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(04-10-2022 02:00 PM)Edgebrookjeff Wrote:  

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(04-07-2022 11:51 AM)CliftonAve Wrote:  Absolutely. We need to expand beyond just the city’s team. Heck, even Pitt has a fan following such that they have radio affiliates in different cities:

Ambridge: WMBA (1460 AM)
Beaver Falls: WBVP (1230 AM)
Bedford: WBFD (1310 AM)
Harrisburg: WTKT (1460 AM)
Indiana: WCCS (1160 AM & 101.1 FM)
Johnstown: WCRO (1230 AM)
Meyersdale/Somerset: WQZS (93.3 FM)
Pittsburgh: KDKA (93.7 FM)
Uniontown/Meyersdale: WMBS (590 AM & 101.1 FM)
Youngstown: WLLF (790 AM & 96.7 FM)
Sirius XM

Would love to get some UC coverage in the middle & northern parts of the state. For years, UofL broadcasted in Cincy. This was even pre-ACC. Love to see this even in NKY and Eastern IN.

So many good ideas here - including on p1
Radio, caravan, make it an event, autographs, etc. Has anyone sent any of these suggestions to the athletic department?

I would agree that these need to be implemented. The radio affiliates may not be necessary as anyone with a smartphone can listen for free on iHeartRadio. I believe UofL pays for the time in Cincinnati. If that's what it would take the money would be better spent in other areas. I'm all for a caravan though, bring it up my way near Cleveland/Akron. UC is growing in popularity up here, feels like a lot more young people are choosing UC since I moved up here in 2016.

Both UK & UL have their football & basketball games on local stations here in Cincinnati. It sucks when you can't find a local game on the radio, but you can always find the UK/UL broadcast.

I hate it when the Reds preempt UC games on WLW a 50,000 watt station onto a low power FM station. I go to all home and some road games but like to listen to the post game on the radio.

(04-10-2022 01:05 PM)doss2 Wrote:  Cincinnati has a kicker
Even with all their success last season, the Bearcats were 129th of 130 FBS teams in team FG percentage (43.75%). Northwestern was the only team worse.

Fickell and his staff addressed the kicking woes during the offseason, bringing in transfer kicker Ryan Coe. The 6-foot-3, 220-pound former Delaware standout blasted kick after kick on Saturday, including a scrimmage-ending 48-yarder.

Cincinnati Bearcats kicker Ryan Coe (40) walks the sidelines during a pre-season intersquad scrimmage at the Sheakley Athletics Center in Cincinnati on Saturday, April 9, 2022.
Cincinnati Bearcats kicker Ryan Coe (40) walks the sidelines during a pre-season intersquad scrimmage at the Sheakley Athletics Center in Cincinnati on Saturday, April 9, 2022.
"We're going to put him in some tough situations," said Fickell, who received the Bobby Dodd National Coach of the Year Award before the scrimmage. "We trust him. We believe in him. We've seen what he can do. You want the guys around him to see what he can do. I think he's going to do a really, really, really good job. We don't want to put too much on him to start with."

Fickell said it's still unclear who will handle the field goals and kickoffs this season. He said he'll do more kick scrimmaging next week.

Bolded, if we had known that before the season began no one would have bet on the Bearcats to run the table and reach the CFP. It was a glaring deficiency that, thankfully, never cost the team a victory.

I'm getting the feeling this could be a 9-3 year ahead but a field goal here or there with this defense could mean another win or two and a third straight CCG.

(04-11-2022 06:25 AM)OKIcat Wrote:  

(04-10-2022 01:05 PM)doss2 Wrote:  Cincinnati has a kicker
Even with all their success last season, the Bearcats were 129th of 130 FBS teams in team FG percentage (43.75%). Northwestern was the only team worse.

Fickell and his staff addressed the kicking woes during the offseason, bringing in transfer kicker Ryan Coe. The 6-foot-3, 220-pound former Delaware standout blasted kick after kick on Saturday, including a scrimmage-ending 48-yarder.

