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What excites us heading into 2022:

  • QB Development: While the quarterback competition could continue into 2022, it seems destined that Reno will opt to start his dual-threat weapon, Nolan Grooms. Grooms struggled with his accuracy and decision making in 2021 but has all the physical tools needed to become successful in the Ivy League. With half of a season of starting experience and a full spring to develop chemistry with his receiving corps, Grooms will hopefully show marked improvement from 2021.  
  • Improved offensive line play: While losing our best offensive lineman, Cam Warfield, to graduation hurts, the much-maligned interior offensive linemen return in addition to Gargiulo. Communication and teamwork can only improve from the low point in 2021 assuming Gargiulo can stay healthy.
  • Expanded big play ability: Dudek, Rouse, Carrington, Sandifer and Howland are all graduating but Reno’s exceptional recruiting efforts have kept the cupboard full of talent. Tipton racked up nearly 600 receiving yards despite up and down performances in 2021. With Tipton’s skill set and decent pass protection for Grooms, he should be an 800+ yard receiver over the next two years. Beyond Tipton at wide receiver, Nenad, Pantelis, Lindley and Felton have the speed, route running abilities and sticky hands to surpass the receiving totals of 2021. At tight end, Hawes is every bit as talented as Howland and his productivity should explode in 2022. Alston had a higher average yards per carry statistic than Yale’s all-time leader in the category in 2021 and will be supplemented by a stable of dynamic backs such as Peterson, McKenzie and Eboboko.
  • Dominant Defensive Line: Clay Patterson evolved from a rotational defensive tackle to the most valuable player on the roster over the course of his first few starts. With continued dedication in the weight room this off-season, there may not be an opposing Ivy League offensive lineman that can slow him down next season. Nickerson and Oso are two talented defensive ends that can create chaos in the backfield. Raine returns with a solid year of starting experience under his belt, while Goodyear will look to bounce back from an injury that sidelined him. This could be the top performing defensive line in Reno’s career at Yale.

What makes us nervous heading into 2022:

  • Lack of experienced linebackers: Every starting linebacker from 2021 will depart leaving a very inexperienced crew to pick up the pieces in 2022. Joseph Vaughn, Hamilton Moore, Brian Abraham, Shane Frommer, Nathan Campbell and Dean Shaffer all saw limited action in 2021 and should vie for the starting spots in 2022. If a freshman were to break into the starting lineup in 2022, it seems likely that it would be in the linebacking corps or secondary.
  • Secondary woes: The secondary has been the Achilles’ heel of Reno’s squads even in championship seasons and yet year after year, we witness the same mental mistakes and coaching errors plaguing the team. The top performer in the secondary, Rodney Thomas, is departing and we have returning corners and safeties with extensive experience returning, however, do we throw the same players to the wolves again in 2022 or start from scratch with new recruits and underclassmen? One thing is for certain, changes need to be made from the top down in a hurry to combat this weakness.
  • Field goal/PAT issues: The Ivy League football conference might be the most balanced division across all Division 1 sports. As one fan recently noted, Ivy League games are like “squaring off against your twin brother in an Oklahoma drill.” Outcomes are decided by a single play or a questionable decision from the officials. Bosman or whoever the eventual start is to be in 2022, will need to elevate their game to give Yale the best chance of victory in tight contests.

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Carrington, entered the portal . Monmouth offered him a scholarship. Howland, has another year of eligibility.? With being injured. To bad.

Are there any potential recruits coming n from the transfer portal? We could use help in the secondary and a break away threat at running back.

Yale never should have lost to harvard DB gave that game to harvard. If yale coaches cannot teach the way to cover WR TE and RB then get someone who will. Or it will be the same thing next year.

D Carrington, has made it official. He will be attending Monmouth next fall. I agree with the above statement.
Your coaches, teachers., start teaching proper fundamentals and stop being punks.
YOU ARE MEN OF YALE, always, always show class and above and beyond all others be gentlemen and be gracious

I agree with both your comments. Trashing is not Yale! And why do our DBs make the same mistakes year after year? Don’t the coaches see the films after each game?

Speaking of DBs, we’ll need a new DB coach this year since the incumbent’s off to Maine.

Gentlemen; average synopsis at best obviously there is more here than meets the eye glaring weakness is a linebacker position quality of defensive backs is not the problem maybe it’s the coaching..

Why don’t football alumni call Tony on the carpet for encouraging the incessant trash talking from the sideline vs the competition? It’s just a terrible look and feel embarrassing to hear it when you sit in the stands

It also gives the opposition motivation, which defeats the whole purpose. (Perhaps a lesson learned by a certain football blog in the past, I would say…)

Dr. Pat Ruwe, YFA are you listening.? Yale Football Association , used to stand for something.? Not so much now.

