OSU Sign Rips Michigan FB Academics

Ohio State’s Urban Meyer has already ruffled the feathers of Wisconsin’s Bret Bielema and Michigan State’s Mark Dantonio and made it known he won’t even speak the word “Michigan” as the Buckeyes head coach.

Apparently, he was just getting warmed up.

Check out the picture below of a sign at the Woody Hayes Athletic Center that compares the majors of football players at Ohio State and Michigan and emphatically shuns the studies of football players for “The Team Up North.”

As you can see, 24% of Michigan players reportedly major in “General Studies” – generally believed to be one of the easiest majors in college – while a total of just 3% apparently major in the more difficult majors of Engineering, Biology and Business. On the flip side, 25% of Ohio State players reportedly major in those three areas.

Criticism of Michigan academics for its football players is nothing new as former Michigan QB and current San Francisco 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh even ripped into them a couple years ago and the general studies division was profiled in-depth by a local paper in 2008, but Meyer has taken this to a new level by so publicly and boldly insulting the Wolverines and their dedication to academics.

And Meyer shouldn’t be too proud considering 24% of his players major in either Communication or Family Resource Management.

We have a sneaking suspicion Michigan head coach Brady Hoke will have something to say about this.

[Eleven Warriors]

2:00 PM on 2/20/2012

Josh

I understand why Ohio State would want to make fun of the fact there are 24 general studies majors, but it’s not like their list of majors is anything worth bragging about.

7 sport & leisure studies majors… really? 8 vs 2 engineering majors is nice, but nothing outside of that looks significantly different between the two, other than the label of the degree (communication/family resource vs general studies, etc).
- Hokes Bloke
  
  I think there are 24 general studies students because Michigan has alot of freshman and sophomores that haven’t declared a major yet. Really, a degree from Michigan is much more impressive than one from Ohio State. This has been common knowledge for some time. The Yuckeyes just got smacked by the NCAA for rules violations, they need to just be quiet and look at their illegal tattoos. Meyer has credibility issues as well. Ask Florida, He’s known as Urban Liar there. Could you really ever trust him? Just ask the players he left hanging in Gainesville!!!!
  - ATG3
    
    General Studies is a major. That’s the issue. They have decided on a major, and that major is General Studies. Undeclared College of Arts and Sciences students would have a major listed.
    - Matt
      
      It is a major, but not sure why it should necessarily be viewed as problematic. The General Studies major is an interdisciplinary program that, within certain rules (e.g., a required number of upper level courses–not too many classes from any one discipline), allows a student to design his own curriculum. One benefit for football players is it makes it much easier/more flexible to schedule upper level courses around football (which let’s face it is a full time job on its own) rather than having to worry about satisfying the more particular course requirements of a more specific major. Another benefit, e.g., is if a player wanted to get a solid foundation in business but didn’t have the grades or available time to actually major in business through the B-School, General Studies would allow him to take a good number of classes through the B-school anyways. I’m sure it is also used by some players to take what they perceive to be the easiest classes…but there aren’t really any total blowoff classes at Michigan, particularly at the upper level courses. Just varying degrees of difficult. Ultimately, General Studies doesn’t really tell you very much one way or another about what classes these guys are actually taking.
  - Anonymous
    
    The world is full of incredibly successful graduates from Michigan who had General Studies degrees. My brother, Tom, for one has made a lot of $ since he graduated with his degree in 1987. I know people with technical degrees that are unemployed. The bottom line is you can’t measure heart, determination and grit! Urban Meyer is bush league for stooping to negative statements. Spin Doctor is desparate to keep the Ohio boys at home and not defect to the University of Michigan! GO BLUE. BUCKEYES will get theirs in November!
  - Anonymous
    
