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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]UVA, Duke and BC are in a power 5 conference and heads and tails above the rest of the schools mentioned. Aside from a few obscure sports the Ivy is advanced HS that don't belong in the D1 for football, baseball, or BB. Watch the Harvard Princeton football game next year, there are 100 people in the stands, all parents.[/quote]

8k attendance last year - not bad for a terrible team at a school with less than 6k undergrads [/quote]

Thanks for the laugh, Texas HS games get that on a random Friday night. Ivy football is a joke.  IMG's team would wipe the floor with all of them. [/quote]

You are correct, but also proving OP's point.  It used to be that the best athletes at prep schools (not football powerhouses...but the Sidwells or STAs of which there are many) played football, but now that everyone knows about CTE and the risk, the best athletes are playing other sports.

These schools still field teams, but the gap between a SJC or Good Counsel vs. a STA is now so dramatic that they don't play each other because someone at STA could get seriously hurt.

All these college plus MIT, CMU and other schools like that still field football teams and they need a lot of kids to fill the rosters.

Heck 3 JR kids were recruited for football last year...2 at Columbia and one at Cornell (only 1 URM) and JR football is terrible.[/quote]

My main point was lumping UVA, Duke, and BC in with the Ivy teams, not the same stratosphere.  [/quote]

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