SING OUT, GENTLE BUCKEYES

Not Pictured: Mike Cooper, also skinning his Wolverine.

I can’t wait to see these guys at the Coliseum. Lead pipe twirling will come in handy in South Central.

If we had a 250k seat stadium, there would still be people shut out. The ticket office is disfunctional, but also in a no win situation. Now you know why tOSU travels so well, it is easier to get tickets in an opponents stadium than our own.

Not Pictured: Me giving a shit about Big 10 Football

Is Subcommandant Wayne going to be on the judges panel? If so, does this mean someone will finally sleep with him?

D’s may earn degrees, but they sure as hell don’t earn you the comradery and respect that siphoning 87-grade gasoline from one fair skinned, winter insulated queen of the Midwest to another in under 4.3 seconds (SEC speed my ass). O-H

@3 – I guess that’s why Indiana is practically a home game

I thought Buckeyes traveled so well because it temporarily allowed them to visit someplace less miserable than O-H-I-O.

Somehow, O-H-I-O spells “HURRRRRRRRRRR”

3: Ditto why Northwestern home games against Michigan and Wisconsin are usually only available through 3-game packages where you have to buy tickets to 2 other crap games to get tickets to the Michigan or Wisconsin game. The place gets completely invaded by opposing fans otherwise.

Still, the best fan base I’ve heard of in this regard is Nebraska, who had a pretty substantial number of fans buy season tickets to USC just to make sure they had good seats for the Nebraska/USC game at the Coliseum two years ago. Strong showing.

CB, I think the reason tOSU travels so well is the same reason Wildebeest do ….. they’ve eaten everything and need to move on.

And this bitching is unlike any other (legit) program…. how?

We dont even have enough tickets for our students, let alone our alums.

i guess buckeye alums are entitled more than normal.

(btw, notice the irony of me putting “buckeye” and “titled” in the same sentence)

Only two excuses for being able to drink at the office without incurring administrator/sr. partner ire: prevailing on a JNOV and openly mocking O-H-I-Oans.

Re #3: So, to clarify, OSU fans leave the state in great numbers to follow their team, while few visitors travel to Columbus? You call that a “traveling fanbase.” I call that a “refugee crisis.”

Can anyone nominate?

Fastest DUI Outside of OH-IO: Greg (LASTNAMEWITHHELD), Columbus proper

Relocated to Sacramento, CA in Fall of 2007 and within the span of a week had found the nearest sports bar and promptly got popped by the California Highway Patrol that evening after a Buckeyes victory.

Join the booster club, fork over the cash. Support your school the right way…

donating to athletics and giving academia a hearty F U. Thanks for that B in Western Civ just because I never bothered to adhere to the “attendance policy.”

1. - congrats on the JNOV. That would be cause for drinking. Openly mocking O-H-I-O-Ans – sounds more like oro forma work to me

1. 13 – pro forma

Well Coop old man, that might work at USC, but in Ohio they have a winning team. There is a waiting list for tickets that no donation to a booster club is going to fix.

Visiting schools only get 5000 tix per game (out of 105,000) and their unused tickets are returned for sale prior to gametime. Ohio State is also on the quarter system so the students don’t return until the 3rd week in September. That is the only reason that there are as many tickets available to the first few games as there are currently. There are 52,000 students and I believe over 35,000 student tickets. On the upside (or downside depending on perspective), tOSU does not price games individually. That means YSU is the same price as Michigan. I think my season tickets ran about 62/seat per game.

Sweet wounded Jesus, someone just called Coop a USC fan. [fetching popcorn for the SHOW]

I know he is a fan of Clempson, but I knew he would relate to a weak USC.

1. — well, you may not need a brain to coach, but it sure does help to move some tickets. Besides, I imagine that at any given moment, there are more alumni of UM or UW in Chicagoland than there are of Northwestern. (And then one has the Walmart Wolverines and their equivalents from greater Milwaukee to contend with…)

It must have something to do about finding a bigger (better? certainly warmer…) pond than the one you played in during college, I guess.

Chicago certainly looks like Oz if one’s undergrad days were passed in any other Big10 town. But after four years of pretending that we’re Ivy Leaguers without the accents, most of us who wear the purple are looking to go elsewhere. (Anywhere that the phrase “wind chill” is only meaningful to skiers, that is.)

You pay $62/seat to see tOSU? I thought $45 for Ole Miss was absurd.

