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Thought this would be thought-provoking, a list of the top 50 collegiate recruiting expenditures:

http://businessofcollegesports.com/2012/01/23/conference-recruiting-expense-series-top-50-spenders/

I'll be honest: I'm on my second year here at Ohio State and I've become quite disillusioned with the football culture. I love the games - football, basketball, and hockey - but at the end of the day, the prevailing attitudes and behaviors are just way too out of control for my tastes. It's offensive to say this, but I feel like too many people let this hysteria define their lives because if everyone's doing it, nobody can think they're shallow people. I'll take my sports with the crowd in the Yankees bleachers over the crowd in the Horseshoe any day. Maybe when I'm older and my friends are older, when I'm not obliged to crappy OSU parties and drunken fist fights between tough guys from Dayton and Youngstown, I'll find the scene more approachable.

I hope Tressel benches them for the Sugar Bowl. They have disgraced the program by selling their Big Ten Championship rings and Golden Pants. I hope they don't step foot in Ohio Stadium ever again.

They still never won a Super Bowl.

I like the weather combinations.

Wind and Rain,

Mud and Snow,

Overcast and Partly Sunny

I was not pleased.

It is not how you say it at all. I'm a student at OSU and everyone I have spoken to at games and at the bars and so forth are all really happy about Nebraska coming into the conference and how your program is such a good fit. The only places on the internet (well, anywhere) where people seem to think that there is this crazy couch-burning, child-eating monolith of a conference coming to pillage Lincoln are on Nebraska websites. I get the impression that you really want the hatred though; anything based on blind hatred and fear instead of rational observation is going to be more a more powerful experience, so it's understandable that you want this to exist. The reality is that most sports fans from any team (except Miami [FL], they don't have any fans) are decent people who are more than happy to share a good time at a football game. I have seen this even between Buckeyes and Wolverines. The only people that really get into the hate and fear-mongering are people who have developed a psychosis dependent on that relationship, or they're drunk college students. Hardly a serious position to take.

EDIT: And considering the overwhelming support from Big Ten fans on this forum earlier in the year makes this thread all the more ridiculous.

I was too drunk last night to be mad. I'm upset because I was hoping Nebraska would come into the Big Ten with an ass-kicking mandate after a BCS game, but now some irritable Big 12 fans have the overbearing impression that Nebraska "couldn't handle the heat". That pisses me off.

way balme wisconsan?

So BYU is independent, Utah and TCU left... Hahaha Boise State.

And then there's this statistic:

Number of referees pissed off:

#120 Nebraska - All of them

The real question is: "Can they count backwards from 60?"

This video is part 4 of a series discussing research on brain damage and child abuse. This part deals with how political beliefs are not products of any reasoning and evidence (ever get into a frustrated argument? Yes, there's a scientific reason for people ignoring reason).

Truly one of the most remarkable and enlightening videos I have ever watched. It gets into the meat of the matter about mid-way through. Very scientific, so please watch it with a clear mind.

They will lose their bowl game, even if that is the MNC, because of their defense. Everyone is hypnotized by their offense without realizing that they gave up 32 points to a reeling USC.

Dangling participle fail in the first sentence.

Man gave cancer to the dinosaurs.

With your feet in the air and your head on the ground,

Try this trick and spin it:

Tigers will relapse

And there's nothing in 'em,

And you'll ask yourself:

Where is the Big Ten?

Hawaiian airlines is ****.

I thought he meant Big 8 and Big 12.

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Wearing a more Ohio State hew of red, but I'm wearing red, and game day is beginning early this morning. 4:04 AM. I love college.

Don't judge me, but it looks like I'm going to be drinking a lot of cheap wine in a parking lot and then stumbling into Buffalo Wild Wings and being the only one of my friends able to purchase alcohol. God I hate college students.

 

I may not always drink cheap wine, but when I do, I choose Night Train. Stay drunk my friends.

 

 

Night Train is by far the best bum wine on the market. I drank a bunch of Thunderbird once and I thought I was going to go blind.

The best I'm aware of is Carlo Rossi:

http://www.carlorossi.com/

I haven't seen what the prices are here in Ohio, but I know in New York that you can buy a 4 litre glass jug for like $8. It's not bad stuff for the price, either. It is far more agreeable with me than getting really cheap vodka (and I can't even stand standard grade vodka).