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Topic: This is for all of the small schools

Topic: This is for all of the small schools

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ClevelandCat '11
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This is for all of the small schools

Posted: 3/23/2012 10:46:03 AM

I feel this is appropriate for today

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gKbrj2nZis ;

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RE: This is for all of the small schools

Posted: 3/23/2012 11:18:31 AM

We aren't a small school though. This comparison makes Ohio seem like

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RE: This is for all of the small schools

Posted: 3/23/2012 11:53:43 AM

Donuts wrote:

We aren't a small school though. This comparison makes Ohio seem like

seems like a school playing a blue blood in the sweet 16 in the deepest tournament run in 48 years? Im not trying to start a "we are a big school" discussion, but even a complete partisan has to admit that UNC is a "big" school compared to Ohio in basketball. Spoiler alert, the unheralded underdogs win at the end of the movie

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RE: This is for all of the small schools

Posted: 3/23/2012 11:54:42 AM

ColumbusCat '11 wrote:

Donuts wrote:

We aren't a small school though. This comparison makes Ohio seem like

dangit! That is not enough space between the alert and the spoiler!

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RE: This is for all of the small schools

Posted: 3/23/2012 11:57:24 AM

mf279801 wrote:

ColumbusCat '11 wrote:

Donuts wrote:

We aren't a small school though. This comparison makes Ohio seem like

dangit! That is not enough space between the alert and the spoiler!

my bad, i should have put {spoiler alert] in the thread title

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RE: This is for all of the small schools

Posted: 3/23/2012 12:50:01 PM

ColumbusCat '11 wrote:

mf279801 wrote:

ColumbusCat '11 wrote:

Donuts wrote:

We aren't a small school though. This comparison makes Ohio seem like

dangit! That is not enough space between the alert and the spoiler!

my bad, i should have put {spoiler alert] in the thread title

No kidding, its only been out for 25 years! Geesh

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RE: This is for all of the small schools

Posted: 3/23/2012 1:51:06 PM

ColumbusCat '11 wrote:

Donuts wrote:

We aren't a small school though. This comparison makes Ohio seem like

We have a current winning streak against them though. I know your point, I just don't like the Hoosiers comparison.

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RE: This is for all of the small schools

Posted: 3/23/2012 2:06:39 PM

UNC - Chapel Hill - 18,579 students enrolled
Ohio University - Athens - 20,994 students enrolled

Let's hope the bigger school wins.

All joking aside, we've got more than 200,000 alumni, a beautiful 1,800 acre main campus, a large branch system, a deep and growing research tradition, a medical school, etc. I don't think we're exactly the Lehigh (enrollment: 4,781) of this tournament.

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RE: This is for all of the small schools

Posted: 3/23/2012 2:11:52 PM

UNC spends 2.85 times as much on hoops as we do, and 2.98 times as much on athletics.

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RE: This is for all of the small schools

Posted: 3/23/2012 2:29:27 PM

anorris wrote:

UNC spends 2.85 times as much on hoops as we do, and 2.98 times as much on athletics.

...and we spend like 5 times more than half the SWAC, who play D1 basketball just like we do.

My only problem with the small school, Hoosiers comparison is that we are in the top 3rd of the highest NCAA division just about any way you slice it. History, spending, etc. I see us dismissed way too much as some tiny joke school. We aren't small time in my book.

In Ohio HS comparison, I would liken us to Newark in the Newark-St. Edwards D1 final back in 2008. Newark is by no means a small school, but they are somwhat isolated and haven't had the recent success of a state and national power like St. Eds. A Hoosiers scenario would be St. Edwards vs. Trimble.

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RE: This is for all of the small schools

Posted: 3/23/2012 2:41:23 PM

anorris wrote:

UNC spends 2.85 times as much on hoops as we do, and 2.98 times as much on athletics.

Then a more apt film clip would be the Yankees/A's series in "Moneyball." Except that doesn't end quite as well.

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RE: This is for all of the small schools

Posted: 3/23/2012 3:29:03 PM

Donuts wrote:

anorris wrote:

UNC spends 2.85 times as much on hoops as we do, and 2.98 times as much on athletics.

In Ohio HS comparison, I would liken us to Newark in the Newark-St. Edwards D1 final back in 2008. Newark is by no means a small school, but they are somwhat isolated and haven't had the recent success of a state and national power like St. Eds. A Hoosiers scenario would be St. Edwards vs. Trimble.

Newark, that was good team back then. Of course, this being said by an alumni.

"And David reached in bag and his sling and he slung it, and knocking the Philistine to the ground. Amen." That is one of my favorite quotes in that movie, next to "I love you guys".

Last Edited: 3/23/2012 3:31:18 PM by TheGreenFever

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Vision Quest

Posted: 3/23/2012 3:41:11 PM

Vision Quest is a coming of age movie in which high school wrestler Louden Swain decides he wants to be something more than an average high school athlete and sets his sights on a prize that many don't think he can win - he then sets out to reach his goal alone. His chosen goal is to wrestle and beat Brian Shute, known as the best high school freestyle wrestler in Washington state. Shute is undefeated in his high school career.

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RE: This is for all of the small schools

Posted: 3/23/2012 4:19:07 PM

TheGreenFever wrote:

Donuts wrote:

anorris wrote:

UNC spends 2.85 times as much on hoops as we do, and 2.98 times as much on athletics.

Yeah, I couldn't really think that much on recent D1 state champions who were underdogs. That Newark team was good, but they were underdogs their last few games of the tournament. No one was expecting them to win it all.

Newark also has a rich basketball tradition, but in the days of power private schools and huge suburb schools, the team gets forgotten these days.

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