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Flights for more than 40 people significantly outweigh what Harvard must put toward its IRA travel budget each year...
Women’s lightweight programs still compete at the IRA national championships in Camden, while their heavyweight counterparts travel to a site that changes annually. Either lightweight rowing would disappear along with the IRA, or the lightweights would retain IRA status as the men’s heavyweights were moved to the NCAA label...
Finally, the IRA has the luxury of extending invites to specific crews, an amenity easily destroyed if the NCAA took over with its automatic and at-large bids for championship events...
...Crimson heavyweights have won three straight IRA national titles in Camden and five straight Harvard-Yale dual races. One of those annual appearances would likely cease if the NCAA adopted men’s rowing. For the lightweights, the NCAA label might leave them to the IRA format or dissolve them all together, since the women’s NCAA regatta allows just three heavyweight boats to compete...
...some pessimists, the IRA regatta itself is in danger if the NCAA takes over. Perhaps the IRA will become a mere qualifier for an NCAA Championship; perhaps it will disappear all together...