A few months back I posted some pie charts showing the breakdown and declared majors on the MSU and UofM teams based on some previous media guides from 2013. We all know that UofM has a history on shunting athletes into diploma-mill type programs that have very little value in the real world, regardless of the block letter printed on the diploma (just ask Dennis Norfleet's people). In fact, I seem to remember a former player of theirs making some rather damning comments about this practice several years back. (I can't remember that guy's name... I wonder what ever happened to him?)
Anyway, with the change of regime and the recent conclusion to Big Ten media days, I thought the time would be right to complete the analysis on the 2015 squads for both teams. I was able to pull and analyze the roster from the MSU media guide. However, the 2015 depth chart and media guide for UofM does not seem to exist on the internet right now, which is weird. OSU and Wisconsin's are, just as an example. Nonetheless, I was able to find a projected depth chart for UofM somewhere and they have player bios on the MGoBlowYourself website, so I went ahead and used that data for the analysis. For MSU, considering only players in the 2-deeps (so we focus on the guys who will actually play), here is the chart
Clearly Advertising, Criminal Justice, Sociology, and Social Science lead the pack here (55% of the 2-deeps) with a nice scattering of other majors. Now, here is the same chart for UofM:
The entire 2-deep consists of only 10 majors total (MSU has 19), and almost 60% of the 2-deep are either undeclared or in the infamously rigorous "General Studies" program.
To be fair, MSU does also have some players listed as "No Preference" which is essentially the same as Undeclared. There are 9 total on the full roster, 5 of which are true Freshman, 3 are red-shirt Freshman, and 1 is a true sophomore (Malik McDowell). However, UofM has 16 Juniors on the full roster who are undeclared, and 20 sophomores! Because the roster is not the most updated version, the Freshman are largely not listed (but those are are... undeclared as well)
As I say, perhaps this data is just out-dated and Saint Harbaugh came in, cracked some skulls, and now the entire Junior class in majoring in a combination or neurobiology, astrophysics, and chemical engineering... but I doubt it. I will check back in once and if I can ever get a copy of their media guide.
Just for fun, here are the pie charts for the full rosters:
Anyway, with the change of regime and the recent conclusion to Big Ten media days, I thought the time would be right to complete the analysis on the 2015 squads for both teams. I was able to pull and analyze the roster from the MSU media guide. However, the 2015 depth chart and media guide for UofM does not seem to exist on the internet right now, which is weird. OSU and Wisconsin's are, just as an example. Nonetheless, I was able to find a projected depth chart for UofM somewhere and they have player bios on the MGoBlowYourself website, so I went ahead and used that data for the analysis. For MSU, considering only players in the 2-deeps (so we focus on the guys who will actually play), here is the chart
Clearly Advertising, Criminal Justice, Sociology, and Social Science lead the pack here (55% of the 2-deeps) with a nice scattering of other majors. Now, here is the same chart for UofM:
The entire 2-deep consists of only 10 majors total (MSU has 19), and almost 60% of the 2-deep are either undeclared or in the infamously rigorous "General Studies" program.
To be fair, MSU does also have some players listed as "No Preference" which is essentially the same as Undeclared. There are 9 total on the full roster, 5 of which are true Freshman, 3 are red-shirt Freshman, and 1 is a true sophomore (Malik McDowell). However, UofM has 16 Juniors on the full roster who are undeclared, and 20 sophomores! Because the roster is not the most updated version, the Freshman are largely not listed (but those are are... undeclared as well)
As I say, perhaps this data is just out-dated and Saint Harbaugh came in, cracked some skulls, and now the entire Junior class in majoring in a combination or neurobiology, astrophysics, and chemical engineering... but I doubt it. I will check back in once and if I can ever get a copy of their media guide.
Just for fun, here are the pie charts for the full rosters:
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