If the Ivy League had to expand, who'd join?

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At the academic level, Hopkins, Duke, Georgetown, and Chicago offer AT LEAST what Cornell/Penn/Brown/Dartmouth do.

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In current environment probably no T25 would want to join. They already have rankings and don't need Ivy flag in internet era.

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Anonymous wrote:University of Chicago, Hillsdale, university of Virginia, Johns Hopkins, Georgetown to name a few

LOL no, Hillsdale booster.

Hadn't even heard of Hillsdale.

Not surprising if you aren’t a RWNJ religious fanatic.

Was curious because the first I'd ever even heard of it was here the other day. I honestly thought it was the fictional school from that 80s TV show Another World.

You probably mean A Different World. It had a name like that.

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Anonymous wrote:Nobody associates the Ivy league to a sports league anymore. The name is now synonymous with educational excellence and prestige. And for that reason, they will not expand it so as not to dilute the brand.

They were considering Army, Navy and Northwestern in the 80s, so it's not impossible. I agree they don't want to dilute the brand, but it's unlikely adding schools like JHU will somehow cheapen the brand.

+1 I found this article while googling! https://www.nytimes.com/1982/01/10/sports/ivy-league-considers-adding-2-schools.html

Googling because I’m a Colgate alum and this thread made me remember there was a rumor that we were asked to join the Ivy League at some point but declined.

There’s a story indicating that Colgate did participate in the initial talks that led to the formation of the Ivy League, but dropped out before the League was formally established. https://badgerherald.com/news/2003/03/03/origins-of-the-term/

Then Colgate asked to join in the early 70s and the league said they didn’t want to expand. That was pre-Patriot League. https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1973/5/9/ivy-schools-deny-colgate-bid-to/

FWIW I think Army and Navy (but not Air Force) are the right answers.

I know someone was on the steering committee for when the Ivy League was seriously considering expansion, and West Point, Annapolis, and Northwestern were the only serious contenders.

This is correct.

Northwestern decided against joining the Ivy League back in the early 1980s because of the travel that the NU athletic teams would have to endure.

This is really funny considering all of the wild reconfigurations that have happened in college athletics since then. Now you have schools like UCLA and USC in the same conference as schools like Rutgers.

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I found this interesting article from a decade ago that briefly mentions this era of college football:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304906704579113410766027876

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Anonymous wrote:University of Chicago, Hillsdale, university of Virginia, Johns Hopkins, Georgetown to name a few

LOL no, Hillsdale booster.

Hadn't even heard of Hillsdale.

Not surprising if you aren’t a RWNJ religious fanatic.

Was curious because the first I'd ever even heard of it was here the other day. I honestly thought it was the fictional school from that 80s TV show Another World.

You probably mean A Different World. It had a name like that.

I think the college mentioned in A Different World was Hillman College not Hillsdale.