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Topic: Where were you??

Topic: Where were you??

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ExCat21
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Where were you??

Posted: 7/7/2016 10:57:45 PM

....when Ball State played Ohio Bobcats in 1989?

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Ohio69
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RE: Where were you??

Posted: 7/8/2016 8:58:44 AM

I was in the stands. Man, Anthony Thornton was fun to watch.

Can somebody hit a pull up jumper for me?.....

Bobcat Mac
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RE: Where were you??

Posted: 7/8/2016 8:58:52 AM

A junior at Lancaster Sr.High, I do not remember too many
drives like that from 1991-1995!

OU_Country
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RE: Where were you??

Posted: 7/8/2016 9:44:24 AM

I was in 8th grade, and had barely heard of Ohio University.

Bcat2
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RE: Where were you??

Posted: 7/8/2016 10:50:24 AM

Ft. Hood, Kileen, TX

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Jeff McKinney
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RE: Where were you??

Posted: 7/8/2016 10:52:38 AM

Had just moved to Raleigh, NC, to do graduate work. And it was a sad time as my father passed away unexpectedly in October.

Alan Swank
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RE: Where were you??

Posted: 7/8/2016 11:02:05 AM

If that was the first half, probably playing golf on the OU course. We used to do that in the first half, listen to the game over the PA, and if the score was close, head into Peden for the second half.

Kinggeorge4
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RE: Where were you??

Posted: 7/8/2016 1:00:39 PM

Student section chasing my two year old daughter around. That was my junior year.

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GEORGE

OU_Country
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RE: Where were you??

Posted: 7/8/2016 1:20:03 PM

Alan Swank wrote:

That's a good move. Maybe I'll do that this year in reverse: Head out for golf after the band plays at halftime.

ExCat21
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RE: Where were you??

Posted: 7/8/2016 1:20:19 PM

Awesome responses. Sorry to the gentleman whose father passed away at the time. I want to say I was 5 years old in small town Paducah Kentucky. What i can say is that I wish wecould have worn the Pawprint helmets. Those looked pretty cool. Many noticeable changes with scoreboard....no lights for night games...a track around the field? But Peden is still Peden. Beautiful as ever.

ExCat21
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RE: Where were you??

Posted: 7/8/2016 1:21:35 PM

who is Anthony Thornton?

Robert Fox
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RE: Where were you??

Posted: 7/8/2016 1:50:20 PM

fansince49
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RE: Where were you??

Posted: 7/8/2016 2:22:43 PM

Anthony Thornton was recruited out of Columbus, OH Brookhaven HS, and started at QB for the Bobcats in his freshman year under Coach Cleve Bryant, maintaining that position through the final three years of Bryant's tenure, and the first year (1990) of Coach Tom Lichtenberg's.

He was a versatile athlete, and moved the ball both passing and with his running.
In my opinion, his best game, and the best game played by any OU team under Bryant, was the 24-14 victory over Toledo in Athens early in the 1988 season, which I was fortunate enough to witness.

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RE: Where were you??

Posted: 7/8/2016 2:56:09 PM

Probably singing along to a Sharon, Lois and Bram song, rocking a bowl haircut.

SBH
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RE: Where were you??

Posted: 7/8/2016 4:48:18 PM

fansince49 wrote:

He was more of a running threat. He was a big INT threat, unfortunately.

ExCat21
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RE: Where were you??

Posted: 7/8/2016 5:24:09 PM

Thanks for sharing the info. I am always interested in Bobcat History.

Pete Chouteau
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RE: Where were you??

Posted: 7/8/2016 5:29:50 PM

If we hadn't sucked so bad in those uniforms, I'd advocate a throwback game someday.

But we sucked so bad.

fansince49
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RE: Where were you?? (NT)

Posted: 7/8/2016 7:57:05 PM

Last Edited: 7/8/2016 8:15:20 PM by fansince49

fansince49
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RE: Where were you??

Posted: 7/8/2016 8:14:02 PM

I've always wondered, and now that you make that statement, why...
exactly WHY did we "suck so bad"? How did we get that way?
Thanks for any opinion-s.

OhioCatFan
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RE: Where were you??

Posted: 7/8/2016 10:14:43 PM

fansince49 wrote:

I've always wondered, and now that you make that statement, why...
exactly WHY did we "suck so bad"? How did we get that way?
Thanks for any opinion-s.

I think that the main problem was that Charles J. Ping, a man that I admire very much, did not really have much of an affinity for college athletics, despite a nice piece on the value of athletic competition that he wrote for the Chronicle of Higher Education shortly before he became president at OHIO. The other thing, directly related to Dr. Ping, was his decision to hire Cleve against the recommendation of the AD, Mack.

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fansince49
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RE: Where were you??

Posted: 7/9/2016 8:23:10 AM

Thanks, OhioCatFan

Alan Swank
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RE: Where were you??

Posted: 7/9/2016 8:36:11 AM

OU_Country wrote:

Alan Swank wrote:

That's a good move. Maybe I'll do that this year in reverse: Head out for golf after the band plays at halftime.

The OU course is in as good as shape as it's ever been (since 1979 anyway). The second year manager has the greens rolling at a very respectable speed, the tees are large and well groomed and the fairways are in fantastic shape. Only two things could be improved - the rough is very long (I know, you shouldn't be there anyway) which makes it tough to find your ball and for some reason, people just can't seem to clean up their ball marks. That said, $600 for an annual pass which includes driving range privileges is a steal.

west side cat
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RE: Where were you??

Posted: 7/10/2016 12:12:45 AM

Agree about the course......played it two weeks ago and was very pleasantly surprised at the condition of the course. Keep up the good work. As for the game, getting too old to remember!

SBH
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RE: Where were you??

Posted: 7/10/2016 1:40:52 PM

OhioCatFan wrote:

fansince49 wrote:

I've always wondered, and now that you make that statement, why...
exactly WHY did we "suck so bad"? How did we get that way?
Thanks for any opinion-s.

I hadn't heard that Mack was against the Cleve hiring. If so, that's one more chit in favor of an AD who had an awfully small war chest with which to compete. Ping saved the university in many respects but was shortsighted as to the value of ICA. In his book published 3-4 years ago, he asked why it was too much to expect a D1 football recruit to understand Kierkegaard. In his defense, he admitted to making life very difficult for Mack's predecessor, Bill Rohr, who considered Ping "very naive."

I've often wondered what ultimately got Brian Burke fired - the endless string of 5-6 or 6-5 teams or the academic and behavioral performance of his players. I'm guessing the latter. Either way, we descended into 12 years of darkness at Peden Stadium. It was downright embarrassing.

OUcats82
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RE: Where were you??

Posted: 7/10/2016 3:26:35 PM

ExCat21 wrote:

I too have always liked the paw print. When I first started out at Ohio, you could purchase merchandise with both the paw print or the attack cat. If memory serves me right, I think, in what was described as basically a branding strategy, Boeh led an effort to allow only attack cat merchandise to be made. I was glad when all logos, past and present were made available to put on T-shirts etc. my Ohio gear is a mix of all different eras of logo.

Speaking of the paw print....I have heard from several people stories about how Clemson had contacted us about discontinuing use of the logo because it looked too much like their tiger paw. While the people who told me this I don't think would ever have a need to lie to me I do wonder if it that was indeed a true event. Does anyone here know what may have actually happened?

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