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Date Posted: 14:22:22 04/10/26 Fri
I agree with M3 that this is hardly the crime of the century, but at the same time, it *COULD* be a reflection of how Vicky Chun runs the department and, if true, that has ominous implications for the long-term performance of Yale athletics.
Most of us who have worked for large corporations have seen what happens when senior management bends the rules or plays favorites within the organization. First, morale declines, then the best people leave because they have the highest standards and the most options. Eventually, you're left with the people who don't give a damn or don't have better options and that's how organizations start down the long slippery slope.
Unless your corporation has some proprietary IP or some tangible business moat, its long-term outperformance is a function of the quality of its people.
In the Ivy League, HYP have an intangible advantage in their brand names and a tangible advantage in their endowments, but I would argue that these are not sufficient to overcome an inability to retain top performers in the form of coaches and administrators.
I'll refer back to the numbers I posted a few months ago:
2024-25 Ivy League championships won
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Yale. . . . . . . 2
Harvard . . . . 5
Princeton . 17
I don't know whether these figures keep Vicky Chun up at night, but if they do, she had better be pretty confident that she is doing everything she can to attract and retain the best people in her department.
(The Ivy League office used to compile these numbers annually to display on the conference website. They've stopped doing it, I suspect because Princeton's outperformance is getting troubling to the league.)
I agree with Old Blue that Coach Alain was very well regarded. I would be surprised if he would "take a shot" at his former boss unless he felt strongly that something was amiss.
I'll be looking more intently for additional tea leaves, as I'm sure other Ivy fans will, too.
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