<p>The kids I know at Yale now, or recently (a couple just graduated), were not anyone’s idea of “stealth competitors”. They were not at all cutthroat, but no one ever accused them of hiding their light under a bushel. </p>
<p>As for football players, my college had a lot of them, including two future bona fide NFL stars, and they had pretty normal lives in the off-season. I saw one (not an NFLer) this summer at a non-Yale event. He was never a close friend at all, but it’s clear that we both went to the same college.</p>