Andre Hollins NOT Going to Stanford

[cornellfan]

Yes, I likely could be wrong.

The Ivy League academic scholarship program for basketball bothers me a little. Harvard has 16 players on their roster (see link), none of who are seniors. They have six commits already for this year. Looks like they will be telling six (seven if Andre goes there) of the current players that they will not be playing basketball their junior or senior years. I realize it is a great education, but, seems like a lousy way to get around limits on recruiting and over signing. Note, Penn cut the last two members of their sophmore class from their team. Seems almost like the pros, many players will wonder every year if they will be cut.

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/teams/had/roster

Congrats on getting Hollins, the rest of the teams in our league just breathed a sigh of relief that Harvard did not get him. Most of the teams in the Ivy league have rosters around 17-20+ but very few teams cut guys. This year Dartmouth and Penn cut a few mainly due to a coaching change. Under Amaker, Harvard however, has a tradition of cutting guys, they have had 14 guys over the last 3 years cut/leave the program. The main reason is because Harvard will bring in 1 or 2 guys a year to boost the overall avg grades of their incoming basketball class and then cut those 1 or 2 extra guys once they reach sophomore year. Harvard is currently gaming the system and exploiting their much larger endowment than any other school in our league. The Ivy league scholarship situation is completely broken. At this point the league needs to just allow the schools to offer athletic scholarships for basketball like every other conference so that every school in our league has equal recruiting opportunities

 

[Gopher in Texas]

Congrats on getting Hollins, the rest of the teams in our league just breathed a sigh of relief that Harvard did not get him. Most of the teams in the Ivy league have rosters around 17-20+ but very few teams cut guys. This year Dartmouth and Penn cut a few mainly due to a coaching change. Under Amaker, Harvard however, has a tradition of cutting guys, they have had 14 guys over the last 3 years cut/leave the program. The main reason is because Harvard will bring in 1 or 2 guys a year to boost the overall avg grades of their incoming basketball class and then cut those 1 or 2 extra guys once they reach sophomore year. Harvard is currently gaming the system and exploiting their much larger endowment than any other school in our league. The Ivy league scholarship situation is completely broken. At this point the league needs to just allow the schools to offer athletic scholarships for basketball like every other conference so that every school in our league has equal recruiting opportunities

Thanks for setting the record straight.

Congratulations on great tourney run last year - Cornell's dismantling of Wisconsin made me feel better about Minnesota's loss to Xavier.

See you on Dec. 4 - assuming Cornell is rebuilding this year (last years team would have been a tough opponent).

 

[cornellfan]

Thanks, yeah we are rebuilding, new coach, lost 4 out of 5 starters and 80% of our scoring so at this point we are a complete unknown, non conf will probably be rough as coach adjusts the lineups and guys step into starting roles but with 1 returning starter, 3 solid transfers, and 2 other returning meaningful contributors from last year I would not be surprised if we win our league again this year and get back into the NCAA tournament

Good luck on your season except Dec 4