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Subject: Re: If the NCAA disappears or gets rid of the Dayton Rule, we will talk.. Author: Go Green [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 10:09:37 03/27/24 Wed In reply to: sparman 's message, "Re: If the NCAA disappears or gets rid of the Dayton Rule, we will talk.." on 08:41:36 03/27/24 Wed If the NCAA disappears, the most likely result is the Power 2 (or maybe Power 3) and... everyone else. Maybe there's some formation of divisions thereafter. But the Ivy will most likely be playing the same schools that it always has. There is just no reason to think that the Ivy will be relegated to playing Amherst, Williams, etc. whereas Colgate, Holy Cross, UNH, etc. play the military academies, UConn, and other D-1 leftovers. So please, enough with the Chicken Little D-III stuff... [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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[> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> Subject: Re: If the NCAA disappears or gets rid of the Dayton Rule, we will talk.. Author: An Observer [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 10:54:19 03/27/24 Wed First of all, the world has changed. Try to see beyond the immediate future. In my San Andreas analogy, you can see that the 50-story office building next to you is coming down. Dwayne the Rock Johnson and Alexandra D'Addario are coming up Wilshire Boulevard using a boat with an outboard motor, but you look around your own office and think, "So far, so good." The old Los Angeles is over. We can't predict how the new one will look, but we can predict with confidence that the old one is gone. Secondly, to me, Division III is no longer a Chicken Little calamity. That's the whole point of this thread. Read the headline. We run some of the best academic institutions in the country (although, to be fair, that may be changing, too). Following Ivy League sports and rooting for our teams has been fun in part because the kids are bona fide students. Richard Kent wants to get the Steve Ballmers to open up their checkbooks. And that's one choice available to us. I'm not interested. Why outspend your rival in the arms race when you have no interest in being in the arms race? I don't need to beat Auburn or Baylor or Arizona or Missouri to enjoy following Ivy League sports. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> Subject: Re: If the NCAA disappears or gets rid of the Dayton Rule, we will talk.. Author: sparman [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 10:54:43 03/27/24 Wed It's not Chicken Little, it's considering options and developments. The landscape is changing. You can keep your head in the sand and pretend nothing will happen, or you can try to assess. Ivies may be playing the same schools, but some of those may be in a new division with new rules. D-3 may not continue to have the same parameters as currently. I am not predicting anything other than the possibility of changed rules, as opposed to your apparent view that they are immutable. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> Subject: That sounds a lot like what happened in 1981 Author: Go Green [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 12:21:07 03/27/24 Wed And I think Ivy football has been just fine since then. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> Subject: Re: That sounds a lot like what happened in 1981 Author: observer [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 13:01:04 03/27/24 Wed The gate suggests otherwise. It all depends on perspective. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]