Cincinnati Bearcats kicker Ryan Coe (40) walks the sidelines during a pre-season intersquad scrimmage at the Sheakley Athletics Center in Cincinnati on Saturday, April 9, 2022.
Cincinnati Bearcats kicker Ryan Coe (40) walks the sidelines during a pre-season intersquad scrimmage at the Sheakley Athletics Center in Cincinnati on Saturday, April 9, 2022.
"We're going to put him in some tough situations," said Fickell, who received the Bobby Dodd National Coach of the Year Award before the scrimmage. "We trust him. We believe in him. We've seen what he can do. You want the guys around him to see what he can do. I think he's going to do a really, really, really good job. We don't want to put too much on him to start with."

Fickell said it's still unclear who will handle the field goals and kickoffs this season. He said he'll do more kick scrimmaging next week.

Bolded, if we had known that before the season began no one would have bet on the Bearcats to run the table and reach the CFP. It was a glaring deficiency that, thankfully, never cost the team a victory.

I'm getting the feeling this could be a 9-3 year ahead but a field goal here or there with this defense could mean another win or two and a third straight CCG.

CHRISTIAN LOWERY
POSITION K
HT./WT. 5-11 / 168
CLASS Sophomore
EXPERIENCE HS
HOMETOWN Acworth, Ga.
HIGHSCHOOL Harrison
2021: Appeared in five games...Was a perfect 20- 20 on PATs this season, including making five each against ECU and Houston in the AAC Championship game..Made two out of four field goals on the season, including a 32-yarder against Navy.

BRYCE BURTON
POSITION K
HT./WT. 5-10 / 210
CLASS Junior
EXPERIENCE SQ
HOMETOWN Cincinnati, Ohio
HIGHSCHOOL Princeton
2020: Did not see any game action.
2019: Redshirted ... named to the 2019 AAC All-Academic Team.
PRIOR TO UC: Played for former Bearcats standout receiver Mike Daniels at Prince HS ... Second-Team All-Greater Miami Conference selection at linebacker in 2018 ... finished with 55 tackles, including 28 solo stops, an interception and fumble recovery ... also went 4-for-6 on field goals with a long make of 30 yards and was 18-of-19 on PATs ... punted 32 times for a 35.3 yards per punt average with give kicks inside the 20 and a long boot of 55 yards ... tallied 47 tackles and 2.0 sacks as a junior.

RYAN COE
HOMETOWN McDonald, Pa.
HIGHSCHOOL South Fayette HS
PREV SCHOOL Delaware
CLASS Junior
Biography
Connected on 12 of 15 field goals with a long of 51 in 2021 en route to All-CAA Third Team honors.
Also averaged 62.6 yard per kickoff with 30 touchbacks in 2021.
Selected to the All-CAA Second Team in 2020-21 after making 12 field goals, including a 54-yarder in a FCS Playoff game. It was the longest field goal by any kicker in the conference in 2020-21.
Made 24 of 32 field goal attempts and 43 extra points during his two years as the starting placekicker for the Blue Hens.
He also was the team’s kickoff specialist as a true freshman in 2019.
Selected to the CAA Commissioner’s Academic Honor Roll in 2021.

(04-10-2022 02:07 AM)scvanguard1 Wrote:  Spring game update.

https://www.si.com/college/cincinnati/fo...pring-game

Thanks for posting.. good update.

I saw the photo of the Dodd presentation to Coach Fickell Saturday on the late news but it wasn't until I read this piece that I learned who the man pictured on the far right side was...

https://gobearcats.com/news/2022/4/10/fo...-rice.aspx

...former Bearcat (and Bengals) Head Coach Homer Rice. He's 95 now and, coincidentally perhaps, happens to be a member of the Bobby Dodd Foundation Board which brought Coach Rice back to a campus he hardly recognized for the ceremony.

It's great that he was able to visit and see the remarkable progress Cincinnati football has made. Most here are way too young to remember much about him but he was a winning coach at Fort Thomas Highlands, authored a book on his coaching innovations, and then coached the Bearcats with Greg Cook at QB before going to the University of North Carolina as Athletic Director. He wasn't successful as Bengals head coach but he wasn't alone in that regard. Anyway, very cool that he got to come back.

