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Ivy’s Dark Underside By CHRIS LINCOLN Friday, April 21, 2006 2:02 AM As one Ivy coach put it, “The irony is that the Ivy League, by trying to be ‘holier than thou,’ has made the athletic recruiting...
The Ivy League is justifiably proud of its athletes. The vast majority of Ivy athletes are serious students who graduate and attend graduate schools at the same rate as their non-athletic peers and who earn more money in the workplace. But the Ivy League’s pride in...
A former recruited athlete and dean’s list student at Middlebury College, Chris Lincoln is the author of “Playing the Game: Inside Athletic Recruiting in the Ivy League” published by Nomad Press.
In every Division I athletic conference but the Ivy League, high school senior athletes sign what amounts to a written contract, known as the NCAA letter of intent, to attend a college or university and receive an athletic scholarship. On signing day, which falls on the first Wednesday in February...
The Ivy presidents cannot cloak themselves in sanctity until they change the rules that govern the league’s athletic recruiting. Right now, their league is not “holier than thou” but “uglier than thou.” And the presidents?...