Grizalltheway wrote:
Yes. Now, did you have a chance to compare how our respective schools rank academically, or are you going to continue to make claims not at all based on reality?
Congrats on the rankings. I can find a half dozen articles on how most of those rankings are bunk, too. UNC won't rank very high on those lists because we're not a major research university. We do well in teacher education, music, nursing and undergrad business. Our professors do research, but it's not their priority. Teaching is.
OK, you've successfully put your school on the cross now…
Montana is more-or-less the same type of university as UNC—strong in liberal arts—so that argument doesn't work. MSU is the one that's more "hard science" focused. UM's biggest comparative strengths are law, pharmacy, forestry, music, history, and education (& there's probably more I'm not as familiar with).
BigSkyBears wrote:
Congrats on the rankings. I can find a half dozen articles on how most of those rankings are bunk, too. UNC won't rank very high on those lists because we're not a major research university. We do well in teacher education, music, nursing and undergrad business. Our professors do research, but it's not their priority. Teaching is.
OK, you've successfully put your school on the cross now…
Montana is more-or-less the same type of university as UNC—strong in liberal arts—so that argument doesn't work. MSU is the one that's more "hard science" focused. UM's biggest comparative strengths are law, pharmacy, forestry, music, history, and education (& there's probably more I'm not as familiar with).
Neither school is Harvard West, and I wasn't suggesting that UM is. But, the notion that all anyone associated with the school cares about is football is way off.
The FCS is sort of a holding pattern for confused teams that love the college atmopshere of football home game, must play Division 1, and yet don't have the size or scale to move to the FBS (I'm looking at you, Dayton Flyers, Drake Bulldogs). Rice at FBS is the exception (and they are in a huge city in Texas).
Eventually, the landscape will look radically different (eventually being 2013).
"College Football is NOT A BUSINESS. It is revenue-producing, and all the money gets reinvested." Nick Saban
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