Foye O. Led the NFL in total tackles this season! He is also a free agent. Maybe he should make a video on how to play defense.

DL coach Stevens left to be Maine head coach, and now has taken DB coach Araujo with him to be defensive coordinator.
Araujo was also the recruiting coordinator as of last year.

I see that the Lacrosse schedule is finally out. But I don’t see ESPN + on the docket.? So I was hoping to watch these guys this spring. In any manner.

IT APPEARS THAT SEAN GOLDRICH IS THE LATEST ASSISTANT COACH ( WR ) TO DECAMP FROM THE YALE FAMILY. HE IS GOING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE TO BE THE QB COACH.

Ray, do you have any pull with admin or AD to address the issue of Tony and staff encouraging the trash talking with opponents? It is really a bad look for the team and alumni

NO. I DO NOT. IT HAS BEEN NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE TO SPEAK TO ANY OFFICIALS OR ADMINISTRATORS. MY ATTEMPTS TO TALK TO ANY MEMBERS OF THE FOOTBALL STAFF, EXCEPT FOR ONE COACH, HAVE BEEN FRUITLESS.

I wonder if the arrogant, narcissistic HC has anything to do with coaches bailing from New Haven. The Ship is sinking.

Gentlemen; I respectfully disagree the ship is sinking young upwardly mobile qualified coaches as is the case with Mr. Goldrich a former signal caller move to higher positions to improve their career. Congratulations to Mr. Goldrich for becoming the new blue hens quarterbacks coach.

I wonder how the Harvards reacted when Tony Reno left the Tim Murphy staff to come to Yale.

Here’s a crazy idea. With NIL, schools are now able to play their recruits…a lot! Texas A&M is reportedly paying their income class $30 million in Name-Image-Likeness deals.

Now who has more money to pay players – the Ivy league schools! Yale, Princeton and Harvard could outbid any school for players who could qualify for admission.

It’s a path back to D-1, probably leaving the Ivy League. But you could put together a nice schedule with Vanderbilt, Northwestern, Stanford, etc.

I can dream.

David , don’t tease me.!! It’s a No brainer. Unfortunately you have a bunch of hapless knit wits running the show into the darkness. Ivy League Channel. Like the Big Ten network. SEC and. The ACC!!!
Yale could accomplish all of this .. Have The Yale Bowl filled every week.
But you would have to have vision and brains. These people don’t.

Not sure that anything would fill the Bowl anymore. It’s been several generations since alums and locals and have made Yale football Saturdays a must — a fall ritual that brought an energy to New Haven. Furthermore, with the exception of H, the strudents barely know who is playing.
Enthusiasts who read this blog are a dying breed – we may shortly end up in a display at the Peabody next to some of the prehistoric dinosaurs.
It’s kind of a miracle that Y is still maintaining 3 traditions that must date back to forever – (1) Big 3 games on the final Saturdays of the season, (2) not fooling around with the uniforms the way P and H have (if they ever come running out of the portal with blue pants I’m through!!!) and (3) electing 1 captain the week after the H game.

Yale is more likely to drop football than to go that route. I’d be happy with an 11 game schedule with one FBS opponent a year.

Ways Yale can increase attendance:

1)Install permanent lighting to allow 2:30 pm Saturday start times in September and October. That will allow more families with children and Yale students to attend.

2) pay a large amount to get a FBS program to play Yale at the Yale Bowl. Focus should be on historic regional rivals Army, Navy and UConn. Use that Under Armour sponsorship money or get the game endowed by donations from the Yale Football Association. Celebrate the Yale teams that beat these opponents at halftime.
3) create future fans by giving free admission to anyone under 12 for all games (except Harvard. )
4) bring in a large local high school band to play with the Yale band. (Would also improve the band). Yale did this with basketball a few years ago and it was great.
5) comp 1000 tickets each game (other than Harvard) for local community service organizations.
6) start a corporate sales program
That includes a tailgating package and a scoreboard announcement
7) have free teachers day, free doctors day, free first responders day, etc.

Gentleman; great suggestions by Mr. son of Eli. Regrettably, the current administration cannot see the forest for the trees. Maybe by some minor miracle someone with authority to do something will review the worthy suggestions many of which were actually utilized back in the 1950s and 60s.

Well oops she did it again. The have and the have nots. The alums are stating that they will withhold donations. Unless Vicky is fired.!!
People are not able to attend hockey games. So Vicky gets her bloated face all over instagram, takes it down . But not before it spreads onto Facebook.. LOL she is and idiot a cancer that must GO.!!

