Do you even know anything about Ohio State or are you just reciting tired stereotypes because we win at football. Here are some actual facts.
Ohio State is currently the third hardest (just surpassed both Illinois and Wisconsin) Big Ten university to get accepted into after Northwestern and Michigan.Ohio State's endowment is over $3.5B of which only a tiny percentage is devoted to the ADIn the last two years, we raised $401M and $408M in private donations respectively. In each year, athletic donations were around only 6% of the total.Ohio State athletics just received its first ever 8 figure donation at $10M exactly. We receive several each year for the academic side of the university, and I've lost track of how many in total.Our biggest donor (Les Wexner at $200M in lifetime giving) doesn't even care about football.We attracted over $900M in externally funded research last year.
Does that sound like a university that is being driven by football? We excel at football and always have, but that doesn't make us Alabama or Auburn.
This post was edited on 2/22 3:59 PM by ORD_Buckeye