Comments on: 2008 Ivy League Preview

By: Brian Foley

Brian Foley — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 20:04:00 +0000

I will be up there if they host next weekend

By: Nitlion

Nitlion — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:09:47 +0000

Well, It’s not early any more. Dartmouth wins the Rolfe Division of the Ivy League.

These kids deserve more credit than you gave them in your pre-season write-up.

By: Brian Foley

Brian Foley — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:01:10 +0000

Very early….Lets see if they can continue it.

By: Nitlion

Nitlion — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:45:54 +0000

Don’t look now, but Dartmouth is 4-0 in the Ivy League. They’ve won 7 in a row, and have been scoring a ton of runs. They have some freshmen pitchers who are eating up innings. It’s early, but……

By: CC93

CC93 — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:36:39 +0000

You really have to give all the athletes in the Ivies credit. When I would talk with other players from non ivy teams before a game they seemed to always ask about our academic life to compare it with their own. I remember as an athlete just to get a 2.75 GPA I was pulling two all nighters a week during the season. When we would be playing athletic oriented schools, a common reply was “man, that’s really hard. I barely go to class and give minimal effort and I get B’s”. The athletes get granted the degree in the end, but there really is no slack for the ivy athletes when it comes to the classroom. For me personally all that hard work and lack of sleep made my 9-5 schedule now feel like gold so it was a worthwhile endeavor.

By: Brian Foley

Brian Foley — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 02:42:41 +0000

I attended the Ivy League Championship last year down at Brown and a fight almost broke out between the teams in the second game as Penn hit like 4-5 players in two innings without a warning issued. I attended this game with my brother who was questioning why a warning was not issued and a bunch of Penn family members were like he is not trying to him them on purpose…That was not the point…Just look suspicious when you are losing by 10 plus runs and you are hitting a ton of batters.

If you have a chance, Ivy League baseball facilities in general are nice and quaint but it is not life and death like it is in the ACC/SEC/ Big 12 level. The fans go to the games to see there friends play and just enjoy some college baseball.

Harvard has an indoor practice facility that they can play FULL-field scrimmages on so they are playing games in the middle of January at Harvard Stadium.

By: djbfootball

djbfootball — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 00:57:11 +0000

NY,

This has always confused me about this argument about the North School and the South Schools. The Maine Bears were in the CWS 7 times between ‘64 and ‘86. What did it get colder all of sudden.

I think when you have a program like the Ivy League I think it is more along the lines of the higher academic standards across all the schools.

Where you have a school like Rice Owls and they can compete against anybody because of the fact that they played in a conference that does not have the same type of Academias.

By: NYDORE

NYDORE — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 00:22:23 +0000

Do you guys agree that the only thing holding the Ivy’s back when it comes to baseball is weather? It seems that they’d be able to offer a lot to college bound baseball players if only for a bit more global warming.

By: djbfootball

djbfootball — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 00:01:31 +0000

Brian,

They were scrappy and hard nose BALL Players. They were playing for the Love of The Game.

By: Brian Foley

Brian Foley — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 23:53:41 +0000

Be honest…Were you impressed with Brown? They were not an easy out for Wake or Texas.