I, too, like Son of Eli’s suggestions to boost attendance, except I see just about zero prospect for inducing an FBS program to play at the Yale Bowl for several reasons. First, the NCAA rules give FBS schools bowl credit only for a victory over an FCS program that offers athletic scholarships, which lets Yale out. It took special pleading by both Yale and the Pentagon to get the NCAA to waive the scholarship requirement and allow Army to play Yale in 2014. Last year’s game with UConn also fits into a special exception — UConn was late in putting together its schedule and the Huskies had nil bowl prospects when the Yale game was scheduled.

Additionally, even if bowl credit weren’t an issue, I’m unaware of any FBS team playing at an FCS stadium since our game with Army in 2014. I hate to put it this way, but it’s de classe nowadays for any FBS program to do so, absent special circumstances like the centennial of the Bowl.

Finally, none of Army, Navy or UConn has a large alumni following that “travels” like, say, Nebraska or Texas A&M. A game in the Bowl against Army, Navy or UConn would be lucky to draw 30K fans.

See that’s the short sightedness, that is way to prevalent. This is when you ADVERTISE.?
VFW, American Legion, Rotary Clubs, Pop Warner football, Churches, Mosques,
I say this because when Yale played Army last . Most of these organizations were not informed.
Especially now with. WELI is not the flagship station for football. ( dumb move) I miss not being able to listen to the game on the radio. In the car. Or if I’m doing yard work.

That’s a lot better than the 4-5k fans they’re currently getting. I recognize all the obstacles you cite Texas Eli. That’s why I said Yale would have to offer a large amount of money. UConn could certainly use it and Yale has the means to pay it. It’s a necessary investment to make Yale football relevant again on campus and in the state. Not saying hosting a FBS team has to be every year, but at least once a decade. Yale Bowl is an historic national landmark so I don’t think it would be an issue getting another waiver from the ncaa for bowl counter status, as was successfully done in 2014. If Tom Becket did it Vick Chun should be able to do it too. She has done wonders with Yale’s facilities. I believe she is up to the task of getting such a game done.

I have an early photo of Walter Camp.
If the Yale football team or library etc would like to have it, I would consider donating it……
David

The only Patriot League teams which still have open dates in 2022 are Bucknell and Georgetown. Yale has only played Bucknell four times in its long history with the last time being in 1997. Yale hasn’t played Georgetown since 2012 after having swept a six game series. Given these histories I doubt Yale will be playing either school in 2022.

My guess is Richmond will be the 3rd OOC opponent this year. They still have open dates and owe Yale a return date from the cancelled 2020 game. I hope I’m correct as the 2019 Yale-Richmond games was one of the best games I’ve ever witnessed. Richmond, Holy Cross and Mercer would be a solid slate.

Lot of great ideas here about how to get people back to the bowl. How to get the students to attend a game other than Harvard? Maybe they just aren’t interested in football. But they are interested in having a good time. Give the a roped off area to raise hell to avoid another truck run over. Upgrade the food options. Sell beer! Get the residential colleges to celebrate the players prior to and during the season. Have a bonfire for homecoming like Dartmouth. Jazz things up!

Good ideas. Especially the ?. I would add live bands for the student tailgating sections. Start the parties at noon for a 2:30 game. The students will come if they make it fun. UPenn has done a good job with pregame parties and have increased attendance as a result.

Live bands with alter start time is a great idea. Half of the students aren’t even awake by noon. Make it a party! Anyone who has been exposed to big time football as I was at Ohio State and the University of Oregon knows that the game is the center piece of a much larger, glamorous event that brings out the crowds.

CHRIS OSTROWSKY HAS BEEN PROMOTED TO ASSISTANT HEAD COACH . HE WILL BE THE PASSING GAME COORDINATOR AND THE WIDE RECEIVERS COACH- EFFECTIVE NOW.

Christopher Brooks the 6-3 215lbs. WR commit . Is heading to Madison Wisconsin for his official visit this weekend.
Will Yale be able to keep this young towards to New Haven in August.
We shall see, stay tuned.?

New commit: Brogan McCaughey,QB 6’1”, 185, St Xaviers , Cincinnati, OH. Rated 3 stars by 247 sports. Offers from a host of MAC schools.

Better to ALMOST fold rather than actually fold like a couple of football games that come to mind.

Ack.!!!! I was just starting to feel good. And you do that. I have to go back to therapy again.

Why are we hearing NOTHING about Yale football players who have entered the transfer portal? Hard to believe that’s because nobody’s done so. Dartmouth and Princeton are more forthcoming.

