ORD_Buckeye
Wrong glass, Sir.
This is the part where Marcus takes a giant step backwards and literally fucks his own face!
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This is the part where Marcus takes a giant step backwards and literally fucks his own face!
BuckBackHome
Wolverine is largest member of weasel family
Let the countdown begin on how these comments have also been taken out of context.
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There's nothing out of context when you pause mid-interview to say, and I quote, "I want to say this the right way." Comically... Freeman is devaluing his own degree.
If Ryan Day does not stomp a 50-point mudhole in him in three months I'll consider it a fireable offense. There is bulletin board material and then there is 1st year head coach Lane Kiffin level galactically stupid foot-in-mouth mistakes that deserve a come-uppance and a beat-down of fucking biblical proportions.
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
But now, Freeman is claiming that the quote making rounds was not completely accurate and he reached out to 97.1 The Fan to clarify his comments.
“I wanted to set the record straight. I was misquoted by Dennis Dodd in this article, and key words were missing from the quote that upset a lot of people that I care about,” Freeman told 97.1 The Fan. “I’m very proud of my two degrees from Ohio State. I would never discredit the quality of education those degrees represent. I was just specifically really talking about the academic rigors of Notre Dame.”
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ORD_Buckeye
Wrong glass, Sir.
Same thing he did last time. Badmouth Ohio State and the program to ingratiate himself with the domers and then walk it back with some half-hearted fauxpology a couple of days later. Do it once...shame on...won't get fooled again.
Next to the Saban-Jimbo and Ryan Day-Simple Jim, this is shaping up to be the third best grudge match of the entire college football season. In fact, I'd put it ahead of the tsun grudge match. For all their mind numbing arrogance after the win, at least they won. Freeman and Notre Dame haven't done shit against Ohio State since the 1930's.
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calibuck
Too soon old, too late smart
Marcus had had a meteoric rise to the top of college football, only surpassed by our own Ryan Day. Compare the two. RD, stepping into the saddle at tOSU, has been very open, but guarded with his answers, preferring to 'talk up' the Buckeyes, rather than downgrade his opponents. MF on the other hand, seems to do both. MF is too smart for this, and even though several 'key words' were omitted from his talk(s), he has denigrated his alma mater, and by association himself, on public forums. Not smart, not cool. Recruits are very saavy these days, and will see through the beat down of the competition, and the upbeat of his organization (on the recruiting trail), and wonder if he's going to do that next year to a recruit at his position.....I certainly would. RD had three wins before named the big cheese, but (to my knowledge), MF has never been in the big chair prior to being named ND HC. Again, have no qualms about MF's teaching and recruiting capabilities, but maybe being ND's big cheese may be one level above his competence level. I do hope that he grows into his role, and learns from his mistakes. I'd bet vcash that Tress read/heard MF quotes, and called the youngster to straighten him out. Just something I see Tress doing. Anyway, anyone that has followed college football from the midwest will tell you about the rivalry between tOSU and ND (I go back to the early Woody years), and currently, what a W would mean to the winner, and what an L would mean to tOSU.
Billboard material not needed. With a summer of preparation, would suggest that tOSU's O will come out guns 'ablazing. PS, with ND expecting a whirlwind of passing from CJ, might we expect him to 'take off' at procipitous times for some big gainers? I say we'll see, but don't be surprised. An early display like that will cause the rest of the schedule to spend/waste valuable time preparing for or leaving home a LB to guard against that, giving Treyveon or the stable of WRs more space. Go Bucks!
Billboard material not needed. With a summer of preparation, would suggest that tOSU's O will come out guns 'ablazing. PS, with ND expecting a whirlwind of passing from CJ, might we expect him to 'take off' at procipitous times for some big gainers? I say we'll see, but don't be surprised. An early display like that will cause the rest of the schedule to spend/waste valuable time preparing for or leaving home a LB to guard against that, giving Treyveon or the stable of WRs more space. Go Bucks!
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It’s really not hard to discuss academic standards and student class requirements without disparaging another university in the process.
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ORD_Buckeye
Wrong glass, Sir.
And again, the whole thing buys into the myth that ND doesn't recruit the exact same kids that we recruit and that ND doesn't make room for that generational 5* player with 900 on his SAT in the same way that we do. When Rosen at UCLA made comments about this subject, there was a reference to the football SAT scores at all the PAC schools (not sure how they got them) linked on the MWC forum, and Stanford's average football player SAT was around 1070, the highest in the PAC. By the way, that 1070 is 300 points lower than an average normal freshman.....at Ohio State.
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calibuck
Too soon old, too late smart
ND has always had an exceptional undergraduate program. Compared to tOSU certainly. However, when one considers that the entire student body at ND is the size of one class at tOSU, we offer many more subjects, majors if you will, than ND by far. With more majors comes dilution of results. Certainly the number of students alters the bell curve, as opposed to being private and being able to 'cherry pick' applicants, versus a Land Grant university, designed to offer a good education to all (in this case Ahians). No one questions Northwestern's academics in the B10, but NW's sports do not compare with ND. Or like Stanford on the Left Coast (where I reside). To state that tOSU students don't go to class is laughable - COVID year(s) excepted). Most colleges have morphed into a combination of in-class and not-in-class. Hard to do a chemistry lab from home/apartment. Anyway, I stand by my #714 statements, that MF is trying to 'make his bones' as an D-1 coach at a once elite school, and is fumbling it badly. Let's see him walk the walk before he talks the talk. Go Buckeyes!
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ORD_Buckeye
Wrong glass, Sir.
Notre Dame is hard to get into like many small, elite colleges. That being said, I really don't think you get the same level of education and have the same level of resources to tap into that you would at a truly elite college like Harvard or Chicago or even privates with similar admissions to ND like Northwestern or Vanderbilt. Being a non-AAU university matters once you get past the admissions department.
Hell, there is no way that I would have had access to the same level of resources and faculty at Notre Dame than I did at Ohio State. Ohio State's history department is top 25 in the country, and the Center For Slavic and East European Studies has been one of about a dozen federally designated Title VI "National Reserouce Centers" since the program was founded in the midst of the cold war. Notre Dame doesn't come close in either regard. I probably had to try harder to stand out and get some attention from faculty whose attention was divided between undergrads, doctoral students and their own research, but it was absolutely possible with a bit of effort.
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