Listed at 5-foot-9 and anywhere from 165 to 185 depending on the outlet, Kopulos ran for 1,655 yards as a junior. As a senior he had 1,660 yards from scrimmage with 975 yards running the ball and 685 through the air on 43 receptions. He had 17 touchdowns on the ground and nine through the air.
Offered by traditional FCS power Villanova, Kopulos Tweeted his intentions HERE. Find his junior year highlights HERE and his senior highlights HERE.
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Dartmouth Athletic Director Harry Sheehy was the guest on 94ESPN Radio's The Brett Franklin Show earlier this week. Much of the interview involved Franklin and Bill Murphy questioning Sheehy about the Ivy League's football playoff ban. Because the shows aren't archived there's no link to share so I transcribed the interview to post here.With huge thanks to Brett, Bill and the station, here's a lightly edited version of Sheehy's remarks regarding the Ivy League going to the football playoffs.
Sheehy on where the playoff question stands with the presidents:
"I think you have to always kind of take the temperature around these issues because they are big issues. Right now I don’t think that there’s the will among the presidents to do this. That's my gut.
"I've talked with (Dartmouth President Phil Hanlon) about this. I think Phil is ambivalent one way or the other. I don't think he's a huge proponent, but I don't think he's killing it either.
"I think it's a big step for most of us because it extends the season so far. That used to be an issue with two-sport athletes. Well, those young men don't exist for the most part anymore. So it is not a competition issue, but is a length of season issue. I also think that philosophically many of the presidents actually like this distinction of being different."
Regarding the Cornell Sun report that the school president in Ithaca expressed concerns about what would happen if the Big Red advanced and had to play Alabama:
"I would be just as concerned about playing Eastern Washington to be honest with you. (Laughs) That I think is one of the challenges – getting to sit with the Presidents and finish the argument. I think there's such a philosophical bias against it for the most part that the argument doesn't get to actually be made."
"I know that when I was at Williams as the athletic director and previously as a coach, my first years we were not eligible to go to the NCAA tournament. We went to the presidents. We put it to a vote in the department 100 times and we said well it is inconsistent because track kids can go and golfers can go and swimmers can go. And the presidents' answer was, which was frankly very unsatisfactory, 'That's an inconsistency that we can live with.' I actually think there's a little of that going on here. It is inconsistent but for whatever reason the presidents are willing to live with that."
Regarding how the Ivies came to have a basketball tournament but can't advance in football:
"I think, number one, we gave up a game. So we gave up a regular-season game to have this tournament, which means only two teams are going to play an extra game. It doesn't extend the season.
"I think the way that we approached this was the student-athlete experience. We were missing out on something. I sat in the Palestra for all these games the past couple of years and the environment was spectacular. It will be unbelievable this year at Yale because there are only 3,100 seats. So it's about the student-athlete experience and taking part in something the rest of the country is taking part in and, frankly, the presidents having a much better handle on the impact of – March Madness – than they do of an extended playoff run in football. They don't see them as the same. I think that's why we were able to get it through.
"But I will tell you, as you know, it was a long battle to get that tournament. And the battle included folks in the AD room who (were) crazy against it.
"The old quote in the Ivy League was when you had your first Ivy League game it was the start of our '14-game tournament,' which was the regular season. For us, finally, we got ADs in the room to see our student-athletes are really missing out on something. … The presidents don't connect the dots on this."
Sheehy on whether the Ivy League ADs are 8-0 on the playoffs:
"No, they would not be 8-0. I think there are number of folks in the room who think that extending the season that much – because we end our season early and begin it late (and) only play a 10-game schedule – that it would not be unanimous to go to the playoffs."
Sheehy on whether the playoffs would be in play if Harvard, Yale and Princeton favored them:
"One person, one vote in that room. And this is a vote (where) we are not going to go to the playoffs if the vote is 5-3. Right? Because that vote is then going to go to the presidents and they are going to say, ‘Well, three people don’t even want this.’
"We have to be unanimous among the athletic directors and there’s some work to do there to get unanimous vote, 8-0, to go to the playoffs."
