What’s Next?

HERO Sports has a story headlined Next Step For Ivy League Football? It Should Strengthen Its Non-Conference Scheduling that ponders what the Ivies need to do if they want to have success in the FCS playoffs. Or whether they’ll be happy to simply be there. Find the story HERE.

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The Yale Daily News has a football story under the headline, Retention remains strong despite increased transfer and NIL opportunities that includes this (LINK):

In the last four years, only three Yale football players have left before graduating. Breylan Thompson, formerly a member of Yale’s class of 2028, joined Stanford this spring and Aidan Warner, once in Yale’s class of 2027, returned home to the Sunshine State when he transferred to the University of Florida last winter after not playing in his first-year season.

Similarly, Harvard and Dartmouth saw no players depart before their graduation after last season, according to On3 Media, a company that tracks transfer portal activity across Division 1 football.

Green Alert Take: I can think of just one Dartmouth football player in the last handful of years who transferred prior to graduating, and it wasn’t to move up.

The YDN story mentions that edge lineman Ezekiel Larry, who left Yale after a strong sophomore season to play at San Diego State, is returning to New Haven after seeing limited time with the Aztecs.

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Larry isn’t the only transfer suiting up for the Bulldogs this fall. Air Force's Clayton Sobecki will be joining the Yale team this fall. Listed as a wide receiver in Colorado Springs, the 6-foot-1 Sobecki tossed 26 touchdown passes and had 2,269 yards through the air along with 1,514 yards and eight touchdowns rushing as a senior at Grapevine Faith Christian School in Texas.

Also headed to the Ivy League in the fall is a transfer quarterback from Michigan, who will be joining the Penn Quakers.

Jack Grusser, who spent two seasons at New Jersey powerhouse Bergen Catholic before helping Ramapo to an 18-5 record over two seasons, originally committed to Harvard before accepting a preferred walk-on offer at Michigan. Grusser completed 72.3 percent of his passes for 2,110 yards, 28 touchdowns and five interceptions as a Ramapo senior despite losing time to injury. He had 32 touchdown passes, six interceptions and 2,645 yards passing his junior season, when he ran for 764 yards.

Penn is the latest Ivy to introduce its recruiting class via social media HERE. Previously announcing their classes were Harvard and Brown.

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EXTRA POINT

Spring has sprung at our Vermont hillside home. You’ve seen plenty of views of the White Mountains out front, so here’s a view looking behind the house toward our nearest neighbor. The ornamental trees are at peak bloom, the apple trees aare  little behind, and the lilac row – which actually extends with width our or property – is just starting to bloom. Even the dandelions say spring. ;-)