I was talking about football and the FCS playoffs though.
If an Ivy can be ranked in the FCS Top 20, and their champ often is, then I suspect that they are good enough to complete in the playoffs.
How long before some Wall Street Finance Bro decides he wants to buy a title and pays out $10s of millions to do so?
Ask the Yankees and Mets lol
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Ha, add the Dodgers too. The Dodgers are literally owned by PE Bros (and Magic Johnson, who at this point is pretty much a PE Bro too).
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I think Yale upset Auburn in the tournament last year.
The Miami Dolphins head coach Mike McDaniel played at Yale too.
There is one thing that I often wondered, so I looked into it recently.
The Ivy League, in theory, has no athletic scholarships.
So does Division 3.
But the Ivy League only has 8 football schools. D3 has 243.
The 8 Ivy League schools have nine players on NFL rosters last I checked. The 243 D3 schools collectively only have 6.
So obviously there’s a difference in the level of “non-scholarship” athletic talent at the Ivy League level and the D3 level.
@Cougardue’s nephew plays for Brown, and he definitely has at least FCS level athletic talent.
In my view, the Ivy champ, if undefeated, should be strongly considered for a I-FCS playoff berth. I suspect we will see an Ivy win a playoff game here and there.
Again, those football and men’s basketball players likely have “need based financial aid” that is nearly equivalent to an athletic scholarship at other schools.