<p>Woah, guys, didn’t mean to start an argument here. No one’s angry about anything. We’re all Chicagoans still, right? :)</p>
<p>And k&s, of course I’m jealous of Northwestern. Actually having a legitimate Big Ten team? Y’know, where this whole convo started?</p>
<p>^ Well, at least your jealousy comes from a good spot, can’t say the same for phiruku’s.</p>
<p>phiruku - while you’re whole diatribe about your college choices may have been interesting (or not), it has absolutely nothing to do w/ the fact that you felt the need to post (as you, yourself, stated) semi-valid points about the status of NU’s sports programs.</p>
<p>Why else do so, if it there isn’t some underlying frustration? (Btw, I had already thoroughly debunked all of your so-called semi-valid points.)</p>
<p>After all, I certainly don’t even think about UChicago sports, much less care to make the effort to post on it.</p>
<p>k&s: My points were only semi-valid because I exaggerated them. Otherwise, they were perfectly valid. Your argument can be summarized by saying: “Look, we’re ABOUT to get really good.” That doesn’t explain the obvious fact that NU has sucked (as a Big Ten team) in the past. My underlying point IS precisely that NU has sucked and will not be able to generate a big fan base until they stop sucking, i.e., start winning the games that count, i.e., winning BOWL games and getting to the NCAA TOURNAMENT and winning some games. THIS is where excitement and pride comes in. Regardless of how good your season was, REAL fans are made in the BIG games. NU has continued to do poorly in (or not make it to) the games that build excitement and pride, and they won’t get a significant fan base until they do so.</p>
<p>Frankly, these points are completely obvious to anyone who isn’t affiliated with NU, because you guys have an inferiority complex about your traditionally sucky teams. My exaggerations were merely to poke fun at this perpetual and obnoxious inferiority complex (as opposed to your so rigorously derived conclusion that I’m “just jealous”). Better to admit there’s a problem and try to fix it than to remain in denial. (Hey, I’m from UChicago, so I know what I’m talking about. The only reason Chicago’s no longer considered HYPSM-level is because the people in charge of the University started getting complacent and fell into denial about Chicago’s falling star power. Remember that whole thing about Chicago having a 40% admissions rate because it was “self-selective”?) </p>
<p>Look, NU has a lot of potential as a team, especially in the near future. Your teams have likely been improving due to a lot of self-reflection on the part of the administration that NU wasn’t properly living up to its title as a Big Ten team. The question is, why can’t the students accept a similar conclusion? I guess it’s understandable since kids get so emotionally invested in this, but it’s no fun talking sports with somebody who is in incessant denial. I have friends at Notre Dame who I knock on all the time for their always-disappointing sports teams. I can always kid around with them without the conversation getting too serious (usually, anyway; it’s kind of fun to push your friends over the edge once in a while). The question is, why can’t I do the same with Northwestern people? I can make fun of ND, but once NU comes up, I better keep my mouth shut because someone’s going to get offended.</p>
<p>New Big Ten Wallpaper</p>
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<p>^Thanks. As far as all-time record goes, Northwestern is comparable to Michigan State and noticeably better than Indiana/Minnesota. :)</p>
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<p>Hey, wait a minute. Minnesota is third in all-time Big Ten conference football championships with 18, after Michigan’s 42 and Ohio State’s 34. Of course, Minnesota hasn’t won one since 1967 . . . </p>
<p>Northwestern has only 8 conference championships. That would be exactly 1 more than the University of Chicago, despite the fact that Northwestern has been in the conference nearly 3 times as long as Chicago was. So there. </p>
<p>As for all-time records, Northwestern is 468-614-44, a winning percentage of .435. Minnesota is 635-457-44, for a .578 winning percentage. Michigan State is 612-422-44 (.588). I’d say it’s Minnesota and Michigan State that have the similar records, with Northwestern on the losing end. I think you got your facts upside-down, bub.</p>
<p>^I was just reading those numbers on that wallpaper. I guess those may be record for the last 20 years. :p</p>
<p>^ Oh, I see. “All-time record” for the last 20 years, huh? LOL.</p>
<p>Well, I’ll admit it’s been a bad couple of decades for the Gophers. Well, more like a bad 4 decades. But go far enough back in the archives and they were a football powerhouse. People around here still talk about it.</p>
<p>Really really old people. I heard the Gophers brought in Mark Mangino, the former KU coach, to consult about the UMinn football progam that is headed toward disaster.</p>
<p>^lol…</p>
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Ahhh, bringing in the big boys…literally.</p>
<p>It’s true. I was at the game in the student section and he was near the 20 yard line. I was expecting a camera guy and a couple cheerleaders to get too close and fall into orbit.</p>
<p>@phuriku</p>
<p>Your “semi-valid” (i.e. - exaggerated points) don’t mean squat b/c any NU fan is well aware of NU’s history (i.e. - the “dark ages” from 1976-1994); gee, tell us something we don’t already know (not that you were even accurate in the 1st place).</p>
<p>And please, let’s not try to rewrite your “teasing” as anything as but an underhanded attempt to impugn NU; unlike good-natured ribbing btwn CFB fans, your posts had nothing funny, much less any originality, to them (and really, it’s not
like you even have a “real” team, so the attempt at “smacktalk” is pretty lame - compared to some real smacktalk w/ say, Iowa or Wisconsin fans).</p>
<p>Anyway, the Wildcats are now ranked #25 in the Coaches’ Poll.</p>
<p>Frankly, I don’t think they deserved the ranking since the secondary is suspect and the O, while having a high-powered passing game, has a lackluster rushing attack and has been very sloppy (too many TOs and penalties) the past couple of games.</p>
<p>Michigan is known for the Fab Five.
