(02-23-2012 09:21 AM)BJUnklFkr Wrote:  

(02-23-2012 09:16 AM)quo vadis Wrote:  How many times do i have to explain this? The SI ranking is based primarily on accomplishments from a half-century ago, and sadly for Cincy, that was well before college basketball became a big-time sport, so it doesn't help your brand identity much at all, if any,

There is simply no denying that as an athletic program, Cincy is clearly much lower-profile than UK, IU, or OS. And that is why they don't want to play you. You would gain more from those games in terms of building brand visibility than they would.

North Carolina played us three times in the 1990's, Indiana, Michigan State and Duke twice. Kentucky even did once (but they've been done with us ever since).

The only time OSU has played us in the last half-century was in 2006 - Mick Cronin's first year, where our program was obviously weakened.

Top shelf programs will play you when they think it is in their interest to play you. This should not be difficult to understand....