(01-13-2015 03:48 PM)Captain Bearcat Wrote:  

(01-13-2015 02:38 PM)Bearcat1010 Wrote:  

(01-13-2015 01:50 PM)JP Bearcat Wrote:  (5) All that being said, UC does need to keep tooting its horn and getting the word out. Ono is the best Prez UC's ever had for that. And they have been making huge efforts at recruiting students in Dayton, Columbus and Cleveland. I think I read somewhere that Columbus applicants are at an all-time high. When my kid did marching band the last few years I saw paid UC banners in the endzones of every high school football stadium we visited, including many in Dayton and farther north. UC is working it but there's plenty of work still to be done.

This brings up a fear which wakes me up at night. What happens to UC’s upward trajectory when Ono departs?

Every time I read another message about his tours promoting UC and visiting with other universities I can’t help but think about the fact that he is also promoting himself even if it is not his intention. At some point someone very very big is going to come calling with an offer he cannot refuse and UC cannot match. We describe the coaches as the “face of a program” but Ono has become the face of the university. His departure would be a true loss for the university.

IMO Ono is a little too quirky to get a "promotion" to president at a bigger school. He tweets over a dozen times a day about things as diverse as Eminem and the Macarena. He takes pictures like this:


A school like Michigan or Harvard would have a heart attack if their president did that. There's not many schools with higher prestige than UC that would allow him to do that type of stuff; most of them would only hire a president with a polished, uptight, old school public image.

At UC we let Ono be himself. And it helps us tremendously because we need that type of exposure. IMO UC and Ono are a perfect fit for each other.

Ono has said time and time again he's committed to the University of Cincinnati. I have it from a very reliable source that he was offered the job up north and turned it down.

Relax and enjoy the ride.

Because we all spend so much time picking on the things that are wrong, it's worthwhile to "pile on" in a thread where the topic is things that are right. President Ono has been great.

Considering Nacy gave UC the death penalty and Williams basketball bias had him holding on to the sinking Bball centric Big East, it's crazy to think UC is in this great of a position. Big 12 wanted UC and UL and Williams said he was committed to BE. Strange to think it could be UC, UL, and WVU in the Big 12 and no TCU.

PrezOno is the best thing that ever happen to UC. Too bad he was a few years late. We shouldn't hold it against him.

What is frustrating to me is that a ton of my high school classmates (99) who were raised on Bearcats basketball, but not football, then graduated and went to Ohio Schools not named UC (or OSU for that matter) and are happy to throw on the bandwagon Tshirt and cheer on their "state team" despite living in Cincinnati. These are people in young families with kids that aren't trekking up to Columbus, and I'm sure would love to take their kids to a close football or basketball game but are apathetic or Tshirt OSU fans.

(01-13-2015 03:48 PM)Captain Bearcat Wrote:  

(01-13-2015 02:38 PM)Bearcat1010 Wrote:  

(01-13-2015 01:50 PM)JP Bearcat Wrote:  (5) All that being said, UC does need to keep tooting its horn and getting the word out. Ono is the best Prez UC's ever had for that. And they have been making huge efforts at recruiting students in Dayton, Columbus and Cleveland. I think I read somewhere that Columbus applicants are at an all-time high. When my kid did marching band the last few years I saw paid UC banners in the endzones of every high school football stadium we visited, including many in Dayton and farther north. UC is working it but there's plenty of work still to be done.

This brings up a fear which wakes me up at night. What happens to UC’s upward trajectory when Ono departs?

Every time I read another message about his tours promoting UC and visiting with other universities I can’t help but think about the fact that he is also promoting himself even if it is not his intention. At some point someone very very big is going to come calling with an offer he cannot refuse and UC cannot match. We describe the coaches as the “face of a program” but Ono has become the face of the university. His departure would be a true loss for the university.

IMO Ono is a little too quirky to get a "promotion" to president at a bigger school. He tweets over a dozen times a day about things as diverse as Eminem and the Macarena. He takes pictures like this:


A school like Michigan or Harvard would have a heart attack if their president did that. There's not many schools with higher prestige than UC that would allow him to do that type of stuff; most of them would only hire a president with a polished, uptight, old school public image.

At UC we let Ono be himself. And it helps us tremendously because we need that type of exposure. IMO UC and Ono are a perfect fit for each other.

Meanwhile, a school like OSU has an assclown like Gee and another assclown like Smith as their president and AD? Both repeatedly did stupid things and had their foot in their mouth. I wouldn't write off Ono because he understands how to connect with his student population. I'm sure tons of schools are salivating to have a guy like him.

Going to Dayton next Thursday night for a chance to meet Ono and Bohn and see what they are like in person. My daughter loves President Ono and has met him several times. Henry Winkler was {resident when I was accepted to UC, and all I knew about him is that he wasn't the same Henry Winkler as the actor. Apparently he left and Steger took over before I started my freshman year, but I neither heard about it not had any idea who the guy was.

I SO wish UC had been as it is now when I attended, on so many levels.

(01-15-2015 03:08 AM)digibrink Wrote:  Meanwhile, a school like OSU has an assclown like Gee and another assclown like Smith as their president and AD? Both repeatedly did stupid things and had their foot in their mouth. I wouldn't write off Ono because he understands how to connect with his student population. I'm sure tons of schools are salivating to have a guy like him.

Remember, Smith hired Urban Meyer and has Thad as his bball coach. Smith might be a clown but he has what he needs in his two most important positions.

(01-15-2015 07:39 AM)Bruce Monnin Wrote:  Going to Dayton next Thursday night for a chance to meet Ono and Bohn and see what they are like in person. My daughter loves President Ono and has met him several times. Henry Winkler was {resident when I was accepted to UC, and all I knew about him is that he wasn't the same Henry Winkler as the actor. Apparently he left and Steger took over before I started my freshman year, but I neither heard about it not had any idea who the guy was.

I SO wish UC had been as it is now when I attended, on so many levels.

I agree. I went to UC in the late 70's to early 80's. The campus had as much allure and buzz in those days as an old time communist bloc petrochemical plant. Steger and Winkler in the era before social media ran silent and ran deep, and were hardly detectable.

It wasn't much better in the early to mid 90s. Just more crumbling concrete.