OSU student writes article in Lantern, trolls entire University
Apologies if I somehow missed this, but Danielle Seamon wrote an article in the Lantern and essentially says that Michigan owns OSU in things that matter.
http://thelantern.com/blog/2014/12/opinion-ohio-state-wins-against-mich…
Oh, and HARBAUGH.
December 9th, 2014 at 5:13 PM ^
December 9th, 2014 at 5:18 PM ^
That was never going to be the dynamic of our rivalry, I don't know why they think they'd change it now.
December 9th, 2014 at 5:19 PM ^
She just put her life in danger. On a sidenote, I don't know why she went there if she thinks the university is so bad.
December 9th, 2014 at 6:16 PM ^
December 9th, 2014 at 7:34 PM ^
in here?
December 9th, 2014 at 9:24 PM ^
Exactly. Made me laugh that the first commenter posted that question - "Why doesn't she just go to Michigan?" apparently ignorant of the honest answer. Sometimes the jokes write themselves.
I also loved it that she felt the need to explain parenthetically to her OSU audience where the .02 percent figure came from. Also thought it was great that she said, "Let's start" halfway through the piece, after the boring intro that should have been mostly tossed.
Also, I'm actually annoyed and worried that we're only 25 spots better than OSU according to US News. Hope Schlissel can turn things around.
December 9th, 2014 at 5:19 PM ^
Whether a troll or not, it's true and helps me reconcile our athletic shortcomings.
Also...HIRE HARBAUGH!
December 9th, 2014 at 5:26 PM ^
*Football shortcomings.
Basketball has beaten them 3 in a row.
Hockey is 8-0-1 against them in the last 9 meetings.
Softball is 42-3 against them in my lifetime.
Baseball took the series against them last year outscoring them 9-3.
December 9th, 2014 at 5:35 PM ^
Softball has really won 42 of the last 45 meetings? Talk about domination.
December 9th, 2014 at 5:49 PM ^
Yes, the all-time series is 85-20.
Men's Swim & Dive is 46-1 against them since 1962-63. Currently on a 17-meet win streak.
December 9th, 2014 at 5:47 PM ^
Yes, Football.
This also applies to MSU.
December 9th, 2014 at 5:21 PM ^
I'd make a Seamon joke but everyone would see that one coming.
December 9th, 2014 at 6:09 PM ^
Rectum, damn near killed him.....
December 9th, 2014 at 5:22 PM ^
And good for her!
HARBAUGH!
December 9th, 2014 at 5:23 PM ^
That is simply not true. The Game matters. Ohio and Michigan do not really compete in the academic sector. Ohio is a state school with regional ambitions. Michigan is a national school that competes with top international schools. Where the schools intersect is in sports, and by far the most important aspect of that intersection is the Game.
December 9th, 2014 at 6:18 PM ^
December 9th, 2014 at 7:20 PM ^
The author of that piece was correct about the things that matter, but the holier than thou attitude some Michigan folks have needs to go.
That little regional school that you just dissed did close to a billion in research last year and if you ever saw their medical campus and compared it to our facilities, you might be surprised.
This fucking attitude drives me up a wall. Michigan is a great university, and I and several of my family members are fortunate to have been educated at Michigan to be sure, but OSU is a very solid institution with quicjkly rising admission standards, and I respect their graduates as I do ours....welll, maybe, not quite as much, but you get my drift.
December 9th, 2014 at 7:38 PM ^
that break down every other day and PeopleSoft is AAAA-trocious. People would be shocked at how behind UM is in certain ways.
December 11th, 2014 at 8:02 PM ^
I think everyone who is being negative about this young woman's opinion should stop all the bashing. What did she do wrong? She accurately reported the facts & supported her opinion. She also encouraged Ohio St. to beat Michigan in other areas, too. This kid has real guts!
As a man who has been in the business world for over 30 years, I can tell all the students who are bashing this girl's article & making inappropriate remarks that the real world will definitely tell you the unvarnished truth & like it or not. You're gonna have to take the good with the bad, the ups with the downs, & you're not always gonna like it. The thing is, many of the people who posted comments diidn't even leave their names. The real world won't tell you are great just because you had one achievement--in this case winning a football game.
A mark of a great journalist is one who will tell you the truth, not what you want to hear, or what they think you want to hear. The mainstream press is heavily biased to the left & they are not telling the American people the truth. Daniel Seamon is a brave person to look at more than winning a football game. She is telling you the truth about things that matter more than a game & deserves to be respected for doing it. We need more of her kind in the journalism world because it takes guts to know that you are going to get bashed for telling people what they don't want to hear.
I grew up in the Omaha Nebraska area & our Hall of Fame Coach Tom Osborne (83.8% career winning over 25 years with three national championships) wrote a book called "More Than Winning". In his book he explained that he never considered coaching pro football even though he had numerous offers because he felt he couldn't make a difference in the lives of grown men but could with college kids. He said he never told his team that they had to go out and win a game. It was all about the process of working & getting better & becoming better people.
Please take a step back & stop bashing a girl for writing about her opinion based on facts. Oh, and I noticed Ms. Seamon had nearly 5,000 likes as of the time of this posting.
Steve McKenzie
December 9th, 2014 at 7:23 PM ^
Is it not the purpose of universities to educate? What does competing have to do with the mission of educating people and expanding the scope of human knowledge?
I find the obsession with competing in academics to be a bit peculiar.Learning is not a race, but a pursuit.
December 9th, 2014 at 8:11 PM ^
A fair point. Academic "competition" has more to do with securing research money, top talent, and developing infrastructure and facilities. It is not about territorial bragging rights, or whatever atavistic forces that are at play in the Ohio Michigan rivalry.
