Let me try to deal in what I perceive to be some interesting current Ivy truisms:
The Penn job was going to Langel and then Klatsky. Langel said no and then the Iowa change was made.
Megan Griffith will be the no. 1 candidate for Northwestern in 26-27. She may not leave. We shall see.
Yale could be more loaded next season than this, at least depth wise. This is the best incoming class since the Sears class. Loving is tremendous as is the kid from PA. Add this to the presumptive POY, Townsend and Casey, Aletan, Celiscar, Trevor and more and wow.
If Geno wins it this year (he could) they will look to Berube first.
There are no Ivy collectives. Alumni have helped to fund players with jobs and by other creative means. That will continue on a high level at 6 menâs Ivies and 2 womenâs Ivies.
I could see a Princeton assistant being an alum at another job.
Brett will land on his feet. he is that good.
Kingsley and Simon deserve jobs, even at the high D-3 level.
Most of this I already heard, but where does the Northwestern info come from? I really donât see Megan leaving at least until she wins an ILT and fulfills her goal of a deep tournament run. And not for a head coaching job at Northwestern. If they consider her as a substitute for Geno when he retires, or other big women powerhouse, then it is likely that she leaves. But not for Northwestern, a team that has had 3 NCAA tournament appearances in the last 30 years.
Anything more than a number? Beacuse a lot of coaches would be tempted with that. But also other schools looking for coaches this month could have made her a similar offer (Auburn, Arizona St., Arkansas, BYU, Houston,âŚ), and she hasnât been in the conversation that I know of
Sheâs interviewed for other jobs but Columbia has been able to keep her. I agree that Meg has a special connection to Columbia and NYC and would only take a certain type of job. Northwestern might fit. High academic school in a great city. Has the resources and ability to be better. She has thrived building our program and might like the same challenge at a higher level. Sheâs not going to take over for a Top 5 school and would need to have Pwr 4 success before that most likely. I hope she never leaves but wonât be surprised if she does at some point. Again, I donât see her taking any job just for a payday but a school like Northwestern might be a fit.
I donât understand the âPrinceton Assistantâ comment.
Are you saying that one of the two remaining Assistaqnts
might return to their alma maters? That seems very unlikely.
I posted a question on the old board and received an interesting answer. In response to a suggestion that the new Columbia coach would âhit the portal hard,â I asked how exactly this would work at Ivy schools with high admissions standards? There used to be a lot of talk on the old board about the Academic Index and whether certain schools were finding ways around it (I recall some accused Tommy Amaker of loading Harvardâs bench with super high SAT kids who never played to bring the teamâs average up). The response was a suggestion that the AI may have âgone by the wayside.â Is this true?
Princeton stopped admitting transfers quite a while ago (or at least seemed to stop admitting athlete transfers). The last basketball player I remember who transferred in and made a big difference was Sean Jacksonâwho was the 1992 Ivy POY. Iâm stubbornly clinging to the hope that Princeton will hang on Pierce and Lee and most of its players this year and in years to come. But if this doesnât hold, then allowing athletes to transfer in to Princeton may be as important as any of the other changes being tossed around. Even without NIL, Princetonâs athletic facilities, media exposure, and obviously its academics, alumni network, etc. could be a huge draw for smart athletes at other mid-majors lacking these things.
But if not the big classes at hyp were done to average it out.
I think itâs logical to assume amakers initial success paves the way for Yale to follow. Way the world works. JJ is on the record with saying 10+ years ago âI know who I can get in nowâ
Take that for what you will-correlation or causeation. But I would also note JJ saying in national press in response to amaker-we canât get those kids in soâŚ
Didnât Princeton have the kid who transferred 2x from uclađ
Iâm sure Lee is getting high-six to 1M NIL offers from high majors. As he should.
But as someone whoâs watched hours of documentary film/interviews with Lee and his mother, itâll come down to his NBA aspirations. Heâs not leaving for an NIL payday. Itâll be about boosting his draft stock.
I think grade inflation is a huge factor in that. It is a fact that it is way easier now a days to get a certain GPA than what it was 10 or 20 years ago. I think this makes possible for a lot of transfers to be able to get into an ivy league school and with a bit of help and work, be totally fine.
The AI is still used but largely to balance out the class. A high AI lets the coach bring in a lower AI. But make no mistake, the standards are rigorous. The low end kid still needs a strong unweighted GPA and a rigorous course load. Transferring into an Ivy isnât an easy backdoor.
Also, the suggestion that all of the sudden everyone is going to bring in transfers to the Ivies is questionable. Itâs never been easy and wonât be now all of the sudden.