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Subject: Re: Note to Joisey/T81

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Tiger81

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Date Posted: 17:00:08 07/07/25 Mon
In reply to: Bengal 's message, "Note to Joisey/T81" on 14:02:36 07/07/25 Mon

Bengal - very interesting backstory regarding your interactions with Tiger coaches and President Eisgruber. The lack of urgency around transfers might reflect some complacency due to the consistent and widespread success of Princeton’s athletics programs.

Something that occurred to me about this latest recruit is that he might have already been admitted during the normal admissions process so allowing him to enroll was just a matter of extending the acceptance deadline. Just speculating and I have no idea if that is true; admitting him in May would represent a pretty big break with normal practices.

A sad reality is that for elite athletes we have entered a free agency period where staying 4 years with one college is going to become more and more uncommon. QBs in particular, but as we have seen with that VB star, the Columbia baseball player, Wolf, Lee and now Pierce, it won’t just be stud QBs.

My view is that the Ivies shouldn’t try to win that war and in the process degrade their essential identify. I understand that might result in less competitive sports teams but I can live with that more so than abandoning the principles that the league was built on.

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joiseyfan
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Date Posted: 19:11:32 07/07/25 Mon

The fascinating aspect of all the above is that the trustees weren’t mentioned once. The idea that they delegate admissions policy is incorrect, and in this instance my strong suspicion is that they, the president and the admission staff are in concert regarding transfers, and that accord barely if at all has any particular interest in athletes.

I would think seventeen Ivy championships in the year just concluded would not lead a stampede toward increased urgency.

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Author: ivy guy (unfortunately) [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 09:55:44 07/08/25 Tue As an insightful poster noted on a previous thread ... IL Presidents and Trustees are facing existential political and financial pressures ... and other matters--such as athletic transfers, grad eligibility, 11th game etc. will not get the attention they deserve now, or in the foreseeable future. ## [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

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Author: observer [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 11:15:08 07/08/25 Tue The defaulting to only caring about league competitiveness reminds me of these celebrations: https://ftw.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2015/06/11/indianapolis-colts-afc-finalist-banner-2014-pathetic-andrew-luck-deflategate/82079529007/ https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--FonG9kah--/199wo14lelpmsjpg.jpg [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

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Author: joiseyfan [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 17:08:40 07/08/25 Tue I certainly don’t disagree, but in a very real sense that decision was foreshadowed when the league was formed in 1956. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]