Green Alert Take: I wonder sometimes if today's coaches could watch some of Blackman's games and come away with a few plays that would catch opponents off balance. I'm guessing they could ;-)
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Donnie Brown, the former Dartmouth defensive coordinator who got his start coaching across the river at Hartford (Vt.) High School in the 1980s, went on to serve as defensive coordinator at both Yale and Brown. The was a clamoring in New Haven to bring him in as head coach a few years back but he chose instead to continue working in the FBS. Although he'd rather forget this year's Ohio State game, eschewing Yale didn't turn out too badly for the current Michigan defensive coordinator. A USA Today survey lists Brown as the 10th-highest paid assistant in the land, earning $1.3 million a year.
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For what it's worth, I had an Ivy League coach tell me this fall that the number one question recruits ask him is: "Why can't Ivy League teams go to the playoffs?"Read that again. It's the "number one" question recruits ask.
While you ponder what answer you might give, figuring out a good answer is not a problem Colgate assistants have to deal with. The Raiders take on North Dakota State, winners of six of the last seven FCS national championships, Saturday in the Fargodome. Read a capsule preview HERE.
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And finally, the Ivy office has video individual interviews with Dartmouth's Isiah Swann and Princeton's John Lovett, the Bushnell winners as Ivy League defensive and offensive players of the year. Click the picture of Isiah Swann to watch.
