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That's the rumor. It is being discussed in Buckeye circles as well. Mike Brown's love for the Buckeyes is no secret and the county needs the revenue to make up for the big hole they are facing. The sad thing is it will sell out and UC will probably play in fron of a 5,000 people at their spring game at Nippert. You'll get enough locals combined with people driving in from Dayton, Columbus and the rest of Ohio.

http://www.buckeyextra.com/content/stories/2012/06/20/2013-spring-game-in-cincinnati.html

Mcalister is an idiot. Who exactly does he want to close the borders? The bengals have no reason to do so as they aren't associated with UC and should be looking at this with regards to whether or not it will benefit them.

The bearcats have no vway of cclosing the border as they have no control over what goes on at PBS.

Lance is the same guy who wanted to charhe $10 a month for twitter and put netting up in the outfield at gabp to make it harder to hit homers. Dude gets more ridiculous as time goes on.

Mo Egger's now saying the Bengals have no obligation to UC.

IMO the two personalities are speaking both sides of the debate to drum up callers.

I sorta feel like this is a shot at UC to even bring this up...Ohio State has it's roots in Cleveland, and the rest of the state. They could easily go North, but instead they want to come to the only other city in Ohio with a BCS team. For what? To show how powerful they are?

You want to come play in PBS? Fine, COME PLAY US!

Oh wait...your probably scared we will finish the game this time and WIN! I'll never forget 1st and 10 at the 15 yard line, going in for the win...and we drop 3 passes in a row and Gino throws an INT.

At first I was kind of irritated about this. But Mo Egger is right, we can't worry about why tOSU is doing. We need to worry about selling out nippert before we start worrying about tOSU using PBS for a practice game in April. So what if it's a recruiting advantage? We aren't recruiting the same kids for the most part. I hate our place in the college football landscape but it is what it is. We can either accept our limitations and try to remedy any shortcomings, or continue to get upset by stuff that truly doesn't impact us.

My interpretation was it's a move to UC to say, "Know your place, and now get back in line."

It's pointless any other way. They already have huge recruiting advantages statewide, and now have Kerry Coombs to make sure Cincinnati is well tended to. They sure don't need to come down here to increase demand among the locals for tickets to their games.

If they go through with this, UC needs to launch a campaign challenging our fans to fill Nippert to overflowing for our game, as an answer to this challenge. We need to turn this into a positive.

As for the Bengals, it's time for the Empire to Strike Back when it comes to that sweetheart deal they got on the lease for PBS. The county is in a huge hole. Portune already proposed a sizable ticket tax, as I recall. The commissioners ought to put a $10 per ticket pro sports tax in place in August, and then repeal it in January. Let the Bengals through their fans indirectly pay back about $6 million of the shortfall, a lot of which wouldn't exist in the first place if the Bengals weren't hijacking the county through that deal.

Their spring game will sell out. Let them have it here and let everyone from Columbus come spend money in downtown Cincinnati.

How about a billboard that reads "If you really want to get back at Ohio State, start buying UC season tickets for a change".

I was ticked when I initally heard this as well, but if people in town really want to "stick it to OSU" a more constructive response would be to finally support the program that plays here. There are people in this city calling up radio stations, posting on message boards, b+tching to their neighbors who haven't been to a UC football game in years. Where were they when UC played UCONN last December? Where were they when UC played Louisville and WVU at PBS last season?

I really like seeing people rallying around the home team, but they need to do it in a constructive manner if they really want to do something about.

Excellent post. I live in Louisville and every year UK plays bb at the Yum center, but as you referred to, UL fills it for their games so there is very little flak.

We can't control what OSU does, all we can control is what we do and I have seen this program grow significantly in recent years, so just keep spreading the word and keep winning and we will be okay.

The only time UK has played at the Yum Center has been against UL or in the NCAA tournament.