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Further diminishing its possibilities for a postseason run is the fact that the Crimson have only won two games so far against teams with a winning record, though one of these wins came against Central Conn.—the No. 3 team in New England...
...years ago, the Ivy Council of Presidents determined that in order for our football teams to remain competitive, the Ivy League would have to re-institute spring practices. Now, it’s time to end the ban on postseason participation...
According to an article that ran in the Daily Pennsylvanian on September 18th, Penn President Judith Rodin claimed that a football postseason would conflict with finals. She’s partially right. If the Ivy champion advances to the semifinals of the I-AA playoffs, that team will be playing football during the exam period for schools with pre-Christmas finals. But, as the article cites, the same situation exists for the NCAA women’s volleyball tournament, and the Ivy Council of Presidents has no problem sending the league champion off to compete in that playoff bracket...
...behavior, I recall an article from the Cornell Daily Sun that ran nearly 18 months ago. According to the article, Princeton football coach Roger Hughes had an interview with outgoing Princeton President Harold T. Shapiro. In that interview, Shapiro told Hughes that there was no logical reason for the postseason ban and that the presidents just didn’t want Ivy League teams participating. It seems the presidents gave the Ivy playoff decision about as much thought as whether to have steak, pheasant or duck for lunch...
...hell would break loose. There would always be an asterisk by that year’s title, as everyone would be left to wonder if the Ivy powerhouse could have beaten the eventual champion. The other I-AA institutions would loudly criticize the Ivy League’s postseason ban as out-of-date and elitist. The NCAA would have a mess on its hands. But our eight fearless leaders would be happy, because they kept our coaches and players at home where they could be easily accessible to reporters asking how it feels not to compete, instead of actually...