<p>Does NYU even field a football team?</p>
<p>Haha, it was a joke :D</p>
<p>I’m glad to see someone’s paying attention ;)</p>
<p>OK, biztogo now I remember. When I posted that I was more trying to give a relative comparison that top consulting firms recruit at a fair bit fewer schools rather than making a hard and fast which school is #15 and which is #16 type of comment. In general, I would think all eight Ivys, Williams, Amherst, MIT, Stanford, Duke would have McKinsey, Bain, Booz, BCG, etc recruit there.</p>
<p>Don’t forget Chicago, Michigan and Northwestern Gellino. McKinsey, Booz Allen, BCG and Bain recruit very heavily at those three Midwestern elites.</p>
<p>I heard Johns Hopkins turned down the offer to be an Ivy League 3 times - they didn’t want their students to be too competitive in sports. ie. Division I</p>
<p>While JHU is a great academic school, that has got to be an urban legend and would enjoy seeing any evidence. Especially, considering that in the 50 years prior to the formation of the Ivy League, JHU played the eight Ivys a grand total of 9 times in comparison to Colgate (110) and Holy Cross (90).</p>
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<p>Georgetown and MIT</p>
<p>“I still think it is only innevitable for Notre Dame to join the Big 10.”</p>
<p>I disagree. You were right when you said they take pride in thier Independent status. Part of that comes from the fact that as an independent they don’t have to particpate in profit sharing the way the Big ten or even the SEC do. And since they have no set conference they can pick thier own oppenents based on what other teams are hot that season. That way all their games can be big ticket, big money/ crowd drawing games. And since the Big 10 alread has 11 teams I doubt ND’ll join.</p>
<p>Re Notre Dame joining a conference, see my wacky thread on the U of NC-Chapel Hill board: “Is the ACC the new Ivy League?”</p>
<p>Hansel, you are pointing out excuses, not facts. Michigan sells tickets at higher prices than Notre Dame and is always sold out for every game. You don’t need to be an Indipendent to have an excellent schedule. As for sharing Bowl money, Michigan and OSU have made more Bowl money in recent years than Notre Dame. </p>
<p>At any rate, the reason I think Notre Dame will eventually join the Big 10 is because the BCS will soon change its rules to only include teams that belong to a conference.</p>
<p>Well, I’ve now read this entire thread. Apparantly no one thinks it would be funny to watch NBA level athletes like Roy Hibbert and Jeff Green play against Yale.</p>
<p>Notre Dame had such and easy schedule last year, it was ridiculous. Only 2 or 3 of the teams they beat had winning records. And they lost to a sub-par 5-6 MSU squad.</p>
<p>“… that has got to be an urban legend and would enjoy seeing any evidence”</p>
<p>I read it off from a JHU athletics guidebook.</p>
<p>My brother was an athlete at JHU and I never heard him claim anything like that.</p>
<p>The GreatNorthern League</p>
<p>University of Wisconsin, Madison
Univesity of Michigan, Ann Arbor</p>
<p>The Great Palm League</p>
<p>Stanford
UCLA
UCSanFran
Rice
CalTech</p>
<p>The MidWest League</p>
<p>UChicago
NorthwesternU
Case Western
University of Iowa
Washington University, St. Louise</p>
<p>The Great League of The South</p>
<p>Johns Hopkins University
Duke University
College of William and Mary
University of Virginia
University of North Carolina at CH
Emory University</p>
<p>The WeHaveNoSchoolSpirit League</p>
<p>NYU</p>
<p>what do you guys thinks of my new leagues, may these leagues become</p>
<p>i’d say Vanderbilt would belong in the Great League of the South :)</p>
<p>but for original topic, Duke and Stanford</p>
<p>Actually there really is a WeHaveNoSchoolSpirit League called the University Athletic Association (UAA)…members include NYU, Rochester, Emory, WashU, Chicago, Carnegie Mellon, Case Western, and Brandeis. I’m not making this up. Really.</p>
<p>as a correction to a previous poster- Boston College was actually founded in 1863</p>
<p>i played bball in the UAA and i would say Wash U def has school spirit. NYU has none but thats another story. Furthermore anyone arguing for NYU should know that NYU is only DIII now bc they got caught in the 70s when they were DI in sports for paying their players. If we stayed Northeast or anywhere actually you would add Amherst College. If you expanded anywhere else it would Stanford, Duke, and the Claremont Colleges. I visited literally over 100 schools because of recruiment and those were the ones that impressed me the most, are the hardest to get into, and just seemed like awesome places to go to school.</p>
<p>Stanford and MIT (if you ignore its athletics or lack thereof)</p>