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Topic: A Moment to Reflect: Ohio Football

Topic: A Moment to Reflect: Ohio Football

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PalmerFest
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A Moment to Reflect: Ohio Football

Posted: 11/22/2011 10:20:52 PM

Please reflect upon the following for a moment (especially those of you who have been following Ohio football for 20+ years):

We have NINE (9) wins with two games remaining.

Our last SIX (6) games of the year will have been broadcast to a NATIONAL television audience.

Fiami has not beaten Ohio in SIX (6) years (and counting)

Truly amazing. Thank you team, coaches, athletic department, administration, and all my fellow and prospective alumni. I am so proud to be a Bobcat.

Doc Bobcat
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RE: A Moment to Reflect: Ohio Football

Posted: 11/22/2011 10:21:31 PM

More than well said.

KC Bobcat
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RE: A Moment to Reflect: Ohio Football

Posted: 11/22/2011 10:29:36 PM

No doubt, we've come a long way baby, but we are still two games from mission accomplished.

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RE: A Moment to Reflect: Ohio Football

Posted: 11/22/2011 10:31:37 PM

Even better after 35 years!

RS Bobcat

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RE: A Moment to Reflect: Ohio Football

Posted: 11/22/2011 10:41:13 PM

Great Post, growing up the only publicity we received was an occasional shoutout from Dave Diles on the ABC Prudential College Scoreboard show.

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RE: A Moment to Reflect: Ohio Football

Posted: 11/22/2011 10:44:17 PM

KC Bobcat wrote:

No doubt, we've come a long way baby, but we are still two games from mission accomplished.

Living in a different region my favorite part of the story is telling people what we have come from. Plenty of programs go through rebuilding seasons, but we were bottom of the barrel garbage. Thanks, COACH!

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RE: A Moment to Reflect: Ohio Football

Posted: 11/22/2011 10:55:27 PM

PalmerFest wrote:

...Our last SIX (6) games of the year will have been broadcast to a NATIONAL television audience.

That is pretty remarkable, indeed. Not only that, but there have been some very good performances by the Cats, who are 4-0 on National TV so far. I bet they have picked up a few fans in the process. It would be interesting to know how many alums had forgotten about Ohio football in their years since graduation, but who tuned in during one or more games.

�We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.� ― Epictetus

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RE: A Moment to Reflect: Ohio Football

Posted: 11/22/2011 11:18:12 PM

KC Bobcat wrote:

No doubt, we've come a long way baby, but we are still two games from mission accomplished.

We've talked about the future so long. The future is now.

We will get by.
We will get by.
We will get by.
We will survive.

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RE: A Moment to Reflect: Ohio Football

Posted: 11/22/2011 11:23:21 PM

PalmerFest wrote:

Please reflect upon the following for a moment (especially those of you who have been following Ohio football for 20+ years):

We have NINE (9) wins with two games remaining.

We won a total of 9 games between 1985 and 1989.
We won a total of 8 games between 1990 and 1994.

MY STATE. MY TEAM.

OhioCatFan
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RE: A Moment to Reflect: Ohio Football

Posted: 11/22/2011 11:30:34 PM

Pataskala wrote:

[We've talked about the future so long. The future is now.

Amen!

Another random thought: The first year that I followed OHIO very closely and attended every home game was 1960 -- my junior year at Athens High School. Ohio was 10-0 that year. The rest of the 1960s were basically pretty good years, and then we had a period of ups and downs but were a pretty solid MAC football team. It all went south, however, after the untimely death of Coach Bill Hess from testicular cancer prior to the 1978 season. That's when we entered the desert years. Now, for the first time since then, I'm beginning to feel we are climbing to the top of the heap once again. Grobe got us for a few brief years to where we could see the Promised Land, but he didn't take us there. Solich I think is on the verge of that. In his post-game interview tonight he said something like, and I paraphrase," We've gotten to where we are a pretty good football team, but I want to get us to where we are a great football team." I interpreted that in two ways: One, he wants to win these last two games this year. Two, as a promise that the wants to stay around to see us go to the next level. As Uncle Wes has said, we may be the next BCS buster in a year or two. GOT FRANK, GOT DREAMS!

