Five Years of College Football Discussed

Five years of college football? It probably won't happen but there's discussion among members of the American Football Coaches Association of eliminating redshirt seasons and instead giving college football players five years to play five full seasons as this story explains. The guess here is that Division I-AA would be part of that plan, but don't for a second think the Ivies would jump on board if this ever comes to pass. Not gonna happen.

UPDATE: I received an email that the link to the story about halftime at college football games possibly being cut from 20 to 15 minutes was dead. Here's the working link.

The high school rugby national championships are slated for this weekend at the beautiful new Dartmouth rugby facility. The Daily D has a comprehensive look at what's ahead. According to a subscriber, one of the teams coming this way has several players who will be looking at Dartmouth both for rugby and possibly football. ... Hopefully the rain will hold off, but the forecast is not good. After a brief respite yesterday that allowed us to get our Little League practice in, there's rain anticipated today and right through the weekend. We snuck a Little League game in between the rain drops and puddles Monday, but tonight's game could be problematic. This weekend's 3-Pitch Tournament has already been postponed, leaving us hoping the forecast is wrong and we can use the opening to make up a rainout from last Saturday. I love Seattle but I didn't know I lived there.

In 2000 the Dartmouth football team had promising 6-foot-4 freshman quarterback named Eddie Lucas. After a series of injuries he would have been the starter the next fall, but he wasn't even on the roster. The lanky shortstop had decided to focus on baseball in hopes of a professional career and that turned out to be the right decision. He was drafted out of Dartmouth in the eighth round by the Kansas City Royals and is now playing third base for the High Desert Mavericks in High-A ball. Switched to third base, he's batting .281 with 12 doubles, two homers and 18 RBI's in 33 games. After a slow start, he went 12-for-16 with two doubles, five RBI's and five runs scored in a recent torrid stretch. For a story about Lucas and how he made it from Dartmouth to pro ball, click here.

An email to the Fairbanks newspaper trying to learn a little more about Dusty Posey, the offensive lineman who will be heading to Dartmouth from Alaska next fall, resulted not only in Dusty getting a little ink, but yours truly as well. Check this link. Posey, by the way, has been selected as a Student-Athlete of the Month for Region 6 athletics in Alaska. As a result, he will be featured on the news and in commercials throughout June. He has served as the president of the Alaska Native Youth Leadership Club at West Valley High School in Fairbanks and recently placed second in the shot in the regionals to earn a berth at states. He'll bypass that in favor of a family graduation trip to Seward where whalewatching will be on the agenda.

Not every football all-star coming to Dartmouth intends to play the game. Click here to read about a high school standout who will be watching from the sidelines. ... Want to see something that drives Ivy League coaches crazy? This story in the St. Petersburg Times (a newspaper that should know better) talks about a quarterback who chose to play basketball at the Citadel instead of possibly playing QB at Dartmouth because Division III football didn't appeal to him.