Per ESPN:
"The league convened an April 17 meeting among current and former NFL players, coaches and executives to discuss ways that would address the issue."Albert Breer, reporter for Sports Illustrated's MMQB, Tweeted a list of people attending that meeting including three NFL head coaches, four NFL offensive line coaches and former players Mike Singletary and Orlando Pace among others. Two of the names Breer listed have Ivy League connections: Damani Leech and Buddy Teevans (sic).
Leech was a three-time All-Ivy League defensive back at Princeton before graduating in 1998 and today is the NFL's Senior Vice President of Football Strategy and Business Development.
Asked about the meeting in Atlanta shortly after the end of spring football, Teevens said this to me:
"I've told my guys with the receptivity of the players and of our coaching staff they're making history. Coaching has been the same for years and years and years. This is a chance to change the paradigm and say, OK, maybe we can do it another way.
"People around the country certainly are taking note. I thought it was a great honor to be asked by the NFL to go down and discuss our practice approach with some of the top offensive and defensive line coaches and safety people in the country.
"It's nice to see our guys are researching how we can do this a little bit better whether it's a developing linebacker play or interior line play or protecting players."
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As you read here previously, Princeton hit double-figures in Ivy League championships for the 26th time this year. Harvard has done it 10 times and no other Ivy school has ever done it. So why bring that up again?Because not everyone likes it when one school has that kind of record. Take it from Minnesota's Division III University of St. Thomas, which has been "involuntarily" removed from its league because of its dominance. (LINK)
