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Yale Football Blog Awards

MVP: Nolan Grooms, Quarterback

Senior of the Year: Nick Gargiulo, Center

Junior of the Year: Nolan Grooms, Quarterback

Sophomore of the Year: Inumidun Ayo-Durojaiye, Linebacker

Rookie of the Year: Joshua Pitsenberger, Running Back

Most Improved over Career: Kyle Ellis, Safety

Offensive Lineman of the Year: Nick Gargiulo, Center

Defensive Lineman of the Year: Reid Nickerson, Defensive End

Offensive Skill Position Player of the Year: Nolan Grooms, Quarterback

Defensive Skill Position Player of the Year: Hamilton Moore, Linebacker

Specialist of the Year: Jack Bosman, Kicker/Punter

Most Underrated Player: Ryan Lindley, Wide Receiver

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Good picks. I might have given Reid and Clay Patterson co-defensive lineman of the year.

I’m really looking forward to next season. It’s been a long while since Yale has put championship seasons back to back, but the talent is certainly there to do just that.

Ray or John any info on Quincy Briggs is he still a yale recruit or going to another school. Walt

Princeton will be playing Mercer in 2024 and 2025 in an away and home series. Should be interesting match-ups. Princeton has released their schedule through 2029. Why can’t Yale do that?

I’m happy Yale played Uconn in 2021 but I’m sorry they couldn’t have found a way to continue with the rest of the series with Mercer. Maybe Richmond will get back onto Yale’s schedule to make up for the 2020 cancellation but I doubt it. Looks like Yale is now scheduling less competitive OOC opponents.

An 11th game would certainly help scheduling more intriguing opponents.

By the way, checking out the 2024 schedules, it looks like the Ivy League teams first games are Sept 21. Holy Cross (and most other Ivy OOC opponents) opens on August 31 and will have three games under their belt before Yale.

Right away all the Ivy teams will start at a big disadvantage.

YALE COMMIT:

CHASE ALLEY, KICKER-LEFT FOOTER– FLORIDA.

READ HIS KKICKING STATS ON YALE FOOTBALL TWITTER

YALE FOOTBALL COACH TONY RENO TWITTER

I don’t see any announcement from Chase Alley that he’s committed. Think this needs confirmation

So we have a highly decorated athlete in Tajh Landrum, and an unconfirmed All State kicker from Florida in Chase Alley. Ok .
What about a Running Back.

Asst Coach Dennis Dottin Carter is leaving Yale to join the University of Minnesota staff. A big loss for Yale. Best wishes or coach Carter .

Correction, Coach Dottin-Carter was Asst. Head Coach at Yale, not Asst. Coach.

Yale will need to shore up their defensive line next season with the graduations of Raine, Oso and Nickerson. Hopefully there is a good defensive lineman in the transfer portal they can get.

YALE FOOTBALL WILL BE HOSTING SOME RECRUITS THIS WEEKEND. THERE IS A VERY GOOD RB ATTENDING.

New Yale commit: Dylan Darville, WR, CB, Emmaus High School in PA. 6’1” 185lbs. 8 Division I offers including Brown, Cornell, Navy, Penn, Dartmouth and Lafayette.

Gentlemen; The loss of coach Dotton- Carter will no doubt have a huge impact on the development of the defensive line for next year. Best of luck to him the minutemen are lucky to have him as a coach. There also appears to be an opening for the split end coach.

Gentlemen; my apologies the Golden gophers are lucky to have Dotton – Carter as there Coach. It also looks like departing Coach Cahill has filled his staff for this coming year.

It looks to me from his Twitter page that Juan Soto may have already been given the role of Wide Receivers coach.

With all the coaching disruption this off season, I’m hopeful a strong returning senior class will have a positive influence

I’m not worried , I feel there is plenty of leadership. From the upper class men. The revolving door continues. With the growth of this team. Coach Reno , spreading his coaching tree about.

As we come up on the 10th anniversary of Yale Mens Hockey winning the National Championship, the inexplicable deterioration of a once great program sadly continues.

It looked like things were getting a bit better, but after playing Harvard tough and losing in OT, Yale is back to getting blown out losing 4-0 to Dartmouth (who is terrible), and 6-1 to UConn .

The Dartmouth loss was deflating. They showed good fight today scoring 3 goals against Sacred Heart, but still fell short 4-3. The Connecticut Classic has demonstrated the sad reality that Yale Hockey has degenerated from National Champions to the worst Division I hockey program in Connecticut. Likewise, the last Rivalry on Ice game demonstrated Yale Hockey’s sad decline.

