Dartmouth sports publicity takes a look at spring football at the midway point with a post HERE.
Big Green social media also posted this interview with new special teams coordinator Braxton Chapman:
At the end of week two of @DartmouthFTBL spring ball, hear from assistant coach Braxton Chapman, who is the Big Green’s new special teams coordinator (along with his role as running backs coach)! #GoBigGreen | #TheWoods🌲 pic.twitter.com/HPrz8TF898
— Dartmouth Athletics (@dartmouthsports) April 20, 2025
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When I saw a reposted version of the Xweet below my first reaction was, “Is this real?”
Not sure, I went to Yale coach Tony Reno’s verified Xwitter account and yes, apparently it is real. I have just one word: Whoa!
To the schools who have been blatantly breaking @NCAAFootball rules and talking to our players over the last six months and most recently over the last week.
— Tony Reno (@CoachRenoYale) April 21, 2025
Tampering is illegal and we will hold you accountable. We are not afraid to make it public.
Green Alert Take: It doesn’t surprise me that there would be scholarship coaches wondering if players who might have spurned them for the Ivy League are rethinking their decisions in this era of NIL and what is essentially free agency. What does surprise me is Tony Reno calling it out so publicly. Good on him.
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Reno, by the way, is second in seniority among Ivy League coaches only to Princeton’s Bob Surace. Here’s the number of seasons each current coach has completed at their current post, their overall record at their current school, their Ivy League record, and their number of Ivy League championships.
14 - Bob Surace, Princeton 81-59 (54-44), 4
12 - Tony Reno, Yale 74-46 (49-35), 4
9 - Ray Priore, Penn 32-30 (51-38), 2
5 - James Perry, Brown 15-35 (8-27), 0
2 - Sammy McCorkle, Dartmouth 14-6 (10-4), 2
1 - Andrew Aurich, Harvard 8-2 (5-2), 1
1 - Jon Poppe, Columbia 7-3 (5-2), 1
1 - Dan Swanstrom, Cornell 4-6 (3-4), 0
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The New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) is sometimes referred to as the Little Ivy, and now the Ancient Eight’s Division III doppelgänger is joining the Ivies in finally allowing its football teams to go to the NCAA playoffs, starting in 2026. From a NESCAC release (LINK):
NESCAC Football will maintain a nine-game schedule against fellow conference schools. The team that finishes at the top of the standings (after any tiebreakers are applied, if necessary) will earn the NESCAC’s automatic berth to the NCAA Division III Football Championship. NESCAC teams will be eligible for Pool C "at-large" bids if selected.
The NESCAC football membership consists of Amherst, Bates, Bowdoin, Colby, Hamilton, Middlebury, Trinity, Tufts, Wesleyan and Williams. Wesleyan won last year’s title with an 8-1 record.
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EXTRA POINT
With That Certain Nittany Lion ’16 here for the Easter weekend, I put all his hours pumping iron to practical use yesterday. Each spring I have to clear away a few rocks, and then do a little digging to get access to a septic system filter that has to be hosed off and cleaned once a year. The problem is the filter is beneath a buried, several-inch-thick round slab of concrete that might be two-thirds the size of a manhole cover. I’ve dug it out and raised the thing in the past but I’ve got to say, having someone who lives at the gym made the heavy lifting a lot easier. Not a lot more pleasant – eww! – but hey, the seriously stinky job is done for another year.
