As long as I am making lists, I might as well make one that people will get angry about and respond to...
10. There seems to be an inability to count in the Midwest. It's eleven. Seriously, change your conference name unless you plan of kicking out Northwestern.
9. The Big Ten Network is like communism. Novel in theory, idiotic in implementation.
8. Not to get nit-picky, but it's not really the Big Ten. It's more like the Big Four and the occasional other competitor.
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7. Kirk Ferentz gets paid how much?!?!?
6. THE Ohio State University. Stop being pretentious, it's Ohio State. Get over yourselves.
5. As long as I am piling on Ohio State: dotting the "I". We get it, your band is damn good and they make other bands look like crap. I am tired of hearing the ten minute "dotting the 'I'" story every time I watch one of your games.
4. Jim Delany: "I wish we had six teams among the top 10 recruiting classes every year, but winning our way requires some discipline and restraint with the recruitment process." Maurice Clarett, Jim? Bueller? Bueller?
3. Kirk Herbstreit and Lee Corso.
2. Michigan State. Seriously, you are the biggest tease since that Britney Spears sex tape that was supposed to exist a few years back. (Pre-Insane Britney.)
1. The Schedule. Really, does every season have to end so early with the same game? Variety is the spice of life fellas. (Of course, telling that to Jim "I can't adjust my game plan, mid-MNC game" Tressel and Jim "Our players aren't thugs" Delany is easier said than done.)
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7 months ago
I find the Delany comments were pretty funny when Ohio State showed that great composure and character by not committing stupid personal fouls in the NC game once they got down. But of course, we are talking about the Ch0ke9es, so what do we expect.
7 months ago
Finally someone understands the arrogance, biasness, and retardness of The Big Televen.
from 7 months ago
Biasness? At least Big Ten school's provide a good education.
7 months ago
Michigan provided a good education.
Ohio State is not a highly rated U.
7 months ago
10. The Big Eleven? Did you write this and think to your self, "Wow, here's an original one! I bet they've never heard this one before!"
9. Fuck the Big Ten Network
8. Not to get nit-picky, but isn't pretty much every conference in America like that? Some good teams and some bad teams? Even the beloved SEC?
7. It was a smart contract at the time.
6. It's actually not "Ohio State University". It really is "The Ohio State University". It's not arrogance, IT'S OUR FUCKING NAME. Read up, bitch.
5. I couldn't really care less about dotting the i either.
4. Holy shit. An example to counter what Delaney once said! You're fucking smart!
3. What'd they ever do to you?
2. Every conference has a Michigan State.
1. First of all, there's a thing called "Rivalry Week" that ESPN hypes so much at the end of each year. It's when traditional rivals play each other, in case you didn't know. And the Big Ten is not the only conference that participates in it. In other words, a lot of teams traditionally play the same opponent on the same week each year. Not just Big Ten teams. As far as the season ending too early, that all changes beginning in 2009.
Try liking girls for once.
from 7 months ago
Ohio State fans are the angriest people in the world, I swear.
Of course, I would be mad too if I had to live in Ohio.
7 months ago
Wow, what a very adult thing to say at the bottom of your comment. And its not that you play the most overhyped rivalry in all of sports at the end of the year, its that there is no excitement in the Big Televen because its the Big Two. Thats it thats all. And dont give me this Illinois BS. That was an off week pretty much before the Big Televen championship game against Michigan and it didnt matter.
7 months ago
Typical response from a jealous OSU hater. Hey bud, I'm sorry that all schools can't be nationally relevant and a freaking brand in and of itself - and I'm sorry that all schools can't just lineup 5-star recruits and say "we'll take you, you, you, and you - the rest of you we don't need". Basically Nic, I'm sorry that OSU is what Alabama used to be and wished it still was. I'm really sorry. But if someone's gotta be the most important football program on earth, then it might as well be us. I mean, it sucks to get thumped two straight years on the biggest stage of all. It sucks bad. But it makes it a little bit more tolerable when you realize that your program is the best, most important program in the country - it always brings in amazing talent - it's always getting a ton of national coverage - and 99% of the jealous hater fans of other programs wish they could be as big a "failure" as you.
Of course, I'd be jealous if my dumb southern parents never taught me how to spell NICK correctly..or if they named me Rusi, for that matter...
Oh, wow - the Big Two. Another original one from the dumb southerner!
from 7 months ago
At least we have names?
By the way....not to burst your bubble Anonymous Coward, but Alabama has the #3 recruiting class this year and Georgia has the #2 recruiting class on Rivals and reversed on Scout. (As if those matter anyway.) Ohio State is #10 and #9.
