Columbia had 11 players grab All Ivy honors Tuesday, with three of them making the All Ivy 1st Team:
FIRST TEAM ALL-IVY^
OFFENSE
Mason Williams, Harvard (Sr., OL – Murfreesboro, Tenn.)
Trevor Radosevich, Penn (Sr., OL – Englishtown, N.J.)
*Henry Byrd, Princeton (Sr., OL – Nashville, Tenn.)
*Nick Gargiulo, Yale (Sr., OL – Yorktown Heights, N.Y.)
*Kiran Amegadjie, Yale (Jr., OL – Hinsdale, Ill.)
Nolan Grooms, Yale (Jr., QB – Lake Wylie, S.C.)
*Aidan Borguet, Harvard (Sr., RB – Franklinville, N.J.)
Trey Flowers, Penn (Sr., RB – Miami, Fla.)
Joshua Pitsenberger, Yale (Fr., RB – Bethesda, Md.)
Bryson Canty, Columbia (So., WR – Pfafftown, N.C.)
*Andrei Iosivas, Princeton (Sr., WR – Honolulu, Hawaii)
Dylan Classi, Princeton (Sr., WR – Englewood Cliffs, N.J.)
Tyler Neville, Harvard (Jr., TE – Williamsburg, Va.)
DEFENSE
*Truman Jones, Harvard (Sr., DL – Atlanta, Ga.)
Thor Griffith, Harvard (Jr., DL – Portsmouth, N.H.)
Jake Heimlicher, Penn (Sr., DL – Aurora, Colo.)
Matthew Jester, Princeton (Sr., DL – Spring, Texas)
*Scott Valentas, Columbia (Sr., LB – Wichita, Kan.)
Jack McGowan, Harvard (Sr., LB – Canton, Mass.)
Garrett Morris, Penn (Sr., LB – Auburn, Ala.)
*Liam Johnson, Princeton (Jr., LB – Moorestown, N.J.)
Kendren Smith, Penn (Sr., DB – Charlotte, N.C.)
Michael Ruttlen Jr., Princeton (Sr., DB – Mount Juliet, Tenn.)
*Wande Owens, Yale (Jr., DB – Cooksville, Md.)
CJ Wall, Princeton (Sr., DB – Plano, Texas)
SPECIAL TEAMS
Alex Felkins, Columbia (Sr., K – Tulsa, Okla.)
Jack Bosman, Yale (Jr., K – San Diego, Calif.)
Ben Krimm, Penn (Sr., P – Columbus, Ohio)
Julien Stokes, Penn (So., RS – Newbury Park, Calif.)
SECOND TEAM ALL-IVY ^
OFFENSE
Donovan Allen, Brown (Sr., OL – Douglasville, Ga.)
Will Hamilton, Columbia (Sr., OL – Suwanee, Ga.)
Joe Kelly, Cornell (Sr., OL – Leawood, Kan.)
Jake Rizy, Harvard (Jr., OL – Westport, Conn.)
Ben Hoitink, Penn (Sr., OL – Hartford, Wis.)
Jalen Travis, Princeton (Jr., OL – Minneapolis, Minn.)
Blake Stenstrom, Princeton (Jr., QB – Highlands Ranch, Colo.)
Allen Smith, Brown (Sr., RB – Westerville, Ohio)
Joey Giorgi, Columbia (Jr., RB – Grafton, Wis.)
Wes Rockett, Brown (Sr., WR – Marblehead, Mass.)
Thomas Glover, Cornell (Sr., WR – Pasadena, Calif.)
Kym Wimberly, Harvard (Sr., WR – Slidell, La.)
Rory Starkey, Penn (Sr., WR – Atlanta, Ga.)
Carson Bobo, Princeton (Sr., TE – Birmingham, Ala.)
Jackson Hawes, Yale (Jr., TE – Salt Lake City, Utah)
DEFENSE
Justin Townsend, Columbia (So., DL – Randolph, N.J.)
Shane Cokes, Dartmouth (Sr., DL – Dayton, Ohio)
Reid Nickerson, Yale (Sr., DL – Friendswood, Texas)
Clay Patterson, Yale (Jr., DL – Frisco, Texas)
Jake Stebbins, Cornell (Sr., LB – Cranberry Township, Pa.)
Joe Heffernan, Dartmouth (5th, LB – Brookfield, Wis.)
Ozzie Nicholas, Princeton (Jr., LB – Encinitas, Calif.)
Hamilton Moore, Yale (Jr., LB – Raleigh, N.C.)
Josh Ofilli, Brown (Sr., DB – Katy, Texas)
Paul Lewis III, Cornell (Sr., DB – Middle River, Md.)
Quinten Arello, Dartmouth (Sr., DB – Kansas City, Mo.)
Jaden Key, Penn (Sr., DB – Neptune, N.J.)
SPECIAL TEAMS
Jackson Kennedy, Cornell (Jr., K – Aldie, Va.)
William Hughes, Columbia (Jr., P – Fairfax, Va.)