Last year was terrible. But what’s worse is that it doesn’t appear any progress was made this year towards rebuilding the program. They same issues persist, namely extremely low scoring both on power plays and in general. If you don’t score you can’t win.

A serious postmortem of the entire program is in order immediately following the season. Perhaps a consultant should be brought in to do this, like Columbia did with their football program when the asked Bagnoli to handle that function. Of course, he was later hired as the new coach.

The coach from Yale is waiting for his son to finish school then he will be gone. Sad once a great program coach cannot recruit any more lost his edge with recruits. Yale is losing the recruiting wars to schools that have new playing areas, Time to close the Whale and start new.

I was hoping to hear of some more commitment news. for football , after this last weekend.. especially if they could secure a running back.?

Don’t get me wrong, Yale has a great class coming in. A Running Back would , to me be the cherry on top.

About men’s hockey: you would think that a highly successful team (National Champions!) would recruit itself! Who wouldn’t want to play with the best? Unless you wouldn’t play. I wonder if the prospect of diminishing playing time over the successful years has led to less successful recruiting. I have no idea. Just thinking. Meanwhile, relish our women’s hockey team! 21-1-1! Just took over #1 in RPI ranking from OSU. Don’t mean to jink them, but they are terrific!

A Twitter post like our coach’s can mean many things, none of which have anything to do with Yale football or football in general.

Looks like 3 members of last year’s coaching staff have moved on. OC-Cahill as Lehigh head coach, TE-McMaster as Cahill’s WR coach at Lehigh, and DL-Dottin-Carter to Minnesota as “defensive analyst.” WR-Ostrowsky now officially OC and also QB coach (filling Cahill’s slots).
Coaching turnover comes with the territory, especially when when championships are being won. Not like the Cozza era, where it seemed assistant jobs were lifetime appointments.

Your comparison is apples and oranges. . Different ERA’s . Those staffs for some stayed intact. But there was switches.
In my opinion, the staff were loyal to Carm, he treated them fairly and let them coach the players . He also wasn’t a micro manager. That says a lot, right there.
Reno, has done well but he alienates, stays an arm length away .from the fans of Yale football . It works for him. I also feel it has turned a lot of people off. As with the new Athletic Director. No idea on how to market a product. 7,900 for Princeton game .!! But Carm Cozza exudes class and a true gentleman. Delaney Kipputh, and Tom Beckett knew how to . Did it RIGHT Bring back the radio broadcasts.

And Carm won 1 ivy title in his last 15 years…was far too loyal imo. Seb Laspina and his antiquated office as on example.

Many think Carm losing Buddy as DC after 81 had a lot to do with Yale’s 15 year slide.

Yale in 2022 ran a very Seb and Carm type offense. Run the ball the run some more. Control the game.

Give me the better players and they will usually win.

Carm was a great recruiter and Yale usually had the best players in the league from 1967-1981. After that, not so much for various reasons.

Tony seems to be getting a big share of great recruits. You want to have good coaches, of course, but the old saying is you can’t make chicken salad out of chicken ****.

Get the best players and you will win three quarters of your games by default.

Just because you run the ball doesn’t mean you are running the same offense. Yale runs a shotgun, spread offense with 1 back and 3 WRs. That is absolutely unlike what Seb ran.

And the only person to blame for fall off in recruiting is Carm. The staff should have been refreshed and that falls on HC’s shoulders.

Nitpicking. The offensive philosophy is the same.

Carm does, of course, get some blame for the recruiting failures along with Bart Giamatti, the admissions office, and the Academic Index.

When numerous assistant coaches move on to bigger and better things it’s a strong indicator of the strength of the program. In Cozza’s time I can think of two off the top of my head who did that in a major way, Don Brown and Bob Shoop. New blood is good, as long as it doesn’t happen all at once. It stops the program from becoming stagnant.

Just checked on Shoop and he left Yale after the 96 season, Cozza’s last, so that’s different. Just have the Don Brown example.

This site has Robby Tattersall listed as a DE. I would I refer to see him at his other position, QB. At 6’5” 205 lbs he could be big runnng threat like Dartmouth’s Gerbino. He was fist team all state at both positions.

Tate has 18 Division I offers including Army, Navy, Bowling Green, Kent State, UAB and Old Dominion.

New Commit per the Telegraph – Quinton Lewis – OL Northside (GA) – 6-3 290 – Per Rivals 21 offers including Maryland, Tulane, and Harvard

I guess they felt they didn’t need one in this class. It’s tough to tell when players are graduating with the extra COVID eligibility. Tre Peterson for example might have two more years of eligibility. Same goes for Senior RB’s Lee, Saffold and Eboboko. Exocet next years class will look to replenish the RB stock.

