When did it become a 4 year school? And why do I get the impression that 90% of their fanbase has never taken a class there (or any college for that matter).
UofL is a commuter school, right?
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And people wonder why U of L fans come here and act like asses ....
Or put another way, it’s the safety school for every student in the country’s 46th best state public school education.
Louisville easily has one of the worst fanbases in all of college sports. Thought this even before the whole brohm fiasco.
And technically, it became a 4 year school in 1798.
I can picture Brohm now. "I have turned down the coaching position at my alma mater because Purdue has superior academics."
And has been dropping in the academic rankings ever since.
Yeah ... the end all be all of higher education evaluation comes from US News and World Report.
Brohm has regularly mentioned our academics as something he’s proud to be a part of...but you’re right it will be way more than that keeping here if he decides to stay.
USNews sucks. Try AWRU. Or the WSJ.Yeah ... the end all be all of higher education evaluation comes from US News and World Report.
Yes lets $hit on the school's academics where your head coach earned his degree. You guys are real special.
I have degrees from both Louisville and from another university that is ranked higher than Purdue. I’ve worked with engineering grads from Purdue and from half the engineering schools you could name in the US. I have friends, family, and HS classmates who went to Purdue.
I have a lot of respect for Purdue, but the academic snobbery on this board is comical (I would say the same even if this were the board of an Ivy League or Ivy equivalent school).
So is UofL basically what IUPUI would be if Indy had no pro sports teams?
My father worked in VA Hospital administration, and he was stationed in Louisville for a while. That is how I got to know the city and the university.
The UofL was held back by the state for decades, which was happy with just an open admission 4 year school in the state's largest city, with no dorms, and then with a couple of dorms. But that wasn't the case even 20 years ago.
This thread feels like when a teenage girl gets jealous of another girl and starts lashing out at the other girls hair, figure or family.
If you actually knew anything about Engineering, you'd see that Purdue is a legit Top-10 school at the undergrad and graduate levels. What is the other university and what is the degree actually in?
I have been in manufacturing for almost 40 years. I have had Purdue Engineers and UofL Engineers work for me. I can’t tell you I ever once in all those years stopped for one second and thought about where one of my engineers matriculated before assigning a project, awarding a bonus or ending their employment. It’s the real world no one cares.
That piece of paper, gets the door open for you. Once the door is open everything else is up to you. All this school ranking bullshit is nothing more than that. Those that recite them show how truly out of touch with the real world they are. Most professionals will tell you the same thing.
I don’t know if Jeff will come home to Louisville or not. I do know whatever happens both universities will be just fine.
CJ
That piece of paper, gets the door open for you. Once the door is open everything else is up to you. All this school ranking bullshit is nothing more than that. Those that recite them show how truly out of touch with the real world they are. Most professionals will tell you the same thing.
I don’t know if Jeff will come home to Louisville or not. I do know whatever happens both universities will be just fine.
CJ
Louisville has an engineering school? I guess I did finally learn something from all of these unwelcome Louisville guests.
It looks like we struck a nerve. You very well may get Brohm. We all acknowledge that. But our opinion of your school won’t change. By any metric it’s a second rate at best academic school with virtually zero entrance requirements and certainly zero expectation of a true student athlete experience. Your high profile sports have been led in succession by morally corrupt coaches with repeated infractions that have been acceptable as long as the coach wins (but better not have one losing year) or the FBI (!) has to get involved. Your largest benefactor was exposed as a racist and every other school - including Purdue - immediately rejected him. But not good ole UofL.
The fact of the matter, Louisville is the absolute epitome of everything that’s wrong, corrupt, and morally bankrupt about college athletics. If we have to, we will find another great coach. We don’t want to, one for selfish reasons about where our program is currently headed when compared to yours and two, we just think JB is too good of person to wade into your cesspool.
Either way I hope this gets resolved ASAP so the likes of you and your brethren can return to wherever it is you came.
Your obsession with Purdue is extremely high, it really is.
Undeservedly so as well. I’ve worked alongside many other engineers and two of the biggest duds were Purdue grads with >3.8 GPAs. I honestly think they would have washed out of UofL’s engineering program. I know where Purdue is ranked, but the difficulty of Purdue’s undergrad program pales in comparison to Georgia Tech’s (grad programs are a wash in level difficulty because almost everyone gets an A or B in every class anyway and those rankings are more about research $).
You must be confusing us with some grad inflating school. In 4 years I never met an engineer with a 3.8+ GPA.
Funniest thing I have read on here in a while. Not true at all, but a funny story regardless.
I know for a fact that 2 of the people I went to HS with got > 3.8 at PURDUE in engineering (and no, not engineering tech either. One was Electrical Engineering and one Chemical Engineering). The two “duds” I worked with definitely had Purdue Engineering degrees (one Chemical Engineering and one Mechanical). They might have been lying about their GPAs but I doubt it since I didn’t find them to be dishonest—just somewhat incompetent.
Anecdotal small sample evidence!
Are you really trying to convince people that Purdue's engineering program is not good?
No, in fact I specifically said earlier that Purdue is good. However, just because an engineer went to Purdue doesn’t mean that they are better than one who went to a lower ranked school. Having worked alongside literally hundreds of engineers who went to school all over the country, if I ranked them in order of competence there would only be a VERY loose correlation to school ranking (the 2 guys I worked with who had MIT degrees were definetely standouts). However, I stand by what I said earlier that Purdue’s undergrad program is significantly easier than Georgia Tech’s. I have worked closely with 20+ grads of each school and any conversation I’ve heard over the past 10+ years regarding difficulty of curriculum was consistent in this regard.
I’ll live in reality. You can keep living in your black and gold world if it softens the angst about potentially losing Brohm.
So your assumption that GTech is harder than Purdue is based on nothing but conversations? Fascinating evidence. What’s your engineering degree in?
For all of the
I have a Bachelor of Science and Master of Engineering in Electrical Engineering from Louisville.
The most direct evidence is from a guy who did undergrad EE at Purdue and was a graduate TA for a sophomore EE class at Georgia Tech. His quote: “The professors at GT were mean to to those kids.”
I have a Bachelor of Science and Master of Engineering in Electrical Engineering from Louisville.
Brohm passed up a full ride to ND to stay and go to Louisville. That's really all you need to know when it comes to his feelings about UofL.
No, you really don't. This has nothing to do with losing Coach B either, it's about you spreading falsehoods.
Look, I understand wanting to separate academics from sports. There are plenty of D1 sports fans who aren't affiliated with the university they root for. And it's kind of bush league to pivot to academics on a sports forum.
But.. to act like Purdue is not a superior academic institution completely shoots your credibility. Find one reputable list anywhere that states otherwise.
But.. to act like Purdue is not a superior academic institution completely shoots your credibility. Find one reputable list anywhere that states otherwise.
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