Another commit: Leo Bluhm, 6′ 4”, 265 lbs, OL from St. Thomas Academy, Mendota Heights, MN.

YES. HE STATED tTHAT ON HIS TWITTER ACCOUNT. THERE ARE SOME INTERESTING COMMENTS ABOUT HIM ON THE VOY IVY LEAGUE BLOG.

I have an early photo of Walter Camp.
If the Yale football team or library etc would like to have it, I would consider donating it……
David

ANOTHER DECOMMIT . FERNANDO MENDOZA , QB FROM COLUMBUS H.S., MIAMI , FL. HAS FLOWN THE COOP !!

THREE COACHES AND THREE RECRUITS GONE. WHAT IS HAPPENING ? WHO IS NEXT? ARE THERE PROBLEMS WITHIN THE PROGRAM ?

Brooks was a game changer. To bad Yale is unable to hold on to these type of players.
Very sad .

Reno has proven to be a good recruiter. Let not panic until the final class of recruits is announced.

Reno hit a homer with the class of 2020. Since then, if you believe the 247 numbers at all—admittedly they’re not dispositive—we’ve been out-recruited by H & P while D just seems to have our number (if not our kicking tee). Last fall’s results bear this out..

Maybe. But it sure looked to me like Yale was just as talented as any of their opponents last year. Except for Princeton, who outplayed them?

I don’t believe we lost commitments because of any particular problem with the program. There are a lot more moving parts to the whole recruitment picture for Yale, the league and for the entire Division 1 scene in past few years as the transfer portal now operates like a free agency system for college players. Consequently FBS schools are continually changing their list of recruits to adjust to changing needs hence the late offers to players like Brooks and Mendoza. Another factor that destabilizes the intended rosters for big time football is the recent ability for college athletes to make money on their names, images and likeness (NIL).. No doubt this is already motivating players to consider what schools they will attend in order to get the best chances for some monetary reward. Not saying the recent decommits like Brooks and Mendoza were due to these things but I sense our league is now faced with ever greater difficulty in recruiting the type of athlete that has offers from a Power 5 conference school.
As for losing three members of the coaching staff. Young ambitious coaches are motivated to move up the career ladder and seek higher incomes the way individuals do in any profession.

A new Yale commit from offers from Power 5 Conference schools: Defensive Back Da’Quan Gonzalez.. 28 offers.

Please forgive my typos as I am a first-time poster. Anyways, Rivals shows Da’Quan Gonzalez had offers from the University of Miami, LSU, Michigan State, Ole Miss, Tennessee, and Boston College, among others. He played his football down here in Florida for Jensen Beach High and did a PG year at Loomis Chaffee. No need to panic. We should celebrate Coach Reno’s recruiting success.

What about NIL? We have wealthy supporters who could put money on the table for a t-shirt deal. Are there special Ivy league rules that don’t allow that? They are not athletic scholarships. They are just pay to play money. Is Yale too ethical to consider doing what everyone else is doing? Are Princeton and Harvard already doing so?

Da’Quan Gonzalez, verbally committed.why does 247 never updates its files on there site for Yale. ?
Princeton, Harvard it’s up within hours . Yale sometimes never.

Another: Nico Brown, WR/CB, 6′ 0,” 180lbs, Edison HS, Huntington Beach, CA. Offers from: UC Davis, Cal Poly, San Diego, Rice, Columbia, Dartmouth, Penn, Harvard, and others.
Time for a current list.

We have a new Co D coordinator and D Line Coach . Mr. Dottin – Carter from UConn.
Welcome to Yale Coach call you DC

They should get the DB coach at UConn also. Those DB’s ripped the ball away from Yale’s receivers more than a couple of times.

YALE COMMIT:

CAMERON PRICE, W/R, 5 ‘ 11″ , 175 LBS. 4,49 40 YD DASH. ST. THOMAS H.S., HOUSTON , TX.
STATISTICS :
11 GAMES : 1549 YDS., 80 RECEPTIONS, 18 TDS. 2ND TEAM AII STATE & 1ST TEAM ALL DISTRICT

Actually if Yale is still playing Mercer then that leaves only 10/1 open for Yale. That rules out both Georgetown and Bucknell who have conflicts on that date. It will be interesting to see who Yale comes up with.

Yale is still Yale. They should be able to find a school willing to negotiate their way out of a current commitment if necessary.

