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2 weeks 1 day ago I used to work for OSU in

I used to work for OSU in part of their IT department.  There as PLENTY of waste, so this is no surprise to me.

Example?  New higher-up gets hired, we would purchase a $1700 MacBook Pro, a $1000 Cinema Display, and a Parallels key so that they could run Windows 24/7.

All of this were paid at retail prices from the independent book store.
5 weeks 1 day ago As a formal OSU student

I resemble that remark.
13 weeks 3 days ago Me and my brother, Here2,

Me and my brother, Here2, booked our flight for $257 roundtrip out of Indianapolis a couple weeks ago.  I don't know exactly what our hotel and stuff is, but we got the packages available to former players through our dad.  It includes 2 nights stay at a 4-star hotel, food and booze, so needless to say I am pretty amped.
16 weeks 9 hours ago My friend played in this

quite a few years back (I think it was this game/series of games?), and yeah they lost then too.  He didn't play football after that sooo... Yeah.  They use their best, we use good talent in the area.  Also, I believe Canada won that year and I heard that they play older kids, so a little one-sided.

As a side note, and this is not meant to be racist/ninjaist in any way, but the Japanese team really played like a team of ninjas.  They were VERY small, but moved very quickly and their QB expecially moved like a ninja.  They got destroyed, but they looked pretty cool doing it.
18 weeks 10 hours ago Hosting

I tried both winhost and some other cheap asp hosting service and they both booted/suspended me for hogging resources... in both cases I started serving up basic asp pages and turned off my databases to prove it was on their end, but they never fixed whatever the issue was. I now host out of my living room and never experience any sort of issues they complained to me about.

Shared hosting is super annoying. next time I do that I will get a really cheap vps so I can at least control some of the resources.
22 weeks 12 hours ago Lloyd Carr, Honorable?

HA!

I will not argue that Lloyd Carr was a good coach and I am sure he loved his players and they loved him back, but I wouldn't call him "honorable."

Carr's issue with Les Miles is very much personal and stems from a very DIS-honorable thing Carr did years ago.  I am not the morality police, but this thing in turn lead him to try and black ball Miles (to which end he succeeded).  Putting a personal issue before the program is selfish and dishonorable.

The issue?  I am sure I will get neg-banged for this, but people hate when I dance around the  rumor (which I have heard from very reputable sources, so I will call it a rumor here though I take it as fact), so here is the rumor:

- Lloyd and Les used to be assistant coaches at UM together.

- Lloyd was very smitten by another assistant coach's wife (NOT Miles' wife, but the man was a very good friend of Les')

- An affair ensued, then eventually a marriage (Lloyd's wife now)

- Les didn't like that at all, I am sure some unkind words were exchanged

- As a result, Carr didn't like Miles anymore (nor much of the "old guard")

This explains a few things.

First, it gives a reason why Lloyd hates Les so much (and before you go and call that ridiculous, think about how many rumors there were about Les sleeping with another coach's wife or something to that extent as the origin of the disconnect between the two coaches), which really is a shame because it caused us to miss out on a great coach who would have loved to come back to his school.

Second, this explains the origins of the Carr faction vs the Old Guard.  DB (who is loved by everyone here, right?) is part of that old guard, and guess where Carr has been since then?  Not playing a very powerful role anymore...

So, whatever.  Now I have thrown the rumor (my fact) out there.  I get tired of people talking about rumors about what MILES did to get blackballed or people making excuses for Carr's hatred for him.  Also, it demonstrates why I find Carr to be a self-serving egomaniac.
23 weeks 1 day ago And

23 weeks 3 days ago Huh?

what is your point? of course we rely on ohio for recruiting, it has a wealth of football talent and no one here is afraid to admit that. the point is what is normally a difficult task (coaching and recruiting simultaneously) is easier now for ohio because they get two coaching staffs.
23 weeks 5 days ago Cool Story

Bro.

See what I did there?
25 weeks 1 day ago Interesting read

Such a hard issue to approach, but here are some of my thoughts.

- If you start paying players, they get "a piece of the income pie", yes.  However, that does not prevent them from wanting more, either through legitimate channels in future policy changes, or through improper channels.  So, in terms of curbing the influence of boosters etc. on low-income athletes, I don't think this would have an effect.

- I don't quite understand how they feel like their compensation isn't enough.  First, there are all of the intangibles, such as the experiences, life lessons, and comraderie (my dad made more friends who he is still very close with than I probably have acquaintances left over from college because he played football) that seem to be enough for walk-ons to come on for.  Then there is the value of their scholarships in monetary terms... Someone stated in a thread a while back that the AD pays the full out of state tuition rate for scholarships.  So, for a Michigan athlete we are talking $38k tuition + ~$1k books + ~$18k in stipends (based on what I have heard for stipends here in Columbus, about 1500 a month for living expenses so it could be wrong) x 5 years = $285k total value.  Show me another student that can pull that kind of money over the course of their college career.

- How is this any different than students who perform research for the university?  I can think of a number of undergrads who either did free research under a professor who obtained a grant (so no piece of the pie for them) or minimum wage (a likely very small piece of the pie). This is how universities work... They expect tuition PLUS work that they can profit from.  It is just the name of the game across the whole university.

 

I don't think paying players (especially when it is any sort of performance based payment) is the answer.  Instead, I think the solution is to eliminate the waiting time for athletes to go pro.  Then, if they are able to go pro they can make all the money they want, otherwise college sports give them an opportunity to showcase their skills to the next level OR earn an education.
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