Rufus (OU Mascot) Speaks...

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UA5straightin2008
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Sep 22, 2010 2:20pm
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Pick6
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Sep 22, 2010 2:33pm
haha..little ol' hocking is talked about on espn
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Tiernan
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Sep 22, 2010 2:57pm
I'd like to see some OSU students go down to Hocking Hillbilly U and absolutely lay this POS out.
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dtdtim
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Sep 22, 2010 3:00pm
Pick6;493488 wrote:haha..little ol' hocking is talked about on espn

Could someone please explain to me how someone WHO IS NOT EVEN A STUDENT AT OHIO UNIVERSITY was allowed to be their mascot? Really?
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Gameover
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Sep 22, 2010 3:11pm
I was curious to that as well.
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vball10set
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Sep 22, 2010 3:22pm
^^^been discussed ad nauseam...feel free to join in :cool:

http://www.ohiochatter.com/forum/threads/16794-Brutus-and-the-Ohio-mascot.
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Sep 22, 2010 4:10pm
I think it would be funny to go around and tackle this douche a random times throughout the day since he thinks this is hilarious.......... like when he at the grocery store, pumping gas, trying to impress a girl ect..............
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Sep 22, 2010 4:12pm
stroups;493591 wrote:I think it would be funny to go around and tackle this douche a random times throughout the day since he thinks this is hilarious.......... like when he at the grocery store, pumping gas, trying to impress a girl ect..............

THAT would be funny. Lol
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Sep 22, 2010 5:24pm
Tiernan;493522 wrote:I'd like to see some OSU students go down to Hocking Hillbilly U and absolutely lay this POS out.

Hocking isn't a University you fucktard
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Sep 22, 2010 5:49pm
SportsAndLady;493639 wrote:Hocking isn't a University you fucktard
It was a fucktard statement and I have a hunch he was really referring to the much larger university a little further down US 33.
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rydawg5
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Sep 22, 2010 6:01pm
I thought it was funny
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FairwoodKing
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Sep 22, 2010 7:52pm
I had my own experience with the Ohio mascot many, many years ago. My team (Kent State) played at OU. I was the drum major of the KSU Marching Band. I had to go on the field for something, and I saw the mascot running towards me with a toy football in his arm. Just as a joke, I tackled him. No one got hurt, it was all in fun, and we both got a good laugh out of it. Problem was that the game was being televised on ABC and our little incident was caught on camera. For weeks after that, I had to explain to many people that no, the mascot and I were not fighting and that it was a harmless prank. At any rate, I never did that again.
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Sep 22, 2010 8:36pm
FairwoodKing;493753 wrote:I had my own experience with the Ohio mascot many, many years ago. My team (Kent State) played at OU. I was the drum major of the KSU Marching Band. I had to go on the field for something, and I saw the mascot running towards me with a toy football in his arm. Just as a joke, I tackled him. No one got hurt, it was all in fun, and we both got a good laugh out of it. Problem was that the game was being televised on ABC and our little incident was caught on camera. For weeks after that, I had to explain to many people that no, the mascot and I were not fighting and that it was a harmless prank. At any rate, I never did that again.

Yeah no one believes you...OU/KSU wouldn't be on national TV
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Sep 22, 2010 8:39pm
SportsAndLady;493799 wrote:Yeah no one believes you...OU/KSU wouldn't be on national TV
Unless it's Oklahoma vs. Kansas State. ;) Yeah I agree...I've never heard of any MAC on MAC game being televised on ABC.
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Sep 22, 2010 8:43pm
SportsAndLady;493799 wrote:Yeah no one believes you...OU/KSU wouldn't be on national TV

Maybe he meant the local ABC station was filming it for highlights.
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Sep 22, 2010 10:48pm
Considering FWK is getting up there in years, it wouldn't surprise me if it was one of the games from 1951-1984 that was either under the NCAA or the CFA (1 nationally televised game a week, of which the NCAA had its pick and there was no debate) to the more likely regionalized broadcasts that spawned right before the CFA fell apart after Notre Dame signed with NBC.

