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(08-14-2019 08:46 AM)Cat-Man Wrote:  

(08-14-2019 08:31 AM)skylinecat Wrote:  

(07-30-2019 06:19 PM)UCbball21 Wrote:  

(07-30-2019 03:56 PM)OKIcat Wrote:  This has all been an interesting development. There has always been a decent sized t-shirt Michigan fan base in Greater Cincinnati. My guess is many of them became Michigan fans out of opposition to Ohio State. Starting to think that a few will find themselves in the pickle of now not rooting for either. That is a good for UC.

The moral to all of this is that it is a conflict of interest to be a UC fan and root for another school in the region. Eventually, there will be a conflict of interest. Our fans/alums/students rooting for OSU, Michigan, UK, Indiana (even casually) is the reason why we are stuck in the AAC.

It doesn't help that we are in an NFL market either. I'd say fan interest and dollars invested into the Bengals versus the Bearcats has the single greatest impact. Cincy would basically be Louisville on steroids if it wasn't for that.

Hopefully another year of the Bengals winning 4 games will continue to push people towards the Cats. I know it will never happen, but UC aught to do a marketing campaign to remind people that the Bengals haven't won a playoff game since 1988 and Reagan was president.

I was trying to figure this out the other day. With a truly random selection of the 32 teams, what percentage of teams would win a playoff game everyone year.?

You are right that it would never happen. The Bengals and UC have a friendship that started when the Bengals were an expansion team and played their home games at Nippert, and continues today with UC playing their big games at PBS and the Bengals using UC's indoor practice facility. That relationship will never be broken and they wouldn't do anything to piss each other off. That's why we have never seen any anti-Bengals marketing from UC.

I get what you're trying to say, but why is Hang On Sloopy played at every Bengals game? I've always felt like the Bengals have tried to identify more with OSU than with the schools in their own city.