STAY CLASSY, COLUMBUS.
We can’t really decide whether to like or detest the composite figure that is the Ohio State fanbase. On one hand: rowdy, dedicated, and rude as hell, which plucks piano strings of emotions for a Florida fan whose own fans have thrown pee at opposing teams and have a reputation for being regal smartasses. On the other: beating up crippled people, posting comments of…well, doobiyus speellingg and gramer at a rate slightly higher than their regional rivals, and loving Cheatypants McSweatervest, whose we wouldn’t trust to watch our bike for three seconds.
This sign posted on Deadspin gives us that exact sensation all in a single image:
We did, too. But does it make us hate or love the OSU fanbase? Oh, the ambiguity…
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in response to a previous question about Galen Hall of Florida…..
Collegiate coaching
Hall served as Offensive Coordinator at the University of Oklahoma from 1966 to 1983. He would be hired as interim head football coach at the University of Florida four games into the 1984 season, following the removal of Charley Pell. Hall went on to win the remaining eight games on the 1984 schedule, winning what appeared to be the Gators’ first-ever Southeastern Conference football championship in November 1984. He was named the Associated Press Coach of the Year in that year and given the permanent position of head coach. However, the SEC would later strip Florida of the 1984 SEC title, following an investigation. In 1985, Hall’s Florida team would again finish with the best record in the SEC, but would not claim the conference title because of an NCAA probation.
The 1984 and 1985 seasons are remembered (along with the 1990 season), as “Best in the SEC” years for Gators football. However, Hall’s teams found it increasingly difficult competing under the burden of NCAA sanctions, despite typically strong defenses and the electrifying play of star running back Emmitt Smith (1987-1989). He was forced out in 1989 amidst yet another investigation of NCAA rule violations that would eventually lead to another probation for Florida football in 1990. He was 40-18-1 during his tenure at Florida.
Comment by John — August 26, 2006 @ 1:24 am
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You’re persuading them, John–keep going. For another few thousand pages, please.
Comment by Orson Swindle — June 26, 2006 @ 3:04 pm
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The Lombardi Program on Measuring University Performance at the University of Florida’s detailed analysis and rankings of American universities currently places Ohio State as the 29th ranked university in America, the 11th ranked public university in America and the top overall university in Ohio. Of their nine ranking criteria, Ohio State ranked in the top-25 in three categories and between 26-50 in an additional five categories.[7]
US News ranks the undergraduate program at Ohio State’s Fisher School of Business 17th in America and the top undergraduate business school in Ohio. The graduate program of the Fisher School is ranked 21st in America and the top graduate school of business in Ohio. The Economist ranked The Fisher School as the 29th ranked MBA program in the world in their 2005 “Which MBA?” issue.[8] The Ohio State law school is ranked by US News as the top law school in Ohio and 39th overall in America. Ohio State’s medical school is ranked as the top public medical school in Ohio and 32nd overall for research and 33rd for primary care. US News ranks Ohio State’s undergraduate engineering program as the 28th best program in America and the top undergraduate engineering program in Ohio. Its graduate program in engineering is ranked 26th in the country and highest in Ohio.
Ohio State’s political science department is ranked thirteenth in the country by US News & World Report, with the American politics section 5th, international politics 12th and political methodology 10th. A study by The London School of Economics ranked it as the fourth best political science department in the world.[9] Foreign Policy Magazine recently ranked it as the 15th best Ph.D. program in the world for the study of international relations while noting Professor Alexander Wendt as the third most influential scholar of international relations in the world.
Ohio State is one of a select few top American universities to offer multiple area studies programs under “Comprehensive National Resource Center” (often called “Title VI”) funding from the U.S. Department of Education. The most notable of these is the Center for Slavic and East European Studies founded in 1965 by Professor Leon Twarog. Subsequently, Ohio State’s Middle Eastern Studies Center and East Asian Studies Center also achieved Comprehensive National Resource Center status. The university is also home to the interdisciplinary Mershon Center for International Security Studies, which was founded in 1952 through a bequest of 7 million dollars (51.6 million in 2005 value) from alumnus Colonel Ralph D. Mershon.
