Thursday, April 16, 2026

That's A Surprise

Had a great chat with veteran offensive line coach Keith Clark at practice this a.m. Look for a story on the O-line on BGA Overtime tonight.

And now for some good stuff about one of Clark's protégés . . . 

Click this still from YouTube and advance to the 12:30 mark.

This Pro Football and Sports Network headline should get your attention:
NFL Analyst Predicts a 97th-Percentile Ivy League Sleeper Will Crash Day 2 of Draft | PFSN’s Football Debate Club; NFL analyst Ian Cummings predicts Dartmouth prospect Delby Lemieux could become a Day Two draft pick after elite athletic testing.
From the story (LINK):
At Boston College’s pro day, Lemieux posted a 5.02 40-yard dash, a 7.52 three-cone, and a 1.71 10-yard split, landing in the 97th percentile among offensive linemen. He covers ground easily, recalibrates his base with quickness, and plays with the kind of range that fits modern zone-heavy systems.

And more importantly:

In the immediate timeline, Lemieux profiles as athletic, position-versatile depth. In the right scheme, particularly one that leans on movement, angles, and leverage, there is a path for him to become an impact starter on the interior. A player who looked like a late-round flyer now has a measurable, trait-driven case to crash Day 2. 

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Princeton and Columbia can recruit in the fertile New Jersey area. Penn brings in talent from Philly and Pittsburgh, and points in between. Yale has had success recruiting Connecticut, and Brown always has a few good ones from Rhode Island. Ditto Harvard from Massachusetts.

Ever wonder why Dartmouth doesn't pull in more recruits from Northern New England? Go ahead and scroll down to the entries about Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont in this story headlined The highest-ranked high school recruit in the history of all 50 states. (LINK)

Green Alert Take: That's not to say there haven't been very solid players from these states. Dartmouth surely would love to have had defensive lineman Thor Griffith stay in-state instead of playing at Harvard and then Louisville. And Vermonter David Ball set the FCS record for career touchdown receptions at New Hampshire before Cooper Kupp broke it. Go back further and Maine native John Huard played six years in the NFL in the late '60s and early '70s before being elected to the College Football Hall of Fame.

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EXTRA POINT
From the go-figure department: I have several pairs of sneakers from Allbirds, which is regularly promoted as producing the most comfortable sneakers on the market. So imagine my surprise learning the company that makes the footwear isn't just walking away from its sneaker business. It's running away from it.

That's right. Allbirds is transitioning from footwear to being an AI company. Find a story about that about-face HERE while I head off to see if they are having a clearance sale. ;-)
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