Ugh, it’s so unbecoming seeing Penn try to keep up with the modern NCAA. If only they’d accept a listless slide into non-entity status.
I do think it’s cool that the complaint has shifted from the constant “these guys must not be up to snuff academically” whinge to “well, it’s simply gauche.”
Honestly, if Princeton ever decided to get on board they’d be quite fine with a Notre Dame transfer. That is a high academic school.
His dad made 60m+ in nba so might not all be about $
Hopefully he did. He’s going to pay about $180k over 2 years year to attend Penn, as opposed to zero at ND. After taxes, he’d be close to even
Keep losing. And stay shortsighted and ignorant while you’re at it. If you were smart you’d put pressure on the school you support to actually fight for this league. No complaints when HYP were taking advantage though.
Given he was born during his dad s very well paid nba career i expect he might have a 529 plan to pay for college like most of our kids and grandkids
Keep it all friendly and constructive guys
The endless arguing about different approaches to athletics by the various Ivy schools ignores that the league as a whole emphasizes sports as much or MORE than other leagues. Consider two facts. The Ivies have more sports than any other league, which means more students participate. Second, the power conferences pay for much if not most of their athletic programs with revenue from basketball and football. The Ivies pay for most of their athletic programs from general funds or alumni donations, money that would otherwise be spent on traditional academic programs. Princeton, for instance, frequently qualifies as one of the more successful ‘jock’ schools in the nation. That makes them the most jockish school in a jock league.
Further – how the individual Ivy League schools manage their sports program varies widely, obviously including recruiting, especially with respect to the sports they emphasize. So Harvard has two boathouses, Princeton has its own rowing lake, and Penn has the Palestra. If one were to examine how Cornell succeeds in wrestling, how Brown has succeeded in ice hockey, how Dartmouth succeeds in football, he or she would find things those programs do that other less successful Ivy programs do not. That is what winners do the world over. To me, the only ‘cheating’ would be allowing young men and women to play their sports without simultaneously going to classes. That none of the Ivies do. Hurray for our league! When one or more of the league’s many teams do well, Horray again! Especially because going to school while also playing Division I sports is far harder than what a normal student does.
Very good discussion of Ivy priorities…except that Brown is not successful in hockey–hasn’t had a winning year since 2018 (1 over .500) and hasn’t been to the NCAA Tournament since 1993.
Good post
The Ivies have more sports than anyone else, which is a built in structural inequity at the elite level in higher education. That’s because a lot of these sports are along the lines of rowing, golf, lacrosse, etc. which are basically only available to those who actually have such high school sports or who can afford the travel team route. I did an exercise with one Ivy a few years and examined the photos of all of the athletes in all of their sports, and basketball and track were really the only ones that were not predominantly white or that did not predominantly hail from elite prep or public schools. Because as we know it’s much easier to get into any school, including the Ivies, in the athletic pool than in the general pool.