FB: Liberty League

[The Man]

I am hearing that the winds of change are swirling on the South Hill of Ithaca, NY. I don't know anything for certain but I would not be shocked if by next week big changes are announced.

Toerper going to East Hill to be Swanstrom's new DC, I suppose.

https://footballscoop.com/2025/12/10/sources-ivy-league-school-parting-ways-with-defensive-coordinator

Toerper to Cornell as DC. Hopkins OC to Ithaca as new HC. 🤫

[ICGrad]

Coaches are adults -- and not just in the 18-year old legal sense, as in the fully developed brain sense-- they make more money than (most) of us to do what they do, and I think this makes them fair game for reasonable criticisms of performance.

I doubt this is true at the D3 level, but agree with everything else you said. Spot on.

Well, I know Toerper makes more than me, Fitzpatrick too, that's for sure. You fellas may be backing up the old Brinks trucks to the house, but I'm sure not, haha

I mean, I have almost 30 years experience as a programmer and work at a Fortune 100 company. I'm not rolling in dough, but I've been plugging away at this long enough to be doing ok.

[ICAlum16]

I would gladly welcome anyone from the Hopkins staff to the Ithaca staff

I am hearing that the winds of change are swirling on the South Hill of Ithaca, NY. I don't know anything for certain but I would not be shocked if by next week big changes are announced.

Toerper going to East Hill to be Swanstrom's new DC, I suppose.

https://footballscoop.com/2025/12/10/sources-ivy-league-school-parting-ways-with-defensive-coordinator

Toerper to Cornell as DC. Hopkins OC to Ithaca as new HC. 🤫

[IC798891]

It is official

https://athletics.ithaca.edu/news/2025/12/14/head-football-coach-michael-toerper-to-depart-ithaca-college.aspx

Closing the book on the Toerper Head Coach era at IC:

35-10 overall
23-2 in the Liberty League
3-2 in the NCAA playoffs
2-2 in Cortaca

Of his 10 losses, 7 of them came to teams that finished the season ranked 9th or higher in the final D3football.com poll.

And before the "he did his best work with Swanstrom's recruits" comments start, it's worth noting that he was the team's defensive coordinator through the 2019 season, and that the 2020 season giving everyone extra eligibility means that quite a large number of the defensive players who were part of the 2022/2023 playoff teams were indeed still "his" guys