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Subject: Princeton Class of '30 Recruits Author: Bengal [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 21:05:19 04/21/25 Mon Grayson Beck, 6'2" 210 lbs, LB, Mt. Lebanon HS (Penn.), 3.8 GPA. Harvard, Brown, New Hampshire, Lafayette, Fordham, Lehigh, Toledo, Kent State, Akron, E. Michigan Ryan Kerchner, 6'5" 235, TE, Spring-Ford HS (Penn.) 4.72 40; Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Bryant, Stony Brook, New Hampshire, Kent State, Army Anthony Bitonti, 6'3' 210; 4.2 GPA, De La Salle Collegiate HS (Mich.), Michigan Sports Writers Assoc. 1st Team All-State, DC, Penn, E. Mich, C. Michigan, Kent State, UMass, twitter feed reflects a 3 star but don't know from whom Palmer Riley, 6'5" 240 lb, DE, MLB, LT (probably a DE in college), Menlo HS (Cal), 3.68 GPA, DC, H Jack Martines, 6'5" 280 lbs, LT, DE Sachem East (NY), 4.0 GPA, Yale, H, Cornell, Columbia, New Hampshire, Lafayette, Monmouth, Colgate, Bryant, Delaware, Fordham, Georgetown, Buffalo, Stony Brook [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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[> Subject: Re: Princeton Class of '30 Recruits Author: Bengal [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 21:14:06 04/21/25 Mon Bitonti is listed as a LB/QB. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: Princeton Class of '30 Recruits Author: Bengal [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 19:44:35 04/27/25 Sun Thomas Borgia, DL, 6’2” 240 lbs, West Morris (NJ). All North Jersey; 2nd Team All-State; 7th in state as hvy wrestler; Columbia, Penn, Bucknell, Georgetown, Lehigh [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: Princeton Class of '30 Recruits Author: Bengal [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 13:41:23 05/15/25 Thu Vann Hopping, RB, 5’11” 205lbs, Lake Travis HS (Tex), 4.55 40; 4.0 GPA Yale, Columbia, Penn, DC, Cornell, Colgate, Fordham, Holy Cross, Bryant Kole Fager, WR, 6’1” 190 lbs, Palatine HS (Illinois), 4.7 weighted GPA, 2x All-conference and HM All-Area, 2x Academic All-State. Yale, Harvard, DC,Penn, Cornell, Army, AF. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: Princeton Class of '30 Recruits Author: Bengal [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 19:50:01 05/16/25 Fri Ryan Myers, OL, 6'5" 290 lbs, Batavia HS (Ill.), 4.06 GPA, 1st Team All-Area. Yale, Columbia, Cornell, Fordham, AF, Army, So. Ill., Univ of Central Arkansas, Old Dominion, San Diego State, Miami of Ohio, Toledo, Western Michigan [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: Princeton Class of '30 Recruits Author: Bengal [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 13:55:21 06/06/25 Fri Chris Oswitt, OL, 6'4" 285 lbs, Williston (Mass.), 4.0 GPA Brown, Cornell, Penn, Dartmouth, UNH, URI, UMASS, Richmond, Colgate, Navy, Army, Georgetown, Bryant [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: Princeton Class of '30 Recruits Author: Bengal [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 12:00:27 06/25/25 Wed Derrick Williams, ATH (S/RB/WR/KR/PR), 6'2" 185 lbs.; Detroit Country Day (Mich), 3.7 GPA; also a high jumper. Columbia, Penn, Cornell, Yale Fifita Kongalota Tauteoli-Moore, ILB, 6'2" 218 lbs., Corona HS (Cal.), 4.3 GPA Cornell, Georgetown, Idaho, Northern Arizona James Moffat, DL (also played OT), 6'4' 255 lbs., Crespi Carmelite HS (Cal), 4.8 40; 4.4 GPA Penn, Portland State, Northern Arizona, Utah Tech Will Berry, DE, 6'4" 257 lbs., Jesuit HS (New Orleans, LA), also wrestled and did track, 4.62 GPA, 35 ACT Lafayette, AF Alex Russey, ATH (WR?); 6'4" 210, Hun School, 4.0 GPA; recovering from torn ACL Yale, Penn, Harvard, Brown, Buffalo, Army [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: Princeton Class of '30 Recruits Author: Bengal [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 12:54:27 06/27/25 Fri Cooper Bauer, Edge/LB, 6'2" 225 lbs, Grandview (Ohio); 2nd Team All Ohio; 4.5 GPA. Cornell, Penn, Mercer, Kent State, Army, Georgetown [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: Princeton Class of '30 Recruits Author: Tiger81 [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 15:47:42 06/27/25 Fri Matt Bowers OL 6’4” 290 lbs. Central Catholic (PA) Buffalo, New Hampshire, Cornell, Towson, Maine, Colgate, Stony Brook, Albany, Rhode Island https://pittsburghsportsnow.com/2025/06/27/another-wpial-player-pledges-commitment-to-ivy-league-school/ [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> Subject: Re: Princeton Class of '30 Recruits Author: Ole Nassau [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 16:18:49 06/29/25 Sun I saw Matt play in HS, he's a good one. