<p>"Tom Williams resigned as Yale's football coach Wednesday amid a university investigation into whether he lied on his r</p>
<p>It’s a tough world when you lose your job because you falsely claimed that you applied for honors and didn’t get them.</p>
<p>I wonder if getting rid of him for this reason saves Yale money vs. firing him because he couldn’t beat Harvard.</p>
<p>I wonder if they’re going to bother hiring a replacement</p>
<p>I believe Williams resigning is actually a win for Yale. Williams wasn’t a bad coach, but I didn’t couldn’t see him making Yale competitive for an Ivy League championship. His record against Yale isn’t very good as well. I wish him best of luck in the future, and he should find a job somewhere easily.</p>
<p>This should be posted on all the threads in which students want to know if it will hurt them to lie on their applications. Williams lost his job over lies that probably didn’t even help him get the job.</p>
<p>Honestly, Grizzman, I doubt a new coach will be able to do much. President Levin is throwing in the towel on the Yale athletic programs.</p>
<p>My bad for the typos, and I meant Williams record against <em>Harvard</em> isn’t very good. I’m getting careless haha.</p>
<p>@danstearns, I’ve been hearing those same rumors about Levin de-emphasizing athletics at Yale. I wouldn’t be surprised if he gets baclash from some of the alumni if this is true. Is there an article that proves this is true?</p>
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<p>LOL wow. Yale should have fired him for some other reason. I know lying on your resume is bad, but firing someone because he lied about being a Rhodes Scholarship finalist is very much an Ivy League world problem. I don’t really think that kind of lying says anything about Williams’s ability to coach a football team. But that’s just me.</p>
<p>A part of me wants to applaud President Levin for trying to get Yale more academically focused, but I believe Levin is going about it in the wrong way by targeting athletics. I believe the mark of a world-class university is one that strives for excellence in all things. Yale is already a world-class university, but Levin wants Yale’s academic profile to rise even more at the expense of athletics. Reducing the number of recruited athletes is not as beneficial as it may appear. Athletics play a big part in campus life, and most alumni love to see their athletic teams reach success. I will be interested to see the state of Yale athletics in a few years.</p>
<p>I agree with you, Grizz. Unless there is a big alumni backlash - Yale athletics is well on it’s way to being the perennial doormat in every sport in the Ivy League.
There are those who don’t see the value of athletic competition (just as some don’t see the value of art, music or any other non-academic pursuit) - but if Levin doesn’t want to provide the coaches and teams with the tools they need to succeed, he should look into leaving the Ivy athletic conference and aligning Yale with schools of a similar mindset. The great D III schools of the NESCAC come to mind.</p>
<p>I don’t think there will be much alumni backlash unless football recruiting is curtailed. I very much doubt that many alumni follow any Yale sports other than football, unless maybe they played that sport themselves.</p>
<p>I don’t know, Hunt, I guess the repercussions remain to be seen. But I believe approximately 12-15% of Yale alums competed in a non-football varsity sport while at Yale (in the pre-Levin era). In the book, “Reclaiming The Game”, there is some research quoted that college athletes are typically are more financially successful than their non-athlete peers and give back financially to their alma maters at much higher rates… so I guess we’ll see</p>
<p>What I don’t know is to what extent people who played some of the less-spotlighted sports at Yale keep up with how the team is doing–i.e., whether there are “boosters” for those other sports. There may be–an alumnus just gave a chunk of money to the marching band.</p>
<p>As far as I know, Yale and all the other Ivies have the same number of football recruits. Success comes to those teams which most zealously scour the country for academically qualified athletes.</p>
<p>Cotton, that’s the gist of the above referenced article. Under President Levin, Yale is now recruiting about 25% fewer athletes than they did a few years ago and trying to make up the difference with walk-ons. It’s unclear whether this reduction is across the board or if football has been spared. Having seen “The Game” - I get the impression football is being similarly hamstrung.</p>
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I think that’s highly unlikely. The articles I’ve read have all featured other sports.</p>
<p>“Yale athletics is well on it’s [sic] way to being the perennial doormat in every sport in the Ivy League.” </p>
<p>Um, not quite. In fact, last season Yale’s hockey team was ranked first in the nation - yes, the nation - and several of its teams (crew, sailing, field hockey, volleyball, XC) do quite well. This is from today’s NYTimes: <a href=“Financial Aid Changes Game as Sports Teams in Ivies Rise - The New York Times”>Financial Aid Changes Game as Sports Teams in Ivies Rise - The New York Times;
<p>Isn’t placing (sic) within quotation marks redundant?</p>
<p>A little fallout from the untimely firing of the football coach … a top recruit unnerved by the change switches from Yale to Harvard.</p>
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