Wednesday, May 29, 2024

Coming Soon

Before heading on the road recruiting Dartmouth football coach Sammy McCorkle kindly took the time to share an overview of how spring football went, with an eye toward the 2024 season. Check out BGA – The Sequel tomorrow for my conversation with Coach McCorkle.

Posted previously on the new site were a spring practice preview as well as a two-part look at spring practice at the midway point here and here.

A reminder that while the old BGA site is now defunct, there will be coverage of the 2024 season each week this fall HERE – without a paywall.

Again, be sure to visit The Sequel Thursday evening for a full spring practice roundup.

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While there are widely available lists of players in the Transfer Portal, the official Transfer Portal is not available to the public. That being the case, there are a good number of names that are missing from whatever list you might pull up.

Athlon Sports has a relatively comprehensive list of names in the portal, with nine former Dartmouth players included, but it's missing others like Hank Knez, Tyson McCloud and Isaac Boston.

All that is by way of saying that the following list of Ivy Leaguers drawn from the Athlon master list (LINK) is not complete. But it should give you an idea of some of the movement in the Ancient Eight as players use that final year of bonus eligibility brought about by COVID.

While most – but not all – of the following players had used up their Ivy League eligibility, they all would be eligible to continue at their Ivy schools if the league played by the same rules as most of the rest of college football.

Players Who Entered the Portal per Athlon

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

COLUMBIA
OL Luke Painton
DL Quentin Autry
DL Ben Corniello
LB Anthony Roussos
DB Seth Parker
P William Hughes

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

HARVARD
TE Tim Dowd
TE Tyler Neville
OL Logan Bednar
OL Spencer Cassell
OL Jacob Rizy
OL Mason Williams
DL Micaiah Bell
DL Thor Griffith
DL Tyler Huenemann
LB Matt Hudson
DB Kaleb Moody

PENN
RB Jonathan Mulatu
WR Malone Howley
OL Jake Ligos
OL Jack Purcell
DL Will Seiler
DL Joey Slackman
LB Jonathan Melvin
DB Shiloh Means
DB Kendren Smith
K Graham Gottlieb, Penn

PRINCETON
OL Jalen Travis
LB Caleb Coleman
LB Liam Johnson
LB Ozzie Nicholas

YALE
TE Jackson Hawes
OL Jonathan Mendoza
DL Marcus Mauney
DL Clay Patterson
LB Ezekiel Larry
LB Hamilton Moore
LB Joseph Vaughn
DB Dathan Hickey
DB Wande Owens  

And Athlon's incomplete Dartmouth list looks like this:

DARTMOUTH
QB Nick Howard
RB Joey Richmond
TE Jace Henry
OL Nicholas Schwitzgebel
OL Ethan Sipe
DL Charlie Looes
LB Macklin Ayers
DB Leonard St. Gourdin
LS Josh Greene

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EXTRA POINT
If you ever wonder about the impact a great coach and mentor can have on an athlete, watch this: