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Wednesday, February 22, 2006
Blame the Patriots
According to Dick Jerardi, the outstanding basketball writer for the Philadelphia Daily News, argues that the Patriot League's scholarships have hurt the caliber of play in the Ivy League and discusses the Lafayette situation in his latest column.

As Jerardi's example of Bucknell freshman Jason Vegotsky, who was also recruited by Penn, illustrates, scholarships are helping the Patriot League teams win some recruiting battles.

Of course, the results on the court have not exactly shown that the Patriot League is gaining any huge edge on the Ivies so far.

As long as the Patriot League teams are using the scholarships to lure kids that otherwise would have gone Ivy, the league is not going to improve significantly. They need to start picking up the kids who are looking at places like Vanderbilt, Northwestern and Tulane-- lower level majors with similar academic profiles-- before the Patriot League will gain some separation from the Ivies.
Published at 9:27 AM by Hoop Time.
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