I am glad you are also so self-righteous that you actually believe Ohio State is the "most important football program on earth." You would never catch fans of another school making that stupid claim, because they are smart enough to realize it is only the most important to them.
Ever wonder why Ohio State gets tons of national coverage? It's because most media members have ties to that Ohio or at least the Big Ten, especially on ESPN.
LSU is, by the way, number 4 in recruiting this year and is undefeated in BCS Game play. 4-0 and 2-0 in the national championship.
from 7 months ago
I would talk you idiot.........
QUOTE: "Of course, I'd be jealous if my dumb southern parents never taught me how to spell NICK correctly..or if they named me Rusi, for that matter...
It sure is better than ANONYMOUS....haha don't post if your scared.
7 months ago
Hahaha - the most overhyped rivalry in sports...oh lemme guess, OSU/Michigan is overhyped, but Alabama/Auburn totally matters, right? It's become a perennial battle between unranked 7-win teams lately, but it's much more relevant than OSU/Michigan.
7 months ago
I am a GA fan so yall can take that into account. I think I can speak for most SEC fans and put some things in perspective. No SEC fan can possibly be jelious of the big 10 or is it the big 11? We have the best confrance in football period, It has been so for at least the last 10 years. We have the most top 10 recruiting classes, have put more players in the pro's, Play the toughest schedules, have more coaches with NCG throphies, I could go on but I think that says plenty. about 3 to 4 games a year we play a team that we can't get excited about and the stadium's don't rock quite as much, But when we play another SEC team it is the same atmosphere as yalls OS vs MICH game. Any team in the SEC can win any game. We don't have 20, 30, and 40, point spread's between confrance team's. O S is a good School and has a good team, I think the biggest thing hurting yall is a basic lack of competition within the Big 10. SEC team's are more prepared because going through the SEC is brutal week in and out. We all tend to prepare for the challenge we are faced with.
The thing we are tired of is the over rating of Big 10 schedules, They don't compair but ESPN the Big 10 Pac lobbying committe over states this every year. If any SEC team had Ohio St's record against out of confrance teams over the last 15 years ESPN would not permote them nearly as much.
from 7 months ago
Mark,
Your grammar and spelling in that comment do nothing to fight the "dumb southerner" stigma that Anonymous (see above) seems to buy into. I think you might want to retract any statements you made using the pronoun "we", because I sure hope that you do not represent the SEC nation in that comment.
Nobody's denying that the SEC is the top dog at this point in time, but all I'm going to say is that conference strength is cyclical. It won't always be that way, and when things change, how are you going to defend your scheduling of the Western Carolinas and Louisiana-Monroe's every week when you can't say "our conference schedule is tough enough as it is"? Because right now, you can schedule all the Arkansas States you want - your conference slate is brutal....for now.
Anyone that would even imply that Ohio State normally plays an unrespectable schedule is simply uninformed. I'm done defending their schedule. I shouldn't have to inform a real college football fan who OSU has played in the past and is playing in the future. This year was an anomaly, plain and simple.
from 7 months ago
Jeff,
Are you serious that you just said that.....
"how are you going to defend your scheduling of the Western Carolinas and Louisiana-Monroe's every week when you can't say "our conference schedule is tough enough as it is"? Because right now, you can schedule all the Arkansas States you want - your conference slate is brutal....for now.
Kent State
Youngstown State
Akron
Washington....which lost to Hawaii
Wow...you Buckeyes need to get over yourselves and realize that there are other teams out there.
from 7 months ago
Ryan,
Nobody is defending OSU's 2007 schedule. It was not good.
If you think that is a typical OSU schedule, then you're uninformed.
Oh, and you're also a WVU fan, which is funny. They sure have scheduled up the past few years, haven't they? Do you ever get tired of seeing Marshall and East Carolina every year?
from 7 months ago
Jeff,
Define irony:
"Your grammar and spelling in that comment do nothing to fight the "dumb southerner" stigma that Anonymous (see above) seems to buy into."
I think we can prove as a fact that everyone that posts on this website has poor grammar and spelling from time to time. Well, everyone but me, because I went to the greatest school in history. (Joking guys, joking. Just poking fun at the Ohio State fan some more who claims Ohio State is the greatest thing since sliced bread.)
from 7 months ago
ok.
