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02-16-17 02:10 PM - Post#222029    
    In response to IvyHoopsFan01

  • IvyHoopsFan01 Said:
First, in terms of comparing Harry Sheehy’s tenure as the current athletic director over the past 6 years, Dartmouth has experienced some decline relative to the other Ivy school’s sports programs. During Sheehy’s tenure, Dartmouth has only finished 7th out of the 8 Ivy League schools in number of Ivy championship titles (only ahead of Brown). He has averaged less than 2 Ivy championship titles per annum for the 35 Ivy sports (18 mens and 17 women’s sports team championships), which is less than the two prior Dartmouth ADs. Josie Harper averaged 3 Ivy titles for her 7 years as AD and Richard Jaeger averaged 4 Ivy titles during his 11 years as AD. .



This type of debate comes up every now and then on the Voy Board.

My belief is that comparing total titles is a very imperfect measure of athletic success because it doesn't differentiate between teams finishing a game behind in second place and basement teams that failed to win a game in Ivy competition.

Just to give one example, women's hockey went to the Frozen Four a few times even though they didn't win the Ivy/ECAC title in all of those seasons.

I don't have an answer. But just wanted to point out the shortcomings of counting just titles and nothing else to compare the strength of an athletic program.
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