Ohio is a basketball school.

Ohio is a football school.

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This may be a wrong opinion.  It certainly is one based upon curious criteria.  The comparision might be 'what is the crowd at midnight madness'? 

We here are the faithful.  We tend to love all the O H I O sports.  Might be better to gauge interest by attendance/interest of the less devoted:  Number of first time posters here who tie more firmly to a given sport.  Perhaps attendance (absolute number and % of capacity).  Maybe success over the past handful of years and stability, leavened by the most recent results.

I vote both sports.  And, all the others, too.  WVB cannot be dismissed.

At any rate, the football summary by Arkley is terrific.  Must read.

Agreed.  It didn't continue...it started, with this thread.  I don't really understand why we have to continually debate this.

I think he was just trying to bring attention to the great reporting by Arkley and threw in the reference to the "battle" between fball and bball as a joke.

Until we're eligible to win a national championship in football, we're a basketball school. 

Our business school is a good program, but I certainly wouldn't call it a destination program.

How about our world-class Edison Biotech Research Center (molecular biology program), our Honors Tutorial College, our expanding and very well-endowed College of Engineering, our world-world-renowned E. W. Scripps School of Journalism, and our expanding and increasingly research-oriented Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine?  With the possible exception of UMass and the State University of New York at Buffalo, I dare say other MAC schools can't match up with that on the academic side.  We are not Kent State, Akron or even BG!

I'm sorry, I know we are supposed to muck them and what not, but are you really going to ignore the fact that Miami is ranked higher than us by basically every major publication?

Wouldn't undergraduate programs constitute the main attractions for athletes? So I'm still not understanding how we can say we have more to offer athletes academically than Miami.

Understand what you are saying but I have never seen the recruiting brochure you are alluding to and I suspect most of us who have gone through the process have not either. Ohio does a very good job of getting parents and recruits with acedemics on their vists in the perceived major of the athlete being recruited.  The business school has some major players that are absolute sports fans and can always be seen greeting recruits at tailgates and functions supporting the school when recruits are on campus. Having gone through many processes with many parents the first question I ask someone talking to me is" do they have your program?" It does no good to go through the process at IU if you are an engineering student....they just do not have the program. Perhaps the better comment on OHIO is that we have 250+ majors to pursue....and without being too crass I should say in my experience those academics you are alluding to are not ones that many athletes in money sports will be pursuing. One only needs to go through the majors of the players you can name and see what their feild of study is to figure that out....which is very difficult as OHIO unlike most schools on their official sites does not really have that as a integral part of their BIO.  

I understand it is nit picking but the perception that an athlete is looking at schools from the perspective youare alluding to is not very prevalent during the process most parent/handler athletes are going through save for Womens Volleyball.

That said, I do think the athletes who pass through as student athletes in undergrad programs become very aware of Sports Ad graduate and Coaching programs in their tiime here and move toward those programs as they progress through their 4 years and aim for the next step. I can think of several female athletes and most recently Asown Sayles and a couple of football players who have taken that route.

One way to look at it is think of how Scrips floats the reputation for the entire communications school leading the was for a host of other majors loosely associated with it. In the same vein having OU-HCOM out front in medicine drives a host of other programs in the medical field like nursing and biomedical engineering. I said it while I was going to school but even more so now the science offerings at OHIO are primarily there to support the medical school and now that is true with the engineering college. Everything has gone the direction of medical as much of the federal dollars have rolled up medicine along community wellness under the same umbrella. With OU-HCOM expanding into the Columbus market to lead the way in producing primary care physicians along with 100 nurses a year graduating now from the main campus goes back to your Virginia Tech megabucks theory which says that a school producing more high income grade is better situated to support athletics. Ohio by producing increasesing number of professionals in the medical field is moving quickly in that direction.

You could speed through a semester's worth of lectures in one afternoon on that amount of coke.