(04-11-2022 12:50 PM)OKIcat Wrote:  I saw the photo of the Dodd presentation to Coach Fickell Saturday on the late news but it wasn't until I read this piece that I learned who the man pictured on the far right side was...

https://gobearcats.com/news/2022/4/10/fo...-rice.aspx

...former Bearcat (and Bengals) Head Coach Homer Rice. He's 95 now and, coincidentally perhaps, happens to be a member of the Bobby Dodd Foundation Board which brought Coach Rice back to a campus he hardly recognized for the ceremony.

It's great that he was able to visit and see the remarkable progress Cincinnati football has made. Most here are way too young to remember much about him but he was a winning coach at Fort Thomas Highlands, authored a book on his coaching innovations, and then coached the Bearcats with Greg Cook at QB before going to the University of North Carolina as Athletic Director. He wasn't successful as Bengals head coach but he wasn't alone in that regard. Anyway, very cool that he got to come back.

That was my freshman year at UC and remember the season well. A prolific offense and no defense. Tied Texas Tech on the road 10-10. Lost to Houston 77-33, lost Ohio U. 60-48 just to remember a few. Miami game was basically over until the 4th quarter. The Bengals played at Nippert that year and the middle of field was practically dirt and O'Brien kicked from that dirt into the wind as a straight on kicker, no soccer style for him. Great game and a great memory back when UC football was an after thought.

(04-11-2022 04:28 PM)bearcat72 Wrote:  

(04-11-2022 12:50 PM)OKIcat Wrote:  I saw the photo of the Dodd presentation to Coach Fickell Saturday on the late news but it wasn't until I read this piece that I learned who the man pictured on the far right side was...

https://gobearcats.com/news/2022/4/10/fo...-rice.aspx

...former Bearcat (and Bengals) Head Coach Homer Rice. He's 95 now and, coincidentally perhaps, happens to be a member of the Bobby Dodd Foundation Board which brought Coach Rice back to a campus he hardly recognized for the ceremony.

It's great that he was able to visit and see the remarkable progress Cincinnati football has made. Most here are way too young to remember much about him but he was a winning coach at Fort Thomas Highlands, authored a book on his coaching innovations, and then coached the Bearcats with Greg Cook at QB before going to the University of North Carolina as Athletic Director. He wasn't successful as Bengals head coach but he wasn't alone in that regard. Anyway, very cool that he got to come back.

That was my freshman year at UC and remember the season well. A prolific offense and no defense. Tied Texas Tech on the road 10-10. Lost to Houston 77-33, lost Ohio U. 60-48 just to remember a few. Miami game was basically over until the 4th quarter. The Bengals played at Nippert that year and the middle of field was practically dirt and O'Brien kicked from that dirt into the wind as a straight on kicker, no soccer style for him. Great game and a great memory back when UC football was an after thought.

It was mostly dirt but they did paint the dirt green for Bengals TV games.

I'm not sure exactly when this is from but it's pretty cool anyway (Jabari Taylor is the "kicker" in question btw):

I wonder what the stakes were....

Who wouldn't enjoy playing in the Bearcat program these days? It's enjoyable just watching the engagement of our coach and the camaraderie of the players in that clip. I expect growing pains early this fall but a very successful season overall.

(04-15-2022 11:52 AM)Bearhawkeye Wrote:  I'm not sure exactly when this is from but it's pretty cool anyway (Jabari Taylor is the "kicker" in question btw):

I wonder what the stakes were....

It was at this weeks practice. I watched the front office news interview of Fickell.

Also, while Bearcat Journal and the Athletic are both great content, these guys are free and probably due the most interviews of players so I've started to follow the channel on youtube.

Chamon was interviewed 5 days ago for those interested in the next great Bearcat TE the link is below. I've been sold since we got him and watched his tape. Athletic freak like a Kelce. Chuck (Charles) and Fick were yesterday. Dan Hoard and media were there as well for Fick so if you want a better production then UC Bearcats Football is the channel you want to watch with Hoard.