Michigan/OSU Football Player Majors Full Breakdown

Is the Human Development major in any way related to The Human Fund?

Here's an even better degree breakdown:

Ohio players get an OSU degree.

Michigan players get a UofM degree.

That's really all that needs to be said.

Fisheries? You can major in fisheries? And people get offended when I call Ohio a trade school...

Originally, there were 30 Ohio football players signed up for criminology majors. 25 of them changed majors when they learned that this did not involve learning how to BE a criminal. 

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so urban meyer is trying to make fun of the academic majors chosen at Michigan rather than what's available at Michigan???

Does his buckeye logic somehow lead him to the conclusion that an OSU education is better than one from Michigan?  I really don't understand the joke he's trying to make.  Is it making fun of the players at Michigan or of the institution?

This simply does not compute.

Michigan is to Ohio as Sheldon is to Penny.

I saw him as QB versus Miami, and all of his junk was working; sinker, knuckleball, curveball, changeup.  He was untouchable.

I actually just saw Ohio's version of this when I for some reason ventured into 11W for the first time to see what it was all about... It made me angry for a minute because they don't even put any effort into spinning shit their way.  I came across an M poster who for some reason attempts reason in that den of nonsense and the commentors said he was a voice of reason, but then said that the quality of their posters over ours is beyond compare, and that while we would be a top 5 class, they'll be competing for #1 (completely without evidence) rabble rabble rabble.  I threw up a little.  Why do people repeatedly go to that site?  It's not worth the entertainment and makes me more angry at their existence than anything else.  I'm limiting this rant because I know you all already know these things, but I had to let a little bit out.  Please don't ever make me go back there. It was awful.

-Also someone wrote a whole page article (article?) on Tom Brady's new house and how his GS degree is worthless and how Gisele didn't go to high school.  Basically, they don't deserve their money and they're stupid...  Really? Internet has increased my hatred of Ohio 1000 fold.

Tyrelle's lasing legacy, an uptick in Exploring majors....

18 players owe their future academic success to this man. Does it mean they are "undeclared undeclared majors" at this point?

Diary please mods.

The Michigan list adds up to 99. This confuses me as (1) I would expect the number to be significantly higher than that if we were combining scholarship and non-scholarship players and (2) I would expect the number to be significantly lower than this if we are only looking at scholarship players here (assuming--fairly, I imagine--that few football players "double up").

I see my old concentrations are represented. I wonder. Who are the roster kids studying Political Science and Cellular & Molecular Biology?

That is impressive.  I will give them that.  Only that.

I don't think this sign proves much of anything. Overall, Michigan is better than Ohio academically. Ohio has improved significantly over the last 10 years, and may have a few programs that are better than Michigan. To date, no one has demonstrated this to be the case to my satisfacation.

However, there is a related subject that I really don't like. It has to do solely with Michigan. I get the feeling that even when Michigan players have the academic background to get admitted to various schools, they often are discouraged from doing so. Worse, I have the sense that a number of programs are so rigid, it literally is impossible for a student to be part of a program and part of the football team.

For example, there was a post a week ago about elite sophomore prospect Malik McDowell, who wants to go into Nursing. (Link:  http://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/elite-sophomore-visiting-michigan.) In the thread, I got the strong sense that Michigan's nursing school had clinicals that would directly conflict with football's practice schedule.

A few years ago, there was a prospect who I believe wanted to go into architecture. I'm fuzzy on the details, but again, I got the sense on the board that Michigan's program just wasn't flexible enough to allow this to happen. IIRC, he ended up at Georgia Tech.

Of course, there is the account of Harbaugh that he was steered out of getting a History degree by the coaching staff.

I know that Carty's work on this at the AA news several years ago was much ado about nothing. However, I'd like to hear from a nursing, or architecture, or art, or music, or RC professor, who is on this blog: would these schools and programs be flexible enough to work with a football student who wanted to be part of the program? Conversely, is Michigan's football program flexible enough to allow a player to be part of such a program, if it meant missing occasional scheduled practices? (That is to say, to make something like this work, it seems reasonable for both the school and the athletic department to show flexibility and work together.)

I really don't care what Ohio does, but I do care about Michigan. And I hope they find a way to welcome students who want to enter challenging programs at Michigan.

Perhaps "Exploring" really is a major down there...exploring weed/tats and undeclared "income" like Lewis and Clark explored the West...

I will admit, I'm a bit impressed that they have 5 ME majors.

How will we discover the worlds mysterious uncharted lands without these kids?

going to pool all kin into one for use, shouldn't sports and leisure and exercise science be combined for them as well?

"It's the education part. I know all these schools athletically can offer me the same thing. The academic support at Ohio State, there is no way you can fail. Even if you're giving minimal effort there is no way you can fail."

If I could get an ME degree with no way to fail, I'd do it too.

TP and crew could move up to

On a more serious note, to SRKass' question above, I would think a Music major would be tough for a football player with the requirement to be in a large ensemble every semester, to say nothing of the necessary practice time, lessons, and studio time, many of which cannot be moved to accommodate one person.  That is, unless special waivers can be sought and granted.  Not a professor (at least not at U of M, and not at present...) but do have some knowledge of this program.

lets see. Pittman was turned away because he doesnt have the grades to get into UM but Professor Meyer scooped him up.  Yeah thats buckeye math for you.

I think the other problem is probably in the fact that North Campus is so distant. From Central to North isn't a big deal, but when the entirety of your free time is taken south of Central and your classes are potentially as far away as the FXB, that's a pretty nasty hill to climb if you want to be an engineer.

Personally, I would really like to see the University step up the academic side of the athletic campus so that it is more self-containing. We're blessed to make millions in profits that even big ADs typically don't, and we put that money back into the genral fund. I would be totally okay with taking some of that cash and making arrangements for making sure there are people on the athletic campus who can help any athlete in whatever major they choose, instead of just the major clustering of majors we see here and everywhere else right now. For that matter, if you get every sport involved, you might even be able to hold an entire section of many classes in certian majors there for them (For example, if 30-40 athletes were interested in Computer Science, you could hold a section of EECS 280 down there for them every fall or something).

I know a lot of people will complain about the athletes getting even more "preferential treatment" than they do now, but with the work they put in to represent the University the way they do, I think they earn it and deserve it as a way to even the playing field with an ordinary student who doesn't have to make a committment to something they don't have to rely on to pay their way. It'd also be cool to set that kind of an example for commitment to making every resource available to our athletes to do whatever major they wish to pursue so they have the maximum chance to succeed in it and balance it with their sport.