Who will win the men's Ivy League Rowing title in 2007?

[spurly]

The ivy league usually dominates rowing.  Whoever wins the Ivy League Rowing title usually has an inside track at the NCAA rowing title.  So who is your choice to win the rowing title in 2007 in the Ivy League in the eight man category?

[Weeble]

What's that word ivy league?  Is it anything like the Justice League?  Boy they have sure gone down hill since the Wonder Twins had that accident.

[spurly]

It looks like Harvard is leading the vote so far, but there are so few voters.  Don't you follow college rowing?  Do you keep up with the recruiting wars in college rowing?  Or do you only follow olympic rowing?

[twd]

Outside of the Ivy League, most college rowing is of the count that rhymes with vowing, and happens with drunken fraternity members.

[boringoldguy]

twd,  that's not quite true.
There has been an outbreak of Women's College Rowing at major universities because of Title 9.
For example -  the University of Texas has a women's college rowing team.   
At schools with big and successful men's athletic programs,   any group of women can get together,   decide they want to compete in some NCAA sport, and demand that the university form a team, hire a coach and give them scholarships.    I know of a young woman who got a rowing scholarship at UT who had never even seen one of those little rowing shells before she got the scholarship.    Under the law as it's presently written,  until the university spends as much on women's sports as it does on men's sports,  it refuses requests of that nature only at the risk of litigation.     And it doesn't matter that the men's football and basketball programs generate all the revenue.

[marc]

I voted Cornell, because Ithaca has exactly six letters.

[twd]

Whom do they row against?  I would imagine they do a lot of traveling.

At the University of Arkansas, my MBA alma mater in the Ozarks, one would be hard-pressed to find a body of water sufficiently level for rowing.  There's Beaver Lake, but you'd get run over by a speed boat towing a water skiier there.

At Harding, my BA alma mater, I suppose one might find space somewhere on the White or the the Little Red rivers, since that's only "near the foothills of the Ozarks."  AFAIK, there are no rowing Bisons, though.

[boringoldguy]

Whom do they row against?  I would imagine they do a lot of traveling.

I have no idea.
I suppose they practice in Town Lake which is pretty close to the campus.

[spurly]

I think small sports like rowing get the shaft because the networks focus on college baseball, basketball & football.

[twd]

ESPN seems to be focusing on paintball and poker lately.

[James Rondon]

poker

Now there's a sport... 

[Bon Voyage]

Weeble,

I would rather hear about the Justice League.  I just got done with Batman:  TAS, some may call me childish for that one.