Word: ncaas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...NCAA baseball championships, or the College World Series, is held annually in the nation's college baseball hotbed, Omaha, Nebraska, with champions from each of eight regions participating in the double elimination tournament. This year's session was concluded June 17, breaking all-time attendance records...
...schools, and then seeing if he or she will be accepted by an admissions committee that doesn't roll over and play dead for every all-state linebacker that comes along--often creates problems. Pure athletic scholarships and submissive admissions committees, the two weapons that have built many an NCAA champion, are not in the Ivy League arsenal. But Harvard has disarmed itself even further by stripping its coaches of the ability to bring their sales pitches into the living rooms of their prospective charges...
...promote an unsuccessful candidate. "You don't get a kid interested who's not in the ballpark," Lee says, but even then there is a danger of misjudging badly. Lee recounts the story of a how he courted one wrestler--who has since gone on to post a phenomenal NCAA tournament record--with hopes of Harvard admission, only to see the committee reject him. The rejection soured the wrestler's family on Harvard so much that his younger brothers--who probably could have made the school--never considered coming to Cambridge...
...fact, the pressure may already be starting to build. The NCAA recently reduced the amount of scholarship money that each Division I school can award by 40 per cent--a move that will make other Ivy League schools that much more competitive for the truly "blue-chip" athletes. With rivals stepping up their recruiting, and with the "Harvard mystique" inevitably fading as the school drifts further away from the Roosevelt-Cabot era, Harvard may decide it has to change its admissions process...
Before honing in on any NCAA laurels, Vik will participate in the prestigious East-West tournament at Colgate tomorrow followed by the long driving contest in the afternoon...