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RE: Twitter Poll: College Basketball's Most Hated
(07-28-2017 10:52 AM)robertfoshizzle Wrote: I think a lot of people still hate Cincinnati from the Huggins days. Our teams in the '90s had an attitude that made a lot of folks uncomfortable. Of course having a couple of legit criminals didn't help that perception.
Ya. I didn't know much about UC before the Big East. I remember talking with other Big East school fans at the MSG tourney, who were not happy about thug-ball* being brought into the conference.
(*not my words - don't jump on me)
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RE: Twitter Poll: College Basketball's Most Hated
(07-28-2017 11:02 AM)HuskyU Wrote: (07-28-2017 10:52 AM)robertfoshizzle Wrote: I think a lot of people still hate Cincinnati from the Huggins days. Our teams in the '90s had an attitude that made a lot of folks uncomfortable. Of course having a couple of legit criminals didn't help that perception.
Ya. I didn't know much about UC before the Big East. I remember talking with other Big East school fans at the MSG tourney, who were not happy about thug-ball* being brought into the conference.
(*not my words - don't jump on me)
Oh yeah, that was always the narrative with Cincinnati... no offense taken. It's the primary reason Huggins was let go. Mick Cronin has really cleaned up the program, although the Xavier brawl set us back a lot.
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RE: Twitter Poll: College Basketball's Most Hated
Looks like nobody likes the schools in Ohio. Xavier, OSU, Dayton and Cincinnati with a lot of votes.
Question for the board: Why do you all dislike the state of Ohio so much?
(07-26-2017 05:33 PM)8BitPirate Wrote: How can you hate Wichita State?
I mean UCONN because they've won it all and you're envious. Cincy, well because it's Cincy but what's Wichita done aside of beat the odds by being very very good without the "power" conference $$$$.
What does the bolded even mean?
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RE: Twitter Poll: College Basketball's Most Hated
(07-28-2017 11:54 AM)robertfoshizzle Wrote: (07-28-2017 11:02 AM)HuskyU Wrote: (07-28-2017 10:52 AM)robertfoshizzle Wrote: I think a lot of people still hate Cincinnati from the Huggins days. Our teams in the '90s had an attitude that made a lot of folks uncomfortable. Of course having a couple of legit criminals didn't help that perception.
Ya. I didn't know much about UC before the Big East. I remember talking with other Big East school fans at the MSG tourney, who were not happy about thug-ball* being brought into the conference.
(*not my words - don't jump on me)
Oh yeah, that was always the narrative with Cincinnati... no offense taken. It's the primary reason Huggins was let go. Mick Cronin has really cleaned up the program, although the Xavier brawl set us back a lot.
Mick's cleaned up the program, but to a lot of outsiders we still have that stigma. I've shared the story on our board several times, but a couple years ago I was watching the NCAAT with my wife's uncle (He is a Buckeye fan). He told me the problem he had with UC was that all of our players had tats and looked like they came from the hood. I reminded him that with the exception of BYU and Gonzaga, most teams have kids that came from similar backgrounds as UC, including his Buckeyes. I think he thought the guys at OSU came from England or something.
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RE: Twitter Poll: College Basketball's Most Hated
(07-26-2017 05:33 PM)8BitPirate Wrote: How can you hate Wichita State?
I mean UCONN because they've won it all and you're envious. Cincy, well because it's Cincy but what's Wichita done aside of beat the odds by being very very good without the "power" conference $$$$.
Mid Major Madness poll ... Wichita has consistently beat the crap out of the teams that these guys root for.
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RE: Twitter Poll: College Basketball's Most Hated
(07-28-2017 12:23 PM)CliftonAve Wrote: Looks like nobody likes the schools in Ohio. Xavier, OSU, Dayton and Cincinnati with a lot of votes.
Question for the board: Why do you all dislike the state of Ohio so much?
(07-26-2017 05:33 PM)8BitPirate Wrote: How can you hate Wichita State?
I mean UCONN because they've won it all and you're envious. Cincy, well because it's Cincy but what's Wichita done aside of beat the odds by being very very good without the "power" conference $$$$.
What does the bolded even mean?
wasn't that on Cincy's helmets for a couple of seasons? I liked the old stylized UC helmets
(from 1984 at Memphis)
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RE: Twitter Poll: College Basketball's Most Hated
(07-28-2017 12:23 PM)CliftonAve Wrote: Looks like nobody likes the schools in Ohio. Xavier, OSU, Dayton and Cincinnati with a lot of votes.
Question for the board: Why do you all dislike the state of Ohio so much?
(07-26-2017 05:33 PM)8BitPirate Wrote: How can you hate Wichita State?
I mean UCONN because they've won it all and you're envious. Cincy, well because it's Cincy but what's Wichita done aside of beat the odds by being very very good without the "power" conference $$$$.
What does the bolded even mean?
I feel like it was the Ohio fan contingent that brought up each other's vote totals. It's your fellow Ohioans that hate each other's programs the most. Haha.
On a different note... That's a nice foursome in terms of quality basketball from a single state. Add those 4 school's tourney bids the past 10 years and I'll bet it's higher than any other combination of 4 schools from any single state.
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RE: Twitter Poll: College Basketball's Most Hated
(07-28-2017 12:51 PM)HuskyU Wrote: (07-28-2017 12:23 PM)CliftonAve Wrote: Looks like nobody likes the schools in Ohio. Xavier, OSU, Dayton and Cincinnati with a lot of votes.
Question for the board: Why do you all dislike the state of Ohio so much?
(07-26-2017 05:33 PM)8BitPirate Wrote: How can you hate Wichita State?
I mean UCONN because they've won it all and you're envious. Cincy, well because it's Cincy but what's Wichita done aside of beat the odds by being very very good without the "power" conference $$$$.
What does the bolded even mean?
I feel like it was the Ohio fan contingent that brought up each other's vote totals. It's your fellow Ohioans that hate each other's programs the most. Haha.
On a different note... That's a nice foursome in terms of quality basketball from a single state. Add those 4 school's tourney bids the past 10 years and I'll bet it's higher than any other combination of 4 schools from any single state.
People in our neck of the woods have been talking about how our basketball product has been overlooked for decades. Consider this Columbus (OSU) is 100 miles north of Cincinnati (UC, XU). Dayton is basically in between Columbus-Cincinnati. If you go 100 miles south we have UK and Louisville. Part of the Cincinnati metro area is in Indiana, which is IU, Purdue and Notre Dame country.
Yeah... lots of quality BB in our tri-state area. You are probably right we were the ones giving each the votes.
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RE: Twitter Poll: College Basketball's Most Hated
(07-28-2017 12:39 PM)tigerjeb Wrote: (07-28-2017 12:23 PM)CliftonAve Wrote: Looks like nobody likes the schools in Ohio. Xavier, OSU, Dayton and Cincinnati with a lot of votes.
Question for the board: Why do you all dislike the state of Ohio so much?
(07-26-2017 05:33 PM)8BitPirate Wrote: How can you hate Wichita State?
I mean UCONN because they've won it all and you're envious. Cincy, well because it's Cincy but what's Wichita done aside of beat the odds by being very very good without the "power" conference $$$$.
What does the bolded even mean?
wasn't that on Cincy's helmets for a couple of seasons? I liked the old stylized UC helmets
(from 1984 at Memphis)
My point wasn't the word Cincy, it's that he said we are hated because we are "Cincy". Wasn't sure what he was trying to say there.
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