Going Pro

Hard to believe but the forecast for Tuesday in these parts calls for 6-12 inches of snow at 1,000 feet and above. The world headquarters of Big Green Alert is at about 1,500 feet. Uh oh. I better get the lawn mowed today ;-)

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The list of Ivy Leaguers (and Dartmouth opponents) who are getting an NFL look is growing. Much of what follows is unofficial and it's not complete, but at this point here is what it looks like:

Brown
David Howard (Tennessee Titans) 7th round draft pick
Bobby Sewall (Titans) free agent
Buddy Farnham (Tampa Bay Bucs) free agent
Jimmy Develin (Cleveland Browns) free agent

Cornell
Bryan Walters (San Diego Chargers) free agent

Penn
Jake Lewko (Titans) free agent

Colgate
Pat Simonds (Philadelphia Eagles) free agent

Holy Cross
Dominic Randolph (New York Giants) free agent
Chris Poole (Giants) free agent

New Hampshire
Chad Kackert (Jacksonville Jaguars) free agent
Sean Ware (possible Carolina Panthers) free agent

For a list of all 19 FCS draft picks this year, click here.

Want to guess who participated in Harvard's spring football game? Andrew Hatch, the Harvard QB who played most recently at LSU. Yes, that LSU. From a story in the Harvard Crimson:

He was ruled ineligible to play by the NCAA last season, but (Harvard coach Tim) Murphy is optimistic that he will be eligible in 2010—though he noted that Hatch has not yet been cleared, and the team may not know until Sep. 1 about his availability.

Hatch completed four passes Saturday night for a total of 81 yards.

“We run a (much) more sophisticated, pro-style offense than LSU did,” Murphy said. “They were very simple, just kind of three-step stuff, bubble screens and get it to their fast guys. Here it’s a little bit more like a pro-style offense, at least from the pass-game standpoint. (Hatch has) shown flashes of brilliance, he’s just got to be more consistent.”

Still awaiting an announcement of some v-e-r-y interesting Dartmouth football news that an e-mailer from another Ivy League city has heard rumored as being in the works also. If you connect the dots it's sounding like it is going to happen. Stay tuned.

If I remember correctly, Princeton's Brian Taylor was the last (only?) Ivy League basketball player to leave early for the NBA, going to the Seattle SuperSonics in the 1972 draft. Well, it's finally happened again. Sort of.

This time it is a player giving up eligibility for the WNBA.

Columbia's Judie Lomax, the Ivy League's Player of the Year and the NCAA rebounding champion the past two years, will go to camp with the Connecticut Sun. But as the Columbia Spectator notes, there needs to be an asterisk. A transfer from Oregon State, Lomax had just one semester of eligibility left, meaning if she returned to Columbia's roster she either would play in the non-league season next year or sit out until the second semester and play in the league campaign.

Harvard center Brian Cusworth faced the same one-semester dilemma as a senior in the 2006-07 season after taking a medical redshirt.

Dartmouth will be holding a press conference today introducing Paul Cormier as the new men's basketball coach. Still can't believe that no one has headlined a story about his hiring this way:

Back to the Future III

Cormier follows in the footsteps of Chris Wielgus (women's basketball) and Buddy Teevens (football) who returned to Dartmouth for a second stint after enjoying success the first time around.)

And finally, it's Decision Week for high school seniors, including one who is blowing out candles today. I envy her choices, but wouldn't want to be the one who has to decide.