Ohio State May Not Excuse Students For Missing Class To Go To The National Championship
This time last week, Alabama fans were planning their trips to Dallas, as they were convinced their team had a shoo-in spot in the national championship game at Jerry World. However, Ohio State came roaring back from a 21-6 deficit to defeat the Crimson Tide. Now, the Buckeyes will play in their first national championship game since getting blown out in 2008. Ohio State fans and students began booking hotels, buying tickets, and celebrating heavily, and deservedly so — they earned it.
However, the Ohio State administration has more pressing matters to attend to on Monday, such as the first day of classes for the spring semester. With that in mind, the administration sent out the following email to the student body as a reminder that academics come first:
Students traveling to National Championship Game may not be excused from classes. Huh pic.twitter.com/KGzxbjK3qt
— Jordan Wagner (@JWagnerOSU) January 6, 2015
Erroneous! Erroneous on both accounts! You can’t just hang your students out to dry like that just because they have school spirit. Hell, if anything, they should just cancel classes on Monday because the students should be pregaming all day, whether they are in Dallas or Columbus.
What really grinds my gears about this whole situation isn’t the fact that teachers may or may not excuse their students who say they are going to the game, it’s the fact that these kids can be disenrolled for missing a class during the first week. You have to be shitting me. It’s syllabus week — no one’s doing any real work.
What benefits Ohio State more: a national title or attendance on the first day of class? According to its administration, the school would rather have more students in their seats than cheering on Urban Meyer’s squad at the game. That, my friends, is a damn shame..
Image via YouTube
There are some real nuts in the administration!
11 years ago at 11:01 amYour picture is awesome. Have you had Shiner White Wing?
11 years ago at 12:40 pmWhy don’t you blow him
11 years ago at 2:53 pmHow did you manage to make Active with only 16 comments? Go away and don’t come back until you’re out of high school.
11 years ago at 7:42 pmOne of the many reasons Ohio State blows
11 years ago at 11:05 amThey blow so hard they made it to the national championship.
11 years ago at 12:41 pmAttending class hah
11 years ago at 11:06 amShut up Meg
11 years ago at 11:09 amIts taking me a moment to fully appreciate the academic standards of tOSU. Yep, still not appreciating it.
11 years ago at 11:11 amShut up Meg
11 years ago at 11:16 amAre they excusing the players from their first days of classes to travel and play? If so, then excuse the other students as well. You don’t fill stadiums with alums only.
11 years ago at 11:09 amThe fans in the stands are equally as important as the team on the field.
11 years ago at 12:10 pmThat’s just flat out not true.
11 years ago at 12:39 pmIn terms of money, yes
11 years ago at 3:51 pmOhio State is a college known for its elite football team. The team is so widely supported that they are able to make over 35 million dollars in profits for the university purely off of the people who support the program, be it in advertisements or endowments. Without the supporters they would be nothing, and none of the elite players would be interested in the program.
11 years ago at 9:13 pmCapitalism Baby. Without the demand there would be no supply.
The school administration should be ashamed of themselves for discouraging student attendance at the first ever true college football national championship. That team is their pride and joy, they should be subsidizing hotels, and putting together packages for students.
I agree with this comment. I understand where you were coming from originally, but sometimes you need to expound on your thoughts rather than keeping it short and sweet. Correct me if I’m wrong, but your original comment was more fiscally directed than anything else. But I would suggest that, without the football team, selling tickets for other sports alone would not bridge the money gap. Therefore, while the fan is important, without a team on the field, other programs hurt that would otherwise benefit from tv agreements, ticket and booster sales, as well as the national brand, which is worth the figure you quoted earlier. Therefore, the team is more important than the fan.
11 years ago at 10:20 pmFair enough. I see your point. Shouldn’t have said ‘equally’ and not expect it to interpreted literally. In absolute terms, yes, the Team is more important than the Fans in the Stands. Good players can generate fans for a franchise that had none before off of their performance.
But I am going to go on believing that the fans are as important as the team. Seeing as I’ll never be a collegiate athlete, or a professional athlete for that matter, I am going to continue believing that Fans are as important to the franchise to justify the absurd amounts of money that I splash on apparel, betting, tickets, travel, and overpriced stadium food and booze.
11 years ago at 8:48 amPlayers last a couple seasons. True Fans contribute for a lifetime.
11 years ago at 8:51 amThe email is just telling you to tell your professors you’ll be at the game and the professor reserves the right to consider the absence unexcused. No professor in their right mind would kick you out f class for that. Come to Columbus on Monday it’s going to be absolutely insane .
11 years ago at 11:12 amHave you met many professors? At any school, a lot are ivory tower liberals with zero common sense or interest in sports, who WOULD kick you out of class for skipping it for a football game if they could.
11 years ago at 11:46 amYes I have I meet them everyday in class.. I’ve already had 2 classes canceled on monday and tuesday for the game trust me they are all just as excited as the students are its whats so awesome about The Ohio state university.
11 years ago at 11:55 amWill you people stop saying “The” Ohio State University? There isn’t another one it could get confused with.
11 years ago at 11:58 amI fucking hate the “THE” thing and I go there. “The” is in the full name but always emphasizing it just makes us sound like a bunch of pricks.
11 years ago at 12:08 pmSorry I go to the THE greatest state in THE united states of America.
11 years ago at 11:39 pmWhat’s the matter, don’t they like America?
11 years ago at 11:14 amIn my day, you could cancel classes for one, ultimately pointless, day if your school proved itself to be one of the two best teams in the ultracompetitive collegiate football system we Americans possess. And of course the University isn’t making ANY money from their team reaching the CHAMPIONSHIP yet essentially forcing their students to stay for 5 minute classes. Kindly eat a barrel of dicks, kind administrative sirs at Ohio State.
11 years ago at 11:33 amTfuckingR, you tried to ban football for being too violent. Still a badass, but just saying.
11 years ago at 11:43 amActually, Teddy supported college football because it went against the pussification of 1900 America. He said it promoted the “strenuous life” and revived manhood for college men
11 years ago at 11:49 amFair enough. He did, at one point, threaten to ban it because of the violence, which led to the forward pass to open up the game.
11 years ago at 1:15 pmIt was 2006 that Ohio State got their shit pushed in. How hard is it for you dickwads to use google?
Also, I hope Urban has a good aspirin regime to ward off the chest pains.
11 years ago at 11:46 amOhio State last played in the title game on January 7, 2008. My statement is valid.
11 years ago at 12:01 pmOh no, I miss syllabus day instead of showing up drunk. Go to the fucking game
11 years ago at 11:48 amSucks that Ohio starts classes so early, still got two more weeks of break here in Texas
11 years ago at 11:51 amThanks for the input, texasfratguy!
11 years ago at 12:28 pmWell fuck me, right!?
11 years ago at 5:58 pm