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02-18-05 09:09 AM - Post#4455
In response to dperry
David - this is pretty arrogant and, as such, typically Ivy. If you ever find yourself in a room with 33 graduates of other non Ivies and they all have one opinion and you hold another, stop and consider that you just might be out of the mainstream and it's likely that you are the one that isn't thinking correctly. We are out of the D1 mainstream. We don't have to compete in D1, but most of us want to stay here. We ought to revisit anything we do singularly when 300+ other teams, representing all different types of schools, have made a different decision
As for all that stuff trying to distinguish all the other sports on technical grounds, understand we could choose to decide the Ivy swim title based on round robin only. We choose not to. Instead we hold a 4 day multi school swim meet to make that determination. Wrestling doesn't have to participate in EIWAs. We don't need the Heps. All these titles could be decided through regular season events. We choose to organize these sports with year end multi school championships to pick our winner. These are great events. They truly are celebrations of Ivy sport.
If you believe Orleans (I know that's difficult sometimes) we don't do a bb tourney because of time commitment and scheduling issues. He doesn't raise any of the issues you do. But - time commitment and scheduling all seem like solvable problems, especially when you see how we stretch seasons for spring sports.
Heck - let's eliminate participation in lacrosse and baseball championships. They don't work very well with our school calendar. Afterall - we don't do football, supposedly for the same reason. There is precedent. Definitely kill the Yale-Harvard crew race. That takes place so many weeks after the end of school.
None of these are reasons not to have a bb tournament.
OK -we know I'm for it and you're against it. Let's let all the player's in the league, the coaches and ADs go on the record. We should keep the President's out of it. Collectively they represent the lowest common denominator and always will.
The league is broken. BB results over the past 40 years are a testament to that. Sure - the issue is a complex one to fully address. However - status quo arguments from a handful of Ant Hill King Fans shouldn't carry much weight. The tournament is an idea worth testing if the schools want it. And- there are 8 schools in the league - not two.
Lastly - a tournament clearly increases the value of each regular season game. It's no different than battling to get into the hockey playoffs or trying to be the wildcard team in baseball or football. Hey - the Red Sox won this year. That's great for baseball. But my team, the Yankees, won the regular season. I can handle it. They're the champs. It's about more than money. It's about keeping millions more fans involved.
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