October 7, 20187 yr Can the Bearcats actually get some people to show up to their games? Good lord that crowd today looked awful on tv.
October 7, 20187 yr Author Can the Bearcats actually get some people to show up to their games? Good lord that crowd today looked awful on tv. Official attendance was 32,200...Stadium holds 40k.
October 7, 20187 yr Official attendance was 32,200...Stadium holds 40k. It didn’t look that way on TV. I’ll stand corrected.
October 7, 20187 yr Author UC should be ranked in the top 25 this week. Not sure they're there yet. Enjoying this ride , knowing how young they are, but also a realist and know that a lot of other teams in the top 35-40 would be 6-0 playing the same schedule. Win at Temple after the bye week to get to 7-0 and I could see them making an appearance somewhere in the 23-25 range.
October 7, 20187 yr Author It didn’t look that way on TV. I’ll stand corrected. A lot of people were hanging out in the concourse to stay out of the sun and heat. There was a nice crowd and atmosphere with yesterday being homecoming. At the club level, rarely do you see people in their seats. Most choose to watch inside on the tv's.
October 7, 20187 yr A lot of people were hanging out in the concourse to stay out of the sun and heat. There was a nice crowd and atmosphere with yesterday being homecoming. At the club level, rarely do you see people in their seats. Most choose to watch inside on the tv's. That’s good to hear. The Bearcats deserve to be playing in front of good crowds.
October 7, 20187 yr Author UC starting to get a little love from the National media: Cincinnati relevant again One of the nation’s most impressive turnarounds has come at Cincinnati under second-year coach Luke Fickell. The Bearcats are 6-0 after beating Tulane, 37-21, and already clinching bowl eligibility in the wake of a 4-8 season last year. Fickell has often been the paragon of a hyper-focused coach throughout his career, but said he’s taken a little time to reflect on what his team has accomplished. That included attending the eighth-grade volleyball match of his daughter, Luca, at All Saints Middle School on Saturday. “Being at Ohio State for so long, you get spoiled and tunnel vision where you’re only satisfied if you’re undefeated and you don’t want to relax,” Fickell told Yahoo Sports on Saturday night. “I told myself a few weeks ago I was going to take time to enjoy the things that are happening. I don’t know if I’ve done a great job of it, but since we have a bye week I got to go to a volleyball game.” Cincinnati won with a redshirt freshman starting quarterback (Desmond Ridder), redshirt freshman center (Jakari Robinson) and a true freshman tailback (Tavion Thomas) playing big roles. Fickell said the change in the locker room has fueled the turnaround more than an uptick in talent, and he credited sixth-year lineman Garrett Campbell as the “heart and soul” of the turnaround. (Campbell broke his leg last week against UConn and Fickell said he’ll either be a GA for the Bearcats or go to medical school.) The Bearcats’ surge into relevancy is good for the AAC. UCF ends the season with games against Cincinnati and USF, both of which are undefeated, and it appears to give the league a chance to host some marquee games with national relevancy at the end of the season. Fickell isn’t looking that far ahead. His coaching tunnel vision turned to his daughter’s match last night. Even though her team won, he gave her some quick coaching tips after. “She hit it out of bounds on game point,” Fickell said with a laugh. 1 takeaways: Is Big 12 locked out of College Football Playoff after Saturday? 23. Cincinnati (6-0, 2-0 American) Week 6 result: Defeated Tulane 37-21 What's next: Open week It's hard to say what this 6-0 start, the first since Butch Jones' final season there in 2012, means for Cincinnati; the opponents they've played have a combined record of 10-21. But it's clear Luke Fickell, a co-defensive coordinator at Ohio State for more than a decade, has built a defense that is the foundation of his program. The Bearcats entered Saturday with a defense that was allowing only 276 yards per game, good for second in the nation, behind Clemson. They improved on those numbers against Tulane, holding the Green Wave to 266. College football power rankings Rough week to be in the top 1
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