Reading the tea leaves a few years back, then-Dartmouth coach Buddy Teevens embraced the idea of pitching the opportunity to grad transfer to the FBS level when talking with recruits and their families. He pledged that he and his staff would work with players to preserve one season of eligibility if at all possible. The result was an influx of talented players who love the game, and wanted to go on after graduation.
It should be no surprise then, that the list of former Big Green players who exhausted their Ivy League eligibility after last fall and will be playing another season at the FBS level after picking up their Dartmouth diplomas is extensive. Or that since taking over as head coach Sammy McCorkle has taken the same, clearly successful recruiting approach that has contributed to four Ivy League titles in the past five seasons.
Here’s the latest list of Ivy League grad transfers moving on to the FBS next fall (with an assist from HERO Sports):
DARTMOUTH
DL Ejike Adele - Rice
OL Kyle Brown - UMass
TE Alex Geraci - UMass
DL Josiah Green - Duke
OL Tristan Holmbeck- Colorado State
OL Nick Marinaro - Ohio
DL Braden Mullen - Charlotte
QB Jackson Proctor - NIU
DB Jordan Washington - Stanford
BROWN
OL Hayden Bozich - UConn
DL Michael Bumpus - Boston College
DB Tim Malo - Hawaii
DB Iaiah Reed - UCF
COLUMBIA
WR Bryson Cany - Kansas
DB Yayden McDonald- Nevada
CORNELL
DB Trey Harris - Sam Houston
HARVARD
DB Gavin Shipman - Charlotte
WR Cooper Barkate - Duke
OL Austin Gentle - Memphis
OL Mike Entwistle - UMass
PENN
TE Justin Cayenne - FIU
PRINCETON
OL Tommy Matheson - Boston College
OL William Reed - West Virginia
RB John Volker - Michigan
YALE
DE Tamatoa McDonough - Iowa State
DT Alvin Gulley - NIU
OL Sean Sullivan - Rice
WR David Pantelis - Stanford
QB Grant Jordan - UMass
Moving up to the FBS level via the transfer portal as undergraduates:
Yale DB Breylan Thompson - Stanford
Penn RB Malachi Hosley - Georgia Tech
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EXTRA POINT
Back on Dec. 4 I posted a picture in this space of an unopened beer can someone had left in the snow on my hiking trail. When the snow finally melted the can still remained.
But it doesn’t remain where it was.
Given that it had been in nature’s freezer all winter, I thought about cracking it open, but I’m not really a beer drinker. Instead, I found a new home for it in the crook of a tree, not far from where I first spotted it, and where it is visible from the trail for someone not looking at their feet as they head up the mountain. I’ll be interested to see how long it will be until someone discovers it and pulls it down. I’ll let you know. ;-)
