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Originally posted by XOMichelle
There are schools that are not in the Ivy League that are more selective than those schools in it, and they have better athletic departments. :-)
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The whole point of the Ivy League's creation as an athletic conference (1954) was to promote amateurism in athletics--not the super professional stuff that we see in the rest of Division I. They wanted to separate Harvard, Yale, Brown, etc. from the emphasis on sports which was beginning to plague the other schools they played against (USC, Notre Dame, etc). Actually, the only place where the Ivy schools are in I-AA is in football--there is no post-season play allowed in Ivy football. So, yeah...the athletic departments of a large state school may be superior, but there are benefits of going to a school of a certain academic caliber that cannot be denied. I personally loved going to a school where academics were the top priority, and not winning the SEC championships.