University of Cincinnati Bearcats Tonight
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Is anybody else watching this bullshit on TV? I’m watching the UC vs NC State game. And right now, they’re playing more like the Bearcats of the early 90′s and not like the Big East Champs. Seriously, what the fuck is Butch Jones doing in practice? 2 weeks in a row and these boys aren’t ready to play!
Case in point, there’s 5:21 left in the 1st qtr and they’re down 14-0. I don’t even think the cats have a 1st down yet! C’mon boys, get it together.
UC will be fine, but ND will still suck
Gilyard handled the news just fine, and why shouldn’t he?…He’s been a great leader for this team, and they will be fine going forward. There are a number of solid coaching prospects, and they’d be lucky to inherit a 12-0 team!
Skip Holtz: The East Carolina coach since 2005, Holtz just won his second-straight Conference USA championship. After being linked last year with the Syracuse head coaching job, Holtz was quoted as saying “it would have to be a really special situation to get me out of here.” East Carolina plays Arkansas in the AutoZone Liberty Bowl on Jan. 2.
CJ Spiller or Mardy Gilyard?
You’re the Bungles top brASS-person….meaning you’re Mike or Katie! You have a mid-twenty pick in the NFL Draft, due to some shrewd pre-draft day deal. With your regular pick (a mid-teen pick) you address the DE hole you feel needs sureing up, but in the mid-or-early twenty something pick you see: CJ Spiller and also note that Mardy Gilyard is there. Who do YOU take?
CJ Spiller or Mardy Gilyard?….Spiller rates (presently) as perhaps the higher pick, but how could SOP (or YOU AS SOP!?!?!) “pass” on this kid Gilyard without pause? I say you got a tUFf call there,….but I take MG! WHY?…Cause, more than anything, I want to dump Chud Ocho-stinko off the squad, and if I DIDN’T just move his clown-act ass to GET this pick, I trade him after I make it for anything I could get!…yes, even for a cooler full of Sam Adam Octoberfest bee-yuhz!
Of course, what are the odds we get a front line DE (Hardy) and then fall into another first-round pick (trade Chud!…trade Chud!…) particularly with the REAL SOP and Katie in charge!?!?!?
Kryin’ Kelly?..where’s your loathing haze of Brian Kelly?
Where’s the OUTRAGE?!?!?!…Where are the violins?…Where’s the rage that a Head Coach of a team is “politicking” for his team to the College Football World? Short memories? If THIS isn’t the “full monty” in/of his plea, its certainly the first chapter. It may not (yet) have taken on the grand scope of some of the others before him, but its there to read! Its also clearly the begining of MORE to come!
Seems the World was all afire in 2006 when Urban Meyer was asked (in December, mind you) if he thought his team deserved to be in the BCS Championship Game, against tOSU….the fan reaction in much of the country, including THIS AREA, was that Mr Meyer was guilty of politicking, so to speak. Some fans even termed him Urban “Cryer” (Meyer), for his “sins”. By the time his team packed up and left Arizona, following his 41-14 win, the name was his forever. HE was right!…and those who gave him his nickname, were dead-ass wrong! Didn’t matter! Since then, other fans who probably don’t even follow the game all that much, picked up on the cool nickname, just out of spite/hate!
Fast forward to October 18th, 2009 and we now have another in the LONG and distinguished line of front men talking positive about their team; this time it strikes in Cincinnati, OHIO. Yes, Mr Brian Kryer Kelly has thrown his whistle into the ring. So, where is the public outcry here, or negative chatter??…oooooohhhh, right, hypocrites -almost forgot!! Sure, what else can it be?….Kelly is just talking about his team!, right?….and Meyer wasn’t?…..Well, that is,..Meyer, and the 45 other that have answered that question in the same manner, over the last 20+ years…??