YALE COMMITS :

NICO BROWN, W/R , 6′ , 180 LBS. 4.59 40 YD. DASH. EDISON H.S., HUNTINGTON BEACH, CA.
STATISTCS-9 GAMES :
47 REC, . 765 TOTAL YDS. 16.3 YDS. PER REC. , 69. 5 YDS. PER GAME: 9TDS.

BILLY DAAL, RB, 6′ 1″, 201 LBS. TAFT PREP SCHOOL, WATERTOWN, CT.
STATISTIS: INCOMPLETE – 3 GAMES
57 CARRIES , 350 YDS., 6.1 YDS. PER CARRRY; 7 REC., 75 YDS., 4 TDS. TOTAL.

JOSEPH NASH, DL. , 6 ‘ 2 “, 265 LBS. TAFT PREP SCHOOL, WATERTOWN , CT.

Clarification, death occurred during “Hell week” but he was not training when he reported being ill.

I’m broken hearted, Kyle was a great young man. Who had a great attitude. Was very amiable and had a great smile.
He had some troubles. But who hasn’t. My condolences to his family . God Bless ya.

Crickets from Yale Football on his passing. I guess giving your life in service of your country doesn’t match their woke values.

Well I guess I got kicked off the Voy board. I called out the jerk offs who were discussing Kyle’s problems at Yale. I thought it was uncalled for and said they should be ashamed, what if Kyle’s parents view the forum. I know that some of you post there, but I’ve lost respect for some….it just a good ole boys forum that is full circle jerks anyway

SON OF ELI GREAT JOB YOU KNOW HOW TO MAKE EVERYONE FELL GREAT .I STILL HATE THAT CHEAP SCORE BOARD YALE PUT UP SHAME ON THEM SEE YOU NEXT SEASON

SON OF ELI GREAT JOB YOU KNOW HOW TO MAKE EVERYONE FELL GREAT .I STILL HATE THAT CHEAP SCORE BOARD YALE PUT UP SHAME ON THEM SEE YOU NEXT SEASON

Excited about these ’22 recruits…one thing for sure, the offense will be fun to watch.

Mike McDaniel has hired his former classmate Chandler Henley to join the Dolphins staff. Henley will be the dolphins new Offensive Line Assistant Coach. Yale us becoming the new cradle of coaches.

Over on the voy board there is a thread about Yale players trash talking against opponents. Sounds like other Ivy teams notice this and reference to Yale dirty tactics. Tony must encourage this crap.

Don’t know if that’s true that Yale does more trash talk than other teams, but a good rule to follow is to let your performance do the talking.

I don’t know first hand that there was more trash talking from the Yale side vs. opponents. But, we did seem to get an inordinate number of personal foul penalties (often in crucial situations.). Are there any data on PF penalties from last year or beyond? I found the interview with Reno very inconsistent with some of the observations that we have become a trash talking, penalty prone team.

Time for a new thread. How about something on spring practice or recruiting. Or just a new thread titled “New Thread”

Gentlemen; interview with Coach Reno was very uneventful at best..Interesting the comments about Mr. Grooms were very similar to the comments about Mr, O’Connor the precious year.. Maybe there is a another signal caller in the woodwork who will emerge as the second calling of Mr. Dowling.. Our. squad needs linebackers plain and simple.

Right on! Time will tell. Good fortune to baseball, lacrosse, and heavyweight crew! What are the prospects for women’s sports? Lately, they have also excelled!

Mr. Dowling… look, I saw all his home games and he was magic personified and a Winner with a capital W. That said, his arm fell well short of Mr. Ryan and Mr. Rawlings. How about the second calling of Kurt Rawlings?

Gentlemen; I am not going to throw any cold water on mr. bulldog bills comments. As for pure passers may I add mr. winterbauer, mr.rogan and mr.lee.

I think O ‘Connor would have been fine if he had Klubnik and Shohfi to throw to. Thet being said, he made poor decisions and could not avoid sacks.

Grooms gives them the ability to avoid some of the sacks that even Rawlings couldn’t avoid.

Whether Grooms can be consistent is the question, but, except for Princeton, he did put points on the board. And 31 points should beat Harvard every year.

Good assessment by Bulldog10JW.
Grooms has the potential to be an outstanding dual threat but he needs to improve his passing efficiency. Nothing more exciting than watching a talented qb run for big yardage. I think we will be seeing that from Grooms a fair number of times over the next two seasons.

Men’s Heavyweight Crew should be #1 as well.
Hello Moderator(s): How about a list of football recruits?

When does Spring practice start? Will there be a Spring “game?”
What are our losses of players with remaining eligibility?
What’s happening?

Yale Lacrosse puts the screws to Nova today 17 to 14. Congratulations look forward to see this very young team grow.

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