I had an NDSU hat on in the airport once and some dude sat down next to me and started talking about agriculture research and land grants and all this stuff. I ask where he went to school and he says "the NY land grant, Cornell!"
my old man was an ag science grad himself lol
Dante Carr, from Minersville, loved his visit there this past year too. He's always been a big PSU fan (yuck), but they've been slow playing him. Seems now, PSU are getting more serious about him so he is looking that way again.
I imagine Columbia is much safer than around Temple. Literally step off the campus and there are homeless, people in drugged out stupors, and a metric FUCK TON of crime in North Philly.
yeah i have steered him away from even visiting there....he doesn't want to live in a big city and i am fully on board with this because that would be the last place despite being IVY, not getting involved w/ that mess there
that kid has been an enigma...dude was the prototype DIV1 qb and heard about him as a freshman...and its like he never took off...we played him in basketball, great athlete
columbia is right in manhattan in the concrete jungle with a lot of political protests and when he was as temple, they told him basically it isn't safe off campus....but he didn't like the style of coaching...he said they were just demeaning and yelling....when at JMU especially but others too, they yelled but they also then showed the player again and again what they were doing wrong......
Dante is a fantastic athlete and a great kid too. Super nice after games and whatnot.
he can throw a beautiful deep ball....
Just ate at Enzo’s on Arthur Ave a couple of weeks ago Never paid attention how close fordham is.
yeah the urban campuses are a different experience. I have NYU down by my work and it’s just not the same as a college town.
My son is going through the process right now. Davidson offered him last week and he’s had Dartmouth, Austin Peay, and a few others stop by the school. Coach from Austin Peay called me today. He gets hit up a bunch on X. He’s probably going to end up at a FCS level school.
My cousin ran track at Columbia. Ivies do academic/need-based aid, or at least they did when she was in school 10 years ago. I believe she paid about $10k/year.
I can’t give you any definitives, but I believe the aid package they offer covers the vast majority of the cost of attending. I’m sorry I don’t have any more info. I do know that an Ivy League degree is like winning the lottery. Dartmouth, I believe, rejects 97% of applicants.
Yeah, I’d like to see him go somewhere that he wouldn’t have a chance to go without football. I like what I’ve seen about Davidson. Smaller school, good academics. Think it would be a good fit. Excited to go check it out.
You should ask Steph Curry about Davidson.
Harvard and a few other ivy's are NOW offering zero tuition if the parents make a combined less than 200k....however when the coaches are talking with my kid, i get very little from him about them as he isn't interested in them so now that a few schools in the acc, sunbelt etc are recruiting him and talking NIL payments, he wants only to play major div 1 football so i never got into the details w/ the ivy....but they keep showing up to his school, calling him etc....best of luck to your kid , it's awesome experience
Gotcha. We're going to make a trip up to the NE and hit Columbia and Princeton (as of now), though Dartmouth seems the most interested. He has no interest at this time in going that far away but we plan on exposing him to as many options as possible. I saw Navy was following him and he said they've been in contact. One of their selling points was "playing Notre Dame every year". Kinda funny.
Have him ask Navy for their advance scouting report on ND
I absolutely agree. Based on what his options end up being, this could be a challenging time for me as a dad. It's easy when they're young and I could fall back on "you're not old enough to make that decision". He'll be 18 when he goes off to school and I want him to go where he feels most comfortable. I'm just not sure how persuasive I'll be when it's ultimately decision time. I'm just excited for another year of high school football to be here.