Turns out the Big Green is adding one more recruit after all:
God works on His timing. So blessed to have had the people and opportunities that I did throughout this process. I am very excited to announce that I will be flipping my commitment to Dartmouth College! @DartmouthFTBL @coachkeithclark @BTeevens @coachdaveshula @theBAFootball pic.twitter.com/IL0hc0bWKK
— Ian Scott (@ian_scott28) February 8, 2023
Ian Scott is a 5-foot-10, 165 wide receiver from Tennessee's Brentwood Academy, the same school sending defensive back classmate Jorden Barnes to Dartmouth next fall.
If I'm reading his Twitter correctly, Scott had 98 catches for 1,600-plus yards and 10 touchdowns at Brentwood. He had originally committed to Valparaiso.
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Not coincidentally, Big Green Alert and coach Buddy Teevens arrived on the scene in 2005. Here is how many winning IVY LEAGUE records each school has had in the 17 seasons since 2005:
15 – Harvard
10 – Princeton
10 – Yale
9 – Dartmouth
9 – Penn
7 – Brown
2 – Columbia
1 – Cornell
Winning IVY LEAGUE records over the past 10 years:
8 – Dartmouth
8 – Harvard
8 – Princeton
5 – Penn
5 – Yale
2 – Columbia
1 – Brown
0 – Cornell
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A questioner in Stewart Mandel's Mailbag in The Athletic asks how long it would take the Ivies to earn the Group of 5 playoff berth if they chose to "compete seriously in football." (Ouch)
Mandel's answer included this (LINK):
Unless the Ivies are willing to lower their academic standards (not likely), it would take a long, long time to produce a CFP team. They’d have to close a large talent gap and do it from an extremely limited pool of prospects. Case in point: The Cincinnati team that reached the CFP two years ago produced nine NFL draft picks the following year alone, including five in the first three rounds. Memphis has produced 15 active NFL players since 2016.
Meanwhile, Princeton, which has won three of the last six Ivy League crowns, has had four players drafted this century, none higher than the fourth round. And the gap likely widens the farther you go down the rosters.
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EXTRA POINT
Just a quick glimpse of Mt. Moosilauke, the 4,802-foot mountain we can see to the east from our Vermont hillside home. This shot was taken yesterday from the guest bedroom we call The Sunrise Room because the sunrise over the mountains to the east lights up the room in the morning.