    Excellent response–couldn’t agree more
- Anonymous
  
  Let’s be fo the understanding most of the recruits and players at Ohio could not pass entrance exams ,background checks and have more character issues than AMC. THESE MENTAL MIDGETS HAVE TROUBLE TYING THEIR OWN SHOES STEAL THE PROGRAMS EQUIPMENT, GET FREE GET OUT OF FREE CARDS ENDORSED BY THE ADMINISTRATION AND STILL ARE INVITED BACK ‘because they can run fast or catch a football . Case in point before a Michigan Ohio game a few years back a person by the name of Marice Clarrett was flunking and didn’t stand a snowballs chance of playing His professor was brought down to the tunnel and as Clarrett was walking down the tunnel to the field was called to by the professor. Asked if his name was Marice Clarrett the answer was “yes” the rest was history. he played. THIS IS THEIR GRADUATE ASSISTANCE PROGRAM.a COUPLE YEARS BACK IT WAS FOUND AND DOCUMENTED ONE OF THE STAR PLAYERS HAD TAKE “STOLEN” A NUMBER OF PIECES OF EQUIPMENT FROM THE LOCKED STORAGE SOLD AND TRADED THEM FOR DRUGS, MONEY AND FAVORS.NEVER WAS HE PROSECUTED NOR WAS THAT EVER BROUGHT TO THE ATTENTION OF THE PROPER AUTHORITIES , SWEPT UNDER THE RUG. MICHIGAN IS THE ” ONLY” INSTITUTION OF HIGHER LEARNING TO BE RECOGNIZED GLOBALLY .ITS STUDENTS AND ALUMNI. HELD ON THE HIGHEST ESTEEM WITHOUT EQUAL. THE ONE THING o. S. U. IS KNOWN FOR IS TWO PHRASES “YOU CAN’T BY STUPID” OR CAN YOU? “IF YOU CAN’T GET INTO COLLEGE THERE IS ALWAYS O. S. U.” ONE OF THEIR SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING ENTRANCE EXAM’S REQUIREMENT IS THE PROPER USE OF ‘LEGO’S ” in construction of a support structure ! REMEMBERING THE SCHOOL ONLY EMPLOYS PLAYERS WHO QUALIFY UNDER THE FAIR TRADE CLAUSE OF THE UNIVERSITY AUTO TRADERS AND DEALERSHIP FIELD ;STUDY AND USE CLAUSE. WHEN YOU BAD MOUTH OTHERS YOU HAD BETTER CHECK YOU MOUTH WASH “ITS NOT WORKING” ALL IT IS JUST “BAD BREATH”–COACH –Z
Meyer’s this is the Big Ten !

Our kid’s go to school and at Iowa they go to the NFL(we have sent more player’s to the NFLl in the last 3 years then any school,but Alabama and LSU).Better then Wisconsin(Beilama the coach went to Iowa and has a Hawkeye tat on his leg and Michigan) .
Travis

He already used that one on fsu (school up north). Come up with something original, douchenozzle.
- ATG3
  
  I think FSU was a play on the famous Woody Hayes saying, refrerring to UM.
  
  College football existed before 1970.
  - Slim jim
    
    No sh**,thats what dude was talkin about,he stole it from that BUM a** coach
- dan
  
  Original? You win, DOUCHENOZZLE!! That’s funny!
  Go BUCKS!
O-Lie-O State academics??

Wasn’t it the Cluckeyes who put Katzenmoyer in “basket weaving 101″ and “advanced flower arrangement 151″ in order to get him eligble? Considering Meyer’s knack for recruiting and babying criminals, I’m shocked he has anything to say.
- Anonymous
  
  It’s sad how degrading this Ohio coach behaves. IN florida maybe that did not mean much but in the Midwest, families and kids expect to get the right kind of teachings. Meyer has yet to do anyting of that sort. He’s just a mercenary. A couple of losses to Michigan and he’ll retire again. Add ot that some from Wisconsin and he’ll do it sooner yet.
I *plop* on ohio