In a study by industry publication Dance Teacher, a survey of 100 dance department chairs in the United States and Canada ranked Ohio State’s Department of Dance as the top ranked graduate program and the second ranked undergraduate program in North America.
Comment by John — June 26, 2006 @ 2:59 pm
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That’s us, “dumb, not knowledgeable,” yet capable of researching actual facts rather than “derrr, I lived there, derrr, I went to a few football games.” Yeah Timmy, it must not be true cuz you said so. You are worthless.
This can be found here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ohio_State_University
And I fear that you are still too stupid to find it, so I’m gonna paste it in here. It’s gonna take a few posts though, so bear with me. I know it’s a big read, but your peanut brain can handle it …..
Academics
Rankings and Recognition
Ohio State was the first university in Ohio to be extended membership into the prestigious Association of American Universities in 1916 and remains the only public university in Ohio among the organization’s sixty members. The Public Ivies: America’s Flagship Public Universities (2001) by Howard and Matthew Greene listed Ohio State as one of a select number of public universities offering the highest educational quality.
US News and World Report’s widely read rankings of undergraduate colleges in America currently places Ohio State as the 21st ranked public university in America, the 60th ranked overall university in America and the highest ranked public university in Ohio. China’s Shanghai Jiao Tong University placed Ohio State as the 63rd ranked university in the world in their 2005 Academic Ranking of World Universities
Comment by John — June 26, 2006 @ 2:58 pm
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What a broad, ignorant generalization. I’m pretty sure that’s statistically impossible. I don’t care how long you lived in Ohio Timmy, OSU fans are everywhere, as we proved at the National Championship game IN MIAMI.
“And now, coach, I’d like to present this trophy to you, to your team, AND WHAT APPEARS TO BE ALL OF OHIO.”
That was probably the loudest ANY stadium has every been in Florida, including the ugly ass UF stadium, and the noise was for an away team. Where’s YOUR passion Florida? Yet you have the nerve to sit at your computer and type that we’re not passionate and proud about the tradition that is Ohio State football, and that all Ohio State fans are stupid??? Wow you are a complete moron. The problem with you, Tim in Tampa, is that you just don’t get it, and neither do any of you other clueless people who have never been to an OSU home game.
So for all of you that talk shit about maybe the greatest football experience in the nation, please tell me what type of athletic, or otherwise commercial event, where over 100,000 people come together and don’t make a mess. I went to OSU for 4 years, attended every home game while I was there, and the mess was always cleaned up by the end of the next day. On top of that, most of the time it was cleaned before noon. That is a FACT.
In closing, we know that our behavior is less than that of a catholic school girl, and we like it that way. If you can’t talk a little trash you must not have a team good enough to do it for. Yeah, when we took that sign to the Fiesta Bowl we knew it was over the line, but it was no worse than network television shows with a TV-PG13 rating. I’m eating up the fact that it’s received so much attention, and how many crybabies are complaining about it. For every complaint we had at the game we had at least 10 people take photos and tell us it was awesome. Some of them were even Notre Dame fans who could take a joke.
Oh Timmy in Trashy Tampa, most people that lived in Ohio for most of their lives are cool, “SANS” your stupid ass. What kind of a fag uses sans, really.
Comment by John — June 26, 2006 @ 2:11 pm
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I lived in Ohio for most of my life, sans a year in Michigan and two years now down here, but I’ve been to most of the great football towns and states. The comment earlier that “sure, OSU has its out-of-line idiot fans, but we also have knowledgeable, smart, passionate football fans” isn’t true, because I have never, in my many years of talking to football fans, met a smart OSU fan. I don’t even know that I’ve met a dumb but knowledgeable one.
What’s really amazing about idiot OSU fans is how few of them actually attended the university, not like that would help them be any less of an idiot.
Comment by tim in tampa — June 26, 2006 @ 11:15 am
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P.S. you’re a pussy
Comment by John — June 26, 2006 @ 2:05 am
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That was my first post moron.
Comment by John — June 26, 2006 @ 2:04 am