SEE YOU IN DETROIT!!!!

Edit: Every so often, and this is one of those times, a statement that Bill Hess made to me when I interviewed him in his office as a nervous rising sophomore about the upcoming 1963 football season rings through my head. Somewhere near the end of the interview I asked him something about playing some big time teams in Athens. He smiled and said that the program wasn't there yet! He emphasized the word "yet." It was clear the way he said it that he dreamed of a much better Ohio program and one that could have an impact beyond the MAC. I think Coach Solich understands the dream. I'm sure Bill Hess is looking down on Peden Stadium now and smiling. And, though I never met Don Peden, I suspect he's smiling too and doesn't mind at all that Frank's now tied his record for consecutive crushings of those guys from Oxford.

Last Edited: 11/22/2011 11:45:11 PM by OhioCatFan

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RE: A Moment to Reflect: Ohio Football

Posted: 11/23/2011 12:08:58 AM

Solich ERA in Athens will be will forever be remembered as the the glory days of modern Ohio football. The greatest hire in Ohio athletics history. 4 bowls, 3 MAC East titles and six wins over Miami in last six seasons. For those of us that attended Ohio in the Lichtenberg ERA we considered a 4 win season a success and 1 win over Miami in a decade. Now Solich owns Miami and he has made Ohio the top MAC East program like Marshall was before Solich arrived. Tonite I was at Winking Lizzard in Mentor and most TV's in the place had the Bobcats game on. Fans were cheering the Bobcats TD's. Bobcats have become a MAC power. Temple, Miami, BGSU they all know the east title comes thru Athens. We are the game everybody in the east circles on the schedule.
Bobcats have talent up and down the roster and recruits that can wait to come to Athens and win MAC championships and go to bowls. Bobcats are gonna be contenders for the next several years. 3 bowls in a row and next two years with the talent returning we should be in contention for another good year. We got a chance to win the MAC for the first time since 1968 and get our first bowl win. This team battled back from injuries and found a way to win these last 5 games. Third nine win season for Ohio under Solich. Amazing run for Ohio.

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RE: A Moment to Reflect: Ohio Football

Posted: 11/23/2011 11:20:23 AM

perimeterpost wrote:

PalmerFest wrote:

Please reflect upon the following for a moment (especially those of you who have been following Ohio football for 20+ years):

We have NINE (9) wins with two games remaining.

We won a total of 9 games between 1985 and 1989.
We won a total of 8 games between 1990 and 1994.

Must have been my fault, seeing as how those were my undergrad years.

The Few, The Proud, The Bobcats!

And for the record, I hate tOSU, and Ricordati and Torgerson are DB's.

"This isn't just another walkover from the MAC." Kirk Herbstreit, another DB, on College Football Gameday

Oldcat
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RE: A Moment to Reflect: Ohio Football

Posted: 11/23/2011 12:33:51 PM

D.A. wrote:

perimeterpost wrote:

PalmerFest wrote:

Please reflect upon the following for a moment (especially those of you who have been following Ohio football for 20+ years):

We have NINE (9) wins with two games remaining.

We won a total of 9 games between 1985 and 1989.
We won a total of 8 games between 1990 and 1994.

Must have been my fault, seeing as how those were my undergrad years.

So you're the one?

OUVan
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RE: A Moment to Reflect: Ohio Football

Posted: 11/23/2011 1:37:54 PM

OhioCatFan wrote:

It all went south, however, after the untimely death of Coach Bill Hess from testicular cancer prior to the 1978 season. That's when we entered the desert years.

Which unfortunately is when I came to Athens as a wide-eyed freshman. The desert years is all I knew. Little did we know that Brian Burke and Sammy Shon were our high water mark for quite some time.

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