The Past, The Present And An Imagined Future Of Ivy League Football
This is kind of fun.
Trust me, this fellow knows what he proposes would never happen but his 16-minute video, The Rise, Fall and Future of Ivy League Football, makes some valid points about football in the Ancient Eight. In the video, posted last week, he touches on some of the problems facing the Ivy League and offers up an interesting pie-in-the-sky solution:
He's not a fan of the Ivy League's out-of-conference scheduling and created this graphic showing the 22 different FCS teams Ivy schools have played since 2021:
Green Alert: Gotta agree that's not exactly a Murderer's Row.
The video's most dramatic pitch is to break up Ivy League football into FBS and FCS divisions. Because of its success, Dartmouth would join the obvious choices to move up in the ranks. Here's how he would split Ivy teams:
With five teams on one side of the line and three on the other, he has to fill out the FBS Ivy League and the FCS Ivy League to have eight schools in each.
On the FBS side, he adds Army and Navy. He struggles to find a third school before finally deciding to bring in one of the final two independents in the nation. Because it might be a stretch to get Notre Dame to make the move he defaults to UConn, not a particularly good fit. ;-)
To bring the FCS side up to eight teams he starts with Colgate and Georgetown (good choices), flirts with Howard but then chooses Lehigh, Holy Cross and Villanova.
Green Alert Take: No mention of Bucknell, Lafayette and Fordham, each of which would fit the bill.
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I have no idea if Sports Illustrated – what remains of it – still does its Sign of the Apocalypse thing, but this would definitely be in the running if it does:
I was “so” close to making it…Ha!! Much respect for those that step into the rodeo arena, different level mindset! https://t.co/qKdiOrKLl0
That's UNLV football coach Barry Odom sitting for a couple of seconds atop a bull named Widowmaker to raise money for the school's football program. Find a story HERE . . . and judging by how he wobbles after getting tossed it might be time for the concussion protocol to come into play.
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EXTRA POINT We headed across the river yesterday afternoon to attend a presentation by a neighbor about his work photographing loons. Scroll down HERE to see some of the astonishing images he's taken of these iconic birds, which we were surprised to learn can live to be 30-years-old.
