Wednesday, January 24, 2024

Another Name

A reminder that the Ivy League (minus Yale) vs. Japan Dream Bowl game will be streamed at 7 tonight on ESPN+.
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To the list of Dartmouth recruits add the name of Khari Mayeux, a 6-foot-3, 245-pound defensive lineman from Wisdom High School in Houston. Originally from New Orleans, Mayeux chose Dartmouth over offers from Brown, Columbia, Lehigh, Houston Christian and Texas Wesleyan. He was a second-team, all-district defensive end and H-back.

Find a profile of Mayeux HERE.

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Former Dartmouth wide receiver Isaac Boston has announced his commitment to Marist HERE.

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Named tight ends coach at Army is Cheston Blackshear, who coached at Dartmouth from 2018-21 and spent the last two seasons as an offensive line quality control coach at Florida, his alma mater. Find a story HERE.

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Athlon Sports has a posting headlined College Football Players in Transfer Portal for 2023-24 that includes many – but not all – Ivy Leaguers in the portal along with their destinations. Here's who Athlon lists for Dartmouth:

QB Nick Howard to ?
RB Joey Richmond to ?
TE Jace Henry to ?
OL Nicholas Schwitzgebel to ?
DL Charlie Looes to Rice
LB Macklin Ayers to UMass
DB Leonard St. Gourdin to ?
LS Josh Greene to ?

That part about many – but not all? Here's the list of Dartmouth players who have entered the portal but are not listed:

OL Ethan Sipe
DL Gannon McCorkle
DB Onye Onuoha
TE Nic Sani
WR Isaac Boston (to Marist)
DL Jaylin Rainey
DB Cam Maddox
DL Hank Knez
DB Tyson McCloud
WR Jarmone Sutherland
LB Marques White (to McNeese State)

Keeping in mind that at least in Dartmouth's case Athlon didn't include even half of the players who entered the portal, here are all the Ivy League players included and their destinations where it is noted. Again, there are probably a lot more who should be on this list:

BROWN
WR Graham Walker to ?
DL Justin Anagonye to ?
DL Terrence Lane II to ?
DB Treyvon Hobbs to ?
DB Aubrey Parker to ?
P Austin Alley to ?

COLUMBIA
OL Luke Painton to UMass
DL Ben Corniello to ?
LB Anthony Roussos to ?
DB Seth Parker to ?
P William Hughes to ?

CORNELL
QB Luke Duby to ?
WR Nicholas Laboy to ?
TE Matt Robbert to Richmond
OL Terrance Caldwell to Weber State
OL Micah Sahakian to ?
DL Isaiah Gomes to ?
DL Onome Kessington to 
LB Holt Fletcher to ?
LB Connor Henderson to ?
LB Noah Taylor to ?
LB Resean Thomas to ?
LB Malin White to ?
DB Anthony Chideme-Alfaro to ?
DB Brody Kidwell to ?
DB Paul Lewis III to Akron
K/P Jackson Kennedy to ?

HARVARD
TE Tim Dowd to ?
TE Tyler Neville to Virginia
OL Logan Bednar to ?
OL Spencer Cassell to Rice
OL Jacob Rizy to ?
OL Mason Williams to ?
DL Micaiah Bell to ?
DL Thor Griffith to Louisville
DL Tyler Huenemann to ?
LB Matt Hudson to Memphis
DB Kaleb Moody to Kent State

PENN
DB Kendren Smith to Virginia
K Graham Gottlieb to ?
RB Jonathan Mulatu to ?
WR Malone Howley to ?
OL Jake Ligos to ?
OL Jack Purcell to Duke
DL Will Seiler to Duke
DL Joey Slackman to Florida
LB Jonathan Melvin to ?
DB Shiloh Means to ?

PRINCETON
OL Jalen Travis to ?
LB Caleb Coleman to ?
LB Liam Johnson to ?
LB Ozzie Nicholas to Duke

YALE
TE Jackson Hawes to Georgia Tech
OL Jonathan Mendoza to Louisville
DL Marcus Mauney to Norfolk State
DL Clay Patterson to UNLV
LB Hamilton Moore to ?
LB Joseph Vaughn to UCLA
DB Dathan Hickey to ?
DB Wande Owens to New Hampshire

Green Alert Take: No, I didn't proof these names and positions.

Green Alert Take II: I'd be curious how many of these players are underclassmen (none from Dartmouth are) and how many could return next fall for their COVID super seniors.

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EXTRA POINT
For Christmas this year my sister gave us a bird feeder with a motion-activated camera that beams photos and short videos of the birds that stop by – and identifies them using AI. To date, we've had every imaginable kind of sparrow and a handful of other visitors. Although we've had cardinals on the ground pecking away at spillage from the feeder, we hadn't any colorful birds until getting a visit yesterday from the state bird of New Hampshire (the purple finch) which stopped by perhaps because of all the buzz on the other side of the river on primary day. ;-)