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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Aug 8, 2018 16:58:21 GMT -5
The Ivy League does have a cap of 230 recruited athletes per year. Yale, earlier this decade, dropped significantly below that (to around 180?) because the then-President thought Yale was recruiting too many athletes. This decision, now corrected, had a significant impact on rosters and competitiveness for certain Yale sports.
I do not know whether the Ivy cap applies only to conference sports; if it does, then ice hockey schools could presumably bring in more than 230 recruits. And skiing. Dartmouth has 38 on its M/W skiing roster, including graduates of such well-known prep schools as the Vail Ski and Snowboard Academy, [the] Winter Sports School, Sun Valley Ski Foundation, and the USST Team (I think that's the US Ski Team).
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Post by A Clock Tower Purple on Aug 8, 2018 16:59:55 GMT -5
The Ivy could vote 7-1 to go to the playoffs but as long as Harvard lives in its own little world the Ivies will stay put. Time to move on from them. Play the New England Ivies but align ourselves athletically with the CAA. Unless you wear a fur coat and drive a 1960s MG... who cares about the Ivy League.A LOT more people than who care about the PL. That's who. |
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Post by hcpride on Aug 8, 2018 17:25:03 GMT -5
The Ivy could vote 7-1 to go to the playoffs but as long as Harvard lives in its own little world the Ivies will stay put. Time to move on from them. Play the New England Ivies but align ourselves athletically with the CAA. Unless you wear a fur coat and drive a 1960s MG... who cares about the Ivy League.A LOT more people than who care about the PL. That's who. I was going to answer the NFL (given all the Ivy grads there compared to PL): herosports.com/fcs/ivy-league-football-well-represented-2017-nfl-rosters-byby |
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Post by jkh67 on Aug 8, 2018 19:13:39 GMT -5
Still like playing them in regional games but they're snobby attitude towards college football is nauseating. The only people who care if they go to the postseason are the Ivy coaches. Problem with the PL for so many years has been to try to follow the Ivy League like puppy dogs into the abyss of their football world. Ivy League could care less about the Patriot League and the PL should feel the same. I have no idea what you mean by the Ivy's alleged "snobby attitude towards college football" beyond the fact that they don't participate in the playoffs for perfectly valid academic reasons. As for the supposed "abyss of their football world", the Ivy football big boys (all of them except Brown, Cornell and Columbia) are clearly reinvesting big time in the sport. And leave us not forget that all of the big boys (sans Dartmouth) play in stadia PL schools can only dream about. The PL offering athletic scholarships is as close to parity as we will ever get. The Ivies may not like the fact that the PL has brought back athletic scholarships, but they will continue to play us. And that's a very good thing. Don't forget that HC is the school places like Harvard and Dartmouth (Colgate for Cornell) have played the most outside the league. That's something to build on, not denigrate. |
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Post by sader1970 on Aug 8, 2018 19:42:55 GMT -5
JKH, I agree with about 95% of what you just posted except about the stadiums. If you are talking size, you've got a point as no one comes close to the Yale Bowl, not even Harvard. Until Harvard did renovations, not such a great place. Yale Bowl is still a dump . . . . large but still a dump. Andy Kerr for Colgate is not bad now, except the weather and lack of Crusader results. Bucknell's place is nice and I have heard that the other Penn schools in the PL are nice. Georgetown basically a high school field. Been years since I was up at Cornell but don't recall being impressed. Princeton's place is also nice but not huge. Actually Dartmouth's stadium is pretty nice. So, I am assuming you are saying the PL fields are smaller.
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Post by timholycross on Aug 8, 2018 22:07:19 GMT -5
Two ivy opponents a year is a good thing for hc. h/y/d. And an occasional Brown. Nice as it was to take a trip to Penn and Princeton there is no rivalry with either
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Half the ivy stadia are Pl comparable. Of course two current Pl stadia are a joke (Fu and gu).
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