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does anyone remember when Arkansas played Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl back in the 80's?  The game that Lou Holtz suspended 3 of his starters on offense (2 top running backs) and everyone said that Arkansas had no chance to win especially with a 3 string RB?

Well, a 3rd string running back named Rolland Sales tourched the Sooners for about 250 yards. 

point i am trying to make would be this.

ANY team can be beat on any given day.  That is why you play the game on the field.

If scUM fans want to believe that they are the most superior team and NU has no chance of winning, fine let them.

All of their talk will filter down to their team and they will start to believe it also. But let me tell you scUM fans out there.  You better hope that your team doesnt believe all of the hype around them and show up ready to play because it might be a long sad flight back.

GBR
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Nah.. I'm pretty sure Michigan will win. Pretty much not worried about that :)

Thanks for all that history though... I wasn't up on that.

scUM... that's right up there with the old "N is for Noledge", right? ;)

Juuust giving you a hard time :lol:

I really don't dislike you guys, but what fun is a board without any opposition...
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do you know why UM doesnt have ice in its gatorade coolers on the side lines?

the guy with the recipe graduated 2 years ago

back at you

:box :box :box :box

 
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does anyone remember when Arkansas played Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl back in the 80's?  The game that Lou Holtz suspended 3 of his starters on offense (2 top running backs) and everyone said that Arkansas had no chance to win especially with a 3 string RB?

Well, a 3rd string running back named Rolland Sales tourched the Sooners for about 250 yards. 

point i am trying to make would be this.

ANY team can be beat on any given day.  That is why you play the game on the field.

If scUM fans want to believe that they are the most superior team and NU has no chance of winning, fine let them.

All of their talk will filter down to their team and they will start to believe it also. But let me tell you scUM fans out there.  You better hope that your team doesnt believe all of the hype around them and show up ready to play because it might be a long sad flight back.

GBR
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Nah.. I'm pretty sure Michigan will win. Pretty much not worried about that :)

Thanks for all that history though... I wasn't up on that.

scUM... that's right up there with the old "N is for Noledge", right? ;)

Juuust giving you a hard time :lol:

I really don't dislike you guys, but what fun is a board without any opposition...
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do you know why UM doesnt have ice in its gatorade coolers on the side lines?

the guy with the recipe graduated 2 years ago

back at you

:box :box :box :box
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I find it ironic that you decide to jest about the disparity in education between Michigan and Nebraska. Academically there isn't much comparison- Michigan is known nationally as one of the top public universities... last I checked, you have to dig deep into the barrel to see where Nebraska ranks comprehensively.

If you don't want to look at all the U.S. News & Report hoo-hah, then you could always look to see how many "stars" Michigan and Nebraska get for academics on your handy NCAA 2006 football game :lol:

That's not to say that you can't get a good education at Nebraska, I know you can... but to poke fun at Michigan's academics by comparison? You don't really want to go there. Any unbiased mind would agree. That's not really all that debatable.

 
cant be that great you are going to Creighton
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Well, believe it or not, this is actually a world where both Michigan and Creighton can have good academic programs. I live in a world where both are good. If you were going to school what I am going for- then both schools are quite capable. Besides, using my graduate school decision as your entire basis for the justification of Michigan not being a good school is a rather poor talking point.

On a lighter note--- Merry Christmas all you dang Husker fans! :lol:

 
cant be that great you are going to Creighton
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Well, believe it or not, this is actually a world where both Michigan and Creighton can have good academic programs. I live in a world where both are good. If you were going to school what I am going for- then both schools are quite capable. Besides, using my graduate school decision as your entire basis for the justification of Michigan not being a good school is a rather poor talking point.

On a lighter note--- Merry Christmas all you dang Husker fans! :lol:
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if UM is such a fine institution of higher learning then why doesnt they have more academic all-americans. I am not talking about the football team. I am talking about all sports.

 
cant be that great you are going to Creighton
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Well, believe it or not, this is actually a world where both Michigan and Creighton can have good academic programs. I live in a world where both are good. If you were going to school what I am going for- then both schools are quite capable. Besides, using my graduate school decision as your entire basis for the justification of Michigan not being a good school is a rather poor talking point.

On a lighter note--- Merry Christmas all you dang Husker fans! :lol:
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if UM is such a fine institution of higher learning then why doesnt they have more academic all-americans. I am not talking about the football team. I am talking about all sports.
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When I speak of Michigan being a great academic institution, I speak of the University as a whole.

