December 02, 2010

The “G” in Ohio State’s president Gordon Gee stands for Goofball

After five previous failed marriages with West Virginia, Colorado, Ohio State, Brown and Vanderbilt, Ohio State’s president Gordon Gee (biography-see below) insulted bow-tie wearers and wire-rimmed eye-glass wearers and the Little Sisters of the Poor (mission statement-see below) by claiming that Ohio State football doesn’t play a weak football schedule.

Is that so?

According to the highly respected Sagarin “Strength of Schedule” ratings, Ohio State’s schedule is ranked in the bottom 50% of all division 1-a football schools at #64.

 Of the twelve games Ohio State played, eight of them were played at Ohio State including all four of its non-conference opponents.  (Miami-FL schedule ranked #31, Marshall #90, Eastern Michigan #93, and Ohio University #138.)

In fact, the highest schedule ranked team Ohio State played was 3-win, 9-loss Minnesota.

In the 11 team Big Ten conference, Ohio State only played 8 of its 10 conference rivals.

The corruption and lack of morality and ethics is in div 1-a college football is so pervasive that Ohio State played 8 home games last year and this year and will play 7 home games next year.

Ohio State isn’t the only one either.  Most, if not all, of the schools in the big six automatic qualifying bcs conferences play at least 7 home games.

What does this tell us?

The lack of integrity of the leadership in college football in projecting fair play and even playing fields is no different than placing a bet at the craps table at a casino in Las Vegas.  The house is always favored.

If a guy as Goofy as Gordon Gee can receive all the awards he has received, what does that tell you about the quality of the organizations that are giving him those awards?

By the way, the Pac Ten conference plays 9 of 12 toughest schedules in the country, including the top 8.

Also, let us give an “atta boy” to second year football program (no division and no conference yet) South Alabama ranked in the bcs at #102  and in the Sagarin at #188 ahead of 56 other  teams.

George Sarkisian

Chief Statistical Analyst

High School to College to NFL success rate

Farmington Hills, Michigan 48334

sarkisiangeorge@yahoo.com