What are these numbers? From what putrid crevice did Meyer pull them? Because this honestly smells like some classic Yohiyo! cow patty… If this is an attempt to show the percentage of players per major then Meyer needs to go back to grade school because he’s only accounting for 45% of the Michigan team. Adding to his idiocy, the numbers for his own team only add up to 59. Neither of these numbers add up to a full roster so they’re not the number of players in each major… If it’s the number of graduates over the last 4 years, how do I know that? Where is it stated? There’s obviously something missing from this story, as there usually is with “The team that begins and ends with Doh!nuts.” Classic yuck yuck bucknut schtick… And if a figure like this is getting any kind of credit and inspiring any kind of a sense of pride for any of the bucknut faithful then this just might be as oxymoronic as The Vest’s book on honesty and character… If a degree from Buck U doesn’t require students to produce and report complete and accurate numbers then no wonder it doesn’t carry any weight with anyone who’s not a Buck U alum. Meyer receives an F for his art project.
- ATG3
  
  Just a wild guess, but I’d say that the difference accounts for undeclared students.
  
  Nice rant though.
- Matt
  
  Apparently Urban included walk-ons in the Ohio State numbers, and that accounts for most of the more “legitimate” majors (biology, engineering, etc.)
- dan
  
  a putrid crevis? are you true? What about your coaches before Hoke?
  Once again, GO BUCKS!!
Willy Brown

Meatchicken; nuff said
Feathers

Hokes Bloke got it right…..been there done that. At UM, you go to school taking “general studies” – trying to take the pre-reqs for the program you want to enter. When you are close to meeting the pre-reqs, you then apply to the school you want to study in. So most Fresh & Sophs are going to be completeing or majoring in general studies the first couple of years.
Hokecanhasacheeseburger

Looks like the sign is having it’s intended effect…slobbering and gnashing of teeth in Southern Canada. Anyone who thinks a Meeechigan undergrad degree vs. a tOSU degree or any other B1G degree gives them a leg up is delusional. They are not Ivy League and never will be.
- anorexic urban cryer
  
  HAHAHAHA THIS GUY ACTUALLY THINKS AN osu DEGREE IS EQUAL TO A MICHIGAN DEGREE….AHAHAHAHAHA YOU OHIO REDNECKS ARE JUST HILARIOUS!
  - ATG3
    
    There is no real difference.
    
    As for red-necks, OSU sits in the middle of a 2 million person metro area, and then there is Ann Arbor…
    - Anonymous
      
      And your point? Ann arbor is 20 minutes outside of metro Detroit, which consists of over 4 million people. All Columbus has is a terrible university and NHL team.
      - Chris
        
        When did the Blue Jackets move up from the AHL?
Nice-try

Everyone knows Michigan is a vastly superior academic university. Kudos to coach Meyer for taking a stab at it, though. He should probably save his effort for the action on-field: He’s going to need it.
- nice-try gfy
  
  Meyer is going to need it? please…
  
  National championship count
  Meyer – 2
  Hoke – 0
  
  nuff said.
  
  these guys are all here for football and your coach has nothing under his belt.
  - Utah sun
    
    Meyer is the slut of football coaches, how long til he goes to ND?
    - Matt Wood
      
      ND job has already been open, so please come up with something else. Everyone knows Michigan is a good school for acedemics it’s just the Walmart wolverines that are “undereducated” .
      Most of your fans are looked down upon in Ann arbor.
      - Acer
        
        8 4* commits in one weekend case closed, GO BLUE!!
bfradette

Another issue with this is that of OSU’s top 2 listed categories, only 1 is a scholarship player. The others are walkons.
- ATG3
  
  So, walk-ons can’t major in cake? Clearly they are up north.
Ryan

It appears that a lot of you failed to notice or comprehend that the numbers Urban reported are percentages, not the number of people majoring in that subject. I’m talking to you Josh and “I plop on” whatever the rest your name is.
west42

Meyer is so dedicated to the buckeye cause, he has such a long history with OSU-2 years as a “graduate assistent” . In other words he was a gofer for Earl Bruce where he learned how to lose to the “school up North”. So original too with the school up north stuff…Its sure to get interestin when he brings in the ganstas and they start getting arrested like they did in Fla. Yea gonna be entertaining.
Anonymous

Does it really matter what major any of them pick when they only have to be able to fog a mirror to get their grades?
Your Daddy

Michigan is a joke. They have very little in-state talent, and wouldn’t be anything without Ohio input. Deal with it ladies.
Jordan

