My first thought on seeing some of the ACT scores of recruits was “damn, if I’d been better at sports I could have been an Ivy League (I’m glad I wasn’t though).”

13% acceptance rate with over 64,000 applicants. It’s difficult to get in there. 

I’m just explaining how coaches like tennis and track/XC can get scammed by these “scouting services.” 

in defense of Screamin’ A Smith, Tress Way would have likely been a better alternative at QB than Mark Sanchez, Colt McCoy and Josh Johnson.

the dude got what was coming to him, but how does a ban really get enforced at an arena that seats 18,000 people 41 times a year plus at other events at the I Don’t Know What The Hell It’s Called Anymore Center? Is there facial recognition like casinos have? Certainly he can buy tickets though a resale site. I’m…

No lie, the Ivy I was at recruited a high level athlete with a 980 - she went to another Ivy. Highest ranked recruit in Ivy history, but still, 980!

As much as I want to kneel I go to games of my employer so I just stay out in the concourse or in my office until the anthem is done. The first game after Trump was elected, my wife, an “anchor baby” started crying during the anthem but didn’t feel like she could walk out or sit down in front of my coworkers, so we…

when I lived in Wisconsin I’d go during Packers games. An absolute Ghost town.

I played tennis too. However, on the international level if you get a scouting agency to create a fake profile the coach probably won’t know, especially at a small school desperate for players.  One school I worked at got burned on a fencing recruit whose profile was padded. 

sports like tennis, track/cross country and rowing are easy to fake out coaches as coaches don’t have money to go out and recruit and instead they rely on rankings and profiles they get from scouting services in recruiting. 

yeah, it works more on American kids but you’d be surprised how Harvard and Yale’s name impacts recruiting internationally. My school was a finalist for a high level hoops player from England. She was going to have to pay part of her tuition at each school. She wanted to come to our school but dad said that if he was…

Even though they play in a different conference they still have to follow the rules all other Ivy schools do when it comes to aid only being awarded based on need. The Ivy has another set of rules on top of NCAA rules that the schools have to follow. 

I worked in Ivy League athletics (wouldn’t go back). We had to certify every year that the only aid provided was based upon need as determined by the FAFSA and school policies. For example, if your FAFSA showed an income of under $65,000 you went to school for free and aid was lowered incrementally after that. My…

this isn’t about scholarships, it’s about admission. Athletes are given preferential admission at all schools.  A kid at Yale needs a 1500 SAT but an athletic admit could only need a 1000. That’s what this is about. Penn’s coach took money to have a kid categorized as an athletic admit who was never going to be on the…

they don’t get “free rides.” In the Ivy’s they don’t get scholarships at all. At schools that do give scholarships, most in Tennis and Soccer, if they do get athletic scholarships, aren’t getting full scholarships due to the equivalency limits. This is about preferential treatment in admission.

Yep, roommates all through college too. I worked for a guy who lived on the same dorm floor as a freshman, he said those two were always breaking down film, talking strategy, everyone knew they’d become coaches.

I think everyone from MI that went to MU got the same reactions from people. “Oh, it’s cold up there.” Our old hoops coach, Kevin O’Neill, said he’d get that from recruit parents. 

As a Marquette grad from MI I got so fucking sick and tired of telling people “no, that’s Northern Michigan, we’re in Milwaukee” when I was in HS and I had decided on MU and then would go back to MI in the summer and they would reply “oh wow, it’s cold up there.”

I used to do volunteer work in the UP, we slept in the basement of a church in Au Train. When one of the guys on our trip got injured (fell off the roof of the house we were building) he had to be driven to Marquette as that was the closest hospital.