What a hockey game this will be!!

[forgetfulKdog27]

What those students don't realize is that the more successful all aspects of BGSU are, the more their degree will be worth after they graduate -- and that includes athletics because it is such a visible facade of any university at the D1A level. Anyone who goes to Bowling Green should resent those kinds of people, in my opinion, because all they do is serve to devalue our university and raise the stature of another. Its despicable and people like that, honestly, don't even belong here. They aren't supporting the university now, and probably won't after they graduate.

That is about as well as anyone has put it. From now on i think I will just direct others to this post.

[Bleeding Orange]

I agree with you that the kind of people who aren't going to support us because of who we aren't need to take the next bus out of town. But the whole point of my post was to say this is a cool event. I would love to see us play in a game like this in the future. It really doesn't matter who the schools are, it's a great concept. This is what feeds that claim that everyone else in the state just wants to be a buckeye. Besides the fact that we are (state tree or nut or something like that), if we ignore them it will go away. If you are that anti one certain school just forget about them. I do it with the whole state of Michigan everyday, that is until a driver from that cursed state is around me. To keep ripping on them simply feeds their fire and ego. Let me go get ready to be reemed now.

Holy sh*t. I agree with you! (about the game)

I entirely forgot to address the game itself in my tirarde and for that, I appologize. That game will be pretty cool. Every time the NHL or NCAA has tried to do something like this with hockey it has ALWAYS been a success. I'm looking forward to this game, personally, despite my deep-seeded hatred for that school to the southeast. I think it will be a long time before we play a game like this, if ever, though. We don't have a single rival big enough. There is some kinship between the Blackeyes and Wisky that we don't share with another school in hockey. More power to 'em, but every time this kind of thing is done, its always done to break some kind of record. I don't see another school that we could pair up with in hockey to have a record-breaking type of situation.

Where I don't agree with you (and there always has to be somewhere!) is that we have to ignore OSU's existence. In my honest and sincere opinion, OSU has gone out of its way to belittle every other state school in Ohio to the point that they are, in terms of support (both athletically and financially from the state), just about everyone's darling. What their egos don't allow them to realize, though, is that they are part of a larger system of higher education in this state. Yes, they have the benefit of residing in the state capital with easier access to legislators, donors, etc., but that does not make their role in the state any more important than any of the other 12 public institutions of higher learning in the state (and yes, I am including Toledo in that count). Because those idiots are portrayed, both by themselves and people that have no business doing so, as the epitome of higher education in this state, every toothless yokel living in in this state feels it is their right to support OSU as if it were a professional franchise even though 90% of them will never see the outside walls of a building in which higher education takes place. That, my friend, is a bastardization of what higher education, and collegiate athletics, are supposed to be about. All this trend serves to do is debase all of the other institutions of higher education that Ohio's taxpayers support, and in the long-run, that only hurts higher education in the state of Ohio.

Por exemplo, a lot of state legislators (most of whom are freshmen who are overwhelmed by their positions) are in Columbus 26 weeks out of the year and they see OSU building new facilities all over campus. Many of them have never had any experience in higher education and when they see this they assume that higher education in this state has money flowing out of its wazoo when in reality OSU is simply dominating all of the non-alumni donations in the state because of the percieced stature of that university. All of this is cyclical and it only helps to hurt the Bowling Green's, Miami's, Ohio's and Kent's of this state and pushes them further towards privatization, which in the longrun is a tragedy for this state and it's youth. So, yes, sports and perception has A LOT to do with the condition of higher eductation in this state and your Alma Mater. It's complicated, but if no one ever realizes it, nothing will ever change and no one will want to raise their children in this state.

Never ignore the devil, or he will bite you.

Where

[SaxyIrishTenor]

I agree with you that the kind of people who aren't going to support us because of who we aren't need to take the next bus out of town. But the whole point of my post was to say this is a cool event. I would love to see us play in a game like this in the future. It really doesn't matter who the schools are, it's a great concept. This is what feeds that claim that everyone else in the state just wants to be a buckeye. Besides the fact that we are (state tree or nut or something like that), if we ignore them it will go away. If you are that anti one certain school just forget about them. I do it with the whole state of Michigan everyday, that is until a driver from that cursed state is around me. To keep ripping on them simply feeds their fire and ego. Let me go get ready to be reemed now.

Holy sh*t. I agree with you! (about the game)

I entirely forgot to address the game itself in my tirarde and for that, I appologize. That game will be pretty cool. Every time the NHL or NCAA has tried to do something like this with hockey it has ALWAYS been a success. I'm looking forward to this game, personally, despite my deep-seeded hatred for that school to the southeast. I think it will be a long time before we play a game like this, if ever, though. We don't have a single rival big enough. There is some kinship between the Blackeyes and Wisky that we don't share with another school in hockey. More power to 'em, but every time this kind of thing is done, its always done to break some kind of record. I don't see another school that we could pair up with in hockey to have a record-breaking type of situation.

Where I don't agree with you (and there always has to be somewhere!) is that we have to ignore OSU's existence. In my honest and sincere opinion, OSU has gone out of its way to belittle every other state school in Ohio to the point that they are, in terms of support (both athletically and financially from the state), just about everyone's darling. What their egos don't allow them to realize, though, is that they are part of a larger system of higher education in this state. Yes, they have the benefit of residing in the state capital with easier access to legislators, donors, etc., but that does not make their role in the state any more important than any of the other 12 public institutions of higher learning in the state (and yes, I am including Toledo in that count). Because those idiots are portrayed, both by themselves and people that have no business doing so, as the epitome of higher education in this state, every toothless yokel living in in this state feels it is their right to support OSU as if it were a professional franchise even though 90% of them will never see the outside walls of a building in which higher education takes place. That, my friend, is a bastardization of what higher education, and collegiate athletics, are supposed to be about. All this trend serves to do is debase all of the other institutions of higher education that Ohio's taxpayers support, and in the long-run, that only hurts higher education in the state of Ohio.

Por exemplo, a lot of state legislators (most of whom are freshmen who are overwhelmed by their positions) are in Columbus 26 weeks out of the year and they see OSU building new facilities all over campus. Many of them have never had any experience in higher education and when they see this they assume that higher education in this state has money flowing out of its wazoo when in reality OSU is simply dominating all of the non-alumni donations in the state because of the percieced stature of that university. All of this is cyclical and it only helps to hurt the Bowling Green's, Miami's, Ohio's and Kent's of this state and pushes them further towards privatization, which in the longrun is a tragedy for this state and it's youth. So, yes, sports and perception has A LOT to do with the condition of higher eductation in this state and your Alma Mater. It's complicated, but if no one ever realizes it, nothing will ever change and no one will want to raise their children in this state.

Never ignore the devil, or he will bite you.

Where

To my mother's dismay, it is highly unlikely I will raise my children here.