Davon Kiser, Cornell (Fr., RS – Lauderdale Lakes, Fla.)
HONORABLE MENTION ALL-IVY
OFFENSE
Hunter Folsom, Brown (Sr., OL – Ocala, Fla.)
Stew Newblatt, Columbia (Sr., OL – Clarkston, Mich.)
Micah Sahakian, Cornell (Jr., OL – Mount Prospect, Ill.)
Nicholas Schwitzgebel, Dartmouth (Jr., OL – Cleveland, Ohio)
Austin Gentle, Harvard (So., OL – Chattanooga, Tenn.)
Scott Elliott, Harvard (Sr., OL – Holliston, Mass.)
Connor Scaglione, Princeton (Sr., OL – Closter, N.J.)
Jonathan Mendoza, Yale (Jr., OL – Westhampton Beach, N.Y.)
Cubby Schuller, Yale (Sr., OL – Bedminster, N.J.)
Jameson Wang, Cornell (So., QB – El Segundo, Calif.)
Aidan Sayin, Penn (So., QB – Carlsbad, Calif.)
Ryan Butler, Princeton (Fr., RB – Plainfield, N.J.)
Tre Peterson, Yale (Jr., RB – Columbus, Ga.)
JJ Jenkins, Columbia (Sr., WR – San Clemente, Calif.)
Mason Tipton, Yale (Jr., WR – Akron, Ohio)
Ryan Lindley, Yale (Jr., WR – Austin, Texas)
Matt Robbert, Cornell (Jr., TE – Centereach, N.Y.)
Jace Henry, Dartmouth (Jr., TE – Fairbanks, Alaska)
DEFENSE
Max Lundeen, Cornell (5th, DL – East Grand Rapids, Mich.)
Nate Leskovec, Harvard (Sr., DL – Solon, Ohio)
Joey Slackman, Penn (Jr., DL – Commack, N.Y.)
Micah Morris, Penn (Sr., DL – Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Uche Ndukwe, Princeton (Sr., DL – Dedham, Mass.)
Alvin Gulley, Yale (So., DL – Belleville, Ill.)
Adam Raine, Yale (Sr., DL – Basingstoke, England)
Connor Henderson, Cornell (Jr., LB – Matthews, N.C.)
Jake Brown, Harvard (Sr., LB – Fredon, N.J.)
Jonathan Melvin, Penn (Sr., LB – Hampton, Va.)
Jack Fairman, Penn (Jr., LB – Bloomfield Hills, Mich.)
Joseph Vaughn, Yale (Sr., LB – San Jose, Calif.)
Isaiah Reed, Brown (So., DB – Tampa, Fla.)
Cooper DeVeau, Brown (Sr., DB – Foxboro, Mass.)
Fara’ad McCombs, Columbia (Sr., DB – Passaic, N.J.)
Seth Parker, Columbia (Jr., DB – Hoover, Ala.)
Demetrius Harris, Cornell (5th, DB – Muskegon, Mich.)
Alex Washington, Harvard (Sr., DB – Hoover, Ala.)
Khalil Dawsey, Harvard (Sr., DB – Detroit, Mich.)
Shiloh Means, Penn (Jr., DB – Indianapolis, Ind.)
Kyle Ellis, Yale (Sr., DB – Cumming, Ga.)
SPECIAL TEAMS
Will Powers, Princeton (Sr., P – Manhattan Beach, Calif.)
Sebastien Tasko, Harvard (So., P – Ridgewood, N.J.)
AJ Barber, Princeton (So., RS – Old Greenwich, Conn.)
Jack Bill, Harvard (Sr., RS – Huntington, N.Y.)
I don't have too many quibbles with this list. But I would have put DL Justin Townsend on the 1st team and included WR Marcus Libman on the Honorable Mention list, especially after his last two games. Both will be back next season to prove my point.
One thing that was good news is that LB Scott Valentas was a unanimous choice for 1st Team All Ivy, putting him in a good position to win the Bushnell Cup for Defensive Player of the year.
There were three other unanimous choices on the 1st Team defense, so this is not a slam dunk by any means. But Valentas' chances are good, considering his strong stats a across the board. We'll find out if he's a finalist for the award on Nov. 29th, and we'll take it from there.
Columbia has not had a Bushnell Cup winner since QB John Witkowski '84 won it in 1983 when the Bushnell was awarded to just one player as the overall Ivy MVP. The award was changed to give an offensive and defensive players recognition about 10 years ago.
After that award drama plays out, the sole focus will be on which senior Lions will commit to coming back next year as opposed to graduating or testing out the transfer portal. Among the All Ivy awardees for Columbia, the potential returnees include everyone but Stew Newblatt and Fara'ad McCombs. However, Valentas is most likely going to graduate, and Felkins has already put his name in the transfer portal (though Felkins can always change his mind about that, as Ryan Young did last year).
The list of key seniors Columbia would love to have back begins with OL Will Hamilton, who could help diminish a serious graduation hit the O-line is set to take.
