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Where Are All The Cincinnati Bloggers?

A little off-track here but bear with me.

Cincinnati is ranked 10th in the nation in the latest AP Poll.  By all accounts and based on what we've seen so far, there is a legitimate chance than the Bearcats could run the table from here on out.  They don't look amazing, they just look good enough to possibly sail through the Big East.  If that happens, dare I say Cincy would be looking at a shot at the national title?  The way everyone else is losing left and right, you'll probably be hard-pressed to make a case for keeping the Bearcats out.  Plus it's not like their OOC schedule was weak...at Oregon State and hosting Fresno State were no gimmes. 

But that's not the issue here.  The issue is that, let's face it, Cincinnati is the marquee football program in the Big East at this point in time.  Best not to fight it.  In the last two years, no one has a better resume and no one has done better.  Brain Kelly, get paid, here or elsewhere. 

So that begs my question...why aren't there any Cincinatti bloggers?

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Sure, there's newspaper blogs, but they don't count.    There's something called BearcatNews but that's just an aggregator.  I don't consider the Rivals site one either.  I'm talking about an independent, passionate Cincy fan who writes daily, obsessive updates about how much of a better man Brian Kelly is than your Dad. I'm talking about the guy who's going to bat for Tony Pike as a Heisman candidate.  I'm talking about the guy who's so pissed off that Cincy doesn't get any respect that he's pulling out every stat, image and piece of proof he can find to prove why they should be. Or at least faking it.

You're telling me that there isn't a Cincy grad who wants to be writing about this team and this program right now?  They teach English there, yes?  Creative writing?  Communications?  Cincy is an accredited university and not just a rogue athletics program...correct?  So how is someone not stepping up?  It doesn't take much.  Sign up for Blogger, learn the difference between bold and italic and start writing.  Done.

Hell, we've got so many Syracuse blogs out there we could pick sides for a Varsity Blogging Team, make a depth chart three-deep and still have enough leftover for a JV team.  (Varsity and JV of what???)  Cincy can't find one?

As a Big East fan, it's little things like this that bug me.  And it's little things like this that make you realize why people see our conference the way they do.  Hell, even Iowa State, Northern Illinois, Bowling Green and Maine have their own bloggers.  Yet the football program that will probably represent us in the BCS for the 2nd-straight year....nada.

In the meantime, about the closest thing I can find is Ohio Sports Fan Blog, which covers a little bit of everything.  It's a good start, but the #10 football team in the nation and the best team in the Big East deserves it's own page.  Who's gonna step up and give it to them?

One of these screaming lunatics perhaps?

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You should see the Cincy Bleacher Report page

It’s desolate. There are a handful of articles up, but I’m not sure if any of them are by actual Cincy fans. I see one guy who just picks random games, a Pitt fan and a Rutgers fan on the home page.

by dkelz1888 on Sep 28, 2009 3:11 PM EDT reply actions  

Its not like

they have a bad basketball team either. If they are looking for something to do during the off season.

by ryanwk628 on Sep 28, 2009 3:20 PM EDT reply actions  

I think the core problem is that...

Cincinnati has a better class of announcers at their games. No one is on air spouting “Tony Pike is an Absolute Magician” or “Superman wears [insert nameless punter here] underoos.”

If you don’t have a good blog name, you don’t have a good blog.

by moosedontbounce on Sep 28, 2009 3:27 PM EDT reply actions  

Speaking of which

I’m surprised nobody has started a, “I Want a Stallion Package” blog.

by dkelz1888 on Sep 28, 2009 4:31 PM EDT up reply actions  

Announcers

I was just going to point out that the radio play by play guy is SU alum and former SU sport’s anchor Dan Hoard. Hoard has a blog located here. http://danhoard.mlblogs.com/ but it’s mostly a baseball blog as he is also the voice of the Pawtucket Red Sox baseball team. Maybe one of those cincy fans can get him to blog, or better yet TNIAAM, get him to give cincy updates for your site. I’m a friend of his and I know he reads it.

Doug

by Orangedoug on Sep 28, 2009 3:31 PM EDT reply actions  

someone should make one.

by ryanwk628 on Sep 28, 2009 4:44 PM EDT reply actions  

I'll make a cincy blog

Introductory post will be a Mugshot montage ~ Cincy athletics through the ages

by brendoh on Sep 28, 2009 4:55 PM EDT reply actions  

jesus christ

That’s the ugliest page I’ve ever seen.

by brendoh on Sep 28, 2009 6:59 PM EDT up reply actions  

NICE

Since they fail at html, just sign ’em up for the SBNation.com platform so they can look pretty.

Red and Black Attack - Northern Illinois Pride

by Mike Breese on Sep 29, 2009 11:03 AM EDT up reply actions  

I think that blog is put on by the athletic department judging by the content. Probably some intern who didnt get hired everywhere else he applied.

by ryanwk628 on Sep 29, 2009 2:48 PM EDT up reply actions  

Quite frankly...

Maybe they just don’t care

by JRSu1 on Sep 29, 2009 10:41 AM EDT reply actions  

big problem in Ohio

Ohionions, as I’ve learned from the millions who migrated to South Carolina, don’t care about their alma maters. Ohio Bobcats, Miami RedHawks, Toledo Rockets, BGSU Falcons, Akron Zips, etc. just don’t care about their respective football teams. All they care about are the Ohio State Buckeyes. They were raised knowing only one good football team as the Bengals and Browns always sucked and they Buckeyes always won the Big 10. The Bearcats are the only other BCS team but they’re a new BCS team.

I bet 90% of the Bearcat alum still would root for the Buckeyes if the two teams met in [insert fruit] bowl. It’s sad but that’s what I’ve come to learn.

I'm about to write you a reality check. Or would you prefer the cold, hard cash of truth?

by BirdGT on Oct 2, 2009 3:56 PM EDT reply actions  

New blog

I am a huge Bearcats fan and was googling for a Bearcats blog when I found this post. You are absolutely right—there are hardly any decent UC fan blogs out there, which is amazing from a university of 35,000+ students and hundreds of thousands of alumni.

So, I took it upon myself to help change that. It’s a work in progress and I figure out what I’m doing and find my style, but here it is:
http://www.cincybearcats.blogspot.com/

Hope you like it.

by 92bearcat on Oct 14, 2009 10:32 AM EDT reply actions  

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