The Ohio Bobcats and Miami RedHawks don’t like each other. Plain and simple.
It doesn’t matter that new players and coaches shuffle in each year, that the rivalry has been favoring Ohio recently or that the two schools aren’t exactly in each other’s backyard.
There’s just something about the clash between the hunter green and scarlet red – typically a merry, Christmas-time combo – that turns thousands of eager fans to a boiling mass of hatred. Ohio faces off against Miami on Saturday in The Convocation Center at 2 p.m.
“We clearly have superior bricks and they’re jealous,” coach Saul Phillips said, referencing what many call the “Battle of the Bricks” based on the architecture of the beautiful red-brick-laden paths on each campus.