Cornell's Triple Crown Year

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

[quote KeithK]Was Ivy football already dead on the national scene when they created DI-AA?  Probably but I can't remember.  Being relegated to the lower division certainly guaranteed it.

The Ivies were never going to be designated Division 2.  Classifications are for all sports (aside form playing up in one).[/quote]

I was in school when the split was made.  There was never any discussion about going Div.2 that I was aware of.  Most of the discussion was around justifying the split, not about trying to relegate weaker schools.

It actually had something to do with football revenues.  A significant issue was the seating capacity of a school's football stadium.  Most of the Ivy league didn't have big enough stadia to satify the requirement, but in fact, Yale could have stayed D1-A, because the Yale Bowl is so huge, and so could have Penn, I think.  I think Schoellkopf was borderline, I don't remember for sure.

[ugarte]

People, Kyle was using "Division 2" as "not Division I," not making a specific reference to "Division II".

[Rosey]

[quote ugarte]People, Kyle was using "Division 2" as "not Division I," not making a specific reference to "Division II".[/quote]
That's right: the indignity of putting in writing the fact that the Ivy schools are no longer D1 caliber in football.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

Oh.

That's different.

Never mind.

[David Harding]

[quote grizzdan24]

Uhhh....wait a minute, I'm changing my criteria...when was the last time an Ivy School (men's) made the NCAAs in 4 sports in the same year? I say that because our wrestling team made it this year and did fairly well.

Let's not forget about Polo::wank::[/quote]Polo (the kind Cornell excels at, as opposed to water polo) is not an NCAA sport.  ::deadhorse::Like Ultimate Frisbee.