For anyone saying that the Big Ten expansion was academic...

[shocker]

Please share some facts as to how you come up with Clemson being one of the worst?

[The Ancient Enemy]

If you Google "Clemson academic ranking", you will find a lot of articles which exist on the website CLEMSON.EDU. My junior high education persuades me to shy from such a site. Clemson has recently been boasting some outrageous academic rankings.

Found this:

Clemson has been successful in raising its academic rank in US News. Ms Watt is not the first person to note how easy it is to "game" US News rankings. However, all other academic rankings indicate that Clemson is no where near a top 20 public university ranking. When the ranking system uses data that can not be "gamed" (federal research expenditures, national awards, number of highly cited articles, number of publications in SCI and SSCI, etc.) Clemson does not do well.

The point is, if a school was in good standing, why would it need to lie?

And this:

http://www.independentmail.com/news/200 ... niversity/

And this:

http://www.fitsnews.com/2010/02/06/clem ... ipulation/

Now let me ask you this. If you do some research, you will find that Clemson has increased their admissions requirements for prospective students. Then how are the plum-dumb student athletes getting accepted? Clemson will take anyone with a heartbeat and admit them if they are good at football.

[Crimson09Crazy]

Soo will USC............No Bowl Games for two years how about that!

[The Ancient Enemy]

The difference is that USC wins. Clemson stockpiles talent and does nothing w/ it.