I hate to say it, but tOSU does have some outstanding programs. We all like to puff out the chests a little bit when comparing academics of ND to others, however, each school is entirely what you make of it. If memory serves me correctly, Craig Krenzel was a Nuclear Engineering major, or something along those lines. tOSU has an amazing veterinary program, as does Purdue. FSU has produced Rhoades Scholars....we all know it's not the same for all student athletes at every school, but all schools have good programs in which to major in. Hell, Michigan has an outstanding General Studies program, just ask any of the football players from the last 10 years.
Craig Krenzel was a molecular genetics major; he graduated with a 3.75 GPA.
Eddie George left early, but came back in the off-seasons and graduated in landscape architecture. He now is a partner is the EDGE Group, a major planning group in Ohio and Tennessee.
Both of those men are paragons for student-athletes.
But, that's not really the issue. Ohio State is an outstanding research university, and has only risen steadily as under President Gee's second tenure (in which they adopted a policy of spending billions to improve the university, really using the wherewithal of the hundreds of thousands of alumni to do so). I know I've said this on here before, but one of my roommates turned down Yale for Ohio State's engineering, and the other got a 35 on his ACT. Ohio State has thousands of great students, but thousands of education majors who balance it out. It is, after all, a public university.
BUT, it is asinine to assume that because guys like my roommate are pushing the envelope in biomedical engineering, the football team should get any of the credit of the university. Ohio State's football program is truly monstrous. It's a horrible entity for the school. Honestly it represents Ohioans, not Ohio State's students. There just aren't similarities. They aren't housed with the student body (unlike at Notre Dame), Greg Oden got an entire suite to himself at the top of the towered dorm and the football players live in graduate level residences. They don't interact with the student body, only on the weekends when cops subtly escort them to and from bars. They are mercenaries, and most don't give a rats *** about their education.
Well, maybe there's a better way to say it. A lot of them are fine with being gym teachers and coaching football at their high school. Honestly, it's not a bad life. $50,000/yr to kick it and coach a sport you love and be a hometown hero, it's not bad living.
But don't ever, ever assume that the football players are actually accomplishing great things academically here. That is very rarely the case. Too many Glenville thugs suiting up at Buckeyes for the team to be taken seriously with academics. They don't represent us, the students, at all. Only the alumni, Ohioans were simply indoctrinated, and jersey chasers (70% of the student body) care about them.
No offense Bog but i dont understand you half the time...maybe it a sense of humor better understood in person rather that through words typed with no inflection to be heard and interpreted.
