Hardly anything in your sarcastic clown post relates to my position in any meaningful way, so it's probably best to not respond at all.
Do you actually want to have a substantive exchange, or are you more interested in hearing the reverberations of your pompous, loquacious rants?
Let's start with lower academic standards and geography. Those are obvious advantages inherent in certain football powers such as Clemson and Alabama. These gaps are difficult to close regardless of who is leading our program, which are reasons why Urban Meyer spurned us in favor of Florida last decade.
There is a reason why since the turn of the century there has been ONE program north of the Mason-Dixon line that has won a championship. Talent is much richer down south...there is a gold mine under their feet. If there are other more significant reasons, then please educate me o wise one.
Until then, I'll reiterate : Inherent advantages. Yes, I have no problem stating it. Inherent advantages. Let it stick in your craw.
One must ponder how Ohio State is ever able to make any such headway into the top 5 with such a limited geographical locale?
Yet, there they stand! Admid all the impossibilities!
Their brave assistants willing to traverse the vanquished Midwest lands to reach the exalted South!
Surely with inventions such as human flight, the interstate roadway system, and social media their endeavor can be a bit more attainable.... but yet still remain a herculean feat.
And it remains a great mystery how the mad sorcerer Vinny Cerrato was able to garner any such talent from the South in the face of such insurmountable odds of geographic isolation. How was he ever able to secure the commitments of such fine southern scholastic athletes?
He must of have had the secret, magic potion that now resides with the modern day wizards in Columbus, Ohio.
And yes, how could I forget the academic restrictions?
How shortsighted of me not to remember that all football players are "dumb jocks" who can only obtain admissions into the lowliest of schools. It is all chronicled out for us admid the classic high school dramadies of the 1980s.
Surely, there is hardly any players at all in the top 250 that could gain admittance into the university.
I'm sure our current recruiting class is compromised of only the finest young scholars.
For it is well known and factual that there is an irrefutable inverse relationship between a person's ability on a football and in the classroom.
I'm sure all of these low intelligence five stars need to be lead out onto the field by their hand lest they lack the intellectual prowess to otherwise find the way.
And of course only ND football players are engaged in rigorous studies once they enroll into school. They are all mathematics and pre-med/law majors and there is nary an academic pursuit within the university for which they can hide.
It is all just so monumental to overcome.
One can only wonder how Ohio State is able to overcome their desolate and isolated geographical location within the most technologically and mobile time in human history.
And one can only marvel at Brian Kelly and his band of high school valedictorians and future rhodes scholars as they continue to defy all odds on the field of play.
There must also be some foul play about at the fine institutions such as Miami, Texas, Florida State, Ole Miss, Tennessee, Mississippi State, South Carolina, North Carolina, Texas A&M, and Auburn just to name a few that renders them inept in taking full advantage of these inherent advantages and procuring similar results on the field of play such as Bama and Clemson.
Its almost as if those two schools, along with that confounding school in Ohio all have something in common? But whatever could that be?
The answer, it seems, continues to evade us still? What of the last great mysteries of mankind.
