[NU Sports] Buckeyes-Trojans

[Eric West]

mlinhardt at netzero.com wrote:
> Why does everybody hate the buckeyes?
>   

Why ask why?

Seriously, though, for me it started in 1995. Everywhere I went, if I 
happened to be wearing a Northwestern T-shirt, I couldn't go twenty feet 
without being accosted by an Ohio State fan telling me how they "would 
have" pulverized us. (This was in CHICAGO, mind you -- not central 
Ohio.) There are a zillion more reasons, but it starts and ends there.

I might as well make my annual assertion that I view every loss by 
another Big Ten team as good for us. I don't care if everyone views our 
conference as weak; being part of the awful ACC in the 1990s never 
seemed to hurt Florida State.


Eric West
e-west at northwestern.edu