This figures to be the Year of the Quarterback in the Ivy League, with seven of the eight schools returning their starters.
Here are the Ivy League statistical leaders among quarterbacks last fall with all but Harvard's Charlie Dean (playing this fall at Western Carolina) returning:
PASSING YARDS
Blake Stenstrom, Princeton 2,742
Aidan Sayin, Penn 2,344
Charlie Dean, Harvard 2,101
Jake Willcox, Brown 1,786
Nolan Grooms, Yale 1,660
Jameson Wang, Cornell 1,650
Caden Bell, Columbia 1,198
Joe Green, Columbia 947
Dylan Cadwallader, Dartmouth 806
Nick Howard, Dartmouth 730
Aidan Gilman, Brown 557
COMPLETION PERCENTAGE
Blake Stenstrom, Princeton 69.4
Jake Willcox, Brown 64.9
Joe Green, Columbia 64.5
Aidan Sayin, Penn 64.7
Caden Bell, Columbia 60.0
Charlie Dean, Harvard 59.3
Aidan Gilman, Brown 59.3
Nick Howard, Dartmouth 59.1
Dylan Cadwallader, Dartmouth 57.9
Nolan Grooms, Yale 57.8
Jameson Wang, Cornell 57.3
PASSING EFFICIENCY
Blake Stenstrom, Princeton 147.5
Charlie Dean, Harvard 137.2
Caden Bell, Columbia 131.8
Joe Green, Columbia 130.2
Nolan Grooms, Yale 129.2
Jake Willcox, Brown 128.3
Aidan Sayin, Penn 126.7
Jameson Wang, Cornell 121.7
Nick Howard, Dartmouth 115.4
Dylan Cadwallader, Dartmouth 111.7
Aidan Gilman, Brown 95.9
PASSING TOUCHDOWNS
Charlie Dean, Harvard 18
Aidan Sayin, Penn 18
Blake Stenstrom, Princeton 16
Nolan Grooms, Yale 14
Jameson Wang, Cornell 14
Jake Willcox, Brown 12
Caden Bell, Columbia 10
Joe Green, Columbia 7
Dylan Cadwallader, Dartmouth 3
Nick Howard, Dartmouth 2
Aidan Gilman, Brown 2
QUARTERBACK RUSHING YARDS
Nolan Grooms, Yale 745
Jameson Wang, Cornell 559
Nick Howard, Dartmouth 506
Blake Stenstrom, Princeton 156.0
Jake Willcox, Brown 56.0
TEAM PASSING YARDS
Princeton 2,742
Penn 2,515
Brown 2,472
Harvard 2,301
Columbia 2,145
Cornell 1,826
Yale 1,800
Dartmouth 1,636
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A loyal reader has shared a CNN piece headlined Opinion: The one group with a huge advantage in college admissions that he calls the "elephant in the room." From the piece by John MacIntosh, a former Princeton squash and tennis player (LINK):
Athletic recruitment is also an explicit, group-based quota system that goes against the spirit of the Supreme Court’s decision, which argues that each applicant should be judged on individual merits and not as a member of a group that the institution wants represented on campus.
Would-be recruits are not competing for admission on their individual merits. They are not even competing based on their individual athletic achievements. They are competing for a given team’s fixed number of recruiting slots — which are a de facto quota since they virtually guarantee admission.
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EXTRA POINT
The forecast in these parts calls for rain all day today. There could be upwards of 4-6 inches fall in part of our county and flood warnings have gone up for some towns along the Connecticut River, which runs between New Hampshire and Vermont. If the rain this spring and early summer had been winter snow we'd still be shoveling ourselves out!
