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Ivy League Considering Post Season Participation

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Ivy League to Consider Allowing Football Teams to Play in Postseason | News | The Harvard Crimson

The Ivy League is considering a proposal to allow the Ancient Eight’s football teams to play in the postseason, according to Harvard Athletic Director Erin McDermott.
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The Ivy League is considering a proposal to allow the Ancient Eight’s football teams to play in the Football Championship Subdivision postseason, according to Harvard Athletic Director Erin McDermott.

The proposal, which comes from the Ivy League Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, would need final approval from all of the Ivy League presidents and put an end to a ban on Ivy League football teams in the playoffs that has stood since 1945.

Approval would allow Ivy teams to compete for a national title in the FCS, the second-highest level of college football.
 
AZGrizFan said:
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Ivy League to Consider Allowing Football Teams to Play in Postseason | News | The Harvard Crimson

The Ivy League is considering a proposal to allow the Ancient Eight’s football teams to play in the postseason, according to Harvard Athletic Director Erin McDermott.
www.thecrimson.com www.thecrimson.com

The Ivy League is considering a proposal to allow the Ancient Eight’s football teams to play in the Football Championship Subdivision postseason, according to Harvard Athletic Director Erin McDermott.

The proposal, which comes from the Ivy League Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, would need final approval from all of the Ivy League presidents and put an end to a ban on Ivy League football teams in the playoffs that has stood since 1945.

Approval would allow Ivy teams to compete for a national title in the FCS, the second-highest level of college football.
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This is a good thing! Certainly add to the fading credibility of the FCS...and adding some of their historical stadium locations would make for a great road trip!
 
AZGrizFan said:
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Ivy League to Consider Allowing Football Teams to Play in Postseason | News | The Harvard Crimson

The Ivy League is considering a proposal to allow the Ancient Eight’s football teams to play in the postseason, according to Harvard Athletic Director Erin McDermott.
www.thecrimson.com www.thecrimson.com

The Ivy League is considering a proposal to allow the Ancient Eight’s football teams to play in the Football Championship Subdivision postseason, according to Harvard Athletic Director Erin McDermott.

The proposal, which comes from the Ivy League Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, would need final approval from all of the Ivy League presidents and put an end to a ban on Ivy League football teams in the playoffs that has stood since 1945.

Approval would allow Ivy teams to compete for a national title in the FCS, the second-highest level of college football.
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It would be very cool!
 
This should've happened a long time ago. There's been many Ivy League teams over the years that I've thought could be a serious threat to win the title if they would just let them participate. Ivy League participates in every other sports postseason, so why not Football? It's gotta put them at somewhat of a recruiting disadvantage telling them there's nothing to play for other than a regular season title.
 
EverettGriz said:
No doubt many of the players would miss the game as they would be holed up in ewooo’s world renowned library, deep in tomes they don’t normally have access to.
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Read this in whatever voice you deem appropriate: "Why, Trevor, we had better facilities at Exeter! And, just what is this hat sitting atop the head of this cat?"
 
I will believe it when I see it. The presidents are the ones who have opposed it.

"Ultimately, the final decision would be made by the Ivy League presidents — though it would also need the approval of the athletic directors, including McDermott.

“That’s really up to President Garber, so we haven’t had that conversation yet,” McDermott said."

So the advisory committee has proposed this without talking to the presidents.

I would be surprised if the presidents went along with this. But I haven't been consulting the presidents either.

Football is the only Ivy sport where the team is not allowed to compete in playoffs and for championships. Football can't compete in post-season bowl games either. Until 1971 or so, Ivy football players couldn't compete in individual post-season play after their senior years.
 
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An article on NIL (or lack thereof) in the Ivies.

"AS SOME CRIMSON players survey the new landscape with interest, their professors watch with great concern. Current and former members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ standing committee on athletic sports worry that the new era of monetization may not align with Harvard’s athletic goals. Since the introduction of NIL, major sports conferences like the Big Ten and Southeastern Conference (SEC) have added members and paid individual athletes millions. The Ivy schools’ vision for their student-athletes, says Coolidge professor of history Maya Jasanoff, “is increasingly divergent from what the model of a student-athlete is at other colleges and universities outside the Ivy League.”

Though the faculty committee is responsible for overseeing “all the faculty’s athletic programs,” Jasanoff, who recently completed five years as its chair, points out that it has little control over the student-athlete experience. She fears that Harvard Athletics, the Ivy League, and the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) may also be incapable of governing their athletes. “A lot of the top-line policy matters are influenced by…forces that are well outside the remit of the faculty, if not even the University as a whole,” she explains. “You have Supreme Court decisions…that are affecting how athletics operates. You don’t have Supreme Court decisions affecting which courses are being offered.”

With money flowing into college sports, some professors fear that student-athletes will become more athlete than student. “Faculty on campus have felt for some time that the academic component of the student experience has been shrinking,” Jasanoff continues. “We’re seeing a world of athletic competition in which the opportunities available to our students are different or bigger.” With payment attached, student-athletes are incentivized to spend more time on their sports, whether on-campus, by squeezing in extra workouts and training sessions, or off-campus, by accepting athletic assignments that entail missing class. Women’s basketball guard Harmoni Turner ’25, for example, spent a September week in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, competing for Team USA’s under-23 3x3 team."

https://www.harvardmagazine.com/node/88119
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mthoopsfan said:
I will believe it when I see it. The presidents are the ones who have opposed it.

"Ultimately, the final decision would be made by the Ivy League presidents — though it would also need the approval of the athletic directors, including McDermott.

“That’s really up to President Garber, so we haven’t had that conversation yet,” McDermott said."

So the advisory committee has proposed this without talking to the presidents.

I would be surprised if the presidents went along with this. But I haven't been consulting the presidents either.

Football is the only Ivy sport where the team allowed to compete in playoffs and for championships. Football can't compete in post-season bowl games either. Until 1971 or so, Ivy football players couldn't compete in individual post-season play after their senior years.
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I think you forgot the word "aren't" in that last paragraph...

And that's why I wonder about the success of this...why single out FOOTBALL when all the other sports are allowed to compete in their postseasons?
 
Love to see it--I think the Ivies will quickly discover that like their academics, their football programs are greatly overrated and will get their collective a$$es handed to them in the playoffs much more often than not !!!
 
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