Trying to decide between Michigan, Stanford and Duke(PLEASE HELP!)

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<p>“Well, be it Ohio State-Michigan or Duke-Carolina, I think we can all agree that the OP will learn the true meaning of the word “rivalry” pretty soon assuming that he chooses Michigan or Duke over Stanford.”</p>

<p>Agreed Cuse. Those are the top rivalries in colleges sports.</p>

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<p>Very true Sam… Cheese and wine tailgates are very classy. :D</p>

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<p>Pot and smoke across the bay… :D</p>

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<p>Hahaha classic!</p>

<p>“The Be(voice cracks)ears win! Unbelievable!”</p>

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<p>For the record it was a trombone player. The trombone currently resides at the College Football Hall of Fame.</p>

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<p>^^^^^Hehe. That’s right. That was the most fun end to a football game I ever saw.</p>

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<p>“The rivalry of Michigan vs Ohio is fading fast if Michigan keeps losing.”</p>

<p>Sam Lee, when ESPN rated the 10 biggest rivalries in all of sport and the Michigan OSU rivalry came up #1 (back in 2000), Michigan was on a 14-5-1 run vs OSU between 1980-1999. Even then, when Michigan dominated the series, it was still considered a huge rivalry. It is ok if OSU is dominating the series today. In 5 years, things will probably change again. Regardless, Michigan vs OSU will remain one of the top 3 or 4 rivalries in all of college sports.</p>

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<p>^^^^Make that in all of american sports Alexandre and I’ll agree with you.</p>

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<p>Some Buckeye fan on rivals.com has this pic for his signature:
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Too funny!</p>

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<p>Yes it is. Let them have their fun. That’s about the only thing as an institution where they can compete with Michigan. :-)</p>

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<p>College rivalries can grow a little too intense for my blood. At their best, they’re an innocuous outlet for the tendency people have to demonize the “other”, but at their worst they can spill over into something ugly.</p>

<p>The Cal-Stanford rivalry is usually pretty civilized. Lots of people (like myself) attended both schools; lots of people (like myself) married someone who went to college across the Bay.</p>

<p>I used to attend a lot of Cal games with my wife while discretely listening to Stanford games on the radio via earphones, which led to some good natured ribbing among the people we sat with. When Cal played Stanford, I’d wear a red t-shirt under a non-descript sweatshirt.</p>

<p>One year, a new guy in our area of the stands started berating me for being a “Stanfurd” guy in the Cal section. Eventually, the Cal fans sitting around us told him to shut up and leave me alone. He ended up apologizing to me, and said, “We all know they’re both great schools.” I told him that as a graduate of both schools, I couldn’t agree more.</p>

<p>There are regional rivalries where marrying across school lines is about as rare as marrying across the “color line” was in the 1950s. (My wife and I have actually caught more flack for being a Cal-Stanford couple than for being a black-white couple, which is probably more of a comment on Bay Area racial sensibilities than anything.) Texas-Texas A&M approaches that territory, I’ve heard, and I wonder sometimes whether Duke-UNC might be in the neighborhood.</p>

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<p>OP, just so you know: From Tyler09’s threads it was pretty clear that Stanford was his top choice but Michigan was considerably cheaper and that was what made him pick Michigan. Not saying it should affect your choice but…</p>

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<p>Love you too bro. Unless you have some reason to not like Cal. ^</p>

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<p>There are a LOT of places in Michigan that I’d rather live in than most of California. Granted, I’d love to live in San Diego over anywhere in either two states…but Detroit has some of the nicest suburbs in the country, and Ann Arbor is an awesome college town. Far better than Durham for sure.</p>

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<p>Hear hear osucowboys. People who knock the entire Detroit area in particular, and state of Michigan as a whole, are the one’s who’ve never been here.</p>

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<p>rjk, some don’t need to go to ground zero to form an opinion…they can read about it in a multitude of objective statistics, such as average high temperature during February. :rolleyes:</p>

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<p>That is true, Michigan was much cheaper than Stanford was for me. And before visiting all of the schools I had a very difficult time choosing, but after visiting the choice wasn’t incredibly hard. </p>

<p>If anything, I think the cost difference allowed me to have a more balanced perspective on what Stanford, Michigan, and Duke offered; I could see past the “prestige” factor.</p>

<p>But moreso, my point was that there will be people like you at Michigan who could have gone to Stanford, or Harvard, or Duke, or whatever. Both my roommate and I, for example, are two of those people.</p>

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<p>Well considering California is probably the only state with a higher foreclosure rate than Michigan, I wouldn’t be talking. Especially because Michigan at least knows how to balance a state budget.</p>

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<p>^ My comment was meant as a joke…hence the “rolling eyes”</p>

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<p>I knew that UBC. Hence the lack of response. ;-)</p>

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<p>I’m sorry, but I just don’t think this is sound advice–certainly not the parenthetical part. First of all, there are some public schools that a manageable size (i.e. Wm & Mary, the other public LACs). But even at the hugest publics, the graduate programs can vary immensely. My cohort was about 30, masters and PhD entrants combined, which made my program pretty big. My peers over in archeology had maybe 3-4 accepted PER YEAR.</p>

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<p>That’s awesome. LOL. Even I find that funny.</p>