(06-30-2014 09:30 AM)BearcatJerry Wrote: But things are what they are and launching yet another complaint thread doesn't do anything to change anything.
Sure, I could be quiet and drink the "everything is OK Kool-Aid."
But then again if everyone (including Ono who is living off the hard work of Joe Steger, Bob Huggins, Bob Goin, and Brian Kelly) is OK with the status quo, then UC will take a posture of HOPING to get into a P5 someday - MAYBE.
I surely don't post all this forecasted downfall of UC football to piss off people on this board whom I never met.
Let's all agree that the current leadership at UC did not experience what UC athletics was like prior to inclusion in the Big East. Or even worse, prior to Bob Huggins.
UC football was once big under Sid Gillman, and then again with Greg Cook, and the basketball team won back-to-back national championships. Tickets were hard to get for many games. Twenty years later less than 5,000 fans showed up for football, less than 2,000 for basketball. UC became insignificant nationally, and more importantly locally.
History has a way of repeating itself.
I simply refuse to accept our current situation. I truly believe that just five years of this minor league affiliation will significantly hurt UC. The City of Cincinnati is not a minor league town, and has mostly ignored all minor league sports. That's what happened in the 70's and 80's. UC fell out of a conference, played as an independent for years without anything to play for. The students, alums, fans, and the community yawned.
Many argue that their are simply no invites available. Really?
Albeit not all P5 moves, these football schools seemed to have found a way in the last four years to improve their situation in another conference:
Colorado
Boise St.
Nebraska
Utah
Fresno St
Nevada
Hawaii
UMass
Syracuse
Pitt
TCU
WVU
Mizzou
UCF
Houston
SMU
Maryland
Rutgers
East Carolina
Tulane
Louisville
FAU
Middle Tenn
East Carolina
Idaho
New Mex St.
WKy
Tulsa
Navy (pending)
Let's all hope Ono and Bohn quickly add UC's name to the list. When they do....I will be quiet.
That's a good quiet. Silencing the voices of those unhappy with our current situation is the worse kind of quiet.....its apathy.