This is as much for stpaulcat as anyone else, but I thank him for raising the topic in his note asking why we must hate dOSU. It allows for the opportunity to revisit things of importance that some too easily overlook or too readily aim to forget.
He like others on this board wonder why I appear to be obsessed with dOSU and why I truly and absolutely hate them to my bone. And why this game means so much to me every year, despite the stark odds that Vegas puts against us in most years including this one.
The truth is that if this were a program run by Woody Hayes, that won championships, beat the snot of NU, and worked to educate and graduate its kids, I'd have nothing but the utmost respect for them and wished we could emulate them.
The truth is that dOSU is far from what it was under Woody Hayes. When Buckeye players were pushed to study and graduate. And make something useful of their lives regardless of what football might do for them. No, I do not wish to emulate them. I choose to despise them. And Hayes himself would be rolling in his grave if he knew what has become of dOSU.
Simply put, dOSU is a cheater. A football factory that has absurdly poor grad rates, particularly for its exploited African-American players. A school that cheats its star athletes through school, and runs off players when they fall in the depth chart. A school whose roster is filled with players who largely come in clean, but who leave with criminal and sometimes felony records. And still play football.
I hate dOSU and it is my opinion that we all should hate dOSU. Because they are the antithesis of what we represent. They cheat and get 5 star recruits and then brag when they succeed on the field, looking the other way and playing with smoke and mirrors to cause the rest of the nation to the same when it comes the the cost of integrity and the future of the kids it exploits. Because they have no integrity and are willing to do anything to win, it comes easy for them. And some how they think the empty accomplishments they have made while sacrificing their souls are worth being proud of. We do not have it easy. We claw and scratch, toeing the line without losing our integrity. We are the good guys. Which is why when we win Big 10 championships, it means so much more than any dOSU championship that has been won since the Hayes era.
Sure, there are other schools who have similarly appalling albeit hardly equal records of shame. But, clearly none moreso in our own conference than dOSU, and none reap as much in ill-begotten fruits of those crimes and fraud as dOSU. And that's why I hate them.
This is more than a football game. And let's not lose perspective - it is no rivalry either. Michigan and dOSU is a cute rivalry. But, nothing real is truly at stake there, as Michigan is further along the curve towards dOSU than anyone would like them to be. This is truly a battle between good and evil. A test of justice. We are putting to question a principle. When dOSU wins, it proves that cheating works and is the way of the world. When we win, we demonstrate to the world that winning can go hand in hand with integrity and the scholar athlete ideal.
My heart goes out to the brave and noble Wildcat players, who have done it right all year, have struggled through adversity, and who are finally coming of age and are taking on the demon. The stage is set. The nation is watching. The battle lines are drawn. I have faith in our boys, whom most outside of Evanston believe to be outmatched, because I still believe in justice. I believe we beat the snot out of them this weekend and deliver a just blow for all that is good in the world. And when they do, applaud them not because they are heroes. They are heroes for even fighting the battle. Applaud them for slaying the beast and becoming legends in process, to be remembered forever.
You wanna know who we are playing this weekend? You wanna open your eyes and not be fooled by the blind who would say dOSU isn't that bad? Read on, Wildcat patriot. This list of criminal travails has been posted on the NU board several times before, but its worth going through again, lest some of us (not just stpaulcat) forget.
It is an old list, because when we started logging the entries, we eventually concluded that there would be no end. So, we gave up. Although the players names from yesteryear, they are really still the same. They are Buckeyes and they still wear the Scarlet and Grey, tainted as those colors may be. And they are still coached by an agent of inaction, whether his name be Cooper, Tressell or Meyer. Or at best an inconsequential chess piece in the effed up institution that is dOSU. This may be Tressell's list, but it mind as well be Meyer's. If you think things have changed under Urban Meyer - he who employs and covers up wife beaters - then I have a bridge to sell you.
He like others on this board wonder why I appear to be obsessed with dOSU and why I truly and absolutely hate them to my bone. And why this game means so much to me every year, despite the stark odds that Vegas puts against us in most years including this one.
The truth is that if this were a program run by Woody Hayes, that won championships, beat the snot of NU, and worked to educate and graduate its kids, I'd have nothing but the utmost respect for them and wished we could emulate them.
The truth is that dOSU is far from what it was under Woody Hayes. When Buckeye players were pushed to study and graduate. And make something useful of their lives regardless of what football might do for them. No, I do not wish to emulate them. I choose to despise them. And Hayes himself would be rolling in his grave if he knew what has become of dOSU.
Simply put, dOSU is a cheater. A football factory that has absurdly poor grad rates, particularly for its exploited African-American players. A school that cheats its star athletes through school, and runs off players when they fall in the depth chart. A school whose roster is filled with players who largely come in clean, but who leave with criminal and sometimes felony records. And still play football.
I hate dOSU and it is my opinion that we all should hate dOSU. Because they are the antithesis of what we represent. They cheat and get 5 star recruits and then brag when they succeed on the field, looking the other way and playing with smoke and mirrors to cause the rest of the nation to the same when it comes the the cost of integrity and the future of the kids it exploits. Because they have no integrity and are willing to do anything to win, it comes easy for them. And some how they think the empty accomplishments they have made while sacrificing their souls are worth being proud of. We do not have it easy. We claw and scratch, toeing the line without losing our integrity. We are the good guys. Which is why when we win Big 10 championships, it means so much more than any dOSU championship that has been won since the Hayes era.
Sure, there are other schools who have similarly appalling albeit hardly equal records of shame. But, clearly none moreso in our own conference than dOSU, and none reap as much in ill-begotten fruits of those crimes and fraud as dOSU. And that's why I hate them.
This is more than a football game. And let's not lose perspective - it is no rivalry either. Michigan and dOSU is a cute rivalry. But, nothing real is truly at stake there, as Michigan is further along the curve towards dOSU than anyone would like them to be. This is truly a battle between good and evil. A test of justice. We are putting to question a principle. When dOSU wins, it proves that cheating works and is the way of the world. When we win, we demonstrate to the world that winning can go hand in hand with integrity and the scholar athlete ideal.
My heart goes out to the brave and noble Wildcat players, who have done it right all year, have struggled through adversity, and who are finally coming of age and are taking on the demon. The stage is set. The nation is watching. The battle lines are drawn. I have faith in our boys, whom most outside of Evanston believe to be outmatched, because I still believe in justice. I believe we beat the snot out of them this weekend and deliver a just blow for all that is good in the world. And when they do, applaud them not because they are heroes. They are heroes for even fighting the battle. Applaud them for slaying the beast and becoming legends in process, to be remembered forever.
You wanna know who we are playing this weekend? You wanna open your eyes and not be fooled by the blind who would say dOSU isn't that bad? Read on, Wildcat patriot. This list of criminal travails has been posted on the NU board several times before, but its worth going through again, lest some of us (not just stpaulcat) forget.
It is an old list, because when we started logging the entries, we eventually concluded that there would be no end. So, we gave up. Although the players names from yesteryear, they are really still the same. They are Buckeyes and they still wear the Scarlet and Grey, tainted as those colors may be. And they are still coached by an agent of inaction, whether his name be Cooper, Tressell or Meyer. Or at best an inconsequential chess piece in the effed up institution that is dOSU. This may be Tressell's list, but it mind as well be Meyer's. If you think things have changed under Urban Meyer - he who employs and covers up wife beaters - then I have a bridge to sell you.
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