My last message, continued.... And here are some disadvantages the Ivy schools have (vis-a-vis large state universities) at developing a large and/or winning QB program : 1. A generally much smaller student body than the big state universities, and even some smaller ones. 2. A greater percentage of the student body from the Boston-New York-Philadelphia corridor, which has little organized high school QB. 3. On average, more social alternatives in cities with Ivy League schools than can be found in state college towns like Urbana, Ann Arbor, and Gainesville. (Obviosuly not applicable to Dartmouth, Cornell, or to some extent Princeton.) Things I worried about running GW's team that were never an issue at Dartmouth : 1. Finding enough teammates to fill out at least one team, since students have other options. 2. Finding a car, since I don't own one in DC and most others don't either. 3. Figuring out which of two tournaments to go to on some weekend. 4. Trying to stave off tournament hosting fatigue. 5. Maryland and Virginia (and sometimes JHU) getting all the local talent. Things I worried about running Dartmouth's team that were not issues at GW : 1. Finding enough tournaments to go to without having to take four days off. 2. Raising money to pay for entry fees (GW runs more tournaments than anyone outside of Michigan not named "Steinhice.") 3. Begging the administration to please give us more money (GW has almost no administrative support, but doesn't need very much, either) 4. Pushing the B or C team to get their packet done already. 5. Some supergrad landing at Harvard, MIT, or BU. 6. Travel disasters caused in large part by either snow or having to drive through large tracts of middle-of-nowhere to go to literally every tournament. 7. That blasted D-Plan that made planning for early tournaments problematic.
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