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Message: [QUOTE="freescooter, post: 4362202, member: 1023"] The other thing that this piece ignores is the impact of the Ivy League’s decision to de-emphasize football in the Fifties. In the Northeast they were the bell cow. And the Northeast public schools, UConn, UMass, Rhodesia Island, were Unwilling to buck that trend. Why would UConn play big time football when Yale was pulling back was a small p political problem and it was repeated throughout the region. That was also a time when the major state flagships were transitioning to significant academic institutions, so they wanted to be taken seriously on that score. BC and Holy Cross tried to play with the big boys in part because they resented being pushed around by the Ivies as much as anything else while the Yankee Conference schools preferred to copy the Ivies. [/QUOTE]