Agree To Disagree?

Your mileage may will vary regarding a USA250 piece from USA Today headlined The 10 greatest college athletes from New Hampshire ranked. (LINK)

Here's the list:

Reggie Williams, Dartmouth football

Red Rolfe, Dartmouth baseball

Joe Dudek, Plymouth State football

Jerry Azumah, New Hampshire football

Bob MacLeod, Dartmouth football

Rudy LaRusso, Dartmouth basketball 

Jay Fielder, Dartmouth football

Gail Koziara, Dartmouth basketball 

Jason Krog, New Hampshire ice hockey

Ricky Santos, New Hampshire football

For me, the most obvious overlooked athlete is runner Abbey D'Agostino '14, who won seven NCAA titles.

For a Dartmouth Alumni Magazine listing of what it considered in 2022 to be the school's top 15 men's and women's athletes, click HERE.

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Interestingly, Flo Sports, the streaming network that does not cover Ivy League football, has a piece headlined What You Should Know About Ivy League Football Heading Into 2026; Here's five things you should know ahead of the 2026 Ivy League football season. Among those five things (LINK):

Ivy League Offensive Player Of The Year Candidates
• Xaviah Bascon, Harvard RB
• Dante Reno, Yale QB
• Jaxton Santiago, Yale WR

Green Alert Take: I'd have to include Dartmouth QB Grayson Saunier on that list, and if Brown can win a few more games, quarterback James Murphy will have a shot with the numbers he will put up in that high-flying offense.

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Delby Lemieux '26 and Josiah Green '25 seem to be getting the most attention but Tyron Herring '23, who spent a couple of seasons as a grad transfer at Delaware, is in camp with the Cleveland Browns. Here he is working out with the Cleveland rookies. (LINK) The Packers and Patriots had previously signed Herring to contracts.

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Speaking of Green, the Bucs Wire had a piece several days ago headlined One Buccaneers sleeper to watch in each defensive position group and the former Dartmouth standout who spent a grad transfer season at Duke is the choice on the defensive line. From the story (LINK):

Green is the defensive line sleeper to monitor. Listed at 6-foot and 284 pounds, the rookie from Duke gives Tampa Bay another interior defender to evaluate during camp.

His challenge will be playing with consistent leverage, holding his ground against stronger offensive linemen and creating enough disruption to stand out in a crowded defensive front. Interior defensive linemen can be difficult to evaluate without pads, so Green’s most important work may come once the physical portion of camp begins and preseason games arrive.

If he can show toughness against the run and enough quickness to affect the pocket, he could earn a longer look.

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As for Lemieux, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, which should have a better grasp of the Vikings roster than the various fan sites, has an early projection of the team's 53-man roster as training camps up. Here's how the paper of record sees the offensive line shaking out (LINK):

Offensive linemen (10)
T Christian Darrisaw, G Donovan Jackson, C Blake Brandel, G Will Fries, T Brian O’Neill, T Ryan Van Demark, C Michael Jurgens, G Joe Huber, T Caleb Tiernan, C Gavin Gerhardt

Waived: T Walter Rouse, G/C Vershon Lee, G/C Henry Byrd, OL Tomas Rimac, OL Tristan Leigh, OL Delby Lemieux

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And in case you are wondering Isaiah Johnson '22, who saw action in four games last fall with the Miami Dolphins, was released by the team in May after failing a physical following an ACL tear in December. A corner, Johnson spent two seasons as a grad transfer at Syracuse after collecting his Dartmouth degree.

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EXTRA POINT
Spotted this yesterday, and with the movie Coyote vs. ACME opening tomorrow (TRAILER) I thought those of you of a certain age would appreciate these rules established by Chuck Jones, who directed the original cartoons in which Wile E. Coyote chased  (LINK).

1. The Road Runner cannot harm the coyote except by going “Beep-beep!”

2. No outside force can harm the coyote—only his own ineptitude or the failure of the Acme products.

3. The coyote can stop any time—if he were not a fanatic. (Repeat: “A fanatic is one who redoubles his effort when he has forgotten his aim.”–George Santayana)

4. There may be no dialogue ever, except “beep-beep!” The coyote may, however, speak to the audience through wooden signs that he holds up.

5. The Road Runner must stay on the road —otherwise, logically, he would not be called “Road Runner."

6. All action must be confined to the natural environment of the two characters—the southwest American desert.

7. All materials, tools, weapons, or mechanical conveniences must be obtained from the Acme Corporation.

8. Whenever possible, gravity should be made the coyote’s greatest enemy.

9. The coyote is always more humiliated than harmed by his failures.