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    Ivy League: No Spring Football

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    Re: Ivy League: No Spring Football

    In other words, no more sports for the Ivies this school year at all.

    Maybe we Ivy fans need to look south and west.


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    Re: Ivy League: No Spring Football

    So much for for an OOC game early March with Penn or Princeton. Maybe Delaware or Monmouth...
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    Re: Ivy League: No Spring Football

    Quote Originally Posted by ngineer View Post
    So much for for an OOC game early March with Penn or Princeton. Maybe Delaware or Monmouth...
    More regional but doable. Big South has the most flexible OOC arrangement of all FCS spring schedules...

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    Re: Ivy League: No Spring Football

    Depressing

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    Re: Ivy League: No Spring Football

    Quote Originally Posted by bulldog10jw View Post
    Depressing
    I agree.

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    Re: Ivy League: No Spring Football

    This decision will probably hurt Ivy FB recruiting for a few years.
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    Re: Ivy League: No Spring Football

    Quote Originally Posted by Ivytalk View Post
    This decision will probably hurt Ivy FB recruiting for a few years.
    It's still early, but Dartmouth's football recruiting is noticeably down this cycle.

    The past 10 years, Dartmouth has gotten some 12-15 guys who also had offers from FBS schools (be it SEC schools or the military academies). It's showed on the field. Harvard, Yale, and Princeton almost always get 15-20 such guys, but hey- you can only play 11 at a time. So Dartmouth has been able to do just fine against HYP. Heck, more than fine against Y&P.


    This cycle, Dartmouth has 13 commits. I think only two have had FBS offers. For most of the other guys, Dartmouth was their best offer. And worse yet- Penn and Columbia are getting guys that Dartmouth offered and probably would have gotten in years past.


    Just a theory for me, but it's possible that recruiting through Zoom and/or visiting a socially-distant Hanover just isn't the same as the normal sales pitch from our coaches. Hanover in the Fall on a vibrant Dartmouth campus can really be an awesome place. But this year, the high school hotshots just aren't seeing it...

    We will see how the rest of the recruiting goes. But Dartmouth isn't going to beat Army in 2024 with a bunch of guys whose other offers were from PFL schools....

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    Re: Ivy League: No Spring Football

    Quote Originally Posted by Go Green View Post
    Dartmouth isn't going to beat Army in 2024 with a bunch of guys whose other offers were from PFL schools....
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    Re: Ivy League: No Spring Football

    How long before the Patriot League follows suit?

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