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The ratings are not particularly important to me. The ratings seem to be an important part of the recruiting process and they come with all kinds of expectations. My question was in regard to the media's infatuation with highly ranked high school recruits who do not seem to be all that special...

Yeah, ok, you're right. I'm just getting too old to tolerate all the unwarranted hype. Just once I'd like to hear some truth in those pre-game segments. "Well, folks, this game is really going to suck...."

He was truely mediocre at UL, but what we've seen so far in year one of his tenure promises much worse than UC being mediocre. I think the first year is critical to recruiting, and after this how can there not be a significant fall-off? Satterfield is quickly burning through the "reputation...

Somebody help me understand Penn State. I don't pay that much attention to PSU specifically; I just hear day to day and week to week "how good they are". I saw their rating before the loss to Ohio State. I heard the pre-game announcer just slobbering over the PSU QB (Aller?): "He was a 3-star...

Will the NCAA (and the college presidents) ever take any concrete action to make official subdivisons within what is currently the FBS? It seems like there are or will soon be no more than 15-20 Power 5 teams that can realistically utilize NIL collectives and the transfer portal to be a part of...

Well said!!

Even on the previous course, if was even a lttle wet, the kids lost speed on the trail. It's a nice course overall.

In central Ohio, considering the weather and field conditions mentioned, runners are waiting for those late-season "PR" courses like Thomas Worthington H.S. That's where Pick North's Matt Duval went under 15:00 a few years ago. A great course except for the transitons that are on an asphalt bike...

I go back and forth on the NFL vs NCAAF. I'm more in the NFL mode at the moment; D1 college football, looked at from top to bottom, so often offers up consistently terrible games. The out-of-conference matchups between Power 5 and Group of 5 are bad enough, but the huge disparity within Power 5...

I've noticed that the English sequence for freshmen and others is changing in many universities and tech/community colleges. Instead of throwing everyone into the exact same English/composition classes, "freshman comp" is now being tailored for specific majors with added emphasis on specific...

I think I misunderstood your post.

Little Miami looks really down too, and that is WH's only chance for a win this year. Barring that, yep, 30+ losses on the way :oops:

A new conference or going independent would at least allow them to have a chance in a few games, and this has been proposed over the years to school administration even before this current collapse. The last I heard, that option will not be considered at all. School leadership feels like the...

I have not attended a game in years, but I was there often when George Kontsis pulled them out of the 30+ losing streak. Some success is possible at WH, but at this point I cannot imagine how that is going to happen. They're back in that deep hole they were in before Kontsis; even in previous...

Don't underestimate, for example, the complexity of learning a foreign language and speaking it fluently. I've made a living as a technical translator in the oil & gas sector with my Russian and Ukrainian skills. As well, consider the volume of work in undergraduate and graduate studies in...

As somebody with degrees in the humanities, which are often considered "easy" majors by outsiders (they're not, of course), I can still feel the difference between the classes I took in English and Russian Studies on the undergraduate and graduate level and what my younger son is now taking in...

I just can't imagine succeeding in any major considering the time and travel invloved in D-1 athletics, let alone engineering, etc. So often big programs parade out the one guy on the team who is actully in a difficult major while so many are in criminal justuce or sports studies.

Any former D-1 athletes (football) out there? I have heard over the years that football players during the season take only 1-2 actual academic classes and the rest of the schedule (to meet full-time status) is filled in with an athletic department course a la "NCAA football" that comprises...

Two cents Thursday: I think the academic ratings are interesting, but in reality the ranking of any university as a whole or of its individual colleges, schools or departments, has miniscule relevance in the context of NCAA football. Academic fraud is pervasive and largely ungoverned and...