Ohio State is known for Woody punching a Clemson player in the face.
The rest of the conference is basically an afterthought but best known for consistently underachieving in football.</p>
<p>“Michigan is known for the Fab Five.”</p>
<p>Gee, I’ve lived in Michigan my whole life and never knew that U-M was best known for 5 basketball players that played together for two years in the 90’s. Amazing!</p>
<p>Besides good football and basketball Wisconsin is known for hockey, crew and cross-country with numerous championships in all of them.</p>
<p>What are the top schools regarding partying?</p>
<p>They’re all large schools (with the exception of northwestern), so they’re all going to have a big party scene if you look for it.</p>
<p>National Cancer Institute Bestows Highest Rating on The Ohio State University
By Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center
Jan 31, 2011 - 11:50:52 AM</p>
<p>Center is Noted as Model for Other University Cancer Centers</p>
<p>(HealthNewsDigest.com) - COLUMBUS, Ohio – The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has awarded The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center the highest possible rating – “exceptional” – after completing its scientific peer review of the University’s cancer program. Located in Columbus, The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center includes the James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute along with more than 250 cancer researchers representing a vast number of disciplines from 13 of the 18 colleges at Ohio State.</p>
<p>This action renews the Ohio State University’s designation as an NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center for at least another five years. This rating and re-designation came after a thorough review by a 28-member peer-review panel appointed by the NCI of Ohio State’s nearly 1,500-page application and a three-day site visit in May 2010. The panel deemed Ohio State’s Comprehensive Cancer Center as “the model for other matrix university-based centers.” </p>
<p>The NCI’s panel of reviewers noted that there has been “substantial improvement in every dimension of this cancer center. The remarkable growth is highlighted in the impressive trajectory of high-impact publications, NCI support, (and several) multi-investigator grants…along with the recruitment of 159 cancer-focused investigators in key areas that will provide new and exciting research opportunities.”</p>
<p>“The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center has made extraordinary progress in building a broad range of exceptional research programs which spans cancer research from basic science to prevention. It now takes its place as one of the preeminent cancer centers in the country,” said Dr. Robert C. Young, president of RCYMedicine and chairman of the External Advisory Board of Ohio State’s Comprehensive Cancer Center. Young also is a past president and CEO of Fox Chase Comprehensive Cancer Center and former Chair of the NCI Board of Scientific Advisors.</p>
<p>“This is further validation of our cancer research efforts to translate discoveries into leading edge therapies that prevent, detect, treat and cure cancer,” stated Dr. Michael A. Caligiuri, director of The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center and CEO of The James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute. “By harnessing the depth and breadth of our university, researchers from multiple colleges and disciplines throughout Ohio State collaborate to bring new knowledge to the world on how we understand, treat and cure cancer. It is because of this collaboration – and the ongoing institutional support and commitment from the University – that this stellar score and recognition are made possible.”</p>
<p>The OSUCCC was first designated as an NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center in 1976. The classification requires competitive renewal every five years.</p>
<p>“Combined with an exemplary record of institutional support, this accomplishment testifies to the unwavering commitment that our physicians, faculty, staff and the talented leadership team of the Comprehensive Cancer Center have made to discovering more effective ways to prevent, detect and treat cancer,” said E. Gordon Gee, president of The Ohio State University. “Ohio State is unique in bringing to bear the broadest possible range of disciplines in the fight against this disease. Because of that dedication and academic breadth, we are able to change the lives of patients and their families, from throughout Ohio and around the world.”</p>
<p>About the OSUCCC-James</p>
<p>The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center (cancer.osu.edu) is one of only 40 Comprehensive Cancer Centers in the United States designated by the National Cancer Institute. Ranked by U.S. News & World Report among the top cancer hospitals in the nation, The James Cancer Hospital is the clinical care arm of the OSUCCC. For a second consecutive year, The James was recognized as one of the top hospitals nationwide for quality patient care and safety. The James was one of only two cancer hospitals to receive this award.</p>
<p>Source: [url=<a href=“http://www.healthnewsdigest.com/news/Cancer_Issues_660/National_Cancer_Institute_Bestows_Highest_Rating_on_The_Ohio_State_University.shtml]HealthNewsDigest.com[/url”>http://www.healthnewsdigest.com/news/Cancer_Issues_660/National_Cancer_Institute_Bestows_Highest_Rating_on_The_Ohio_State_University.shtml]HealthNewsDigest.com[/url</a>]</p>
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<p>P.S. For 2011, TOSU saw another increase of 20% freshman application in addition to last year’s 30% jump!! Go Bucks!!! lol~</p>
<p>We do have our own ice cream at penn state</p>
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