It’s a fucking difficult time to be a Buckeye fan. Three national championship game appearances in two years (football 2006, basketball 2007, football 2007) and three flat out ass kickings. Talk all you want about the honor of playing for the title. I’m done with that story. I say sign the Bucks up indefinitely for the Papa John’s No-One-Gives-a-Shit Bowl and we’ll kick the snot out of second rate schools in mid-December that no one watches on TV.
Sure, you can point to all the money the championship games have brought to the school and the Big Ten, but at what cost? Kirk Herbstreit (ex-OSU quarterback from my school days) hit it on the head when post-game he said that this loss sealed the Big Ten’s perception as the weakest of the BCS conferences (ranking at or below C-USA and MAC). From the season opening Appalachian State win over Michigan to the season ending blowouts of Illinois and OSU in BCS bowls, it seems the conference was hell-bent to prove that true in 2007.
But football’s over for 2007 and it will be a few months before preseason polls put OSU back in the top 5. Eyes focus now on prime time bball. Buckeye fans can heal up as there are no lofty expectations for their NBA draft depleted team already with three preconference-play losses. Now Michigan State and Indiana (ranked 6 and 10, respectively) get their turn to show what the conference is(n’t) made of.
Tags: Sports
Scott, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but Monday night was the FOURTH National Championship in a row we’ve lost: Football, Basketball, Soccer, and Football again.
WE’RE NUMBER TWO!! WE’RE NUMBER TWO!!
Look, soccer is a sport for Europeans and kids. I’m not going to get bent outta shape over that!
And not to be the bearer of more bad news, but we’re #5 (Final AP 2007), not #2!
Here’s my point: if we’d won the National Championship in soccer, how would you have felt? I know I would have been very happy, thank you very much. We lost. We have to own it.
OF COURSE soccer is for pussies — that’s why we never watch it. But it’s still a competitive college sport, and we still lost the big game.
OK, yes, we’re number 5. But that’s according to the polls. Everyone else can fuck off.