Sources: Cornell hiring Ivy League rival

Cornell, which has not had a winning season in more than 15 years and parted ways last month with David Archer, has zeroed in on its next football coach, sources tell FootballScoop.

And the Big Red are poised to poach a key assistant from an Ivy League rival in the process.

Dan Swanstrom is being targeted to become Cornell's next head football coach, several sources told FootballScoop. The deal is expected to be completed today. 

Yale assistant Jay Anderson had emerged as the other top candidate for the post. Anderson has been Yale’s defensive coordinator while also served before that at Johns Hopkins and Notre Dame College. 

For the past two seasons, Swanstrom has been the offensive coordinator for the Penn offense as the team won 14 games.

Previously the head coach at Ithaca College (N.Y.), Swanstrom also has experience in the school ranks -- he was Andrew Luck's high school coach in Texas for a season -- and has just wrapped up his second stint on Penn's staff.

Additionally, Swanstrom had a brief professional playing career in Germany after he starred collegiately at Rhodes College (Tennessee).

Cornell has struggled mightily as a football program with just two .500 seasons in its last 15-plus years. The Big Red's last winning campaign came in 2004 under Jim Knowles -- yes, the current Ohio State top-flight defensive coordinator who recently interviewed for the head coaching post at Duke University.