December 9th, 2014 at 8:40 PM ^
people can turn anything into a competition... and our fans are some of the worst at this. "If you can't get into college go to State" might be a funny chant at hockey games, but the idea behind it is rather poisonous.
December 9th, 2014 at 8:46 PM ^
December 9th, 2014 at 5:23 PM ^
I love how all the commenters call out the author by name, then sign off with "anonymous ohio state student/alum/fan"
There were I think 3 people who used their actual names, and one of them is a UM grad, lol.
December 9th, 2014 at 5:25 PM ^
Other than trolling why would the author write this? I agree with the premise of it, yeah Michigan is better off the field, and fans don't play on Saturdays, but seems unnecessary.
“We did it!” a group of OSU students probably chanted/thought while patting each other on the back and getting their postgame drink on at Chumley’s. “We beat Michigan!” Now, if these students were named J.T. Barrett, Jeff Heuerman, Joey Bosa, Cardale Jones, Ezekiel Elliott or anyone else on the Buckeyes’ 2014 football roster, this would be an accurate statement, and such a triumphant high would be warranted. Anyone else — student, faculty, alumni or fan: You, in fact, did not beat Michigan.
Well yeah. I guess, but I mean that's sports. Fans/students should enjoy it when their team wins. The game is important. She sounds like a sore loser... that won
December 9th, 2014 at 5:28 PM ^
Chumley's? Is that Charley's ugly step brother?
December 9th, 2014 at 5:31 PM ^
It sounds like the bar on Spongebob. Really.
December 9th, 2014 at 5:37 PM ^
Charley's is to the Krusty Krab as Chumley's is to The Chum Bucket.
Or the guy from Pawnstars
December 9th, 2014 at 7:28 PM ^
Isn't that the moron on Pawn Stars?
December 9th, 2014 at 5:32 PM ^
I can totally sympathize with this girl. I bet she is annoyed that the meathead Jabronis that she goes to school with have relatively low horizons. She is trying to encourage Ohio to 'aim high' off the field as well. She just should have thought of that before she went to Ohio, and probably should have gone to Oberlin or something.
December 9th, 2014 at 5:34 PM ^
Maybe the tone of the article could've been a little more encouraging and a little less you didn't play in the game so you shouldn't be so excited. Idk that's kind of what I got from it.
December 9th, 2014 at 7:03 PM ^
quality use of jabroni!!!
jdon
December 9th, 2014 at 7:24 PM ^
that sports are a communal event that acts as a kind of social adhesive for universities. She is an arts editor. She should stick to talking about performance art and the meaning of Jackson Pollacks splatter paintings.
December 9th, 2014 at 8:49 PM ^
December 9th, 2014 at 5:24 PM ^
an osu student write that article?
December 9th, 2014 at 5:30 PM ^
Because, and not to be arrogant here, it is objectively true. I think it is a nice call back to reality for OSU and MSU.
Yep, you beat us. But let's look at the larger picture.
December 9th, 2014 at 6:32 PM ^
Death wish?
December 9th, 2014 at 5:24 PM ^
What a Debbie Downer (for them)! I would hate to see what she would write after OSU played Cal Tech in anything. This is from Cal Tech's website:
Graduates who go directly into the job market are usually courted by a wide variety of organizations, many of whom recruit on campus. The average starting salary for our 2013 graduates was $82,000.
December 9th, 2014 at 5:57 PM ^
Many of them probably live in LA or SanFran, though.
December 10th, 2014 at 2:50 AM ^
Many of our bretheren out here but very few Buckeyes and even less Spartans. When competition counts, go to UM. In medical residencies I doubt OSU is even mentioned in the same line.
Of course we could play Harvard or Princeton in something and ( maybe not in BB ) beat them. Then one of our students could write how WE lost. Of course if her grades were high enough she would stand a chance of getting in Harvard or Yale grad school from UM.
December 9th, 2014 at 5:31 PM ^
I clicked expecting to see an article in one of those flying lanterns you see in the summer time. I imagined OSU kids looking at it longingly, but it remaining just out of their grasp. Aye... it's been a long day. <facepalm>
December 9th, 2014 at 5:32 PM ^
December 9th, 2014 at 5:35 PM ^
CLASSES ARE POINTLESS!!!
December 9th, 2014 at 7:14 PM ^
CLASSES IS POINTLESS!!!
December 9th, 2014 at 5:38 PM ^
Wow. I'm a Michigan fan but sounds like someone needs to get laid or something.
December 9th, 2014 at 5:43 PM ^
They found her on Twitter. I'm sure there will be nothing but constructive criticisms from OSU fans and students.
@DaniMariSea really liked your article. painful but necessary
— Teddy Papes (@teddypapes) December 9, 2014
See? What about....
@DaniMariSea OK...inquiring Buckeye fans all over the world want to know...why did you do decide to go to Ohio State?
— Alesya (@Alesya) December 9, 2014
“@Kevinish: . @TheLantern why would you publish this garbage?” Better yet ask @DaniMariSea herself
— Matthew (@MattGustafson02) December 9, 2014
Wait a minute....
.@TheLantern @DaniMariSea no more "opinion" articles from you please and thank you - also, transfer to Michigan
Uh oh...
@DaniMariSea you are the reason that evil exists in this world. If you don't like this school, then leave. We don't want you any way
— Nate Donaldson (@NateD34) December 9, 2014
^ The OSU version of have a happy life?
December 9th, 2014 at 6:27 PM ^
Some of those have a... DaveBrandonish kind of style to them. "We don't want you anyway."
December 9th, 2014 at 6:42 PM ^
... these are remarkably kind and thoughtful.
December 10th, 2014 at 12:28 AM ^