<p>^ I agree with some of your post and I’m an athlete myself but I can also understand why people are against recruited athletes at Ivy’s. The priority of these schools is obviously academic excellence and this is evidenced by the higher academic standards that Ivy recruits are held to in comparison to recruited athletes at other schools. As a result, the athletes recruited by Ivy’s aren’t particularly impressive in their given sport and are almost always weaker in terms of academics than other students at the school. I’ve seen many people argue that Ivy League schools should either attempt to draw the highest talent in athletics or not recruit at all, and that the current situation results in student-athletes that do not excel in athletics or academics. Of course these are generalizations as the athletes in certain sports at Ivy’s are certainly of the highest quality, but the sweeping message is very true for several sports.</p>