argument. Traditionally, the B10 has been big, midwestern land grant public universities with excellent academic reputations and standards. Football has always been big, but just part of that mix. In the SEC, football is king and everything else including academic standards are subordinate. That’s not to say there aren’t some very, very good academic institutions there, there really are, but the culture is football first. OSU is the one B10 school that fits the SEC mix. It is a very good school academically, but football is first and foremost.
Replies to: "Agree with you on the geographic argument. However, there may be something to the football culture"
- How did the Skunkbears fall so fast? Recruiting? [NT]
- DonMiller - 5:26pm 11/28/20
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- tOSU is simply that much better, but Rich Rodriguez bled them dry - ndunabomber - 10:36am 11/30/20
- They really haven't "fallen." They are at their best since Carr. - jakers - 10:01pm 11/28/20
- Perhaps but 3-3 versus MSU and 0-5 versus tOSU. (1-5 combined at home) gets him gone. - TakethetrainKnute - 12:48am 11/29/20
- Also embarrassing losses. - Napoleon - 8:43am 11/29/20
- They are done. Start the bus. [NT] - ColeyO - 11:18pm 11/28/20
- Perhaps but 3-3 versus MSU and 0-5 versus tOSU. (1-5 combined at home) gets him gone. - TakethetrainKnute - 12:48am 11/29/20
- Harbaugh petition: [LINK] - Napoleon - 9:07pm 11/28/20
- Because warp speed was unattainable? [NT] - ColeyO - 5:58pm 11/28/20
- I live near U of M... anf the feeling here is that demographics is killing the Big Ten. - Curly1918 - 5:47pm 11/28/20
- Likely is some truth that talent and excitement is bigger south, but ND & OSU are top 4 . . . - Napoleon - 10:09am 11/29/20
- I like your logic here and it justifies joining the ACC permanently and keeping USC permanently on - THEISMANCARR - 9:44pm 11/28/20
- Or bad coaching. UM and PSU have both had LOTS of highly-rated recruits. - murph78 - 6:27pm 11/28/20
- OSU is on the border of SEC country and immune? That's silly and not true. [NT]
- NDavenue - 5:57pm 11/28/20
- Agree with you on the geographic argument. However, there may be something to the football culture - Frank L - 1:34pm 11/29/20
- I won't argue with that, but that's not what Curly was saying. - NDavenue - 2:56pm 11/29/20
- Hmm... have you been to Columbus and do you have a map? [NT]
- Curly1918 - 6:05pm 11/28/20
- That's like saying Indiana borders the SEC. There's virtually zero difference between Indy and Cbus. - NDavenue - 6:17pm 11/28/20
- Indiana is a basketball state. OSU easily takes the cream of the Midwest recruits. [NT]
- Curly1918 - 6:22pm 11/28/20
- Columbus has Schmidt's German buffet and restaurant. That alone is a major plus. [NT] - ELP - 8:19am 11/29/20
- NDavenue has a strong point. OSU thrives cuz they got Urban and brought the southern practices North [NT] - BaronVonZemo - 8:17pm 11/28/20
- Irrelevant. Ohio is an everything state & has 0 geographically or culturally in common with the SEC. [NT]
- NDavenue - 6:30pm 11/28/20
- Northern Ohio yes. Southern and rural not so much. - Curly1918 - 7:21am 11/29/20
- Oy vey. And Pittsburgh is a stone's throw away from West Virginia. The entire rust belt... - NDavenue - 10:05am 11/29/20
- I don't know. OSU arrest warrants for football players rival all SEC schools. [NT] - oldirish - 8:54pm 11/28/20
- Correct. This is has been a Michigan alibi for a while. [NT]
- Hibakusha - 7:14pm 11/28/20
- Yep. Grasping at straws to justify why they can't compete with the Buckeyes. - NDavenue - 7:18pm 11/28/20
- Northern Ohio yes. Southern and rural not so much. - Curly1918 - 7:21am 11/29/20
- Indiana is a basketball state. OSU easily takes the cream of the Midwest recruits. [NT]
- Curly1918 - 6:22pm 11/28/20
- That's like saying Indiana borders the SEC. There's virtually zero difference between Indy and Cbus. - NDavenue - 6:17pm 11/28/20
- Agree with you on the geographic argument. However, there may be something to the football culture - Frank L - 1:34pm 11/29/20
- How? Because there IS a God. [NT] - Napoleon - 5:35pm 11/28/20