Size Matters
Penn's locker room must get pretty crowded (CREDIT: PennAthletics.net)
Just to follow up on the roster size issue, here's a look at the total number of players on each of the Ivy League rosters*:
Brown: 98
Columbia: 102
Cornell: 104
Dartmouth: 117
Harvard: 101
Penn: 125
Princeton: 113
Yale: 122
*(you have to take some of these numbers with a grain of salt, as there will be changes, some of them significant, by the end of training camp).
It's no surprise to see Penn with the most players, but it is surprising to see Harvard with the second smallest roster in the league. This could mean that some more players will walk-on to the team by training camp, but it could also be a by-product of what seems like a "get tough" policy by Head Coach Tim Murphy. Remember, this is a guy who wasted little time suspending his starting QB for half the season last year and booting a team captain off the team altogether.
Speaking of Harvard, the Crimson are the first team to make their 2007 media guide available online. Most of the other schools should have their media guides available in some form by next week at the Ivy coaches preseason newsconference and golf outing at Yale. I will be at the event and will report about it here.
Princeton's football homepage is now featuring co-captains John Stem and Brendan Circle doing a little commercial for ticket sales. They're certainly excellent players, but I don't think former Columbia footballers-turned-actors Brian Dennehy or Matthew Fox need to be worried about losing any screen jobs.
posted by Jake @ 1:03:00 AM
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The average roster is 110.25 players.
Interesting that four squads are closely grouped around 102 or so players. I didn't think there would be two squads smaller than Columbia.
It would also be instructive to know what roster size is like at the end of the season. This gives us a baseline in case anyone wants to do a comparison.
It's impressive that Penn keeps 125 players and Yale keeps 122. What does that say to the Jack haters? He can't be all that bad if he has the second highest retention rate in the league.
More than 120 players is a lot. I will be happy when Columbia has 110 at the end of a season.
Leonidas
Wait a second. How amny walk ons can Bags have? He can recruit 120 over a four year period. So what is going on here? I think that there are a number of "walk ons" at Penn and Cornell in name only. Otherwise, it just doesn't follow. As for size in another sense, Jake, let's hope that all that weight training pays off when we see the new roster.
The Cornell roster size is a shocker; Knowles has brought in several huge classes. He must have had significant attrition.
I'm not sure if this is the reason why, but of all the people I've met with Ivy degrees, the Cornell grads are the ones who complain the most about the academic pressures. I think grade inflation is less of a regular thing up there.
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