22: There might be more UM alums in the Chicago area than NU, but that probably has something to do with UM being 4 times the size of NU, and like NU its graduates spread out all over the place (hell, I think half the Greek system at U of M is comprised of New Yorkers – certainly I saw plenty of SUV’s with sorority letters and NY plates). Chicago being the closest truly major city, plenty of UM people end up in Chicago.

Lots of NU grads stay in Chicago though. I knew a bunch of people at my high school who went there or U of Chicago. Every single one of them is still in Chicago, 10 years later.

Funny, Holly.

@ 19

Break it down for me, then.

Let’s say, hypothetically, that Subcommondante Wayne wins the Powerball or the Mega Millions or whatever lottery is in Ohio and decides that he will donate $100K a year to Ohio State’s version of IPTAY, their booster club.

Sadly, I cannot tell you said Buckeye club’s name, which is disappointing given that I now have Direc TV and have been watching way too much of the Big 10 Network late at night.

Moving on, are you telling me that Wayne’s annual donation will not be good enough to secure 4 or more season tickets a year?

Thanks hobeg8r. Cocksuckers came down at 10:15 (apparently not understanding the concept of mitigating one’s damages); moved for it; adjourned; five hours later…sings in a warbly, Kenny Stabler whiskey voice I’m walking on sunshine!

muhahhahahaaaahahaaaaaa.

@Coop He’d instantly be a member of the President’s Club (separate from the Alumni Association’s allotment and unrelated to the pre-allocated student seats) and hence eligible for the purchase of 2 of their season tickets (fellow club members routinely sell seats they’re unable/don’t desire to attend though, so acquiring more than 2 with that sort of bank is often hardly a chore). While those too are somewhat limited in scope, I believe they’re distributed based on a seniority basis. Although one could argue Subcomandante would gladly accept the opportunity cost of relinquishing that privilege to engross his new lifetime membership in the far more Wayne-desired Diamond Club.

Whoops, make that Emperor’s Club. Bad cut and paste job (although Wayne does enjoy hims diamond rated companions of the evening).

Thank you, 26, that is my point.

I figured there had to be a booster club, exclusive of the alumni club, just like every other school, where anyone, alum or high school dropout, can get tickets if they donate enough money.

A couple of years ago IPTAY, Clemson’s booster group, went from a mostly seniority basis to more of combination of seniority and donation basis, which was long overdue.

We had people who had been in IPTAY for 30 or so years donating $500 for 2 tickets in the lowers between the 30s, and those who had been in IPTAY anywhere from 5-10 years who were donating anywhere from $2-$10K and getting tickets in the upper deck.

Unacceptable when it comes to today’s facilities arms race.

The only people who got their panties in a wad were those taking advantage of the situation, naturally.

No crystal-ball carrying competition? I guess it hasn’t been needed for quite some time around here.

With the obvious birth defects (where are her fingers?!), that has to be Wayne’s little sister.

23 — well, my informal sample works just the other way. Out of a random group of 15 folks — OK, it’s my pledge class — only 1 or 2 stayed in Chicago, and they both grew up in DuPage County.

Yes, the UM student body is much larger, but I really didn’t feel the need to point out the obvious.

‘Cats don’t always travel well, either. I’m going back East for the Indiana game, because it’s not even a two-hour drive from Louisville to Bloomington. But I expect to have my money for the NAA picnic refunded for the second time in a row, for lack of signups.

Apropos of nothing, here’s a modest proposal: Any graduate of UM or State that hies off to Chicago within five years of taking a degree owes the school the difference between the resident and out-of-state rates. Discuss.

Us pitt fans laugh at this…season tickets in the upper deck starts at something like $99.

The dust from Wanny’s stache picks up the difference.

Donating your money down the drain of the AA’s is all fine and good and even makes some folks feel good about things… But in Athens, GA – and I imagine at any program where the games for ‘08 are sold out – one could very likely a-hem maximize one’s utility by simply purchasing on secondary markets. You won’t overpay for Vandy (or Northwestern as the case may be) and you’ll get a “market rate” for Tennessee (or Michigan, whatever).

And a corrupt athletic department doesn’t sit on your money all summer while you twist in the wind wondering if you’ll a) get the # of season tickets you want, b) get any away tickets, and c) where you get to park.

E-Bay

I really like how Duke Jonas was able to accentuate his extra chin with some nice OSU logos.

some abstract for ya…that girl is playin with a lead penis!

@39 it took longer than expected, but FINALLY, a commenter with “Dumpster Muffin” in their alias

Those guys could totally pass for Grovetuckians.