Will the OSU departures hurt our recruiting?

[reyray82]

haha. I was just poking fun at the fact that many BG fans also love OSU. Moreover, how many of our BG fans would cheer if we beat an undefeated buckeye team in football or bball(excluding michigan fans)?

As for the topic, yes osu recruiting would affect us. If you look at the ripples of recruitment. But coach Orr also helps our recruiting. The question is which affects us more.




On a side note I am from california, but if I was born in ohio I would probably be an OSU fan. BUT I would have gone to college at OSU also.

[h2oville rocket]

Moreover, how many of our BG fans would cheer if we beat an undefeated buckeye team in football or bball(excluding michigan fans)?

If you became the first MAC team to beat OSU every BG student on campus would hide every piece of OSU apparrel they owned and deny ever having any. The bookstore couldn't handle the run on BG attire and there would be new Falcon fans everywhere who would swear they had followed the team religously for years. At least until the OSU-Michigan game.

And for bgsukid: please don't confuse the fact that OSU is a "big time" athletic school. As much as it pains me to say it BG (and of course Toledo) is light years ahead of OSU's program in all important aspects. Sadly, many fans are determined to drop to OSU's level for the perceived benefits and status. If we could instead aspire to reach the lofty heights of the Wittenberg's, Baldwin Wallaces, etc. we'd get this whole thing back in perspective but I don't look for that to happen.

[bgsukid]

Moreover, how many of our BG fans would cheer if we beat an undefeated buckeye team in football or bball(excluding michigan fans)?

And for bgsukid: please don't confuse the fact that OSU is a "big time" athletic school. As much as it pains me to say it BG (and of course Toledo) is light years ahead of OSU's program in all important aspects. Sadly, many fans are determined to drop to OSU's level for the perceived benefits and status. If we could instead aspire to reach the lofty heights of the Wittenberg's, Baldwin Wallaces, etc. we'd get this whole thing back in perspective but I don't look for that to happen.

So you're trying to tell me we should all be bigger fans of the academics rather than the teams on the field/court? You did just say that BG and Toledo are light years ahead of OSU in the important aspects which I assume you're referring to academics thus meaning that their performance on the field is unimportant. That's just laughable. Nobody goes to a game, including yourself, to see the guy with a 4.0 GPA and if the whole team had 4.0's and never won any games nobody would come and watch them. When nobody comes and watches the football team, the main source of athletic revenue at many schools, then you run into a problem trying to support the rest of your sports that don't make any money. Sure we all want our athlete's to do well in the classroom, but nobody goes to the game to watch because they've got good GPA's.
Believe me I'm well aware OSU is big time and that they are the premeire athletic and public academic institution in the state while BG and Toledo will never be on that level and I've accepted that. I don't live under the dillusion that they ever will be like some do.
Anyway, people need to quit highjacking the thread and stay on topic. OSU's recruiting has a very minimal affect on BG recruiting. Their recruiting might affect one player a year as a result of a trickle down affect of about five schools and result in BG losing out on a player they thought was slightly better than the one they end up landing. It's really a non-issue since the affect is so minimal.

[h2oville rocket]

Moreover, how many of our BG fans would cheer if we beat an undefeated buckeye team in football or bball(excluding michigan fans)?

And for bgsukid: please don't confuse the fact that OSU is a "big time" athletic school. As much as it pains me to say it BG (and of course Toledo) is light years ahead of OSU's program in all important aspects. Sadly, many fans are determined to drop to OSU's level for the perceived benefits and status. If we could instead aspire to reach the lofty heights of the Wittenberg's, Baldwin Wallaces, etc. we'd get this whole thing back in perspective but I don't look for that to happen.

So you're trying to tell me we should all be bigger fans of the academics rather than the teams on the field/court? You did just say that BG and Toledo are light years ahead of OSU in the important aspects which I assume you're referring to academics thus meaning that their performance on the field is unimportant. That's just laughable. Nobody goes to a game, including yourself, to see the guy with a 4.0 GPA and if the whole team had 4.0's and never won any games nobody would come and watch them. When nobody comes and watches the football team, the main source of athletic revenue at many schools, then you run into a problem trying to support the rest of your sports that don't make any money. Sure we all want our athlete's to do well in the classroom, but nobody goes to the game to watch because they've got good GPA's.
Believe me I'm well aware OSU is big time and that they are the premeire athletic and public academic institution in the state while BG and Toledo will never be on that level and I've accepted that. I don't live under the dillusion that they ever will be like some do.
Anyway, people need to quit highjacking the thread and stay on topic. OSU's recruiting has a very minimal affect on BG recruiting. Their recruiting might affect one player a year as a result of a trickle down affect of about five schools and result in BG losing out on a player they thought was slightly better than the one they end up landing. It's really a non-issue since the affect is so minimal.

Not talking about academics at all. I'm talking about the tail wagging the dog. Small schools keep things in perspective. And had I attended BW or Kenyon or Capital I would have attended their games and enjoyed them every bit as much as any OSU fan ever has enjoyed an OSU game. Of course I still would have been a Rocket fan, because, you know, you just gotta be!

[bgsukid]

Not talking about academics at all. I'm talking about the tail wagging the dog. Small schools keep things in perspective. And had I attended BW or Kenyon or Capital I would have attended their games and enjoyed them every bit as much as any OSU fan ever has enjoyed an OSU game. Of course I still would have been a Rocket fan, because, you know, you just gotta be!

Small schools are what they are because they have no choice. They don't have the money, resources, boosters, fan base nor get the media attention to be anything more. I thought this thread was about recruiting?

[Flipper]

Small schools are small because.....they're small. And they're small by design. Yep...they actually made a conscious desicion to be a small school. Don't let the size queens fool you...there are advantages to being small

[h2oville rocket]

Small schools are small because.....they're small. And they're small by design. Yep...they actually made a conscious desicion to be a small school. Don't let the size queens fool you...there are advantages to being small

My wife told me that to make me feel better. Oh, yeah-when she recruited me.