M-Borg vs. THE Flavortown U Thread, Orig. by Buckeye Paul, absconded w/by talent.

[whodean]

Grades are miraculously high when you cheat.

[hack]

“It’s the education part,” Washington continued. “I know all these schools athletically can offer me the same thing. The academic support at Ohio State, there is no way you can fail. Even if you’re giving minimal effort there is no way you can fail.”

[Jeff Buchanan]

Congrats to OSU football for their 988 APR score, second only to NW in conference and top 10% overall. Yet another great showing. And not just in football. And M can celebrate, too, as their dangerously low APR is at least high enough to avoid scholarship reductions.

This is laughable, just laughable.

To compare NW to osu on academic terms is ludricrous, you know this. While there might be some special classes for NW football players and they certainly get great academic support there, I'm sure, I'm also sure they can add and subtract, read at an acceptable level and, OMG, probably solve an algebraic equation.

This is not true of osu players if terrell pryor is a good example of the best of them. From a football perspective, I think he is a model osu football player. Granted there are some acadmically decent osu athletes. But praising APR, a notoriously useless measurement of academic achievement chosen by the imbeciles within the NCAA, is just stupid. You might as well argue getting a degree from an online like University of Phoenix is as valuable as getting one from the University of Arizona.

[hack]

Maybe not from the University of Arizona, but perhaps from Ohio, sure. And there's the added benefit of never having to spend any time in Columbus.

[iam416]

Dance for me you fucking idiots. Lol.

And lol at the excuses, especially Buchanan's retarded attack on the APR. NW, Duke, Stanford and Vandy topped their respective conferences. And OSU was third nationally while M and their legendary.kinesiology-turned-into-something-else approach is predictably pathetic. Sounds about right.

Just. Superior.

Stings, don't it?. Lol. You don't have to answer- you already have with your truly dimwitted protestations.LMAO.

[iam416]

Btw, congrats to M for tying MSU. Nice to see they're at least trying to compete on that level, even if the results have been a long, long time coming. Fortunately, M fans are well-practiced in dealing with long losing streaks to rivals.

[hack]

Likes a bit of flagellation, it appears.

Nobody buys your bullshit, dude. It's fun to have a crack at these softballs, but let's not get too excited about it.

[Tony G]

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[iam416]

That's the preferred level of "discourse" by M fans. Preferred, though, may be generous. It's probably the only level they can do. Lol. It's hilarious.

Poor Hack is so irate there is steam coming off his desperately angry posts. Precious. And fantastic. LMAO.

[hack]

Yes. I'm irate that you made me think of Adolphus Washington and that wonderful quote. I hate being reminded of that quote.

[iam416]

Calm down. You're just embarrassing yourself.

Another great day to be a Buckeye.

[Rob F]

Speaking of "great days", this might end up being a great day to find and use those "buttons" that I and the other moderators have available to us. Unless cooler heads prevail, that is.

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[iam416]

Lol. The irony is off the charts. This thread is one giant insult thread. M men. Lol. I guess it only becomes personal or over the line when I wind up the retards. LMAO.

[lineygoblue]

I guess it only becomes personal or over the line when I wind up the retards

No, it becomes personal when you make it personal. And your use of the word "retards" is offensive, for reasons that you are completely aware of.

For a man with the higher education that you have sir, you certainly manage to hit the lowest levels of insults much quicker than the rabble that you so eagerly attack.

And I never cease to be amazed at how such highly educated people who are fans of the team in ohio, continue to believe that all their respect, decency and honor is wrapped up in the score of a football game to be played in November. I mean, as long as ohio has one more point than Michigan in November, then all will be well with the world. Even though ohio will be sitting at home due to NCAA sanctions for cheating, ... all will be fine, if ohio has one more point than Michigan in the upcoming football game. That's just priceless.

I would think that highly educated people from ohio would be absolutely outraged that a football coach brought such dishonor to one of the top football programs in the country. To have that sort of negativity resting on the reputation of what was once one of the most honorable programs in the country, to me, would be unbearable. If I were an ohio alumni, I would be absolutely outraged at the fact that our program had to cheat to get ahead, and is now being punished by the NCAA, just because a coach tried to win a couple more football games. But, .. not so with ohio fans. They see this as a badge of honor. A blue ribbon, if you will. Something to be proud of, .. and something to "rally" around when the "game" returns to columbus in November.

I didn't like Woody Hayes, but I had some grudging respect for the man, because he would never cheat to win, and his teams always played tough, hard nosed football, and you could win HIS respect by doing the same. He'd never admit it openly, but he'd respect you if you did things right. That's why Woody and Bo got along as well as they did. Mutual respect, brought on by mutual honor.

Honor no longer has a place in columbus. Only points on a scoreboard. How sad.

[iam416]

Lol. Idiot - for you pc tools. Lol.