Interesting

While several of his teammates were casting their lines in the NFL Draft, Dartmouth senior running back Caylin Parker apparently is looking elsewhere to continue his playing career as a grad transfer. From his Twitter account (LINK):

RB IN THE TRANSFER PORTAL | Ivy League Athlete

Parker ran for 299 yards, four touchdowns and a 4.3-yard average last fall as the Big Green's primary tailback. The 5-foot-11, 215-pounder from Belle Chasse, La., averaged 5.8 yards while running for 291 yards and three touchdowns in 2018. Find his Dartmouth bio HERE.

While Parker does not show up in the 247Sports Transfer Portal listing, four other Ivy Leaguers – two graduating seniors and two rising juniors – are listed.

Graduating Cornell kicker Nicholas Null has committed to Wyoming as a grad transfer. Fellow kicker Oren Milstein of Columbia is not yet listed with a destination school as a grad transfer.

Mozes Mooney, a talented sophomore wide receiver from Columbia, and Jaylin Bailey, a soph linebacker from Princeton, are also listed in the portal.

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Brown defensive lineman Michael Hoecht, who signed with the Los Angeles Rams, is the No 1 pick in a mock CFL draft posted by self-proclaimed Czar of the Playbook Emory Hunt. The Football Gameplan founder talks about Hoecht in a video posted on YouTube HERE.

The Calgary Stampeders, who own the first pick in the draft, already have an Ivy League defensive lineman who arrived north of the border after signing with the Rams. Fellow by the name of Folarin Orimolade, Dartmouth '17. (Calgary bio)

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Athlon has a story under the headline, 5 Takeaways From the FCS' 2020 NFL Draft Class; Lack of pro days led to a lack of picks. Find the story HERE.

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The Draft Diamonds website pitches adding three special rounds to the NFL Draft and calling them Small School Sunday. From the story (LINK):

Rounds 8, 9 and 10 would take place on Sunday and all selections would be from prospects from the FCS, Division 2, Division 3, or NAIA levels along with International and Canadian prospects. This wrinkle would not forbid the Patriots from taking Kyle Dugger at 37 overall or prevent the Panthers from taking Jeremy Chinn with the 64th selection or any other small schoolers from being selected during the seven-round process, but would rather allow for players that dominated lower levels of competition to get a more extensive look with the addition of Small School Sunday.

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James Develin, who morphed from Brown defensive lineman to highly regarded New England Patriots fullback, has announced his retirement. (LINK) Develin spent eight years with the Pats and appeared in three Super Bowls.

Green Alert Take: The ESPN story about Develin says he retired, "citing 'unforeseen complications'  from a neck injury that sidelined him for the majority of the 2019 season." I wonder if another complication might be that his quarterback and tight end landed in Tampa and took New England's best chance for another Super Bowl with them? ;-)

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Football Scoop offers some reflections on Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby's thoughts about the 2020 football season. The Scoop suggests those thoughts "may be the wackiest yet." From the story (LINK):

As (Bowlsby) told Seth Davis of The Athletic last week:

“I actually think we have a chance to start on time,” Bowlsby said last week. “Whether or not we can get the season done is another matter. When flu season starts again in November and December, you could see that ship sink in a hurry. One of the models we’re looking at is a split season where some games happen in the fall and some happen in the spring.”

Check out the Scoop for all of the reasons why that would be hard to implement.

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Regarding the chances of colleges welcoming students back to campus this fall, check out this from CNN (italics are mine):

Harvard will be open for the fall semester, but some or all instruction may continue to be online, the university's provost said Monday.

"Our goal is to bring our students, faculty, postdoctoral fellows and staff to campus as quickly as possible," Provost Alan Garber wrote in an open letter Monday, "but because most projections suggest that COVID-19 will remain a serious threat during the coming months, we cannot be certain that it will be safe to resume all usual activities on campus by then."

"Consequently, we will need to prepare for a scenario in which much or all learning will be conducted remotely."

Read the full story HERE.

Green Alert Take: To paraphrase a familiar quote, "As Harvard goes, so goes the Ivy League."

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EXTRA POINT
The stay-at-home order is no problem for Griff the Wonder Dog, who turned six-years-old today. Here he is spending the first part of the morning where he spends every morning, sheltering under the desk in BGA World Headquarters while BGA Daily is being compiled:

Happy Sixth Birthday Griff!