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...NCAA is televised on CBS, NBC and ABC. The Ivy League is televised...
While it remains highly unlikely that the Ivy schools would move to secede from the national body of college sport, such suggestions have been made in the past. And the recent passage of an NCAA rule limiting the role of alumni boosters in the recruiting process both illustrates and exacerbates the problem of Ivy-NCAA relations...
...schools have a number of things in common," Orleans says. "All of us use the alumni schools quite heavily. The opportunity is provided by NCAA rules to bring students on campus. Schools vary and teams vary on the way they organize their visits, but we all do the big things pretty similarly...
...NCAA doesn't agree. Rocked in recent years by booster-infected scandals, including rumors of alumni-paid prostitutes entertaining prospective athletes, the NCAA recently banned all alumni contact with high school athletes--unless all applicants are treated the same. In other words, an alumnus who recruits an athlete must also show a pattern of recruiting dozens of other students...
Harvard Director of Athletics John P. Reardon '60, a member of the NCAA Council, accepts the rationale of the new rule. "Anything that moves in the direction of treating all applicants the same way is okay," he says...