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Message: [QUOTE="DefenseBB, post: 3607653, member: 7492"] First off, if you knew anything about the sports themselves, you would understand that Dartmouth is the worst of the Ivy's in swimming. Their facilities are sorely outdated and it is impossible to recruit the best swimmers. Academically speaking, they do attract great students who are swimmers and fit in academically at Dartmouth, just not good enough to compete with Princeton, Penn, Harvard and Yale. This is solely about money not "flexibility". Dartmouth struggles mightily in many sports in the Ivy's and does not have the endowment to support their programs the way other schools in the Ivy's can. Now if you want to talk about academic flexibility, Dartmouth should eliminate football which definitely does not have the sharpest knives in the drawer) especially given they have 65 "slots" to award to students vs. 14 women's for swimming and 9 for men's. The Pink elephant or 800 pound gorilla in the room that no one wants to talk about is how football with it's 65 and 85 scholarship slots (yes, I know the Ivy's do not have athletic scholarships but all the other conferences do), and the 11 plus coaches on the football staff plus the 5, 6 or 10 Athletic Department members solely devoted to football and how this cost dwarf's all the other sports combined. Given the head trauma and lawsuits, I am shocked more schools have not made the most logical of calls on terminating the football programs...Given that for all but 3 FCS schools (Ivy's play in the FCS) lose money year in and year out. OF the FBS schools depending the accounting anywhere from 20-45 schools make money on football with only 20 funding their full athletic budgets with football and that's about to change in very harsh manner... [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-05/college-football-is-a-money-pit-and-one-school-has-had-enough[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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