Michigan is a better university then Ohio State. I’m sure working toward a degree in communications or family resource management is very demanding and strenuous…..not!! Go Blue
- Ohio is a joke
  
  Family resource management here in the state of Ohio is aka baby daddy (or how to keep your family on welfare).
Big Daddy

The insecurity and deep feeling of inadequacy of theeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee “university of ohio state” fans, alum and administrators is amazing. In the sec we rarely even hear vanderbilt playing the mythical “academics” card even though they are a far better school than osu. Delusional osu fans believe they are bama on saturday and harvard the rest of the week. They are no where close to either. It is really kind of pathetic. 0-10!
Wolv_Fan

I guess those communication skills came in handy while they were dealing memorabilia for tats. Or does that count as a business venture? Nevertheless.
Dano

How many knuckleheads were arrested when Meyer was at Florida? Let’s see what this goofball does in a couple of years at osu. Sounds like Meyer is going to fit in real well with the AD and President of osu.
northernmi

I don’t see Pryor in that picture…
GOBLUE

At OSU isn’t criminology just an offensive huddle?
MJE

I love it when little buckeye brother gets all riled up and jealous………….always entertaining, as little brothers should be
mecman

What a joke..like any players starting in the big 10 are really “studying” anything except how to get into the NFL. Let OSU compare their admission standards, academic levels, course offerings, etc, plus the national and international regard for their school against Michigan. OSU doesn’t come close. They call Michigan “the Harvard of the Midwest”. What do they call OSU?
Anonymous

Meyer was and is still a whiny lttle baby.
Lucid1

Ironically looks like a score board.
Rick

Michigan is a much better academic instution than OSU.Just look at the rankings among major universities. I wonder what the graduation rate was for Urban Liar and his players at Florida ! MANY OF THEM WERE ON POLICE BLOTTERS !! If Urban Liar thinks he can dominate the Big 0 he has got another thing coming. He cannot recruit the same type of players at OSU than he could at michigan.He’s already made a lot of enemies in the big 10 it’s gonna come back to bite him in the butt.
tml

A General Studies degree at Michigan is worth a Doctorate of any study at Ohio.
blue4ever

Let’s see a sign comparing number and length of jail/prison sentences for first string players in the last decade–osu will win that one hands down!
Or of head coaches fired for being devious (Tressel, Ole Earl), unsportsmanlke(Hayes) and just downrught dishonest (all of the above). Our only contendor is richrod, fired for being a blockhead.
Matt

Hoke should put a sign showing the number of convicted felons from the OSU football program. That would quiet Urban Meyer
TheDaytonDragon

Michigan’s “General Studies” is a tougher course than OSU’s biology……
wallygoblue

1 2 3 4 T
OSU 7 17 0 10 34
#15 MICH 16 7 7 10 40
Top Performers

Passing: D. Robinson (MICH) – 167 YDS, 3 TD

Rushing: D. Robinson (MICH) – 26 CAR, 170 YDS, 2 TD

Receiving: C. Brown (OSU) – 2 REC, 76 YDS, 1 TD
BDRPharmD

colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities/top-public

This pretty much sums up my feelings, as these rankings have been fairly consistent throughout the years…same trend in national rankings that include the private schools ie colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities/spp+50

tOSU holds its own and is more respectable academically than has been demonstrated by their President, AD, and former coach, but the edge in academics clearly favors the Maize and Blue. Of course I am biased being a Michigan alumnus, but when nearly every comment from tOSU fans contains a reference to how our coach’s last name rhymes with something ridiculous (joke, choke etc) it leads me to believe these rankings are spot on.
CMc

I’m sure those tutors at Ohio are under Non-Disclosure Agreements…
- True Blue
  
  Your not lying about that. My friend sister is a tutor at that lesser school and she has told me they are some of the dumbest a holes God has put breath in. She’s been tutoring since Andy Katzendummy. Didn’t he change his major to golf so he could graduate?
ChicagoBlue

