With All These Schools Switching Conferences…… The

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(08-24-2023, 08:15 PM)ochocincos Wrote: I'm not sure if you went to Ohio St or if you are like a majority of Ohio football fans and root for Ohio St because they've been the best college football team in the state for decades. Regardless, if you're from Ohio, I understand why you would root for them.

But for me, I only really root for the school I went to, and that was not Ohio St.

When I was little, for some reason, I fell in love with Ohio State. I loved football and it was my dream to go play there. My brother loved Michigan (more for basketball) and our room and Michigan wallpaper and a Michigan beanbag. I wanted to kill myself. 

When I was in my coma (little under three months), John Cooper heard about how die-hard I was and invited me up for a game to be on the sidelines (if/when I ever woke up), but then got fired before I could go.

I'm from the Northern tip of Kentucky and it's considered Greater Cincinnati (we could see the buildings downtown from our backyard growing up), and then lived in Cinci for five months after the wreck in the hospital (7 if you count the two months after that I was there from morning to night in their rehab day program), so I just stayed loving them.

I went to a small D3 college that literally was in our backyard (I could throw a football from my bedroom window onto their football field easily), and our teams always sucked and I just still loved Ohio State. And it wasn't like I was rooting for them because our team sucked, but I just always loved OSU.

(They're better now that they went NAIA and then D2 so they can offer scholarships now because it wasn't a cheap school to go to. Luckily, I got a lot of crippled financial grants and the state paid what they would for an in-state school.)

Anyways, I've been to a few games but still just always dream about if I had played for the scarlet and grey!