Question for Ivy teams

[UD77]

How do the schools justify not participating in the football playoffs but still send Basketball teams to the tournament? If your team makes it all the way it woulds seem that they will be away from school and classes for also most as long as they would if they made the finals in football.

[Ivytalk]

How do the schools justify not participating in the football playoffs but still send Basketball teams to the tournament? If your team makes it all the way it woulds seem that they will be away from school and classes for also most as long as they would if they made the finals in football.

The only remaining stated argument for Harvard is the "tradition" of ending its FB season with Yale. The unstated reason probably is that football probably loses money there and playoffs would increase the financial loss. Stupid any way you slice it.

And I'm getting to the point where I feel like this:

[UD77]

I had thought that they said that it took too much time away from the classes as the biggest reason. Which doesn't sound right when you look at the time commitment needed if your team does well in the NCAA BB tournament.

I am sure it gets old.

[Franks Tanks]

I had thought that they said that it took too much time away from the classes as the biggest reason. Which doesn't sound right when you look at the time commitment needed if your team does well in the NCAA BB tournament.

I am sure it gets old.

This has been discussed roughly 1 million times in Ivy circles. Every other Ivy sport plays in post season tournaments. There is no good reason to continue the Ivy football ban. Ivy football is treated differently than every other sport, and the Ivy brass has never articulated a logical reason why.

[danefan]

The FCS playoffs would benefit greatly by the inclusion of the Ivy's.

I wish the other leagues and the NCAA would realize this and try harder to persuade them to join.

The same goes for the SWAC, but the uphill battle is greater because of the money the Classics generate.

[IvyPatriot]

Forget basketball. How about the class time lost in ice hockey?

Brown men's ice hockey played its firs game on Oct. 26, just over a month after the start of football season. Tonight they play in the ECAC Championship game. It will be their seventh tournament game. That means they've been on the ice for 149 days. The football season lasts 70 days, or less than half of the hockey season.

Should the Bears go all the way they will play in the Frozen Four April 11-13. That's potentially a 170-day season, 100 days more than football.

The Ivy League can use a lot of excuses for not going to the football playoffs but lost class time isn't one of them.

Remember. Only one football team would go on. Harvard, Dartmouth, Brown, Cornell and Yale ALL played multiple playoff games. How about loss class time there?