colgate13, you will appreciate this:
State of the Ivy League II: Solutions to the Problems
The article gives a great summation of what, well, pretty much every I-AA and NCAA basketball fan would like to see the Ivies implemented, but this caught my eye:
Harvard Business School, Wharton, Columbia Law -- all ON PAR with Colgate.In 2003, Colgate's football team advanced to the Division I-AA national title game. Colgate is virtually on par with the Ivies as an academic institution, and it's participation in the I-AA tournament did not serve as a detriment at all to its players' academic standing, while at the same time giving those student-athletes a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to play on a national stage. There is no reason to believe that such an ill-effect would occur at Ivy schools either.
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