuse, Pitt, UCONN, Maryland, Louisville, and Northwestern at Peden sometime with in the next 7 years. I understand our schedule is booked through 2015 more or less; but these are schools we should be looking at to face as they are local and are teams we can and have defeated and would draw fans. For now, we need a step by step approach. The first step of the approach is winning 6 games in the MAC every year.

I agree with the idea here. There were some odd teams to leave off the list and some teams included that were odd.

Also, if Love holds to what he said, then he will be done with athletics because his demands will not be met in that time constraint. We are a long way from being able to schedule a game like that. We don't have the attendance for those teams to have interest in agreeing to a 1-for-1.

I'm not really sure why an announcement from the northwest corner of the state should elicit such a draconian response from the southeast contingent.

Toledo is running their program the way Toledo wants to run it. Ohio's scheduling strategy has been made clear for some time now.

I don't see the value in demanding some sort of arms race response to Toledo's move.

Not to mention that Miami (FL) football is pretty much living off the ghosts of the past right now.

And I want to thank Love, The for raising the heat here today.  Was gettin' kinda boring.

who is this townie you speak of? I know the love, and he is no townie. 

Also, i would just like to point out those who had 20 days in The Love Blowup game get the prize, you can contact each other to figure out how to split the pot.

I think Toledo has already won the arms race since we gave up the "Fire in the Hole" Cannon.

If you are going to rant, at least be realistic.  I'd add Wake, Louisville, Kentucky, Virginia to the okay list.  Okay means a home and home may be sellible...maybe.  We need to target down BCS programs.

To Love...in THEORY I TOTALLY agree with you.

To Love and Others...in REALITY we are not going to see this happen with our limited stadium size and resources.

The only logical alternative is to draw a circle 300/350 miles from Athens or Columbus or wherever and schedule teams inside that circle so the BOBCAT NATION can travel and see their team compete.  Places like UK, Louisville, Cincy. the OSU, Mich, Mich St, Indiana, Pitt, Marshall, etc. meet that criteria. 

That way, our team will get a payday and our fans can have some fun tailgating in the opponents back yard.

If and when we beat some of the above teams on a regular basis, then we can talk about stadium expansion, change in scheduling philosophy, etc. and our case will be much stronger!

Excuse me, Ryan and Ted ... I thought the resuscitated BA.com was rant-proofed (?!) ... That the viral infestation of schedule-bashing bummary had been dispatched to the great commodium in the sky and could not return (?!) ... What gives?

Explain to me what grand change in Bobcat Athletics you're hoping to have happen because we schedule ONE quality OOC home again a year-

- Increased season ticket sales? doubtful
- Better record? doubtful
- Better chance of winning the MACC? nope
- Better chance at winning a bowl game? doubtful

I don't see how adding one quality OOC home game a year will have any signifcant impact financially or on student/townie support. Winning on TV (MACC and Bowl) is what people want to see. One good home game doesn't change the fact that Peden Stadium is located in the middle of nowhere.

The only substantive effect I can see of us scheduling a big name to come in and beat us on our own field is that it gives some people on this site something to brag about.

This may be first, but who can prove it since all the history has been lost, but I actually agree with everything in Putnam Field's last post.  This is the BEST part of the Buckeye State -- that's why it was settle first and all the rest of the state was second choice.  If you don't like our hills, flatlander, just go back to Pancake City (aka Cowtown) and enjoy your boring landscape and the equally boring people (with a few notable exceptions) who populate the place!