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Subject: Irregular Annual Rant Rejuvenated

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Bengal

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Date Posted: 17:35:48 11/08/24 Fri

We are in the midst of two League “tournaments” in field hockey and women’s soccer, to determine the League automatic NCAA bid. Winning the League only gets you home field and playing the number 4 seed in the opener. While there are occasional times when a League winner who loses in the Ivy tournament gets an at-large bid, that is not assured in the future even to the extent it happened in the past. Changes in college athletics do not favor our League. To me, the growth in these tournaments takes the League’s galloping egalitarianism to new heights, or I should say, depths. Yes, I know that P are the League winners in
this weekend’s play, but that is beside the point and there have been times when these tourneys have given non-first place P teams a shot. Perhaps one day the League will just get it over with and a three day tourney for all 8 teams.
My view is, you win the League you earned the bid. Making it turn on a 2 game playoff is unfair to the winner.

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[> Subject: Re: Irregular Annual Rant Rejuvenated
Author: joiseyfan [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 20:04:45 11/08/24 Fri Despite Bengal’s unhappiness, the Tigers are moving strongly through both ILTs, crushing Columbia 4-0 in field hockey and Harvard women 3-1 in soccer today. Finals on Sunday vs. Crimson and Bruno respectively. Princeton men play Quakers for the regular season Ivy soccer championship tomorrow, also in Princeton. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]