WR JJ Jenkins, would help to keep the CU passing game lethal with multiple deep threats to work with.
Of course, though he didn't make All Ivy QB Caden Bell is a key hoped-for returnee for 2023. My sources tell me he is now planning on doing just that.
As far as Head Coach Al Bagnoli is concerned, it continues to look like he will return for another year.
21 comments:
Given the stats and three first team all ivy stats, how does Joey not make it over tre from Penn? Especially since everyone knew Tre was going to be the league back while Joey was a surprised starter that average the highest yards per carry in the league games. Just my 2 cents.
I think someone referenced it in the previous post, but it definitely seems like the mixed up the Trey from Penn with the Tre from Yale. Trey from Yale outrushed his first team all ivy rb counterpart. Seems like a mistake if you ask me.
Bryson Canty was the only sophomore selected to the First Team All Ivy.
I agree that Marcus Libman should have been selected to at least Honorable Mention All-Ivy. He was fantastic in the late season.
Canty and Libman will be returning so the Lions will have back two of the most dynamic wide receivers in the Ivy League. If JJ Jenkins, then the LIons will have three of the most dynamic wide receivers in the Ivy League.
William Hughes is an amazing story--First Team All Ivy Punter who didn't see the field until late in the season. I wonder why no one realized that Hughes was a great punter until then. And, if Felkins is moving on, then we clearly need to recruit another standout kicker. Special Teams are critical to a team's success. Lesson learned this year, right?
What kind of stats did Dante Miller and Mike Roussos put up this year at South Carolina and Florida State? Ryan Young made a very smart decision to play for the Lions in his graduate year.
Not sure about Mikey but Dante did nothing at SC
Many times the ones doing this will acquiesce to the upperclassmen. He’s done ,the Yale Tre, has 2 more years. Looking at what Yale has coming back. They look poised for another run , at an Ivy League Championship. All their skill players are coming back. Along with that Big Ten like OLine.
Mike Roussos had 2 catches in the last game and that was it. The defensive players had more impact at Virginia and Duke.
I hope Jake is right that QB .Bell is likely to return next
season. He’s a gamer and talented too.
Joey Georgi was a great surprise. A real old school halfback who had good speed, excellent balance, the ability to wait for his blocks to develop, good hands and the ability to block. In short, a complete back.
Shifty is the word I like
Why didn’t Painton (baby Gronk) receive any All Ivy honors?
Shocked to see Butler is entering the transfer portal.
Thanks for the info on Roussos and Miller. It seems as if they would have been better off playing their grad year at Columbia. At the very least they would have had many more opportunities to impress the pro scouts, if that was their primary goal in transferring out. It seems as if Ryan Young made the best decision of the three in finishing his college career at Columbia.
FYI, a Columbia player who decides to graduate can not play football in the Ivy League even with the NCAA CoVid year exception. The 5th year players who have come back for a '5th year' like Ryan Young had to drop out of school in the Spring semester of their senior year so that can play the following Fall.
Also, the kids that choose to graduate and transfer for a grad transfer year at another school may also be interested in having someone pay for graduate school (i.e. Miller was in South Carolina's business school going for a MBA in Sports Management).
I think some players and their families also like the idea of graduating with their class instead of dropping out of school for a semester and then graduating in December. Basketball makes this an easy call- there a player like Alex Rosenberg had to drop out of school for a full year; most choose to graduate on time and do a grad year elsewhere.
Can’t find a Butler on team roster.
No disrespect to Ryan, but if I had the year he had (disappointing due to the high standards he had for himself) I would’ve preferred to transfer like the other guys. Sure they aren’t putting up meaningful numbers but they got the top D1 experience that you can’t take away. Both have played for teams that were ranked in the top 25 and have a chance to win a bowl ring. You simply can’t get that experience at an ivy school. Columbia went 6-4 while both of their teams have better records. Now you tell me they made the wrong decision betting on themselves?
Maybe Ryan made a team first decision, perhaps a quaint notion for many but not for a true captain like Ryan. And PS, Ryan had a very respectable year leading his team to a winning record.
I respect that. But in my opinion, I’ll take competing for a bowl win over competing for winning record in the ivy any day. In the end, all made good decision for themselves. So no need to try to bash others that are honestly having a great year transferring out. What more did they need to prove at the ivy level?
PS, let’s hope the league keeps the # of recruits at 25. That is better for us than 30 if we assume that HYP has an advantage in recruiting. That means 15 more Ivy eligible recruits in the open market.
Check out the David Shaw resignation from Stanford. Another side that the FBS landscape has changed for the worse.
Really? This is from the official announcement:
"The falloff in recent years has been drastic. The Cardinal are 14-28 over the last four seasons, as the program has struggled to keep up in a rapidly changing college football landscape with players transferring more freely and earning money for name, image and likeness.
Stanford is 3-16 in Pac-12 play the past two seasons, including consecutive losses to rival California."
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