I highly doubt it's much better

with the guy below.

People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.  NCAA Division 1 Head Football Coaches probably shouldn't try to say that their players SAT/MCAT/LSAT/Declared Majors are better than those elsewhere. 

Yes, even you, Jim Harbaugh, should shut up about how smart you (or your players) are...

It wouldn't be any better, but that's not the point. No one's claiming that Michigan's players are doing more difficult majors than any other program in the Big Ten. Purdue is making that claim (while taking a shot at UM just for good measure)

The point of the post is that the majority of Purdue's football players are taking easy classes, just like every other school's football players. Oh, and that Danny Hope is a colossal dick.

Can be.  From my understanding, it's all how far you delve into it.  I'm guessing a Kineseology Nerd (here's to context appropriate usernames) such as yourself went a bit beyond the superficial.

In-n-Out Easy (IOE) for nothing.

Even at tOSU, they called it Imagineering.

And for the sexist, mysoginist engineer in me...the hottest engineering women (holy oxymoron, Batman!) were IOE.  ME&AM (Class of '87) had only two hotties....of course, that was the year we had 4 BSE in Nuclear Engineering...all women.  Of a certain husky quality.

Even if it isn't as tough as other engineering majors, I still think any major that requires multiple semesters of calculus gets a pass as "not a fake major for athletes".

I'm not going to lie, was it easier than a majority of the other engineering classes?  You betcha.  Did we get made fun of?  Sure.  Did we have copious amounts of free time?  Maybe.

At the same time I have a good job.  I make the money.  I enjoy what I do.  I had a fun time at school.  I'm satisfied with my choice.

Also, since UM is the #2 ranked school in IE, I'm sure the joke exists everywhere.  I'd hate to be at a school that thinks their IE department is super hard and yet not really highly regarded.

I got a BGS degree at michigan, I got to take upper level courses in Engineering/CS, chemistry, Film, Econ, PoliSci, Sociology, cosmology, art, animation, pyschology, sociology, classes in the graduate business school and the law school, plus I still took Italian and most of the people I knew that were B.G.S. still took a foreign language.

They remove the foreign language requirement because B.G.S. is intended to be a MORE challenging path that focuses on getting you into 300/400 level courses in many disciplines and you have the option of talking to professors and doing independent work to skip intro 100/200 level courses if they approve of your work. I got to work on an individual level with a bunch of profs at M and outline a unique and challenging set of reading and individual assigments to do on my own that were waaay more interesting than 100/200 level drudge. It was very cool b/c nearly every professor got really personal with the reading list/curriculum for the work and also came up with creative assignments, i.e. create a documentary film on Vietnam Veterans, easier said than done.

Some people employ both hemispheres of their brain more than others and don't fit neatly into an all math or all liberal arts path as far as education. I wouldn't change a thing about how i went through UM, my B.G.S. degree has served me extremely well since graduating in '90. I work exclusively at start-ups, my ability to write, create and communicate effectively allow me to fill multiple roles from biz dev, to marketing, to design to product management, while my technical skills and background also allow me to work directly with engineers programmers, operations people, etc. My job is always interesting and I have had the opportunity to live/work in Zurich, Paris, London, as well as spending time in Bolivia working for a foundation in La Paz and going onsite into the deepest parts of the Amazon rainforest near Amboro, Noel-Kempf and Madidid National Parks there.

I wouldn't trade my B.G.S. degree for any engineering, liberal arts, business or law degree out there.

Danny Hope Is an asshole, so is Jim Harbaugh.

I'd be content merely with beating Purdue.

It's usually not hard to get tickets to Purdue, and it's basically the only stadium I've been to where you have in-out privileges.  Halftime tailgate beers!

As of yesterday, the UM Club of Greater Detroit still has tickets to the Purdue game--they're $46/each.  You have to buy them through the mail; just give Roger a call at the number listed for the club.

http://www.umclubgreaterdetroit.org/

Probably not much better.  However, we didn't start the rock flinging.

Shock of all shocks, this might happen at a lot of programs.

Did Rich Rodriguez talk shit about the classes that kids take at other schools? No. Hope did. "Glass Houses" is what someone should have told HIM.

And does Brian deny the claim that lots of Michigan players are in General Studies? No. He's objecting to Hope's characterization that Michigan football players take "fake" classes while Purdue players take "real" classes.