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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]2 recruits for the same team at the same school will have different results based on where they fall on the recruiting scale.  The #1 recruit can look quite different than the last recruit.

Obviously, revenue sport recruits in basketball and football also will look much different than a track recruit.
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Football and basketball are also often more likely to have kids who are also hooked in other ways than the non-revenue sports. For example, also FGLI and URM.

Football is also unique in that occasionally you can get a viable multi sport recruit, like football plus track (sprints or throwing). [/quote]

True…but even Ivy schools know the only sports that attract any student fan interest and continued general alumni interest are football and basketball..so they care more about winning in those sports.[/quote]

Basketball actually isn’t that big at Ivies (NIL is huge for basketball) but depending on school, lacrosse and hockey are.[/quote]

From a student fan perspective it’s football and basketball.  Maybe at a school like Cornell the students watch hockey but not at many others.  Almost no students are watching lax games or any other sports.

None of the games are that well attended these days, so it’s all relative.  The Harvard Yale football game will get a crowd, but that’s about it.[/quote]

Hockey and Lacrosse games are definitely attended by students because the teams are actually good, four of the Ivies made the NCAA tournament for lacrosse.   Probably more popular among the private school kids who cared about these sports in high school.[/quote]

Go look at footage from the Princeton Cornell championship LAX game.  Almost nobody there in general and even fewer students. A whopping 2100 total fans…and that’s the championship game.

Not a shock.

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