Portal Musings

With more than 1,000 players reportedly entering the transfer portal yesterday – more than 7 percent of all DI football players if you can believe it – keeping up with who is in the portal and what schools are offering them is challenging to say the least.

The latest Dartmouth player I've noticed who has tossed his hat in the portal ring is senior wide receiver Jarmone Sutherland.

Among the latest offers received by Big Green players are defensive lineman Charles Looes hearing from Rice and Georgia State, fellow D-lineman Hank Knez adding Samford, Elon, Murray State and Illinois State to his growing list and defensive back Cam Maddox fielding an offer from Buffalo.

A reminder that players who were fifth-year seniors last fall have exhausted their Ivy League eligibility but may have another year elsewhere. True seniors last fall can return to Dartmouth or have one or two years of eligibility elsewhere.

Got all that?

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  2023 IVY LEAGUE TACKLE LEADERS

		G	Solo	Ast	Tot	Avg
1	Ozzie Nicholas, Princeton	10	49	55	104	10.4
2	Anthony Roussos, Columbia	10	59	34	93	9.3
3	Joseph Vaughn, Yale	10	55	33	88	8.8
4	Liam Johnson, Princeton	10	42	41	83	8.3
5	Macklin Ayers, Dartmouth	10	37	42	79	7.9
6	Ty Bartrum, Harvard	10	40	38	78	7.8
7	Noah Taylor, Cornell	10	40	34	74	7.4
8	Jack Fairman, Penn	10	35	38	73	7.3
9	Hayden McDonald, Columbia	9	39	23	62	6.9
10	Danny Cronin, Dartmouth	8	36	19	55	6.9

IVY LEAGUE SACK LEADERS

		G	Solo	Ast	Tot	Yds	Avg
1	Justin Townsend, Columbia	10	7	1	7.5	36	0.75
2	Charles Looes, Dartmouth	10	7	1	7.5	36	0.75
3	Ezekiel Larry, Yale	9	6	0	6	52	0.67
4	Clay Patterson, Yale	10	4	1	4.5	19	0.45
5	Ozzie Nicholas, Princeton	10	4	1	4.5	37	0.44
6	Joey Slackman, Penn	9	3	2	4	30	0.40
7	Jack Juliano, Penn	10	4	0	4	14	0.40
8	Bakari Edwards, Princeton	10	4	0	4	17	0.38
9	Nate Leskovec, Harvard	8	3	0	3	21	0.35
10	Thor Griffith, Harvard	10	3	1	3.5	47	0.35

IVY LEAGUE INTERCEPTION LEADERS

		G	No	Yds	Long	TD	Avg
1	Isaiah Reed, Brown	10	5	35	35	1	0.5
2	Sean Williams, Dartmouth	10	4	37	26	1	0.4
3	Ty Bartrum, Harvard	10	3	95	96	1	0.3
4	Shiloh Means, Penn	10	3	0	0	0	0.3
5	Aaron Brebnor, Columbia	10	3	0	0	0	0.3
6	Rocco Milia, Columbia	10	3	43	43	0	0.3
7	Joseph Vaughn, Yale	10	3	138	85	1	0.3
8	Nasir Hill, Princeton	10	3	66	45	0	0.3
9	Aubrey Parker, Brown	10	3	38	27	0	0.3
10	Sean Guyton, Yale	7	2	70	70	1	0.29

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Max Brosmer, the New Hampshire quarterback Dartmouth has faced several times, is one of three players invited to the announcement of the Walter Payton Award, given to the national offensive player of the year in the FCS. He's joined by fellow QB Mark Gronowski of South Dakota State and running back Jaden Shirden of Monmouth.

Brosmer, by the way, has announced his commitment to Minnesota as a grad transfer.

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For a nice change of pace, check out this video put out by Dartmouth that finishes with the Big Green learning on the field at Brown that it had won a share of the Ivy League football championship:

It was a busy—and historic—fall on campus. Take a look ⤵️ pic.twitter.com/swBrQOhaTY

— Dartmouth 🌲 (@dartmouth) December 1, 2023

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EXTRA POINT
The internet is a pretty effective time waster. Watching a football game I thought I noticed change in the eponymous gecko's voice in one of those insurance commercials. For some reason I Googled that and while I did not confirm a voice change in that particular commercial, I did discover something else. The gecko's lines in the very first of the commercial series were voiced by Kelsey Grammer, Frasier himself. The things you learn stopping by this electronic precinct each day.  ;-)