I suppose the aftermath of a frustrating home loss isn't the wisest time to throw stones---

---not even at your most hated arch-rival (though perhaps not in hoops).

But a co-worker pointed this out to me. Sounds like things could be getting sorta dicey
at that place down south...

http://www.thelantern.com/sports/commentary-the-real-problem-with-ohio-state-basketball-1.2787465

Frustrating home loss is an understatement, Mike. I had the misfortune of being at Crisler Saturday with my dad. We managed to get in...barely. We got tickets from a scalper at 5:58 and got to our seats just as the introductions were finishing. Then the game happened. I think I'm done going to basketball games. I have a 1-5 record at Crisler and I'm sick of leaving that place with a loss. Luckily my record at the big house is 22-3 so I'll stick to football.

Thanks for the link. Any pain going on in Columbus is a treat. I'll actually be going down there in a couple weeks to visit some friends. They live just 2 blocks from Jim Tressel's house...or his old house. Don't think he lives there anymore.

For Cripes sakes, leave your Michigan shirt at home!!! In fact, given your car (or Dad's) bears Michigan plates, you might want to take a Greyhound...or if you must drive, buy and wear a "Muck Fichigan" shirt
(probably better bodily protection than a bullet-proof vest).

Back to the game---yes, it was frustrating as hell, but I think WAY too much is being made of our [erstwhile] bid for the conference title. We ALL KNOW there's one and only one thing that matters in college hoops. Did anyone give a poop we'd won the regular season title in '86 and regular season and conference tourney titles in '88, ten minutes after our second-round Big Dance losses??? (To, for the record, Iowa St. and UCLA, respectively).

And even more important, did anyone give a dangling DAMN we were only third in the conference in....1989???

So long as it doesn't prove to ruin our momentum/cameraderie/etc. too badly, I can put the Purdue debacle in the past easily enough.

It was my own fault for starting to have a little hope because this is the closest we had been to contending for the Big Ten title in 17 years. And as I recall, a home loss to so-so Purdue at the end of the season killed those hopes as well. I figured, well, Michigan State won a conference title in football last year which I never thought I would see happen again so why not us in basketball?

As for my trip to the worst state ever, I've been there several times before without a problem. Probably because my friends live on the west side of Columbus that separates it from Dublin. I couldn't even tell you where the campus or Ohio Stadium is. Only "problems" I have ever had is the waiters at restaraunts asking me I'm new to the area. I tell them I'm from Michigan and they apologize to me as if my grandparents just died. It's more of a pity thing which is lame but I'll take it over having my car keyed.

Stiff those fucking waiters, then!