Not everything was the same decades ago. Hell, SMU at one time was a powerhouse and Florida was nothing more than a joke in football. Things change.
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yobro08
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Sep 22, 2010 11:11pm
god you guys take this too seriously
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Big Gain
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Sep 23, 2010 12:13am
Too seriously??? Think about this pin head.....Some how a non-student at Ohio University gets in the official Bobcat mascot costume. He walks around FREELY on the floor of the Ohio State football stadium where there are 2 football teams and coaches, cheerleaders, marching bands and over 100,000 fans. Most mascot costume are WAY more bulkier. If a non-student, why not a terrorist and a bomb in a mascot costume?

KABOOM.......10's of thousands of people dead and injured. WAY more simple than a shoe bomb on an airplane.

I'm willing to bet there are 100's of colleges looking at there stadium security issues after this crazed Hocking in the hills kid got into Ohio stadium as a fictitious mascot.
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Sep 23, 2010 12:14am
yobro08;493948 wrote:god you guys take this too seriously

Seriously, some of you guys are taking this little mascot tussle to heart! It was hilarious!
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Sep 23, 2010 12:16am
dtdtim;493529 wrote:Could someone please explain to me how someone WHO IS NOT EVEN A STUDENT AT OHIO UNIVERSITY was allowed to be their mascot? Really?

He was an OU student, got the mascot job, dropped out of OU and went to Hocking and sort of just fell through the cracks among the thousands of other OU students. Also, mascots are about as low as you can get in the athletic department, so not really on anyone's radar there.
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Sep 23, 2010 12:25am
FairwoodKing;493753 wrote:I had my own experience with the Ohio mascot many, many years ago. My team (Kent State) played at OU. I was the drum major of the KSU Marching Band. I had to go on the field for something, and I saw the mascot running towards me with a toy football in his arm. Just as a joke, I tackled him. No one got hurt, it was all in fun, and we both got a good laugh out of it. Problem was that the game was being televised on ABC and our little incident was caught on camera. For weeks after that, I had to explain to many people that no, the mascot and I were not fighting and that it was a harmless prank. At any rate, I never did that again.
SportsAndLady;493799 wrote:Yeah no one believes you...OU/KSU wouldn't be on national TV
No kidding.
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Sep 23, 2010 12:33am
Firad;493974 wrote:He was an OU student, got the mascot job, dropped out of OU and went to Hocking and sort of just fell through the cracks among the thousands of other OU students. Also, mascots are about as low as you can get in the athletic department, so not really on anyone's radar there.

As I mentioned elsewhere, determining student status in the first 2 weeks of the quarter is a bitch.

Class enrollments are still wide open, so a student can go from enrolled to not enrolled in a matter of seconds. Nothing is really locked in until after 10 days into the quarter (they had only had 9 days of classes at that point). When I taught courses, I'd always have someone with something fucked up in financial aid, so they couldn't enroll until it was cleared.

Is that an excuse? No... but I do understand it to an extent.

Firad;493971 wrote:Seriously, some of you guys are taking this little mascot tussle to heart! It was hilarious!
This. It's not like someone assassinated the Pope.
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Sep 23, 2010 12:13pm
well this dumb*** gets his 15 minutes of fame, now go away.....
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rydawg5
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Sep 23, 2010 7:21pm
Big Gain;493969 wrote:Too seriously??? Think about this pin head.....Some how a non-student at Ohio University gets in the official Bobcat mascot costume. He walks around FREELY on the floor of the Ohio State football stadium where there are 2 football teams and coaches, cheerleaders, marching bands and over 100,000 fans. Most mascot costume are WAY more bulkier. If a non-student, why not a terrorist and a bomb in a mascot costume?

KABOOM.......10's of thousands of people dead and injured. WAY more simple than a shoe bomb on an airplane.

I'm willing to bet there are 100's of colleges looking at there stadium security issues after this crazed Hocking in the hills kid got into Ohio stadium as a fictitious mascot.

LOL .. like he said.. taking this too seriously.
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Big Gain
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Sep 23, 2010 10:50pm
Like I said....another pin head. You obviously need another 9/11 attack to clear your head. Maybe the problem is you were only 10 when the twin towers came down.