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Subject: Re: At this rate we'll be watching soccer on Saturday afternoons. Author: Sprint66 [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 10:10:25 11/03/09 Tue In reply to: Mike 's message, "Ivy Football a rather dull season" on 18:21:32 11/01/09 Sun Attendance throughout the league continues to decline. I watched the Princeton vs. Colgate game on ESPNU and they had a smaller crowd than most high school JV teams. Seriously!!! I swear, the Dryden High School vs. Lansing High School game here in the greater Ithaca area draws bigger crowds than Cornell. With football budgets continuing to swell and attendance continuing to decline, something is eventually going to give, which is teams in the Ivy League dropping football at some point in the future. It may be another 10 to 20 years, but trust me it's going to happen if we don't fix the problem. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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[> [> Subject: Re: At this rate we'll be watching soccer on Saturday afternoons. Author: Relax [Edit] Date Posted: 10:16:18 11/03/09 Tue You talk about this every post. You will be long gone before an Ivy drops football.

[> [> [> Subject: Re: At this rate we'll be watching soccer on Saturday afternoons. Author: Go Green [Edit] Date Posted: 10:22:10 11/03/09 Tue I'm still wondering which school will supposedly drop football first and get kicked out of the Ivy League. :)

[> [> [> [> Subject: Re: At this rate we'll be watching soccer on Saturday afternoons. Author: foehi [Edit] Date Posted: 17:14:13 11/03/09 Tue Go Gunners

[> [> [> [> [> Subject: Re: At this rate we'll be watching soccer on Saturday afternoons. Author: Sprint66 [Edit] Date Posted: 20:40:58 11/03/09 Tue Yeah, I know, I sound like a broken record. However, some of us older alums can remember Ivy League Saturdays with full stadiums and exciting games. Granted, we didn't fill them like the Big Ten, but they were full basically end zone to end zone. It kills me to sit in our beautiful stadium at Schoellkopf Field and stare at those empty West Stands every game. The students don't bother attending the games as most of the fans are a bunch of old farts like me. I can't speak for the other Ivies, but Cornell is currently going through some very difficult times financially, so it's probably going to get worse before it gets better.

[> [> [> [> [> [> Subject: Hope are you right that things get worse for Cornell... Author: Go Green [Edit] Date Posted: 08:04:22 11/04/09 Wed ... at least through this coming Saturday. :)