palestra38
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10-11-17 03:45 PM - Post#233814
In response to mrjames
I didn't blame FA for Penn's 10 year trek through the desert. Their recruiting is on a serious uptick. But it's willful blindness to pretend that we have a level playing field in the Ivy League. Penn, which is 5 times larger than Princeton and has a smaller endowment simply is not on a FA level playing field with Princeton. Of course, the Harvard and Yale endowments dwarf Princeton's. So it doesn't matter what the individual student can get after all is said and done---on the face of the matter, the coaches at HY and Pr are reasonably certain they can offer just about anyone who otherwise cannot easily afford to pay a free ride and the others cannot. Historically, Penn and Cornell, in particular, could reach well below Harvard and Yale to get students H and Y could not admit. Your prior coach moaned about that all the time.
Look at it this way-James Jones struggled for years at Yale, having one co-title to show for his first 12 years, in which he won more than 15 once. He has won more than 18 5 of the last 6. Did he suddenly become a coaching genius? The Amaker winning years at Harvard started 2 years earlier. Did Harvard stay with Sullivan for 16 years because he was a terrible coach?
Princeton was walking in the darkness for 5 years before they suddenly started bringing in 20 win seasons at the same time as Harvard's ascendance.
So what do you attribute for the fact that the 3 schools who have dominated the Ivies since about 2008 have significantly upped their FA during this period to a level not capable of being matched by the others? Sure, there are other factors but IT IS NOT A LEVEL PLAYING FIELD and the advantages of the others in admissions criteria has been whittled away to almost nothing.
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