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(06-12-2019 12:31 PM)vabearcat Wrote:  

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(06-11-2019 09:14 AM)CliftonAve Wrote:  I lived all over the state at various points in my life. The Cincinnati-based OSU fans would never say that, but the ones in the other corners are fairly rational about it. My experience is the non-Cincinnati based OSU fans are very proud of the state of Ohio and want to see all the teams do well. And yes... they hate the fact they are now associated with Rutgers.

Yep...I'd say in Toledo/NW Ohio most OSU fans I've talked about UC with are complimentary but mostly can be described as having a measured indifference towards us, outside of one day a year obviously.

I'm friends with several Illinois & Purdue fans. They really hated the move East. They wish the Big 10 had added Missouri/Kansas rather than Maryland/Rutgers.

About 2012 or 2013 I asked one of them what he thought of UC. He said that UC's sports teams were good enough to merit an invite, but we were nowhere near good enough academically to be considered. So I asked what he thought of adding Nebraska, and he said UC was better academically but that Nebraska's football team was too good to say no to.

Fan perceptions from the P5 schools are always interesting to hear. Even UC's short stay in a BCS 6 conference that yielded a pair of football championships and a Sugar and Orange Bowl made a statement that Cincinnati could compete in a "power" conference. At the same time UC was ramping up admission standards and student retention. Those measures, paired with high research funding and a large endowment, put UC solidly in the P5 pack when movement occurs. In fact, on the academic side, it puts UC above Louisville and West Virginia, so a move to the ACC or B12 is most liklely when realignment kicks in again.

The B10 has been steadfast so far in their AAU membership requirement, although Nebraska's ouster from that club after gaining admission to the conference smelled bad. Still, the B10, with the exception of Northwestern, remains the most cohesive (and stable) conference because of the homogeneous profile of member schools.

Good assessment of the profile of the Big Ten schools. But UC fits in very well with that same profile. That said, O$U will always serve as an obstacle to any consideration of UC into the Big Ten. Look for Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas or Colorado (and of course Notre Dame) to be the likeliest candidates for Big Ten expansion if it were to come up again.