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Subject: Re: An Alternative Perspective on the State of Ivy League Athletics Author: IvySportsJunkie [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 09:30:04 07/23/25 Wed In reply to: IvySportsJunkie 's message, "An Alternative Perspective on the State of Ivy League Athletics" on 19:06:14 07/21/25 Mon Good points Son of Eli. I mentor several Ivy athletes who overall express how very pleased they are with the state of Ivy athletics and their personal student athlete experiences. While they would love to earn more NIL money, they deeply appreciate several relatively unique aspects of the Ivy football experiences: 1) they bond with their fellow teammates since there are almost no transfers in and very few transfers out 2) they have better idea of when they will earn their respective turn at playing time compared to schools that continually bring in loads of new transfers each year 3) coaches are very supportive of the Ivy emphasis on academics and players taking prestigious summer internships with consulting, investment banking, private equity, and tech jobs that lead to highly coveted jobs 4) there is an unparallel network of alumni who help mentor players opening jobs to summer internships and post-graduate jobs (there is almost 100% placement of very good jobs after graduation) 5) a high percentage of players elect to go to graduate schools with similar pipeline advantages to MBA, law, MD and other professional graduate school programs. The Ivy football players earn less money during college, but they earn far more post graduation to allow them to more than make up for it within their first 10 years after college. The only schools that can compete with the above five advantages are the academic oriented D1 power conference schools (e.g., Stanford, Notre Dame, Duke, Vanderbilt, etc.) There is a relatively large pool of elite football players with Ivy type of academic qualifications who are just off the recruiting radar of these relatively limited options at academic oriented D1 power conference schools. We still should put out a fairly good football product that remains far, far above the D3 product. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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[> Subject: Re: An Alternative Perspective on the State of Ivy League Athletics Author: sparman [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 09:55:38 07/23/25 Wed An initially startling, but upon consideration not unexpected, assessment of the value of college football teams (i.e., the price that would be paid to buy a "college" football program, which many surmise is the logical outcome of the current direction) as prelude to the forthcoming private equity college football era: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6500596/2025/07/21/college-football-program-valuations-rankings-2025/?source=athletic_pulsenewsletter&campaign=14262920&userId=11715779 Summary: Texas is #1 at $2.38 billion. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> Subject: Hmmm.... Author: Go Green [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 10:13:50 07/23/25 Wed I'm guessing that Memphis has many of the same ideas... [ Post a Reply to This Message ]