7 months ago
Haha....Ohio State lost again!! Just face it Buckeyes you are NOT the dominant school that you once were. I mean you keep arguing with this we have 7 National Championships how many do y'all have...Attn: to the dumb asses; you have one only one in the last 40 years and this win being on the most controversial call in National Championship history in 2003. Look I will tell you, I am a WVU fan an damn proud of it. No matter how many National Championships we have which is 0. Yeah, that's right 0. But that's what makes us stand out from you arrogant fans we never have been great but we always treat our team like they are. Before y'all go runnin' your mouths and saying,"Well, WVU lost to Pitt, so how can WVU fans argue a point against the BIG 10...here's how. "We" are CHAMPIONS maybe not National Champions but we are CHAMPIONS...yeah that's right, 2006 Sugar Bowl Champions, 2007 Gator Bowl Champions and 2008 Fiesta Bowl Champions and yeah it's not the NCAA tournament but while we're on championships we were the 2007 NIT Champions...and if I recall you have lost all 3 of your last "chum"pionships. Not to talk shit but just figured I'd put my .02 in.
from 7 months ago
Wow - you're the champions of a football game. Congratulations, Ryan.
(I'd like to mention that Ohio State is the "champion" of the OSU-Michigan game for 2007, as well as the champion of the OSU-Penn State game of 2007 - see, we are champions too! Hooray for moral victories!)
I can't believe that someone still blames the 2003 Fiesta Bowl loss on a referee's flag. That's about as sad as sad gets.
7 months ago
Wow. This is what passes for journalism these days?
from 7 months ago
It's a humor article that is meant to provoke reaction and comments. Get over yourself Anonymous Coward.
7 months ago
No, JEFF! You're not getting the point here we are not champions of a football game we are champions of a CHAMPIONSHIP game...and Oh, Yeah if you didn't notice the Sugar Bowl of 06' was against Georgia...yeah the SEC. How many wins does Ohio State have against the SEC in BCS games? Oh, that's right none they are 0 for 9. But hey keep your head up maybe next year. But, then again that's what y'all said last year...LMAO!!
from 7 months ago
If you want to call the Fiesta Bowl the "Fiesta Bowl Championship Game", then be my guest. But it's called the Fiesta Bowl.
Ryan, I can practically see you frothing at the mouth behind your keyboard. I think you're thinking and typing far too fast, and it's resulting in a bunch of random CAPS LOCKS and Capitalizations and Inaccuracies. OSU is not 0-9 vs the SEC in BCS games. They are 0-2 vs the SEC in BCS games.
Ryan, seriously. You don't come across very bright and it's impossible to take you seriously anymore.
from 7 months ago
Oh, Sorry Jeff "I mean GOD", either way what is that number in front of both sets of numbers "0" Just quit your University has embarrassed you enough.
By the way I'm so sorry that I am so stupid I called every loss a BCS loss, but 0-2 BCS or 0-9 bowl games, same thing because you still haven't won. Face it you are living in the past.
from 7 months ago
Two straight beatdowns is surely a disappointment, but to insist that Ohio State's football team has somehow embarrassed their university, city, and fan base is irrational at best. How many programs can even compare resumes with Ohio State since Tressel came in? Two? Three?
I'd be far more embarrassed to be a WVU fan than an OSU fan right about now.
from 7 months ago
No more comments from me...except yeah Jim Tressel is a great coach...in the Little 10 and "minor league" but not in big games one last time hahahahaha.
By the way, to refer to your remark in your last statement: "I'd be far more embarrassed to be a WVU fan than an OSU fan right about now."
You are so wrong again...if you will kindly look at this page I have inserted a link to, you will see what is called the Director's Cup. I'm sure you have no idea what this is since all you do is talk and not read, but this is a committee that figures which universities have the best sports programs at the time...when you open the page look at the right side and scroll down.....there you will see:
West Virginia University @ #6
and
Ohio State University @ #18
See Jeff, I told you that you are living in the past. Now, I'm sure as the typical Buckeye fan in which you are, you will come back with some stupid remark, but like I said this is my last post. Save your fingers!
Here is the link:
http://nacda.cstv.com/
from 7 months ago
Wow - real scientific stuff there. I didn't know it was possible to scientifically measure the overall "bestness" of entire collegiate athletic programs at a given point in time. That is quite hilarious that you linked me to that website. There goes thirty seconds of my life I'll never recover.
I'm sure glad you're finished commenting on this article. Your stupidity has begun to bore me.
7 months ago
I know Buckeye fans are not as stupid as this Ryan.
Come on out all you true Bucks and protest against this idiot.
from 7 months ago
Yeah, please do because Jeff sure as hell isn't "true".
7 months ago
Well they might be so called "smarter" than Ryan. Which I highly doubt, however they are definetely more arrogant. I don't understand why these few chumpeye fans just don't go run and hide for the rest of the off season. I leave in Colombus (thank god I'm relocating to So Cal next month) and I haven't seen much scarlet and grey these days. I think before the title game it was a prerequisite in order to leave your house. Ur team is embarassing. Please don't proclaim, "atleast they got there." That is just as embarassing.