I’m here to say, I AM A FAN of Mr Kelly (and Mardy Gilyard, for that matter), and I’m NOT calling for his head over this opinion (just as I didn’t with Urbs). Its valid, in my opinon. Perhaps in just the same manner Urbs was back in ’06. Not ALL of the Cocaches who “blindly promote” have had merit though;..Marshall, Tulane, ECU, TCU, K-State, to name just a few. I do have to say, in Meyers’ case, when HE was asked (and responded), it was AFTER he’d finished his season. Not thru 1/2 of it, as some of the others have done. I hope Texas ends up losing and the Gators can muster enUFf offense up to get past the rest of the teams on their schedule!…Thus opening up the VERY good possibility of a UF/UC BCS Title Game! Of course Machine will cry about poor ol’Boise State not getting the nod, but I’ll get over that pretty easy. (11 games vs teams ranked higher than 67?…and 3 ranked OVER 100?..yeah, not really too much to get moved about there….hell, Idado is 6-0 right now….you know where they’re ranked right now?…exactly!) Oh, and get ready for other fans who couldn’t SPELL Brian Kelly 3 weeks ago, to alla sudden have a great problem with him (politicking, runnning up the score, and my fav -”Lying to recruits”…how some nuts KNOW this, is odd, but they do it!). Its part of it, apparently…why?…pppfffttt, who knows? Hate seems to flow heavy towards those who win!
UC NEWS:
PIKE MIGHT PLAY vs LOUISVILLE
The RUNNING of the BULLS!
Cats roll USF in PRIME TIME!..LOOK ready to take it up a notch! Brian Kelly, YOU DA MAN!!! 34-17
UC Primed to take control of the Big(L)East
How much does WVU miss Richy Rod?…..A TON!…..Bill Stewart is certainly a respectable guy, and an awesome grandpa too, I’ll bet. He is NO Richy Rod though, and the Mountaineers are going to fall back into the unranked abyss for a spell. At the very least-for the short term! Everyone was all wrapped up in the fuzzy-warm story of how Grandpa Bill took over the team amidst the turmoil of Richy jumping ship, and destroyed Stoops’ Sooners in the 2008 Fiesta Bowl game. The last great game they’ve played!
That memory might be all these mountaineers have to grip to, as they watch the changing of the Guard in the Big(L)East. Cincinnati has the direction and the Coach, to become the staple Big(L)East team for the next decade! That is, of course, unless BEE-rye Kelly decides his paychecks are too small and jumps off and into Notre Dame…and obviously that’s a valid concern. Still, with RECORD numbers of student filling the ranks, and a sizable bank account (figuratively speaking) left over from the Nancy Zimpher years, UC could secure Kelly with a powerful contract that just might keep him in town. Now, it “might” come at the expense of the Basketball program!….As were the days of yore, when Huggy-Chicken ran the roost and Football was intentionally suppressed! The smart people seem to think Cronin is just WAITING to fill the void after Pitino retires from Louisville. Apparently lowering the basketball budget is also something Mick sees (and now FEELS) as part of the pending UC future.
Back to WestVirginny!…..They were handed an 11-point loss to Offensively challenged Auburn, on “The Plains”! and now, they’re bragging about beating Colorado (HEY!,..Colorado, how do you miss 3 FG;s in one game?)! Yeah, the same team that Toledo hung 54 on (Colorado), the Mountaineers are boasting about beating by eleven! THAT’S how much they miss Richie Rod, even if they’ll never (pride and hatred) say it!
Oct. 1
at West Virginia 35 … Colorado 24
Noel Devine ripped off a 77-yard touchdown run and Jarrett Brown connected with Jock Sanders for a six-yard score and Brad Starks for a 48-yard touchdown as West Virginia won a sloppy game. Colorado stayed alive on a 36-yard Rodney Stewart touchdown run and got a 29-yard touchdown catch from Scotty McKnight, but three interceptions, three missed field goals from Aric Goodman, and two short touchdown runs from West Virginia’s Ryan Clarke were too much to overcome. The Mountaineers turned it over four times, all on fumbles.
Player of the Game: West Virginia RB Noel Devine ran 22 times for 220 yards and a touchdown
Colorado: Passing: Cody Hawkins, 27-52, 292 yds, 2 TD, 3 INT
Rushing: Rodney Stewart, 21-105, 1 TD, Receiving: Scotty McKnight, 9-98, 1 TD
West Virginia: Passing: Jarrett Brown, 12-19, 148 yds, 2 TD
Rushing: Noel Devine, 22-220, 1 TD, Receiving: Brad Starks, 3-68, 1 TD
What It All Means: West Virginia gave Colorado several chances to take over the game, but the Buffs didn’t take advantage. The defense couldn’t slow down Noel Devine and the Mountaineer running game, but the bigger problem was CU’s own ineffectiveness on offense. Cody Hawkins threw 52 times, but the passing game only gained 292 yards with three rough interceptions. To have any chance at Texas next week, the offense has to be perfect while the defense can’t give up the big plays it allowed in Morgantown.
