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Date Posted: 19:33:43 06/01/25 Sun
NO. I already addressed the endowment comment earlier.
I am opposed to the antediluvian mindset of The Ivy League. Either it wants to be NCAA Division 1 or it doesn't. This bullshit about wanting it both ways is just making the conference de facto D3. If that's what they want, just make it happen.
Of course the league will always have a couple of D1 teams that make noise - especially in sports that the big boys don't care about (lacrosse, fencing, field hockey, etc.) But Ivy basketball is about to revert to mid 80s level - and it will cascade much faster than people think.
Then again, most Ivy campus admins privately love this, even as they whisper sweet nothings in the ears of Joe Tsai and Bob Kraft and Stephen Lewenstein...
Given all the garbage that is going on at the 8 schools - this is the time to pivot away from the insular navel-gazing nihilism on campus, and invest in team-building and school pride-building activities, like Duke, and Stanford, and Vanderbilt and Michigan do.
If nothing else, signaling an interest in big-time sports would certainly change the profile of applicants. Fewer anarchists, for sure.
That the people who run these schools can't see the rot that has emerged from this nihilistic revolutionary worldview that affects way too many admits, is crazy.
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