Reply to "Will Trickle-Down Recruiting Affect the Ivies?"

Smitty2810,000+ posts

@ABSORBER posted:
Student athletes at Ivy schools are not taking gap years. That’s like telling the coach you’ll just show up and play when you feel like it. How do you think the coach will handle that situation?
Of course it is conceivable that there will be a few cases in a given sport Ivy-wide but certainly not on a single team. But they would have to have a darn good reason.

The students at Ivy's are being told they can take a gap year, but they may not be welcome to return the following year. So a gap year could turn into a 2 year gap.

10/27/2011:40 PM

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