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[quote=Anonymous]I think what prompted the OP's comment is just in football there are some true anecdotes of kids never having played prior to Junior year of HS...to then getting recruited to an Ivy school to play.

Yes, the kids are good athletes...they have to be.  However, can anyone give any other sport where you go from zero to a recruited football player in a year?

The kid referenced from Jackson-Reed is a true story.  The only reason the kid was able to even play football is because the JR football team is horrible.  The coach walks the halls and approaches any kid that has the size profile for football and begs them to play.  The team gets blown out by every DCPS football team...which has one or two decent teams, but even those teams would get destroyed by a WCAC team.

I do agree that Ivy football is really D3 football (even though technically D1).  While the Penn baseball team can hang with the UVA baseball team (lost 4-2 in the College World Series Regionals), the UVA football team would beat the Penn football team by at least 50 points.  More accurately, the game would never happen because of the fear that multiple Penn players would suffer serious injury because of the size differential.[/quote]

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