JonDMiller

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Jon Miller and Steve Deace discuss why Ohio State, or rather the city of Columbus, Ohio, seems to be ripe for overzealous boosters.

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John Cooper was on Mike & Mike this morning. He said there are SEVEN people in tOSU compliance department. When Cooper was coach, they were asking questions all the time.
 




Boy Jon - you're really taking my point and running with it huh?

We had the Deace's over on Monday night after I saw your post, I just asked him (without any prefacing) why he thought OSU was the way it was...and he rolled out with what he talked about on the vid. So it's certainly an opinion shared by some others, and is real interesting to consider. So good stuff.
 


It is something that is impossible to understand unless you've spent any real time in Columbus. Beyond all the wealth that being in the State Capitol brings, you have Nationwide and AFLAC headquartered there and I believe three more Fortune 500 companies.

I bet he saw my post too. :)
 


Deace has it correct. Columbus with approx. 2 million people living in the area just happened to prosper and grow later than Pittsburg to the east, Cleveland to the north, Indianapolis to the west, and Cincinnati to the south. This is why Columbus has no major league sports up until recently with the NHL.....thus their tradition rich college football program is the main event. Demographically it is a young population as well as young as a city in its growth cycle vs. surrounding more mature blue collar cities.

So 2 million people, one of the largest alumni bases, and a rich business climate (heavily white collar) all feed the pressure to win and perhaps look the other way at times.

Our family found it to be a good place to live for 10 years. Our daughter graduated from the Business School at OSU and we made many friends in our stay including quite a few Columbus Hawkeyes.
 


Has to be the biggest true college town in the country,with the attendant number of wealthy businessmen boosters in the region...and again,in large cities like this,players and boosters feel safer in flaunting the rules.
 


Deace has it correct. Columbus with approx. 2 million people living in the area just happened to prosper and grow later than Pittsburg to the east, Cleveland to the north, Indianapolis to the west, and Cincinnati to the south. This is why Columbus has no major league sports up until recently with the NHL.....thus their tradition rich college football program is the main event. Demographically it is a young population as well as young as a city in its growth cycle vs. surrounding more mature blue collar cities.

So 2 million people, one of the largest alumni bases, and a rich business climate (heavily white collar) all feed the pressure to win and perhaps look the other way at times.

Our family found it to be a good place to live for 10 years. Our daughter graduated from the Business School at OSU and we made many friends in our stay including quite a few Columbus Hawkeyes.



I did not realize how big it was either until Steen or someone posted about it a week or so ago. I always thought that Columbus was the size of Des Moines. Now I understand why they got a NHL hockey team. The NHL over expanded, but that is a different subject matter altogether.
 


It is something that is impossible to understand unless you've spent any real time in Columbus. Beyond all the wealth that being in the State Capitol brings, you have Nationwide and AFLAC headquartered there and I believe three more Fortune 500 companies.

I bet he saw my post too. :)

Isn't one of the major banking/credit card companies headquartered there? Capital One???? Too lazy, not important enough for me to look up myself.:)
 






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