<p>So I’m not going to do a Pros and Cons for this one I’m just going to let you guys tell me which one you think is better. Note I’m going in for business at both schools.</p>
<p>I used to think that the two schools were quite similar other than one being fairly rural and isolated and the other being in the middle of a decent sized city.</p>
<p>The last year and a half has really made me reevaluate that: the reason being this crazy, dysfunctional alumni cult surrounding Joe Paterno. At first, I thought it was confined to the more football crazy “t-shirt fans” and the football message boards, but apparently the alumni have been electing “pro-Paterno” candidates to their board of trustees: one even ran on a platform of reinstating the deceased Mr. Paterno as head coach so that he could then subsequently be “retired with the honor he deserved.” They’ve been organizing protest rallies demanding the resignation of the school President and board for firing Paterno and admitting that there had been anything wrong at Penn State and demanding a full rehabilitation of Paterno’s “honor.”</p>
<p>Seeing as 99% of the Ohio State alumni who I know wanted Jim Tressel fired (and rightly so) for his ncaa violations and were quite upset when it didn’t happen immediately, this blind worship for Paterno’s whose actual crimes in covering up a pedophile are far, far worse is quite off putting and a rather damning indictment of the culture that surrounds Penn State.</p>
<p>I used to say that I would be proud for my son to attend any Big Ten university. That’s changed, and Penn State is the one school to which I would not allow him to apply and would not help pay for were he to insist on attending.</p>
<p>My son chose Ohio State for next year over Penn State. Ohio State ranks almost as high for business and Ohio State was very generous with scholarship money for him. He is out of state for both.<br>
Go Buckeyes!</p>
<p>This is funny to me. I have a daughter who is a junior at Penn State and my son just committed to Ohio State. To put sports as the reason to not go to a University is nonsense. Yes, I agree that sports can be a deciding factor, but not the main factor. Before my daughter decided on Penn State, she was considering Northwestern where she aso was accepted. Sports became her deciding factor because she wanted what she described “as the full college experience” and liked Penn State athletics for that. But she also chose Penn State for it being one to the top ranked schools in the nation in her field of study - over Ohio State still after all the debacle, and the honors program was more exclusive than at Ohio State. Bottom line - let’s sports be a tie breaker but not the main reason you choose a school. Research your field of study, find out how the programs rank nationally, is it a top recruited school - your making a life decision - make it for the right reason.</p>
<p>Igmister, You obviously don’t understand the point of my post. My criticism of Penn State has nothing to do with its prominent athletic programs. Ohio State certainly has the same as does almost any Big Ten university to a degree.</p>
<p>My criticism is clearly aimed at the destructive and dysfunctional “Cult of Paterno” that seems to define Penn State and a large portion of its alumni: the rallies demanding the resignation of the university President and board for firing Paterno, the voting in of pro-Paterno slates of trustees whose single minded platform is one of redeeming the tarnished legacy of their godhead. It’s a very, very troubling scenario that has unfolded around an otherwise admirable university.</p>
<p>FWIW, it does seem as though the current student body wants nothing to with this movement. The students have ignored and mocked the protest rallies, and the student newspaper has strongly condemned the self-destructive actions of their alumni while supporting the current President. So it would seem that the current students–free of the pernicious myth of Paterno–recognize how ridiculous their alumni are acting, how damaging they are to the reputation of the university and subsequently might have a chance to redeem the university’s image to the rest of the country.</p>
<p>Unless you are part of the football team, it’s crazy to make a college decision based on the ffotball team. But if you are going to decide on a school based on football, remember OSU was also on probation last year and from my perspective the OSU situatio was a lot more serious than PSU. At Ohio State the coaches suppoted the payments to a number of players over a period of years. This is really more of an NCAA issue than criminal assults of non-students that were sponsored by an off-campus organization. The initial charges against Sandusky were investigated and dropped by the county prosecutor. The alumini are upset that Paterno was not given due process. Both are good schools and if you are looking for a business school, PSU has a better reputation with industry.</p>
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<p>Yeah, just ignore everything this guy says.</p>
<p>I think the difference in PSU’s and OSU’s business schools is negligible. Neither are going to absolutely wow any on campus recruiter.</p>