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: Princeton Class of '30 Recruits Author: Tiger81 [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 17:04:24 06/30/25 Mon James Rush RB 5'11" 175 lbs. Saline (MI) Dartmouth, Penn, Navy, Akron, Bowling Green, Buffalo, Kent State [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> Subject: Re: Princeton Class of '30 Recruits Author: Go Green [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 08:36:49 07/01/25 Tue Got to love running backs named "Rush." :) [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: Princeton Class of '30 Recruits Author: Bengal [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 10:37:22 07/01/25 Tue Hunter Stepanich TE/DE 6'7" 230 lbs, York HS (Ill.), 5.0 GPA, 2nd Team All-American VB player Cornell, Dartmouth, Lafayette, Air Force, Umass, Fordham, Western Michigan, Lehigh, Miami of Ohio, Toledo [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> Subject: Re: Princeton Class of '30 Recruits Author: Tiger81 [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 13:19:09 07/01/25 Tue Not sure I have ever seen a VB/FB two-sport athlete at Princeton? [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> Subject: Re: Princeton Class of '30 Recruits Author: joiseyfan [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 13:50:34 07/01/25 Tue Not as long as the sport’s been varsity. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> Subject: Re: Princeton Class of '30 Recruits Author: HDallmar [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 11:32:21 07/02/25 Wed Don Roth was a star defensive back for Princeton and the sixth man on the Tigers Final Four basketball in 1965 led by Bill Bradley. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> [> Subject: Re: Princeton Class of '30 Recruits Author: joiseyfan [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 22:46:07 07/02/25 Wed Tons of wrestlers, baseball players, lax and T&F athletes over the years. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: Princeton Class of '30 Recruits Author: Bengal [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 13:19:42 07/03/25 Thu Markus Kier, WR, 6’2” 200lbs, Orange Lutheran HS; Loyola, (Cal.), lists himself as a 3 star. H, Penn, Y, Cornell, Dartmouth, Portland St, Colgate, UNLV, Fordham, No. Arizona, California. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> Subject: Re: Princeton Class of '30 Recruits Author: Tiger81 [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 15:24:27 07/03/25 Thu 247 also lists Kansas, Illinois and Colorado State in addition to Cal as offers. In past years we have seen recruits of this caliber fall off the radar when Stanford or PWO at a bigger time football factory comes to the party. But for now it is great that he wants to be a Tiger in 15 months! [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> Subject: Re: Princeton Class of '30 Recruits Author: HDallmar [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 17:24:26 07/05/25 Sat The Tigers have a transfer qb coming in from Utah. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> [> Subject: Is this the person? Author: sparman [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 18:44:26 07/05/25 Sat https://247sports.com/player/wyatt-becker-46117255/college-332580/ Looks like he had a lot of interest coming out of HS. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> Subject: Re: Princeton Class of '30 Recruits Author: Bengal [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 18:06:00 07/05/25 Sat He will enter P as a freshman. It appears he enrolled in college in January, in the latter half of his senior year in high school. Entered the portal 3 months later, committed to us on May 29. The NCAA may consider him a transfer, but, while I may be mistaken, I believe he will enroll as a first semester frosh. P has taken a few transfers like Stenstrom and that superstar pole vaulter, which I thought might herald a trend. But subsequent conversations with a bunch of head coaches and a non responsive reply from Eisgruber makes me believe they will be extremely rare to nonexistent going forward. I hope I am wrong. One problem is in accepting transfer credits; P could not have taken, for example, a consequential varsity athlete transfer who enrolled at another Ivy. Those rules apparently vary among the Ivies. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> Subject: Re: Princeton Class of '30 Recruits Author: joiseyfan [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 21:11:13 07/05/25 Sat Princeton’s current transfer policy, agressively pursued by the Admission office, focuses on veterans and junior college transfers, overwhelmingly first generation college students, a good proportion having board scores well above their prospective classmates. The word “athlete” has never been mentioned to my knowledge. This case involves someone applying late as a freshman, which happens from time to time under peculiar circumstances (i.e. it’s weird). [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> Subject: Re: Princeton Class of '30 Recruits Author: Tiger81 [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 09:35:08 07/06/25 Sun That is a strange one. It appears he entered the portal in April, was admitted in May, and is scheduled to enter Princeton this fall with the class of 2029. Oregon, Tennessee, and FSU were among his other offers, could be his spring ball experience at Utah was not positive. As with the blue chip WR above, this rollercoaster ride may or may not stop at FitzRandolph Gate … [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: Princeton Class of '30 Recruits Author: Bengal [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 14:54:10 07/09/25 Wed Ryan Rowe, LB, 6'1" 220 lbs., Pennridge HS (Pa); 4.6 40; 4.14 GPA Brown, Penn, Georgetown, Maine (full athletic scholarship), Lehigh [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: Princeton Class of '30 Recruits Author: Tiger81 [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 22:04:33 07/09/25 Wed Wow, 21 recruits as of early July. I wonder if Princeton and other Ivies will over-recruit in anticipation of attrition? [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> Subject: Re: Princeton Class of '30 Recruits Author: Bengal [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 15:11:11 07/10/25 Thu I don't know, but I doubt it. If there turns out to be less attrition than they anticipate they will have skewed future recruiting, to the extent the 108/4 is a real thing. I am guessing they just keep tabs on people they passed on initially and go back to them if a decommit does occur; and some Ivies are more likely to fill a gap with a transfer than others I would guess. Bear in mind, too, that commits we fans list here off of websites and twitter might well be on another team's list of recruits who made known their desire to play football and the latter coaches had a positive reaction. Not every one on our lists may actually be tabbed a football recruit for the 108/4 purposes. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> Subject: Re: Princeton Class of '30 Recruits Author: Tiger81 [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 16:57:36 07/10/25 Thu The complexity of roster management for Coach Surace and his brethren has gone up exponentially. In addition to backfilling decommits, they need to continually re-recruit their current players. The earlier filling in of the 2030 class may reflect that there is no downside to locking in a landing place while these recruits continue to shop for a better offer. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> Subject: Re: Princeton Class of '30 Recruits Author: Bengal [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 17:34:39 07/10/25 Thu T81, we Shoukd meet at one of the games this fall. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> Subject: Re: Princeton Class of '30 Recruits Author: Tiger81 [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 22:24:06 07/10/25 Thu That would be great! I live in the Bay Area now so I will let you know when I am coming back for a game. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> [> Subject: Re: Princeton Class of '30 Recruits Author: Bengal [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 08:27:05 07/11/25 Fri Ok. Most recently living in New Jersey? [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> [> [> Subject: Re: Princeton Class of '30 Recruits Author: Tiger81 [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 17:13:32 07/11/25 Fri Yup, for 30+ years, but the gravitational pull of grandchildren was too strong to resist! [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> [> [> [> Subject: Re: Princeton Class of '30 Recruits Author: Bengal [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 20:12:20 07/11/25 Fri Wonderful! [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> Subject: Re: Princeton Class of '30 Recruits Author: Bengal [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 16:21:27 07/14/25 Mon Head Coaches, especially so far, in basketball and football in the Ivies are functioning partly as General Managers as well as coaches. A relatively new development generated by NIL and the portal. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> Subject: Re: Princeton Class of '30 Recruits Author: Ole Nassau [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 18:41:49 07/19/25 Sat That is true. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: Princeton Class of '30 Recruits Author: Ole Nassau [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 22:27:39 07/20/25 Sun Bringing in a lot of size on the OL [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: Princeton Class of '30 Recruits Author: Bengal [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 14:45:28 07/22/25 Tue Kieran Edwards, DB 6'2" 192 lbs, Brunswick School (Conn.) Y, Brown, Cornell, Penn, Dartmouth, Wofford, Stonehill, CCSU, Bucknell, Air force, Navy, Monmouth, New Hampshire, Georgetown, UMASS Trajan Frasier Safety (also played RB), 6'0" 195 lbs; Arapahoe HS (Col.),4.56 40; 4.0 GPA; 2x HM All-State, also runs track Y, Penn, Kent State Wyatt Becker QB (previously referenced above), 6'2" 195 lbs, Sierra Canyon HS (Cal.); 4.6 GPA Utah, BC, Va. Tech, San Diego State, UNLV, Arizona State, Indiana, others Brady Schier WR Hun School (NJ) PG by way of Somerville HS (NJ), committed out of high school at which time his offers seemed to be-- Johns Hopkins; Trinity College, Gettysburg; Middlebury, Bowdoin, Wesleyan, Hamilton For Class of 31 (too early for separate thread) -- Jack Burnham DL 6'4 1/2" 268 lbs Westlake HS (Tex), 3.9 GPA, 30 ACT, will take a PG year Columbia, Coastal Carolina, Georgia State [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> Subject: Re: Princeton Class of '30 Recruits Author: Tiger81 [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 15:17:02 07/22/25 Tue Bengal - I replied in another thread that 247 lists Wyatt Becker as a 2025 commit, ON3 does as well. Where have you seen him listed as a 2026 recruit? Those sites also mention offers from Oregon, Georgia, TAMU, Cal, Miami, Penn State and other big-time programs that we rarely see for Ivy recruits. https://247sports.com/college/princeton/Season/2025-Football/Commits/ https://www.on3.com/college/princeton-tigers/football/2025/commits/ [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> Subject: Wait. What? Author: An Observer [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 16:22:15 07/22/25 Tue Are you telling me that the boys in New Jersey have recruited a quarterback prospect away from Oregon, Georgia, Miami, Penn State and Utah? What?? Wouldn't that make him the highest rated Ivy quarterback recruit since the kid who turned down Alabama, but then couldn't crack the Princeton starting line-up? I believe that Brevin White got a late offer from Nick Saban, which to me sounds like a "class fill-in" offer. That carries less weight than getting early offers from Kirby Smart, James Franklin and Kyle Whittingham. The latter are *real* offers. If this guy actually shows up on campus and puts on an orange helmet, then congratulations to Coach Surace and his recruiting staff. Wow. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> [> Subject: But didn't you hear? Author: Go Green [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 16:56:25 07/22/25 Tue Ivy League football is on its way to Division III. :) [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> Subject: Re: Princeton Class of '30 Recruits Author: Drew2411 [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 18:34:14 07/22/25 Tue Isn’t a 30 ACT pretty low for Ivy League? [ Post a Reply to This Message ]