-Rob
7 months ago
-Rob,
I'm not sure that even qualifies as English.
Sincerely,
Jeff in Colombus
7 months ago
Rob-
Sorry to say, but I have to agree with Jeff on that one.
Sincerely,
Rusi at work
7 months ago
Well they might be so called "smarter" than Ryan. Which I highly doubt, however they are definetely more arrogant. I don't understand why these few chumpeye fans just don't go run and hide for the rest of the off season. I leave in Colombus (thank god I'm relocating to So Cal next month) and I haven't seen much scarlet and grey these days. I think before the title game it was a prerequisite in order to leave your house. Ur team is embarassing. Please don't proclaim, "atleast they got there." That is just as embarassing.
-Rob
7 months ago
No more comments from me...except yeah Jim Tressel is a great coach...in the Little 10 and "minor league" but not in big games one last time hahahahaha.
By the way, to refer to your remark in your last statement: "I'd be far more embarrassed to be a WVU fan than an OSU fan right about now."
You are so wrong again...if you will kindly look at this page I have inserted a link to, you will see what is called the Director's Cup. I'm sure you have no idea what this is since all you do is talk and not read, but this is a committee that figures which universities have the best sports programs at the time...when you open the page look at the right side and scroll down.....there you will see:
West Virginia University @ #6
and
Ohio State University @ #18
See Jeff, I told you that you are living in the past. Now, I'm sure as the typical Buckeye fan in which you are, you will come back with some stupid remark, but like I said this is my last post. Save your fingers!
Here is the link:
http://nacda.cstv.com/
7 months ago
Will any Ohio St fan send the PAC 10, Big 10, and ESPN a line stating you are for a real playoff of at least eight teams? Do ya have the guts? Just think about it if yall make it through a eight team tournament it would shut everybody up, and yall can have a real NC in football not in a beauty contest.
Herbie can finally get over that 1993 Fla citrus bowl loss to the Dawgs 21- 14. Respect that's what a playoff has to offer.
7 months ago
Thank you for shutting this bastard up
7 months ago
Rusi, that may have been the most ignorant statement I've heard in a while. You don't bash a team who has been to "the ship" two years in a row. I don't hear you bashing Oklahoma. In fact, not only am sure that you are ignorant of your ignorance, you may also be one of society's biggest tools. I would like to compliment the fifth responder for pointing out your lack of intelligence. THE Ohio State University is what is has always been, and fuck you and your hillbilly friends who say otherwise. Your attack on Jim Tressel is not only with out any merit but it furthers the fact that you have yet to grow balls o anything resembling them. You can't keep OSU down, even without your weak southern bull shit. Good day to you sir.
from 7 months ago
So civilized.
I guess I was right about people in Ohio being angry.
Sorry you missed the whole tag of it being a "humor" article meant to get conversation going "Jaggers."
7 months ago
It never ends, the SEC just seems to think it is the greatest conference in college history. Get over it this stuff is cyclic and will flip back to the Big 10, Pac10, Big 12 or someone else very soon. Your arrogance will help to kill your dominance. The media plays a huge part in the reason the SEC gets into the Title check Urban Meyers plea last year. Quit crying SEC fans you have a good conference but enjoy it now it won't last forever.
7 months ago
You SEC fans kill me just like Ryan said your dominance will not last for ever so gloat while you can. I am in favor for some kind of playoff system, but the Big 10 and Pac 10 are not the only ones against I do beleive that I heard some SEC schools do not want to change either. Nobody can blame OSU for going to the dance they just went where they were told to play. Why don't anybody blame other teams for not taking care of buisness during their season. I will admit the Big 10 has been a little weak the past couple of years and OSU did have a weak schedule that did not prepare them for a vetran,battle tested team like LSU. OSU has all the key players coming back and will be a very good vetran team that knows what it takes to get back to NC 3rd times a charm.GO BUCKS!!!!!!!!
7 months ago
First of all I'm from New York. I just happen to happen to respect the Buckeyes. And as for ye, Rosi, your closed mind will lead to your own demise, in a quandary of failure.
7 months ago
So is it 'THEE' Ohio State University like a Biblical Thee or just plain 'The'
7 months ago
It is pronounced like the biblical 'thee', but it is spelled 'The'
7 months ago
I like how a Big East fan (Ryan) is giving a Big 10 fan shit about conference strength. Don't get me wrong, WVU is damn good, but it's not like the Big East provides huge amounts of competition
about 1 month ago
rusi gets em going again. and as usual is right on target.
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