What I always tell USC or Michigan alums.
by rockmcd (2019-08-22 15:04:38)

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USC/Michigan is a great school..... Their football players don't go to that school... but it's a great school.

anOSU football players ain't there to play school...
by Wooderson  (2019-08-22 20:30:13)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

Hence their 7 game winning streak, and 16 of the last 18.
It’s kind of hard to throw stones at this point
by acrossdmiddle  (2019-08-22 17:50:27)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

We’ve had our fair share of cheating scandals and the like. I think we generally try to do better than those schools, but there are others (like Clemson) who are winning both in the classroom and on the field as well as we are.

I shouldn't have to explain the difference
by rockmcd  (2019-08-23 13:07:05)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

between a school where cheating by athletes is detected and punished vs. a school where cheating is completely unnecessary.

If you want to hold athletic dept leaders like Kelly and/or Swarbrick accountable for whatever culture led to some players and a student trainer to cheat under their watch, that's certainly fair. But if we're talking about the academic standards that the school/faculty has for its athletes, I view these crimes & punishments as an affirmation of those standards, not an indictment.