Go West Young Men?

Matt Dougherty has a Sports Network column about football conference adjustments that could ultimately create new scheduling opportunities for Ivy League schools. Dougherty opines: "Cal Poly and UC Davis - Good luck finding games. As it stands now, the Mustangs and Aggies will only have two conference games in 2008. ..." And he notes: "Both teams have more road games than home games this year, and the trend will likely continue." ... Hmm. I wonder if we know a school that might be able to help their cause. ...

Former Harvard star Chris Eitzmann, who played for the Cleveland Browns and New England Patriots and is now at the Tuck School, is featured in this Bloomberg.com piece that begins: "Wall Street recruiters can be as aggressive as professional football players ..."

Penn has a new offensive coordinator, Bill Schmitz, who was last in the Ivy League at Columbia back in 1979-80. He had most recently been tight ends and running backs coach for the University of Alabama-Birmingham. ... The Quakers also released their spring football practice schedule.

Brown linebacker Zak DeOssie, who opened eyes at the NFL Combine, is going to take part in the Boston College Pro Day on March 21 according to this Brown release.

Columbia's Diane Murphy is one of two recipients of the national General Robert R. Neyland Outstanding Athletic Director Award for excellence in football according to a Columbia release. I'm not sure exactly how much it means but whatever it means, it's good for Columbia football. ...

And finally this: A subscriber sent a link to one of the funniest things you'll read in the New York Times all year. Click here to read what Penn starting forward Steve Danley, a Rhodes Scholarship finalist, has to say about Ivy League basketball and the NCAA Tournament. He tells of a plot hatched by the Penn players to get writers to include a particular phrase in their stories, about star guard Ibby Jaaber's "marinara sauce" quote (which made me laugh when I read it somewhere) and he offers a hilarious bit about trash talking against a Dartmouth freshman. This is top-notch stuff, the ensuing comments from readers aside. There's another Danley entry here. ... Danley's bio can be found here.

And finally this II: The Dartmouth women's basketball team drew Seton Hall in the opening round of the WNIT. Two kids up here on Moose Mountain had hoped to catch the game but I'm not quite sure we're heading to South Orange, N.J., on a school night. ;-)