Let the graduates from that college in Columbus talk. They have to make loud noises to make themselves feel equal. Let’s see… Michigan is academically ranked the #14 university IN THE WORLD. I don’t seem to know where ohio ranks academically. I think #14 in ohio, just behind Solon High School. You know, that high school that produced the late, great Jim Mandich. Oh, by the way…it was disclosed that those impressive majors by the osu football players were all majors of WALK-ONS. Not one scholarship player has any of those listed majors. Good old Urban Meyer stretching the truth again. By the way, osu people, how’s it feel to have a coach with the initials UM?!!!
Kevin

I’d read this as “OSU academics are so easy, that even our football players can get an engineering degree”.
Michigan Man

Does anyone else think its ironic that there are so many Ohio players majoring in criminology? Are they studying the system so that they know how to solve crimes or not get caught doing them?
Brett

This is ridiculous. (Obviously I’m biased) Michigan is hands down the better institution when it comes to academics. Here Ohio State would be an equivalent to maybe Michigan State or Grand Valley State – they’re not bad schools but by no means on the same academic level as the University of Michigan.
Boohio

Meyers a joke. He’s trying everything because michigans bringing in the recruits. He’s half the coach tressel was. I take great pleasure in watching Michigan destroy his legacy. He took over a successful program spurrier put on the map but he won’t have the same success in the big ten they actually make you accountable for your actions. It will be three yrs and Meyer will retire because of health reasons. Go blue and the hoke artist
- Drew
  
  Then why did we go UNDEFEATED!?
MGOBLUEGIRL

For that person who compared national titles between Urban and Coach Hoke…how about this…Michigan has a winning record over Meyer or did you forget when he spanked you guys for that title and we had to go in next year and take the Gators down properly representin the Big10?!? I don’t see anyone on his team now that measures up to Tebow or Percy Harvin and we beat that team…so good luck. Academically Michigan is superior…its harder to get I.to also. But these are football players…who cares what the major is as long as they are eligible?!? Not me. GO BLUE!
- Sloopy
  
  wulvaweenes ure absaolutly da werst sckool in da hole big 10, jest aask anybudy in da street 0n ann arburr they well till ya soo……thay smeill soo baad like a stanky dyapper kneeds a changin……………….GO BUCKEYES GO………………..LOL
dognanny

Hail to the Victors–the Leaders and Best–GO BLUE!
- Sloopydaclown
  
  Blue’s a screwed up school if their ever wus one!
- Drew
  
  Might want to Have a better record before you claim that!
Anonymous

Urban Meyer can shove his sign right up his a** as far as I’m concerned, because everyone with any common sense knows Michigan’s worst degree is 10 times more impressive, and valuable than Ohio State’s most coveted degree. I don’t expect his career to be too long, because everyone knows he’s a two-faced, lying, loser who abandoned Florida when Tim Tebow left for the NFL. And he is a fine one to be talking about Michigan’s academics, when he holds his master’s degree in sports administration, (which I don’t consider an impressive degree) from Ohio State. He acquired his bachelor’s degree in psychology from Cincinnati, but apparently that isn’t worth a d*** either, because he had a total psychological meltdown when he was a Florida Gator head coach. I can’t wait to see him suffer a nervous breakdown, and flip a switch at Ohio State… I’ll bend over for you Urban so you can kiss my a**!!!
- Sloopydaclown
  
  Yo moma went to U of M and they fished you outta the commode in the w0lvaween lockerruums
- Drew
  
  Everything you just mentioned has little, to no merit. First off your beloved Michigan Coach “Brady Hoke” which you failed to mention in your useless banter, graduated from Ball State, with only a Bachelors. Hoke also is from Ohio as are most of the great college football coaches. To do you one better Hoke’s dad coached under Woody Hayes one of Ohio States greatest icons. So its safe to say anything good Michigan does this year it’s thanks to Ohio State teaching and Coaching…… You Welcome!
Anonymous

Michigan still plays football??
Anonymous

After reading all of these comments from UM supporters I’m shocked! You say UM is so much better acadecally but 95% of you have grammar issues or misspelled words. Way to make your college proud dumba**.

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