OZoner

Uh... that was weird. It somehow put what I said in the quote. Don't know how that happened.

Because I lived in both Summit and the secondary snow belt. I always forget you guys don't get as much as we do. Thankfully we don't generally get nearly the snowfall that the snowbelt does. BUT RIGHT NOW WE ARE GETTING HAMMERED!!! I empathize with you. I can't tell you how many times growing up I had to shovel the driveway... then start over again when I got to the end.

I just want to wish safe travel to everyone going to the game tonight.

Because I lived in both Summit and the secondary snow belt. I always forget you guys don't get as much as we do.

I would be surprised if more than a few Bobcat fans show up tomorrow. Even a little snow is enough down here to make the roads unnavigable, and there's a lot people like me with midterms this week. Most Ohio fans will probably come from the area.I do have to say that the constant snow is one thing I don't miss about Summit County.

Strickland said he'd make it a priority and I voted for him, so I have my fingers crossed...

Show me the ranking that puts us at #2 in the nation.And look at some of the schools on that list. They're better schools than either us or you. The party reputation here is vastly overrated. There are people that come here to party, yes, but they learn quickly they will be gone if they don't get their academic stuff together. People party at every school, even BYU.I'm not going to say you're a bad school. You're not. I'm well aware of the strong programs you have, but I will take issue with you saying we're a crappy school whose students do nothing but party. We have a number of top-shelf programs here in Athens. The other guy was wrong to try and characterize you as the high school on the hill. I have quite a few friends that go there, and they don't think they're in 13th grade.There are problems here. We know it, you know it. There are problems at Akron, too. We'd all be better off trying to keep the state from cutting our funding together than fighting against each other.

Heh. I'm sure you will.

You probably caught them on a bad day. There's a lot of talent on that squad, and Hawkins is a good coach.Watch out for them next year.

Thanks for the heads up.flush fans were getting way too ahead of themselves in celebrating your loss last night.

Thing about the depth though is that it's something that will carry forward for the rest of the year and really worries me.A lot of people are throwing Bubba under the bus, but nobody wearing an Ohio uniform played well yesterday. I don't want to pin it on one guy.

The NIU-OU game didn't have a whole lot of impact on the RPI; you played both of us.Our guys pretty much played today like they did when you blew us out in 2005. That wasn't fun. The only bright side I can find is that it might force them to work that much harder for Tuesday.Or maybe the complete lack of depth is starting to kill us. I don't know.

uakronkid- That picture was pretty funny, I have to say.

Ignorant...I've been to Athens too. Athens has nothing to do with my comment.

They're nearly identical players, but I will say that Bubba's efficiency rating is noticeably higher than Dials': 12.3 to 10.4.The fans of one school doesn't like the guy from the other school, they're both solid, ballsy white guys. Honestly, if they were traded, would there be any difference?

Maybe it was because the O Zone is only loud when OU takes the lead. Or maybe you're too biased to judge properly and have only seen us once.

Hardly ignorant. I lived the first 18 years of my life 20 minutes from Akron. I know it well enough.

Oh boy. That was awesome. You got me there. How long did you wait to pull out that ace?So far as Tuesday goes... it's a lot more important for you than it is for us. If you don't Toledo Saturday, all we need to do is earn a three-way tie to get the #1 seed. You have to beat us if you want to win the regular season championship. You still have the flushes and RedHawks on the road; we have them at home. So if you win, I won't cry much over it. The pressure is all on you.

Did a school in Akron just say we're not in civilization? That's rich.

Make up your mind. You're either better off without him, a guy who was taking up valuable bench space and was a liability to the team, or he's a traitor who stabbed you in the back. Which is it?Or does it just upset you he's playing quite well in green?

Way to jump on a thread from December. I'd be more concerned about the Akron student that called you losers myself.

You know, we tried getting on Bubba once. He responded by absolutely torching us back in 2005... he seems to enjoy it.

Yeah...That was a pretty benign comment about the section sneaking in. There isn't any actual plans for this. Or do you believe everything you read on a message board?The hillbillies comment is just ignorant. Unless, of course, you think all the people from Cleveland, Akron, Cincy, and C-Bus are hillbillies. Locals only comprise only something like 10-15% of the enrollment.I also love the "they lost to Miami and Can't" argument. Yeah, we lost to them on their own floors, and so will you. And I bet we beat Miami on our floor worse you did and Can't beats you on their floor worse than they beat us. It's not like those are bad losses, and they were both close. Ball State? Yeah, that was terrible. Fire away on that one.Of course, you guys are just going to roll into Toledo and win by double digits, right? After all, Can't made it look soooo easy on Tuesday.The "flagship" nonsense is just the blather of some fans we don't even like. You're better off ignoring them.

Dude, nobody was ripping on your band. I was merely stating ours was down in Mobile.

Yeah, I wish Bubba would not taunt the opposing bench/fans. That never goes well.Ironically, he did it to us back in '05, and we hated him.