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Michigan - Great academics with good sports

OSU - subpar academics with great sports

Not hard to see why recruits want them more. Remember what Adolphus Washington said about OSU? Their classes are so easy you'd have to be an idiot to fail there, or something along those lines. They are an SEC minded school located in B10 country.

Not every. But that said, the ones you are pointing out...not great examples.

If I wanted to read the idiotic ramblings of an OSU fan, I'd go to the blue board. Go away

This is why I couldn't be anything but a Michigan fan. Here, the logic and intelligence is understood and appreciated. My arguing style would be like pearls before swine over on Bucknuts.

You know what other schools have a "TRUE purpose of educating 'the common people'"?

Community colleges.

M****gan generally has a much better community of scholars and leaders of industry than Ohio State. However this is a message board about football and basketball. No one is posting on this message board about your star scholar's exploits in a science fair. In the football and basketball arena, my friends, your athletes are just as uneducated as ours but nowhere near as strong, fast or capable of victory at the highest level. Thusly, you have to humble yourselves in the face of our dominance.
Your fan base I'll freely admit likely earns more than ours. Your big brains surely can grasp the reality that you have become our little brother in the sports world.
In addition, why have the great minds in Ann Arbor been unable to stop Detroit from becoming the worst city in the civilized world? There is nothing in Ohio so damnable as that citiy's existence.

The downfall of Detroit is because of the University of Michigan not being able to save it? What the hell are you talking about?

Right, talk shit about Detroit. What does that have to do with anything, besides make you look like an asshole?

haha WOW................ epic

In the words of John Paul Jones, "I have not yet begun to fight."

However, if you must poke the bear, this is what you get:

Let's look at your misguided abortion of a post.

"If you don't care about sporting events, why are you here?"

Whoosh. Fursty was explaining why, for everyone other than the actual athletes, Michigan makes the most sense. Shockingly enough, some of us regular students go to school for reasons other than the athletics.

"A university with a purpose of educating the youth of the country?" What does that mean? OSU is a land grant university with the TRUE purpose of educating "the common people". A concept the Trustees of Michigan would not understand 100 years ago, when UM's reputation was built...

I'm going to assume that this is all one thought, although your inability to end sentences properly and your utter lack of cogent points force me to pretty much just guess. You bring up "land-grant university" like the fact that your status as one means you're dedicated to the common people. Please. Cornell University is a land-grant university. All that status means is that the state gave you some land, is doesn't give you some populist mandate.

On top of that, land-grant universities were established by the Morrill Acts of 1860 and 1890. Michigan had already been a thriving, elite institution for 43 years when the first land-grant universities began.

a lot of money poured in from the rich automotive industry. THAT is when the UM alumni started as nouveau riche and that "air" of privilege has continued to this day.

You want to know why money poured in from that industry? Because Michigan produced the executives and officers that ran that industry. Michigan created a cycle of graduating elite students who then went on to financial success, only to give back to their alma mater to foster the next generation of elite graduates. On top of that, the auto industry recognized a smart investment - just like law firms donate to elite law schools to gain a foothold for the next generation of lawyers, the auto industry did the same at Michigan.

The rich and privileged in France in 1789 had the same attitude as most Michigan alumni do these days.

Oh, really? Please, do tell. It sounds like you just saw Les Mis in theaters and decided to paint the vast majority of Michigan alumni with the only anti-rich brush you could quickly call to mind.

And pride comes before the fall.... and your sports programs have been falling for 15 years. You need to rethink your paradigm... as OSU has with the hire of Meyer. I mean if you want to win sports.

Ah, the arbitrary cutoff date! The best weapon an OSU fan has in his quiver! I like how you have to say we've been failing for 15 years, because at 20 you hit our last national championship. As for our "paradigm," I'll take the coach who'll avoid another tattoo scandal any day. Finally, "win sports"? I think you accidentally a word. Try again.

If not.... get off this board and go read a book.

Michigan students are actually capable of multi-tasking to the point of reading multiple books and still maintaining a presence on this board. I guess that's the difference between us and you. Might want to take your own advice here.