good rankings and not-so-good rankings

wish I could say this was taken on an off-day but this was probably taken at halftime of a Homecoming game or something

from a Toledo Blade article...some bad news for the Green and White of my alma mater, Eastern Michigan University (the Harvard of the MAC...if I just keep using that people will eventually accept it as fact, right?).
it seems, to the shock of no one who has ever been in Rynearson Stadium on a fall Saturday afternoon, that Eastern is well short of the NCAA-required average of 15,000 fans per game---about 10,000 short actually. Eastern joins a select group of schools where football is apparently as unimportant to students as the library. Other football "powers" on the list (all averaging more than EMU by the way): Bowling Green (eat it Chief! 14,929), Louisiana-Monroe (14,617), Ball State (12,953), future MAC member Temple (12,735), New Mexico State (12,557), San Jose State (12,506), Utah State (10,896), Akron (10,893), Rice (10,072), Buffalo (8,914), Kent State (6,658) and irrelevant Eastern Michigan (5,219).

a sad fact of life for (apparently apathetic) Eastern students and not likely to change anytime soon.

the bad news:
-if Eastern doesn't average 15,000 fans this season it will receive some kind of probation where the school has to average this mark for each of the next 10 seasons or Eastern will be placed on restricted membership.
-Eastern couldn't even out-draw Can't State and a school full of hippies more likely to protest a football game than go to one
-much of this list seems to be MAC schools...giving Jenny M for fodder for her bizarre hatred of the Mid-American Conference
-there have been rumors about dropping schools who don't meet the average out of Division 1-A football

the good news:
-the only listed penalty for not meeting the attendance figure in the article was a ban on bowl games for the school. WHO CARES?!!! hahaha!! Eastern fucking Michigan's not going to a bowl game in my lifetime anyway!!!! stupid NCAA!! hahahaha..suckers



but the real good news (unexpected sure, but long overdue) for my alma mater:
(according to the latest U.S. News & World Report college rankings)

The top national universities were:

1. Princeton University

2. Harvard University

3. Yale University

4. California Institute of Technology

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Stanford University (tie)

7. University of Pennsylvania

8. Duke University

Eastern Michigan University (tie)

9. Columbia University

Dartmouth University

University of Chicago (tie)