Recruiting in the Ivies Can Be Ugly

Chris Lincoln, author of Playing the Game, Inside Athletic Recruiting in the Ivy League, has an opinion piece in today's Harvard Crimson. It can be found here. The piece includes the following:

As one Ivy coach put it, “The irony is that the Ivy League, by trying to be ‘holier than thou,’ has made the athletic recruiting process uglier than in any other Division I conference in the country.”

Chris, who grew up in the Upper Valley and still lives here, will expand on that thought and others he expresses in the Crimson Op-Ed column in a Q&A that will appear on the Green Alert Blog within the next several days. Be sure to check back.

The Crimson also has this story on recruiting in today's edition. ...

Clifton Dawson, Harvard's nonpareil tailback, has been selected by the Toronto Argonauts in the CFL draft. But don't get too excited. The rising senior who has a chance to break Ed Marinaro's all-time Ivy League rushing record, will be back in a Harvard uniform this fall. ... According to the Columbia Spectator, teams for the Lions' spring game were determined by a "draft" with the Lion seniors serving as "general managers." An entertaining and fun concept, I think.