Penndemonium
PhD Student
Posts: 1903
Reg: 11-29-04
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04-22-24 06:08 PM - Post#367703
In response to Go Green
I understand this train of thought. That said, how many years have had this many All-Ivy players planning to transfer at the same time? Do we think we'll retain more All-Ivy types next year? Do we think Ivy inbound transfers and recruits will raise the overall level? I've only seen Penn's transfer. He may help offset the loss of Perkins IF he is healthy. That said, I would rather not have lost Perkins b/c he was an original recruit, he is from DC, and I liked his game/potential. If Nova saw a lot in him, it seems he's a big loss for us.
I withhold judgment on what how NIL will impact the Ivies' willingness to fund D1 basketball and whether we can recruit the same caliber of players. I think we need to see more about what the inbound talent will look like. The financial delta with the power schools is massively different, but I don't know how the delta with mid-tier D1 schools will settle out.
IThere doesn't seem to be a ton of financial commitment from the Ivy schools or alumni to de-risk this situation completely - so this means that we will need to wait and see what happens.
The sports management degree would just need to be good enough to attract 2 players per class who are great players, want this type of specialized degree, know they aren't NBA talent, and would value the ivy degree and headstart in a sports career over scholarship and NIL. I could imagine being a coach and selling it - and making it work. They just need to do the legwork to get agreement from the academic programs and alumni at sports franchises ahead of time to pilot this. No other big financial changes or NIL money needed.
Ivy's are not going D3 anytime soon. I have a lot more optimism than most.
Of course, Chicken Littles have been predicting that the Ivies will go to Division III for various reasons for several decades now.
I certainly remember such comments on the old email listserv group.
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