Comments on: Battle of the Blogs

By: sportsMonkey

sportsMonkey — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 04:37:12 +0000

JDUB, I gotta agree with SYR, here. The Big House is not more historical; it wasn’t built until 1927. The Horseshoe was built in the late 19th century.

Today’s entire collegiate and NFL power structure came from folks who worked as coaches or assistants in the ‘Shoe… Woody Hayes, Paul Brown, Bo Shembechler, all of their assistants, etc., etc.

But perhaps most intriguing is the fact that the ‘Shoe is the icon of all American sports – not just OSU football. Jesse Owens made himself famous in that stadium, for instance. OSU athletes competing in the ‘Shoe have earned a collective 72 Olympic medals (more than most nations).

The ‘Shoe is way more historical. The Big House is a stinky, ugly hole in the ground whose design was ripped off of Yale.

By: Sylvester-Yon Rambo

Sylvester-Yon Rambo — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 03:51:08 +0000

Dear JDUB, please stop pretending to be a Buckeye fan…..The Shoe is definately more historic and famous…….The shoe was built first and is on the national registry of historic places…..Michigans stadium is niether and it was designed exactly the same as the YALE bowl so it is just a copycat stadium. The last time I checked they werent showing the most famous golfer in history humming the victors song on every tv in the world……but they did show The Golden Bear dotting the i……so you lose

By: JDUB

JDUB — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 01:20:38 +0000

i’m an osu fan, and i’ve read all three of the debates thus far, but i’ve got to give michigan the advantage 2 to 1.

we won the first one(gameday atmosphere) but u-m took the last two ( the shoe v.s the big house and the victors vs. the dotting of the i) the big house is just more historical and just more famous. and the victors is the best fight song(as much as i hate to admit it)

By: el Kaiser

el Kaiser — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 20:41:02 +0000

For some reason the commenting system is throwing in extra back-slashes in Kenny’s post. Here are the links he’s pointing to:

http://web1.ncaa.org/d1mfb/2006/Internet/toughest%20schedule/ia_9games_cumm.pdf

http://web1.ncaa.org/d1mfb/2006/Internet/toughest%20schedule/tough.html

I still stand by the assertion that the Sagarin SoS ranking is a little more widely accepted, but this ranking still has merit.

Thanks for the response, Kenny.

By: Kenny

Kenny — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 19:44:54 +0000

I used the stats from NCAA.org. The pdf file can be found here, or you can go here and then click on \"Sorted on Cumulative Opposition\" for Div I-A.

By: Men of the Scarlet and Gray » Blog Archive » Site updates

Men of the Scarlet and Gray » Blog Archive » Site updates — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 18:39:54 +0000

[...] Of course, we’ll be bringing some good OSU/Michigan content over the next few days, and as sportsMonkey mentioned, we’ll be participating in the Battle of the Blogs of CSTV. I’ve post-dated Monkey’s post so it floats to the top until the end of the week. [...]

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 22:26:41 +0000

Here’s the thing:

All the “yellow” side of the arguement has is to use the words “booster” and “Clarett” in their arguement. I’m only an educated loser from Ohio, but I’m pretty sure that “boosters” and “Mo’ Clarett” have little to do with “atmosphere” and “tradition”. Not to mention the lack of creativity those at the “MBlog” resort to with the whole Advantage/Disadvantage game. Just a thought or two.

Pfef and Keith tore it up. I expect nothing less from you guys.