<p>just found out on a web announcement from US News</p>
<p>Clemson is #3 on my list because of the school color. It just dominates all other schools in the region.</p>
<p>Does anyone remember when they released the list of universities that were in the Top 25, but did not rank them? I am curious to see if Wake Forest stays. </p>
<p>Side note, I really feel that UVA is going to do well.</p>
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<p>Hate to burst your bubble, but no. With the current allegations/NOA, the Buckeyes did not receive a failure to monitor charge or the dreaded lack of institutional control charge either. No school has ever received a post season ban without being hit with the FTM or LOIC charge, so bowl ban for the Buckeyes is very doubtful doubtful. Not saying it could happen, but right now the worst case scenario is extra time on our probation and/or the loss of a few scholarships. </p>
<p>The NCAA hearing on August 12 went without a hitch for OSU. It lasted about 3.5 hours, compared to over 3 days for USC. There were rumors if the NCAA had doubts that all the information/dirt was on the table and would postpone the hearing, but that obviously didn’t happen. Still could be reopened of course, or new allegations could come out but at this point it looks doubtful given the amount of scrutiny/media attention the program was put under. And guess what they found? One extra player receiving illegal benefits. Not too shabby and I’ll take it. </p>
<p>Not saying OSU is in the clear, but things are certainly looking a lot better today than they did two months ago.</p>
<p>[NCAA</a> agrees with Ohio State Buckeyes’ football findings - ESPN](<a href=“http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/6794305/ncaa-agrees-ohio-state-buckeyes-football-findings]NCAA”>NCAA agrees with Ohio State Buckeyes' football findings - ESPN)</p>
<p>since when did this thread become a football blog? i thought were talking about academics here. go to espn if you want to talk football haha.</p>
<p>Hate to burst YOUR bubble, but it isn’t quite through for tOSU yet:</p>
<p>[NCAA</a> Still Investigating Allegations Against Ohio State’s Football Program | Bleacher Report](<a href=“NCAA Still Investigating Allegations Against Ohio State's Football Program | News, Scores, Highlights, Stats, and Rumors | Bleacher Report”>NCAA Still Investigating Allegations Against Ohio State's Football Program | News, Scores, Highlights, Stats, and Rumors | Bleacher Report)</p>
<p>I see that you’ve already decided that nothing terribly bad will happen to the Buckeyes.</p>
<p>…Bleacher report, are you kidding me? </p>
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<p>Stop putting words in my mouth.</p>
<p>“Hate to burst your bubble, but no. With the current allegations/NOA, the Buckeyes did not receive a failure to monitor charge or the dreaded lack of institutional control charge either.”</p>
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<p>“Not saying OSU is in the clear, but things are certainly looking a lot better today than they did two months ago.”</p>
<p>With the current NOA, no, “nothing terribly bad will happen to the Buckeyes”. </p>
<p>That Bleacher Report article mentions the SI article. After the SI article, the program was put under intense scrutiny, Yahoo (doing most of the NCAA’s dirty work, see the Miami Hurricanes bombshell. Can’t blame them, just doing their job) and the NCAA investigators came back to Columbus to investigate more of the claims. All they found was Dorian Bell (mentioned in the SI article and added to the Tat5). </p>
<p>SI article was a dead end. Well, not if you count 1/9 as good investigative journalism. </p>
<p>Only thing left is Pryor. The golfing with Dennis Talbott was cleared but of course the main thing is the rumors of Pryor being paid $40,000 for his autographs. But the Talbott lead is starting to run dry, but of course that does not mean that the NCAA will not find something. But they’ve been looking/digging for a couple months already. </p>
<p>I never said OSU was scot-free, but things sure as heck look a lot better today than they looked in the middle of June.</p>
<p>We’ll just have to wait and see what happens to the Buckeyes won’t we…</p>
<p>I guess so! Only one more week and then we can get on to some actual football!!!</p>
<p>Michigan will fall to #6 public school, UNC and W&M will rise. Michigan is on the decline, UNC and W&M are superior in engineering, law, medicine, and business.</p>
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<p>Eh not so fast. </p>
<p>Michigan is better than W&M and UNC at business, law school (by a pretty big margin). Not sure about medicine, but I’m pretty sure Michigan can hold its own in the engineering department, they are highly respected for their school of Engieering. </p>
<p>So…no. </p>
<p>And this is coming from a Buckeye.</p>
<p>My friends tell me UNC and W&M have world renowned engineering schools, while UM’s has been on the decline.</p>
<p>(s)he (CollegeBound) is a fake-account ■■■■■. He’s been creating obnoxious posts in a lot of forums.</p>
<p>UNC and W&M are superior in engineering? Ahh…ok, I don’t even know where to begin…but might want to start by checking the course offerings at those schools.</p>
<p>“… they are highly respected for their school of Engieering.” </p>
<p>Sounds like my undergrad program. The Humanities courses were designed to help us learn to spell engineering too.</p>
<p>Just in case any one has the least shadow of a doubt that CollegeBound156 is a ■■■■■, this is what he just recently posted on the UNC board:</p>
<p>CollegeBound156 </p>
<p>New Member</p>
<p>Join Date: Aug 2011</p>
<p>Posts: 17</p>
<p>“everyone knows michigan is a safety school, UNC is probably even harder to get into than Harvard for OOS students, and the student base at UNC is really really smart. But the UNC engineering school is world-class, their top engineering students routinely beat MIT students at engineering competitions.”</p>
<p>Now will everyone, including myself, just ignore the poster already.</p>
<p>I think Morse should start a ranking edition for college football. </p>
<p>The methodology should be interesting:</p>
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<li>50 Percent: Peer Assessment = same baseless and senseless reputational index. Even Chicago might get points because of games played six or seven decades ago. Once great, forever great. Leaders and Legends … the older glory, the better! </li>
<li>10 Percent: Resources = 50 percent school and 50 percent boosters</li>
<li>10 Percent: Graduation rates = anything above 50 percent gets a 100 on the index</li>
<li>10 Percent: Fewer NCAA violations - Players get a pass if they were drafted. Call it the R. Bush rule</li>
<li>10 Percent: Best looking coaches – call that the Distinguished Assessment.<br></li>
<li>10 Percent: Length of skirts of cheerleaders. No adjustment for foul weather allowed.</li>
<li>10 Percent: Whatever you want. Yes this makes it 110 percent, but this is FOOTBALL after all! Nobody would catch the math error.</li>
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<p>Waiting for Alexandre to come up with his usual Tiered System. :)</p>
<p>^^yawn…</p>
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And Mack Brown can shamelessly do what he does best: lobby the voters.</p>
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Isn’t that what we call the Coaches Poll or AP Poll. Coaches=Peers.</p>
<p>Aww, I always know they are baseless and senseless…</p>