---- "Stanford isn’t an ivy. Geez. Cmon. The thread was discussing the Ivy League schools". ----

Someone interjected by posting a link to an article about Dartmouth cutting 5 programs as proof that "The Ivy's do not invest in their athletes". It was pointed out that Stanford cut 11 programs and that Stanford has long been considered to have one of the very best athletic programs in the country. The reality is that the programs were cut for political reasons not financial reasons.
Stanford, as well as the Ivy's (although they are not all the same) have demonstrated for many years that the do invest and support their student athletes. The Ivy's(collectively) made a decision to limit how much they were going to compromise their academics in order to remain competitive with the "Big Time" Football Programs.