Michigan State is best college in Michigan, Thrillist says
Hahaha hahaha hahahahahahahahahaha
https://articles.mlive.com/news/index.ssf/2017/10/michigan_state_is_the…
November 1st, 2017 at 8:14 AM ^
November 1st, 2017 at 7:18 PM ^
Good music in EL though.
November 1st, 2017 at 10:50 PM ^
No one likes that ^ song?
November 1st, 2017 at 8:15 AM ^
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November 1st, 2017 at 8:19 AM ^
Then we need to beat them and not hand them five turnovers. Plain and simple.
Luckily we've got a shot to beat them in basketball this season. Take care of business there and the trolling will subside considerably.
November 1st, 2017 at 8:39 AM ^
November 1st, 2017 at 9:24 AM ^
And they're a basketball school. While football is enormously popular there now that the team doesn't suck, I feel like most MSU fans will gravitate towards the basketball team before the football team. Opposite situation here.
Not saying the trolling won't still happen. But you take care of business at Breslin in January, the trolling towards UM for the rest of the year is nowhere near as bad.
November 2nd, 2017 at 10:16 AM ^
6 wins and 3 losses with wins coming by an average of 4.5 points and losses by an average of 15.6 points.
November 1st, 2017 at 9:14 AM ^
I doubt that. We care about football more and MSU fans know it. We will not hear the end of it until we beat them in East Lansing next season, which we will.
November 2nd, 2017 at 1:04 PM ^
I am not confident at all we will beat them in E Lansing next season. They return more than we do and among key players are younger.
I think that's a tossup fro us at best.
November 1st, 2017 at 8:19 AM ^
Is still upset that they were unable to go to Michigan. Hey Brandon:
November 1st, 2017 at 8:24 AM ^
November 1st, 2017 at 9:03 AM ^
The first sentence of the article discredits the entire list:
"The elements that make for a great college go well beyond the quality of the education that gives the place a reason to exist in the first place."
Oh, ok... So you're telling me, even with forgetting about the actual school, that food, drink, and culture is better in East Lansing than Ann Arbor? Hahahaha.
November 1st, 2017 at 9:35 AM ^
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November 1st, 2017 at 10:14 AM ^
So, their fundamental point is that institutions for learning are not to be judged on how well they teach?
Yeah, whatever. Ludicrous take.
November 1st, 2017 at 10:50 AM ^
To be fair, institutions of higher education are judged more by how well they research not teach. Not that that makes the article any more accurate. World class medical school is sort of a joke, but I believe they do have quite reputable agricultural sciences. Being the grandson of a farmer, I can't look down on that.
November 1st, 2017 at 8:21 AM ^
Obvious troll job is obvious.
November 1st, 2017 at 8:22 AM ^
Clickbait knows the Bayless method of getting attention applies to inane lists and rankings as well. Piss off a proud and vociferous group and watch the money pour in.
Don't feed the trolls.
November 1st, 2017 at 9:27 AM ^
November 1st, 2017 at 8:26 AM ^
Not even MSU alumni believe this. They're probably more embarrassed than anything by this article.
November 1st, 2017 at 8:32 AM ^
November 1st, 2017 at 8:32 AM ^
The comments section of that article is kind of shocking. How can so many graduates from such a "prestigious" university think that the article posted has anything to do with actual rankings of universities?
That's not a joke question. How do so many college gradutes think onion'esque articles and opinions are facts?
November 1st, 2017 at 8:38 AM ^
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November 1st, 2017 at 8:38 AM ^
November 1st, 2017 at 8:53 AM ^
I spelled "graduates" as "gradutes". Awesome.
November 1st, 2017 at 10:26 AM ^
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November 1st, 2017 at 1:08 PM ^
Facts are produced in China.
November 1st, 2017 at 9:21 AM ^
It’s not because of food and nightlife are better than others, it’s because the standards of that school are lax enough to allow THRILLING good times such as drunken mobs and couch burning.
Want to go to school for an education, stay away from this list.
November 1st, 2017 at 6:45 PM ^
In Vermont it's the University of Vermont.
November 1st, 2017 at 6:48 PM ^
In CA its Chico St.
My research tells me they should at least be in the running.
November 1st, 2017 at 8:48 AM ^
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November 1st, 2017 at 1:09 PM ^
It has to be said that our campus is significantly more aesthetically pleasing than State's. It's not even close.