Look at where your school ranks academically... you guys like all these numbers to back up standpoints- so I'll do a little research for you...

U.S. News and Report 2006...

Ranking of National Universities

25th: University of Michigan, tied with UCLA

97th: University of Nebraska, tied with Kansas, Vermont, and the Illinois Insitute of Technology (no joke)

(Harvard was ranked #1, followed by Princeton)

**No Big Ten school ranked lower than #74(Minnesota)

**Nebraska ranks T#10 among Big XII schools (ahead of OU and Mizzou)

**Michigan ranks #2 among Big Ten schools (Northwestern, #12)

***Comparatively, Creighton ranks #1 among Midwestern Universities-Master's.. this indicates that the school offers a full range of undergrad and master's programs, but don't carry as many doctoral programs. Fortunately, Creighton does carry the "big boys" of doctoral programs (MD, DDS, etc.)

Ranking of Top Business Programs

#3: University of Michigan, tied with Cal-Berkeley-- ranked only behind Univ. of Pennsylvania and MIT.

If I wanted to see where Nebraska ranks, I'd have to pay $14.95 for the premium online edition. I don't want to donate to my research just yet.

Ranking of Top Medical Schools

#9: University of Michigan

I was going to have to pay to see where Nebraska ranks for that one too-- the last one they showed for free was a 5-way tie for #46. So we know UNMC ranks no higher than #51.

Ranking of Top Law Schools

#8: University of Michigan

#77: University of Nebraska, tied with 5 others- including Lewis & Clark College of Oregon

Michigan also ranked no lower than #6 in any of the following programs nationally: Dentistry, Pharmacy, Nursing, and Health-Service Administration

Nebraska was unlisted among any of the aforementioned.

So maybe you have more academic all-americans because NU's curriculum is easier? I have friends that transfered from Nebraska to Creighton-- and they thought Creighton was a lot more difficult... maybe that's how it is between Michigan and Nebraska.

 
Why do you spend so much time on a Husker site trying to defend michigan??

I take it you dont have a life...

 
Why do you spend so much time on a Husker site trying to defend michigan??
I take it you dont have a life...
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Great counter-argument ;)

I defend Michigan because it's a school where a lot of my family has gone and it's part of my home. I guess you'd call it 'passion.' I think a lot of your fellow Husker fans would know something about that. Did you miss the bus on that?

 
again why would someone of your intelligence leave Michigan and attend Creighton if Michigan is rated as a better institution of higher learning then even the mighty Creighton?

 
again why would someone of your intelligence leave Michigan and attend Creighton if Michigan is rated as a better institution of higher learning then even the mighty Creighton?
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I couldn't find a better professional school that offers as much clinical experience as Creighton. Michigan is wonderful from a medical/dental research standpoint, but I thought Creighton was a better fit for clinical/primary care exposure. The short of it is that Creighton's medical/dental schools are awesome from a clinical experience standpoint-- and that's what was my primary interest in selecting where I went.

CUMC is close to downtown Omaha and has a huge draw on the local public-- and so patient base is great (for example, the dental clinic is always full). That's good, but the school's curriculum has a comparative(to many other schools of the same fields) focus on time spent in the clinic-- so the requirements for graduation include more experience and repetition with clinical procedures.

By comparison, UofM is located in Ann Arbor (which unfortunately doesn't have quite the patient base that it would say.. if it were based out of Detroit). It's not that much of a hinderence though-- the clinics still don't have much trouble filling. Michigan balances slightly more towards classroom/laboratory exposure than does Creighton. I was more interested in a school with a greater clinical focus-- and so that's why I like Creighton.

Which school is better? Well, Michigan might be- but for the characteristics I was most interested in, I thought Creighton was a better fit for me.

All medical/dental schools have some sort of balance between clinical and class/lab experiences... and there are people that gravitate to all areas of that. People that want the MD or DDS and then go into some sort of research are going to pull more towards class/labs in all likelihood-- and people more interested in primary care/patient exposure are likely to lean towards more clinic time. I'm a part of the latter group.

I hope that answers your question.

 
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if UM is such a fine institution of higher learning then why doesnt they have more academic all-americans. I am not talking about the football team. I am talking about all sports.
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classic.

You cant really attack the Nebraska education. Afterall, Tommy Lee struggled with intro physics.

 
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