Ivy Athletics: Can they be relevant again in the major sports?

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@k&s

Not close to Duke - hah!</p>

<p>Funny how the NRC places NU ahead of Duke w/ regard to avg. ranking when factoring in all the academic areas where the 2 schools are ranked.</p>

<p>Not to mention that NU has the higher avg SAT/ACT scores for the middle 50%.</p>

<p>As for Duke sports - they managed tp attain their success in BB by pretty much doing away w/ academic standards for recruits.</p>

<p>During the 1990s - the avg. SAT score for Duke players was in the mid-900s placing them in the middle of the ACC.</p>

<p>Due to the miserable win count by the FB program, Duke lowered the standards for the FB team AGAIN - where now one-THIRD of recruits only have to meet minimum NCAA standard.

No, Duke has the higher average SAT/ACT scores for the middle 50%. Northwestern doesn’t publish these stats readily so they are clearly hiding something.</p>

<p>Duke has perhaps the most well-respected and cleanest basketball program in the NCAA. Of course the bball players have low SAT scores; they are athletes FIRST and students SECOND. Duke gets the best basketball players in the nation and all of them want to go to the NBA so academic considerations are secondary. Despite this, Duke makes sure the bball players meet high academic standards. We can’t even go after some recruits because they don’t meet the academic standards here.</p>

<p>Regarding the football team, they are still meeting the minimum NCAA standards right? So whats the problem? Duke isn’t an Ivy League school; we play sports to win, something Northwestern has been failing at of late.</p>

<p>Duke is superior to Northwestern in every way, even if only slightly. I understand your inferiority complex k&s.</p>