November 1st, 2017 at 2:42 PM ^
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November 1st, 2017 at 9:06 AM ^
If Thrillist said so, then I guess I'm going to have to sit down and re-examine my long held view on this subject. Thanks for setting me straight, anonymous blogger.
November 1st, 2017 at 9:06 AM ^
That result was counterintuitive, but then I read that they weren't factoring in the education itself. Because when you're ranking schools, that's the first thing you factor out, right?
So would you rather go out to eat in Ann Arbor or E. Lansing? Would you rather see a game in the Big House or the Stalin-esque MSU Stadium? Would you rather have a student body drawing greatly from out of state and international areas, or one that mostly draws locally? Would you rather have a more-academically qualified student body to spend four years with, or one less qualified?
And their campus is a matter of taste. Some parts of it I like (the Red Cedar rolling through campus is very nice, and Baker Woodlot is a good place to relax). Some parts I dislike - buildings placed stupidly far apart in a cornfield overplanted with grass feels more like a trip to the burbs than some beautiful campus. (The best physical campus I've seen -aesthetically - in the B1G, and maybe ever, is IU's campus. Head and shoulders above Michigan's and MSU's.)
tl;dr? This article is bad and its author should feel bad.
November 1st, 2017 at 10:36 AM ^
November 1st, 2017 at 11:41 AM ^
Would you rather have a student body drawing greatly from out of state and international areas, or one that mostly draws locally?
To be fair, there's a legit argument to be made that Michigan pulls from out-of-state too much.
November 1st, 2017 at 12:15 PM ^
This. Felt like damn near half the campus came from New York when I was in school, and that was at the beginning of the big push for out-of-state and international students.
Michigan focuses on the globe, and that's great. But it's still a state university in a struggling local economy. At least UM isn't going the way of peer institutions and starting time- and money-intensive campuses in far-flung corners of the globe...
November 1st, 2017 at 4:06 PM ^
I've talked to admissions about this and they have said it's in part due to the drop in population in the state of MI (relateive to other state pop. gains). Between about 2002 or so and 2015, they were not receiving the quality and quantity of applications from in state.
November 1st, 2017 at 9:12 AM ^
1. It was obviously written by someone with a deep knowledge of MSU - a "storied journalism program" ... ? Who among us even knew they had one at all? Also, the remark about the Dairy Stores (plural - again, someone who knows there is more than one location on the campus).
2. So, we're looking at someone who could be an alumnus as the writer - that's the most obvious answer. However....
3. It could also be someone trolling Sparty. Note the remark about the "burning couches" right at the end, along with the "world-class med school" (it's hardly mentioned in the same breath as U-M's). But, the coup de grace: "unmatched agricultural facilities."
It's #3 that makes me think we're looking at a trolling for the ages; possibly even written by an alumnus of Michigan.
November 1st, 2017 at 9:36 AM ^
Lots of sparty slappies in "journalism."
November 1st, 2017 at 10:35 AM ^
One of the writers went to MSU. So #2? But I like #3.
November 1st, 2017 at 12:34 PM ^
The only people who make the Walmart reference about Michigan fans are MSU fans and most of them local. If you talk to anyone who has no connection to the state or MSU, they have no idea what a Walmart Wolverine is and usually don't know that MSU exists unless they follow college sports.
The funny part about the Walmart Wolverine joke is the reference ignores many Michigan natives who turned down Michigan to attend an Ivy or private school without D-I athletics. Every single person I know in this situation roots for Michigan over MSU. As Brian says, it is the best self-burn by MSU fans who use it.
November 1st, 2017 at 11:17 AM ^
I think that MSU is a great agriculture school, and it's doing important work in that field and animal husbandry. Those are incredibly important topics to the majority of us who, like, you know ... eat. I have a sincere respect for that program, and I have known some of their graduates and they struck me as some of the best MSU grads I've known. For their field (hah!) of study, they chose well.
Also, their med schools are both good schools (they have two - Medical and Osteopathy), although maybe not world class. The delta between Michigan Medical school and their medical schools is nowhere near as great as the delta between most undergraduate programs.
Again, Michigan is the best university in the state net-net and the article is trash. But the Ag School and the Medical Schools are not where I'd aim my scope if I were targeting MSU's academic bona fides.