You know the drill

My vote is for Maryland. And you'd think that would be because they left the ACC... but you would be wrong.

My selection is purely for the horrific way Maryland treated Ralph Friedgen, who will probably end up in the GT Sports Hall of Fame. Fired with 9 wins as ACC COTY. After he took them for dead for 30 years to relevant, an ACC title, and an Orange Bowl.

After being fired, Fridge said he tore up his Maryland diploma and was a GT fan now. He also said he wasn't treated like an alumni when he was hired, while he was there, and certainly not when he was fired.

Rutgers. Even though UConn's athletic program is vastly more successful, and our academics are rated higher, the Big 10 took Rutgers over UConn simply because there are more TV's in New Jersey than Connecticut.

Ohio State because Urban Meyer created that beast Aaron Hernandez. If they cut him loose by booting him from Florida? Hernandez would not be in the NFL where the Patriots owner keeps claiming Hernandez and Tom Brady are innocent of all wrong doings.

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(05-23-2015 04:00 PM)DavidSt Wrote:  Ohio State because Urban Meyer created that beast Aaron Hernandez. If they cut him loose by booting him from Florida? Hernandez would not be in the NFL where the Patriots owner keeps claiming Hernandez and Tom Brady are innocent of all wrong doings.

Lumping Brady in with Hernandez (murderous thug).

You're an idiot.

I love that Ohio State is the most hated by outsiders. They are also the most hated by insiders too. We do appreciate their value to the conference however.

Just hate Ohio State....probably because they refer to their school as the Ohio State.

That was easy. Michigan.

Ohio State is the worst and it is not even close. They have even been known to go after other schools to try to keep them down (such as refusing to accept Kent transfer credits in the 20s and forcing other schools to do the same to try to curtail the schools growth at the time) and they are not even in the same system like Alabama.

How many times am i allowed to vote for Ohio State?
;-)

Northwestern. They should play in a conference with peer institutions. Based on academics and athletics, I think the Patriot League would be the perfect fit.

(05-23-2015 05:27 PM)HuskyU Wrote:  Northwestern. They should play in a conference with peer institutions. Based on academics and athletics, I think the Patriot League would be the perfect fit.

Boston College
Syracuse
ND
Northwestern
Duke
Wake Forest
Miami
Vanderbilt
Tulane
Rice
Baylor
SMU
TCU
BYU
Stanford

I'm probably missing some.

None here for me either.

Michigan

Ohio State by a landslide. Fewer things irk me more than Miami students/alums who arbitrarily cheer for the Buckeyes just because it's a lot easier to root for them than us, I'm sure it's worse now than when I went there. Michigan is second since their hockey team has pissed me off many times in the past, I'm not from Ohio so that has nothing to do with it.

If some of you non-MAC fans go to the MAC board and look at the 'Most Ohio universities in jeopardy' thread, you'll find and good history of OSU's stranglehold on Ohio by perimeterpost. Long story short, then-governor Rutherford B. Hayes lobbied hard to create a new university to designate as the Ohio flagship as opposed to the Miami or OU (both of which were over half a century old by that point); he also pushed hard for the university to be located in Columbus (instead of Springfield/Urbana) and shift to being a comprehensive university as opposed to agricultural. A law passed in the early 20th century permitted only OSU to offer doctorate degrees, which all but guaranteed that OSU would be the dominant force in Ohio higher education.

This will be a lopsided.

In the 1990s Ohio State University sued Ohio University because Ohio University licensed their name own name (OHIO). OSU, founded 66 years after OU, claimed that THEY owned the name OHIO, not Ohio. How big of an a-hole do you have to be to sue another school for tradmarking their own name?

Of course, Ohio State lost the lawsuit as OU's lawyers were able to produce hundreds of documents verifying the public use of the name "Ohio" long before OSU tried to lay claim to it, including an OSU yearbook from the late 1800s that referred to an athletic match between Ohio State and Ohio. OU allowed OSU to keep certain traditional uses of the word Ohio (a mistake imo) such as Ohio Stadium and Script Ohio, but all other uses of Ohio are forbidden. OSU had regularly used "Ohio" without the word "State" on uniforms (see Jesse Owens pic below).

To this day Buckeye fans continue to cheer "OH" - "IO", do their stupid O-H-I-O YMCA thing (pic below), and cheer "O-H-I-O" at football games, even AT Michigan, while pretending to be offended by being called Ohio by Michigan fans (vid below). The best is when they broke out all of their OHIO cheers while playing against Ohio, the looks on their fans faces as they slowly realized they were cheering for the other team was priceless.

Can you imagine Florida State claiming the name Florida, or Michigan State claiming the name Michigan? And what other fan base primarily refers to itself by the name of another D1 school? It's absurd. There are plenty of B1G teams that are bad but Ohio State is by far THE WORST.

Ohio isn't afraid to remind to the Buckeyes who owns the name though, these are some of the popular slogans on apparel and merchandise at the local campus book stores-




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(05-23-2015 03:55 PM)UConn-SMU Wrote:  Rutgers. Even though UConn's athletic program is vastly more successful, and our academics are rated higher, the Big 10 took Rutgers over UConn simply because there are more TV's in New Jersey than Connecticut.

and that we are AAU and a far better football program nowadays. UConn will get their due eventually (probably the ACC someday), but football is their achilles heel.

(05-23-2015 09:25 PM)Love and Honor Wrote:  Ohio State by a landslide. Fewer things irk me more than Miami students/alums who arbitrarily cheer for the Buckeyes just because it's a lot easier to root for them than us, I'm sure it's worse now than when I went there. Michigan is second since their hockey team has pissed me off many times in the past, I'm not from Ohio so that has nothing to do with it.

If some of you non-MAC fans go to the MAC board and look at the 'Most Ohio universities in jeopardy' thread, you'll find and good history of OSU's stranglehold on Ohio by perimeterpost. Long story short, then-governor Rutherford B. Hayes lobbied hard to create a new university to designate as the Ohio flagship as opposed to the Miami or OU (both of which were over half a century old by that point); he also pushed hard for the university to be located in Columbus (instead of Springfield/Urbana) and shift to being a comprehensive university as opposed to agricultural. A law passed in the early 20th century permitted only OSU to offer doctorate degrees, which all but guaranteed that OSU would be the dominant force in Ohio higher education.

Cal led the UC System to do the same in CA. Cal State schools are not legally allowed to offer doctoral degrees. Both schools put their prestige above the welfare of the state.