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Additionally, there has been little respect shown for the significance of JV programs. Kopelman recalls that this past season, as many as 10 varsity players would show up to JV games, severely limiting playing time for genuine JV athletes and leading most of them to quit...
...last game of the season, there were less than five actual JV guys at the game, because the JV guys were that discouraged,” Kopelman says. “People were choosing [intramural] sports over JV sports, which is really frustrating...
...says Undergraduate Council Vice President junior Randall Sarafa, who spent significant time researching the trials and tribulations of club teams at Harvard. “The UC actually does fund club sports better than anybody on campus, providing up to $2000 a semester. But if the JV program gets rolled into the club sports program, we can’t afford that as a council...
...Blair points out, the presence of a varsity team will limit the attention a sibling club team will get, increasing concerns about funding and recruiting. Former JV men’s basketball team captain senior AJ Tennant says he recalls playing club frisbee his freshman year and having to shell out $500 to go to a tournament in San Diego...
...means a simultaneous shifting of the administrative burden to students. No longer will the Athletic Department schedule games, practices, or transportation for the teams. Instead, this will all have to be done by the students themselves. And while club team leaders seem to have accepted this inevitable responsibility, some JV players are reluctant to transition their teams to club teams simply because of that reason...