Yale To Name Coach

Yale is expected to name its new head football coach today tomorrow. From the New Haven Register:

Jacksonville Jaguars defensive assistant Tom Williams has accepted the job as Yale football coach, according to a source familiar with the search.

Williams, 39, who will be officially announced at a 2 p.m. press conference Wednesday at the Ray Tompkins House, is the first black head coach in Yale football history.

Find a Yale Daily News story here.

Green Alert Take: Conventional wisdom would be that Williams is something of a high-risk, high-reward choice in New Haven. His NFL background and history at Stanford as a player and a coach go on one side of the ledger. On the other side would be the lack of any Ivy League (read: non-scholarship), head coaching or eastern experience. Agree or disagree, that side of the ledger will make hiring the right assistants critical.

Princeton has released its schedule through 2017 and non-league opponents outside of the Patriot League regulars include The Citadel, Hampton, San Diego (a home-and-home) and Davidson. In addition to games against traditional rivals Lehigh and Lafayette, Georgetown dots the future Princeton schedule. The Tigers will face the Hoyas four times between 2012 and 2017.

Did you see the story in the New York Times headlined, "Barely Teenagers, Already Groomed for Stardom?" It's about the Football University Youth All-American Bowl, a three-game showcase at the Alamodome featuring top seventh and eighth grade football players. One of the players is a 6-foot-3, 280-pound 13-year-old from Hawaii named Reeve Koehler, who has been verbally offered a scholarship by Hawaii. It's getting a crazy ...

An anonymous poster wrote yesterday that early decision admit RC "Willenbrock has a powerful leg. We would be fools to not let the kid kick. He kicked 25% of his kickoffs THROUGH the uprights! 95% of his kickoffs were touchbacks. He was a perfect 10 for 10 under 40 yards. But I hear he is coming to Dartmouth to play lacrosse. Would someone please call Teevens and ask his to invite the kid out."

Don't worry. While the Cherry Creek High School (Colo.) standout is a lacrosse recruit, he is also planning to kick at Dartmouth and the coaches are aware of him. He's one of two lacrosse recruits intending to play football in Hanover.