We have a fine looking bunch of recruits, but let’s hold off on the champagne for a moment. Yes, 247’s analysis is hardly determinative, but 247 says we have two (Warner and Avera) three star recruits while H & P have three and four, respectively.
Also, each recruiting class generally has at least two QBs and two RBs. Moreover, the drop off in RB talent after the two Ps is steep. And, while I’m nit picking, what became of the RB we wined and dined this past weekend? A bad burger at Mory’s?
Enough grumbling for the moment. Go Bulldogs!

Spencer Alston , will be back as well. I can see it. But I would feel better with at least two one.

QUINTON LEWIS, OL, (6 ‘ 4″ , 290 LBS). HAD 10 FBS OFFERS. THEY INCLUDED AIR FORCE, APP. .STATE, BUFFALO, COASTAL CAROLINA, EAST CAROLINA , ETC.

I think it may be difficult to convince a top rb recruit to wait a year or two before seeing any significant playing time given the depth of talent which Yale has at this position. I don’t think there is any other position at this date that is so deep in talent. Whereas we can always use more hard hitting defensive players and linemen.

The coaching staff should really consider whether to reinstate a junior varsity team. It would help dissipate the boredom of inaction and assist with player evaluation/ development.

As long as HC has two or three games under their belts before they play Yale it will be a difficult opener.

Still, last year was the first time HC was definitely the better team. Yale had every chance to win and maybe should have, in 2018 and 2021.

COACH RENO STATED THAT DIFFERENT PHONE CALLS PRESUMABLY CONCERNING TEAM # 150 HAD MADE HIS DAY. WELL THAT IT TURNED OUT TO BE A BIG NOTHING. I WAS HOPING THAT IT BE ABOUT A RUNNING BACK COMMIT.SO SORRY !

Here you go Ray, Yale Basketball team Up at Halftime at Harvard. Yale 42 Harvard 25..!! Go Bulldogs.!!

Just as always Harvard is on a run long way to go Yale has to get some stops or it could be over

Y-68, H-57. Now, what about an RB? And ask coach to stop being coy on his Twitter account.

Coy? Really? Sorry to lead you to think that there really IS a big announcement (I also hope that there is!) But, as numerous posters have said, pre-matriculation (and football pre-season camp), little is known. How would you all have rated Josh Pitsenberger before his first game?

YALE COMMIT:
ABU KAMARA, RB, 6′,1″ , 205 LBS. . 4.6 FORTY YARD DASH , INTERBORO H.S., PROSPECT PARK, PA. STATS, 2 SEASON TOTAL :
2839 YDS (COUNTY RECORD)
252 RECEIVING YDS
42 TOTAL TDS ( COUNTY RECORD)
70 TACKLES
10 INTS, ( SCHOOL RECORD )
DELCO- TIMES PLAYER OF THE YEAR
MEMBER OF THE ” TERRIFIC 10″ FOR MR.PA FOOTBALL 4-6 A AWARD . MULTI 100 YDS PER GAME..

Given Alston’s return and now Kamara, here’s hoping our coaches can devise some two (or maybe three) RB formations. T formation, anyone?

One would only hope, what is the final count on who is coming into the program. Looking forward to seeing them playing next season.

GREAT JOB RAY AS ALWAYS. JOHN YOU HAVE YOUR RB LOOKS GOOD I HOPE HE STAYS AT RB HE COULD BE SPECIAL. IT ALL COMES DOWN TI OFFENSE LINE PLAY AND PLAY CALLING AND RECRUITING GREAT LINEMAN GREAT JOB BY RENO TO GET THIS YOUNG MAN GO YALE

Being in the “Terrific 10” for Mr. PA Football 4-6A (large schools) puts Mr. Kamara in pretty select company!

Foye Oluokun, leading tackler in the NFL for the last 2 years is not in the Pro Bowl? How is that?

To give credit where due, Yale Men’s Hockey swept the weekend beating Clarkson and St. Lawrence by identical 4-0 scores.

Men’s Hockey looked like a completely different team this weekend. It will be interesting to see if they can keep this level of play up.

What a great Yale sports weekend, Men’s , Women’s Basketball. Men’s and Women’s ice hockey Well done by all.
Coach Reno, pulling a quality Running Back outta of his hat. With all the other great young men.
I can only hope, that we have more weekends like this one.

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