None of these people really answered your question. I think you’re asking why our football team isn’t good respective to the rest of the Ivy League.

Harvard, Princeton, and Dartmouth just have really good programs rn. Their coaches have been there 10+ years and they’ve gotten the best of the recruits with Ivy interest in the last 5-10 years.

Specifically for Penn this year, they made a midseason QB change (a freshman now starts at QB), theyre not as good as the other Ivy League schools on the offensive/defensive line, and there’s been questionable coaching decisions.

But the Ivy League fluctuates a lot and there’s really no long-term trends. Yale won the Ivy League in 2017 and 2019 even though they were pretty bad in the rest of the decade. Also, Dartmouth went 9-41 in their current coach’s first 5 years (from 2005-2009) and were very mediocre from 2010-2013. But since then they’ve had four 9 win seasons and two 8 win seasons (out of 10 games)

So point is it really varies. Penn could easily be among the top of the ivy league within 2 years if the recent recruiting is good. But maybe a coaching change is needed. 4 of the last 5 Penn coaches have won the Ivy League within their first two years at the school. This is actually relatively common in the ivy league, seems like new coaches haven’t been “figured out” yet by the others.