Wednesday, June 19, 2024

FCS-To-FCS

Following up on yesterday's posting about Ivy Leaguers moving on to FBS programs, here's a look at Ivy products continuing their careers at FCS schools per HERO Sports:

BROWN
OL Justin Anagonye – Butler
OL Gavin Miller – Portland State

COLUMBIA
DB Seth Parker – Samford

CORNELL
WR Nicholas Laboy – Delaware
OL Connor Garrahy – Marist
DB Anthony Chideme-Alfaro – North Dakota State
TE Matt Robbert – Richmond
DL Connor Morgan – South Dakota
OL Terrance Caldwell – Weber State

DARTMOUTH
WR Jamal Cooney – Albany
QB Nick Howard – Butler
WR Isaac Boston – Marist*
LB Marques White – McNeese
DB Cam Maddox – North Carolina A&T
DL Jaylin Rainey – Samford
OLB Tyson McCloud – Stony Brook

HARVARD
DB Kaleb Moody – Villanova
DB Phillip Smitherman – Howard
DB Kaleb Moody  – Villanova

PENN
DL Jack Iuliano – Albany
LB Jonathan Melvin  – Campbell

PRINCETON
None

YALE
LB Hamilton Moore – Lamar
LB Jermaine Baker – Maine
OL Aaron Session – McNeese
DB Wande Owens – New Hampshire
DL Marcus Mauney – Norfolk State
DB Dathan Hickey – Youngstown State

* A word of warning: This is per HERO and may not be complete and/or entirely correct. In the case of Dartmouth, it lists wide receiver Isaac Boston as headed to Marist. While Boston did indeed post a Xweet that he was committed to Marist in the winter, he later rescinded that commitment and reopened his recruitment.

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Graduated offensive lineman Ethan Sipe, who will play at Virginia this year, showed up in a story last month HERE. From the story:

The Cavaliers attempted to gain Sipe, a native of Nashville, Tenn., when the 2023 season ended and he entered the portal, but he was out of the country and couldn’t arrange a visit. The big former Dartmouth lineman officially visited Charlottesville over the weekend and liked what he saw.

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And if you have access to The Athletic, it has a feature story about a former Penn lineman who will play this fall for the Florida Gators. The Athletic teased the story this way:

"Meet Joey Slackman, who might be the most interesting defensive lineman in America. He started his college career as a wrestler, and now he’s an NFL DL prospect. (LINK) 

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SI.com's FCS Football Central has a ranking of the Top 10 Returning FCS Offensive Tackles. No Ivy Leaguer made the list but it did include this (LINK):

Some notable honorable mentions that received votes include South Dakota's Bryce Henderson, UAlbany's Ozzie Hutchinson, Delaware's Fintan Brose, Dartmouth's Delby Lemieux, and Delaware State's Malcolm Jefferies.

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From a HERO Sports look at The Best Returning 2024 FCS Tight End In Each Conference (LINK):

IVY
Bryce Myers, Penn, Sr.
2023 STAT LINE: 32 receptions, 329 yards, 1 TD
Myers was a key contributor in all 10 starts of his 2023 season. He had a clutch scoring catch against Yale and had eight catches against both Harvard and Dartmouth.

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Former Dartmouth catcher Ben Rice '22 throughly enjoyed his major league debut with the New York Yankees last night, playing first base and collecting a single to right in his second at-bat:

Rice wasn't the only Dartmouth presence in the Yankees' dugout. Longtime MLB catcher and former Tigers and Angels manager Brad Ausmus '91, now the Bronx Bombers' bench coach, served as the team's interim manager for the first two thirds of the game. From a story about Rice's debut (LINK):

Yankees bench coach Brad Ausmus, like Rice a former Dartmouth catcher, managed New York through the top of the sixth inning until Boone reached the dugout following the high school graduation of son Brandon.

“That was super cool and Dartmouth is not the only connection. My old travel baseball coach was his longtime agent,” Rice said. “I’ve kind of known who Brad was for a long time, and a bit of a role model for me.”

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EXTRA POINT
The mechanical dramas continue. Our VW Whisperer called this morning and said has done everything he could think of and changed out everything he could to get the '84 poptop camper back on the road. Now we agreed to let it sit – untouched – until Friday and see if the battery holds a charge. If it does, Mrs. BGA and I will make the long trip north one more time to collect it.

Meanwhile, the power equipment folks who told us Saturday morning that they would be by to pick up our lawn tracker "Tuesday or Wednesday" are on the clock. The tractor, which was on the losing end of a battle with an embedded boulder, is still in the garage as we speak. Fortunately, the grass in our field is taking a few days off from growing while the temperature soars into the 90s.

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