Are we really that good or..
- Thread starter troutrus
- Start date
undefeated seasons are rare- and to expect one is foolish. I've been lucky enough to see several, and I'd love to see another, but I don't expect (or demand) it
Real for me is never being happy to see them lose.
And I only paid ~$5,000 to attend.
And we’ve only seen one since we joined the Big and that was before OSU became the juggernaut that they are (and throw in UM now to that group as well). Now with the incoming teams to the conference, we aren’t going to see 12-0 seasons any more.
5k for me too. Where’d your kids go? Did you pay? Do you feel invested in that school in any way?
Daughter graduated North Carolina @ Chapel Hill. We supported her throughout. I feel no connection whatsoever for that school. Guess I’ve worked with too many of their obnoxious supporters for too many years.
Son decided to go to work and earn money rather than spending time and money at something he didn’t enjoy.
LOVE unc a very special place I Would have died if son1 could have played lax at unc. He was courted by cabrini but played club at STATE (schreyer)
All this tuition talk makes me wish I was paying out of state tuition at PSU rather than my DMV private school….but seriously, it’s less the losses to OSU and UM and more the ones to Minnesota, Iowa, Pitt, MSU, Kentucky, Arkansas, etc. Feels like we’ve turned a corner though. All about QB recruiting….
I have zero regrets. Both sons are killing in their fields of study and moms 87 crushed (she’s super smart)
I was the black sheep of us 4
I was the black sheep of us 4
Oh, I don’t know. It’s about more than taking money improperly. It’s about being good citizens, staying out of trouble, committing no acts that bring shame to one heart that loves thy name… and I think under Franklin that’s been as strong as it was under Paterno.
I'll just point out that we had a former payer get caught up in that NFL betting situation recently.... I'm not saying we're bad or anything.--just not exceptional vis-a-vis many other programs. Some of our players do get into trouble (as often happens with kids that age) and aren't good students--and they really don't need to be anymore with NIL. OTOH, we do have many exemplary kids. But so do other programs.
Sure, some kids are going to get into trouble, as you recognize (and Paterno's teams certainly weren't immune). But those are pretty rare instances, and the exceptions rather than the standard. It doesn't bother me that many other programs seem to have also raised their level of honor over what we saw in the past. Honor to me isn't a comparative measure, you either have it or you don't. And I think we do, just as we did with Paterno, and it's something I still take pride in with our program.
I agree. The recent academic ranking of our football program within the BigTen (tied with MSU for 11th) was embarrassing, but overall we are pretty much the same as everyone else. We like to think are better, and other schools like to think we are worse, but in the end there is little difference.
How the hell did this team win? So many negatives.
Don’t read into the APR. It is next to meaningless. Two years prior and we had a perfect score, highest in the country.
Ohio State won at Notre Dame and pretty much shut down the Irish. Michigan is just rolling along and I don't care who they have played, they're damn good. A split would be great and losing both pretty much defines us as second tier. Win both and whoa Nellie
Get unlimited access today.