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Subject: Re: State of The League


Author:
sparman
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Date Posted: 12:21:56 10/16/25 Thu
In reply to: John Harvard 's message, "Re: State of The League" on 15:52:30 10/07/25 Tue

Of course this is probably all just fodder for writers looking for a hot take, but Harvard may find itself with another coach search sooner than it wanted.

"Topic: Who's the next Curt Cignetti [Indiana coach hired from then-FCS James Madison]?

"With the carousel already very busy and likely to get busier, let's look at some under-the-radar coaches who should be considered for bigger stuff.

"Bill Connelly, ESPN: How about Harvard’s Andrew Aurich? He’s in his early 40s, he got his football Ph.D. as a Greg Schiano assistant, he coordinated some dynamite offenses at Princeton in the late-2010s and he’s 12-2 thus far with the Crimson. Harvard ranks fourth in my FCS SP+ rankings after winning its first four games by a combined 145 points."

Other names mentioned: Mercer head coach Mike Jacobs, former Holy Cross coach Bob Chesney, current Lehigh/fomer Yale coach Kevin Cahill.

(Source: The Athletic "Until Saturday" email newsletter.)

IMO this is exceptionally unlikely as he does not have an extensive HC record, but what he has done so far is good and his name is being surfaced in good company, so who knows.

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[> [> [> [> [> Subject: Re: State of The League


Author:
Crimson Carl
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Date Posted: 12:40:20 10/16/25 Thu

I doubt it. Recruiting at Harvard is a cakewalk, and thus they will ALWAYS be competitive versus leaving for greener pastures.
[> [> [> [> [> Subject: Re: State of The League


Author:
Ivy Inquisitor
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Date Posted: 19:53:17 10/16/25 Thu

In My perspective, at this point Coach Aurich won't get much attention form the Pennsylvania State and Virginia Tech openings. Oklahoma St could he a distant possibility. Andrew Aurich is one of the better upcoming coaches and may get serious consideration from one of the G5 openings. Aurich will have a easier (and more litigate) pathway to a national championship at the 1-AA level than the artificial 12 team 1-A playoff.

That might be enough to keep him around. As for the four power conferences they're now paying updawrds to $11 million a year. So that will make them risk adverse towards a great Ivy League coach. We'll see if he lands a G5 job and what he doses at that level. Today Indania reset the market by revising Curt Cignetti's contract to 8 years ,$93 million. Bobby Knight must be vomiting in his grave.Before the decade is over, we may see a $20 million a year coach.
[> [> [> [> [> Subject: The days of Ivy coaches being poached in FB and MBB may be over


Author:
Go Green
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Date Posted: 06:27:05 10/17/25 Fri


Reno and Surace had great runs at Yale and Princeton relatively early in their careers (although Surace's first two years were awful). Best I can tell, they never got any interest from the bigger boys.

And everyone was expecting Mitch Henderson to leave after taking Princeton to the Sweet 16. He's still here....

Throw in that Ivy coaches don't have much experience in the transfer portal or NIL, and it seems unlikely that Aurich (or McCorkle for that matter) is going anywhere...
[> [> [> [> [> [> Subject: Re: The days of Ivy coaches being poached in FB and MBB may be over


Author:
Fear the Quaker
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Date Posted: 09:33:52 10/17/25 Fri

For the IVY guys, I think the track to the crazy money is by either starting in the system like Browns coach. He went from Penn to the vikings and worked his way up through the system or Elko at Texas A$M who went from playing at Penn to assistant jobs in the IVY to mid major to the big guys.

The last IVY guy I can think of that made the jump was Blackman to Illinois, but unfortunately for him that was in the days of Ohio State or Michigan.

Urban Meyer made the trek similarly going from small to big.

Dartmouth should win easily tomorrow.

Enjoy the weekend.
[> [> [> [> [> [> Subject: If you're talking directly to Head Coach at P4 Conferences, yes


Author:
Go Green
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Date Posted: 09:54:39 10/17/25 Fri


But Teevens became the head coach at Tulane directly from Dartmouth and Kent Austin became the head coach in the CFL directly from Cornell.
[> [> [> [> [> [> [> Subject: Re: If you're talking directly to Head Coach at P4 Conferences, yes


Author:
Fear the Quaker
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Date Posted: 10:19:10 10/17/25 Fri

My inference from the initial post was bigger football or Bball schools was the subject.
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Author:
Tiger69
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Date Posted: 11:32:15 10/17/25 Fri

Aurich deserves better than harvard 😁


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