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Subject: Re: Future of Ivy League Football

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RedWin

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Date Posted: 11:20:02 03/06/24 Wed
In reply to: Ivy Patriot 's message, "Future of Ivy League Football" on 12:52:48 03/04/24 Mon

Well as a so called "walk-on" who played Freshman football, when we moved up to varsity my sophomore year, no one ever asked me if I was a recruit or a walk-on. As an O-lineman my only motive was knocking the guy across me on his A.....

Agreed I think it's ridiculous to carry a roster of over 100 players. However, I think all Ivies should welcome walk-ons to camp and if they can play, keep them on the roster and cut the guys who can't play or who are not working hard in practice. It should be no different than any other sport.

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IvySportsJunkie
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Date Posted: 12:59:21 03/06/24 Wed

While the Ivies clearly will have some NIL recruiting and transfer portal challenges, I feel the University administration and admissions officers are now far more concerned with how to handle potential legal challenges to Ivy athlete and legacy preferences in admissions. Until that gets better resolved over time in the courts, there is no way whatsoever that our Ivy administrators would dare to consider breaking up the Ivy League.

The Ivy administrator's and our faculty's number one priority is to maintain our cherished status as the most elite conference academically. This represents an unprecedented period of very challenging times for the Ivy League with minimal appetite to rock the boat to appease some alumni who want to return to former athletic glory days.