<p>Ivy_Grad: Calm. The. F. Down.</p>
<p>Maybe they should add DeVry?</p>
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<p>Hey nshtynash,</p>
<p>Go F. yourself. Two can play that game.</p>
<p>That still perplexes me as it seemed that Holy Cross was a much better fit. It’s surprising that the ECAC would be so concerned about the tiny rinks and TV contracts since Colgate, St. Lawrence, Clarkson & Princeton play in such small venues with the first three not exactly located in places where they’re attracting a lot of media coverage. Especially concern with luxury boxes in the rink. This shouldn’t be analogous to Steinbrenner’s desire to get a new Yankee Stadium. I guess one concern the ECAC has, that is different than the Ivy League, is trying to be as respected athletically as possible for gaining at large bids to the NCAA tourney, since in hockey these schools actually do compete at the highest national level. The strange thing here is for this criteria I would have thought Holy Cross a better fit too, aside from all the historical reasons.</p>
<p>never even heard of Quinnipiac until today…</p>
<p>Yeah, I had only heard of it because its name is attached to a lot of national polling, but certainly didn’t know it played hockey or whether it would be playing Wesleyan or Yale.</p>
<p>Stanford and MIT…</p>
<p>what are you guys basing this on? academics or all around stats of the school??</p>
<p>Navy, Army, and Lehigh used to compete in the same conference as the Ivies called the heptogonals until Navy, Army, Lehigh, Bucknell, Holy Cross, and a few other schools formed the Patriot League. The schools in the Patriot League could probably be the next Ivies.</p>
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First, agreed about the Patriot league … while the Patriot league does allow scholarships for soem sports their approach to sports is very similar to the IVY league schools … and they are geographically close … the schools in the two league cross schedule in many sports.</p>
<p>FYI - The Heptagonals are a group of schools the compete in cross country, indoor track, and outdoor track (I’m not sure about other sports). The Ivy league schools were still in the IVY league while competing in the HEPs championships for these particular sports … along with schools form other conferences including a bunch of the Patriot league schools. I beleive the HEPs are still held. (This is similar to the IVY league schools that have varsity hockey programs competing in the ECACs).</p>
<p>Reasons why schools listed would not work:</p>
<p>Amherst: It’s a liberal arts COLLEGE. There isn’t a university. That’s not Ivy.</p>
<p>Williams: ditto</p>
<p>Stanford/Duke: Sports are too good.</p>
<p>UVA: Public</p>
<p>Georgetown: Not prestigious enough/Catholic</p>
<p>MIT: OH MY GOD ya’ll must really know nothing about Ivies lol. It is in the Ivy pledge that the focus of education should be on the liberal arts, and that no school should ever encourage internships…EVER. </p>
<p>The only school that would really fit is U Chicago. Washington St. Louis fits on paper, but it really doesn’t have any national weight, and the faculty isn’t an Ivy faculty (Chicago has 30 something laureates.)</p>
<p>Kick Cornell out; get Chicago in.</p>
<p>HC and Colgate-as mentioned they have played the Ivies in most sports for over 100 years.</p>
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I can’t agree more. UChic!!!</p>
<p>I would say Duke and U Chicago</p>
<p>Duke’s sport is too good to be in Ivy League</p>
<p>Well, if it’s sports did fit into Ivy League…mediocrity. There should be more Southern Ivy Leagues…</p>
<p>Emory, southern from Georgia, and Emory again, because it rox my socks that much</p>
<p>UChicago doesn’t really fit the model. It was founded even more recently than Cornell, is located ~ 1000 miles away from the epicenter of the Ivy League, and dropped big time football even before the Ivys did right after having a player win the first Heisman Trophy and now barely plays D-III.</p>
<p>Washington University in St. Louis definitely has that Ivy feel. So my vote goes to WashU/WUSTL.</p>
<p>Other top vote goes to Duke. MIT is GREAT in science and tech, but the campus architecture makes it seem no more than a technical school.</p>
<p>I know Cornell is big in size, which gives you some public school feeling, doesn’t it?</p>
<p>Ivy is just a sports conference, a very WEEK sports conference.</p>
<p>UChicago used to be in Big Ten which is a very STRONG sports conference.</p>
<p>MIT and Duke, keep it in the east coast!!! :)</p>