2019Dad posted:Branson Baseball posted:The OP asked about high academic D1 and cuts. This may be implied in other responses, but in our experience, coaches "cut" in their own ways.
High academic schools tend not to over recruit. At least I haven't seen it. So there's not 50 guys battling for Spring roster spots each Fall.
But coaches will make it very clear if they don't want a guy around. The number of these "cuts" were pretty small, but it was happening most years.
Just to back up the bolded point, Harvard's Fall 2018 roster is online and lists 26 players.
That's because they haven't added their freshmen yet, but the point remains. In general Ivies don't seem to typically over-recruit as a regular strategy like a lot of other conferences. There are occasionally juco or other transfers, but the recruiting classes tend to be more along the lines of 8 to 10 players as opposed to other conferences where you will often see numbers well into the teens.