(03-30-2013 03:18 PM)BruceMcF Wrote:  

(03-30-2013 03:02 PM)Miami (Oh) Yeah ! Wrote:  You get no say in what the MAC should do as long as you are a Buckeyes fan. Ohio State should shut their program down.

Oh, balderdash, as a MAC alum, I have as much say as most anyone on these boards. Hell, I'll even cheer for my Alma Mater in hockey as they fight to get to the Frozen Four this year. After all, there were hockey players in our dorms.

Indeed, in this part of Ohio, if the Golden Flashes turned away every Buckeyes fan, they'd be getting rid of a big chunk of their fanbase.

Yea we would lose a lot of our fanbase and students but that is still not an excuse. It is one thing to be a fan of the popular state school, it is a whole another thing to cheer for them over your own Alma Mater.

Being from New York (but with parents from Florida) I have no connection to the Borg Collective down in Columbus and I am happier for it. It is too bad the programming is too ingrained.

My parents are Florida Alumni. I was brought up a Gator fan. I was also the one cheering the hardest for Kent to beat Florida in the College World Series. Kent State is where I went to school and it is therefor my number one team that I cheer for over all others. Even though I still cheer for Florida any time that I am asked which college team I cheer for I always say Kent State first. Perhaps others should do the same.

Kent State would be better for it. We have plenty of alumni and considering the school's athletic success in the past what 20 years we really should be supporting it better. Heck it would help with the respect angle since for example people around here respect big gaudy attendance numbers rather than actual on the field success of a school's athletic programs. The athletes deserve it and they do it with so much less than the money hogs down in C-Bus.