Richie Rod, on the other hand, has seemingly weathered the early storm and has his team “on-the-grow” in Ann Arbor (who Buckeye fans think is a whore,…???). Some much he might even get that “comped” round of Golf in this year, at the University course he’s wanted so badly.(It’s a private course you know: http://www.worldgolf.com/courses/usa/michigan/annarbor/university-of-michigan-golf-course-private.html). You do have to look past that close game against Indiana to FULLY appreciated the Phoenix Richie is experiencing!
What does this all mean?….It means UC is in the driver’s seat BABY!, the one left empty by WVU, Louisville, and USF primarily. Rutgers is strongly considered the next best team (now) in the conference, and of course UC destroyed them IN New Jersey(What exit?) a few weeks ago! ….UConn, Pitt and Syracuse are out looking in, and this was supposed to be a DOWN year for Kelly’s Hero’s; following an Orange Bowl season that saw all but one defender leave! Mardy Gilyard and Private Pike have made it look easy, but they’ve had a lot of help too! This team could be scary good if they’re able to maintain this focus and keep this Coach. So much in fact, that the Basketballer fans might just get over the loss of the POWERFUL CUSA teams from years past! They were paper-tigers anyway!…under .500 in the Tourney, only one Final 4?….The Football team will beat that with another BCS Bowl appearance THIS year!
UC Baseball takes down USF
Bearcats win game two, 4-2 stay alive in National picture-Rubber match with Bulls today, at 11:00am, in Tampa, FL
story on GAME TWO
UC Football – 2009
UC Football 2009 KICKS-OFF, officially, with BEARCAT BOWL III!!!!!….Saturday April 25th, 2009 @ The NIP!…7pm (dress for rain!)
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2009-2010 SCHEDULE
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| Date | Opponent / Event | Location | Time / Result |
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| Sat., Sep. 5 | at Rutgers * | Piscataway, N.J. | TBA |
| Sat., Sep. 12 | vs. Southeast Missouri State | Nippert Stadium | TBA |
| Sat., Sep. 19 | at Oregon State | Corvallis, Ore. | TBA |
| Sat., Sep. 26 | vs. Fresno State | Nippert Stadium | TBA |
| Sat., Oct. 3 | at Miami (OH) | Oxford, Ohio | TBA |
| Thu., Oct. 15 | at USF *  |
Tampa, Fla. | 7:30 p.m. ET |
| Sat., Oct. 24 | vs. Louisville * | Nippert Stadium | TBA |
| Sat., Oct. 31 | at Syracuse * | Syracuse, N.Y. | TBA |
| Sat., Nov. 7 | vs. Connecticut * | Nippert Stadium | TBA |
| Fri., Nov. 13 | vs. West Virginia * |
Nippert Stadium | 8:00 p.m. ET |
| Sat., Nov. 28 | vs. Illinois | Nippert Stadium | TBA |
| Sat., Dec. 5 | at Pittsburgh * |
Pittsburgh, Pa. | TBA |
…….I’m UCrazy, and I approve this schedule
UC gets rolled by the ‘cuse
SYRACUSE, N.Y. – The University of Cincinnati Bearcats didn’t play like a team that was hungry to compete in the NCAA Tournament.
Instead of seizing the chance to score a marquee road win that would impress the Selection Committee, they took the floor in the massive Carrier Dome on Sunday apparently still feeling the glow of their victory over West Virginia three days earlier. Not so good and along the way, Alvin Mitchell gets invited to watch from the locker room following this Flagrant Intentional
UC vs tOSU
Bearcats Loses BIG EAST/Big Ten Challenge Finale to Ohio State, 6-5; fall to 0-3 on the season
Feb. 22, 2009
TAMPA, Fla. – The University of Cincinnati baseball team battled back-and-forth with Ohio State, but the Bearcats were unable to come out on top as they fell to the Buckeyes 6-5 Sunday afternoon at Red McEwen Field on the USF campus. Cincinnati (0-3) out-hit Ohio State (3-0) 11-10, but a fifth-inning sacrifice fly for Ohio State proved to be the difference.
Score by Innings R H E
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UC Bearcats……… 112 010 000 - 5 11 1
Ohio State………. 031 110 00X - 6 10 1
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OSU finished the Big East vs Big Ten Challenge 3-0, by knocking off Notre Dame, UConn and Cincinnati.
Game summary here: http://www.fatguysports.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1307