Today is the last day of double sessions for the Big Green. After a lengthy intrasquad scrimmage yesterday afternoon, this is expected to be a relatively light day. I'll try to have an update on the injury front after the morning practice.
Several folks have emailed asking who to contact and how to reach them to comment on Dartmouth's new athletic web site. I suggested they might hold off and give the college and its new web partner a little time to work out the kinks, time they need. From the web site this morning: "Welcome to the new Dartmouth Varsity Athletics Website. Please bear with us as we are experiencing some technical difficulties. Our staff is working diligently with our new partner, XOS, to resolve these issues, add new content, and improve the site as quickly as possible. We appreciate your patience."
Remember that recent story about the Ivy League seeking to change the NCAA rules allowing unlimited text messaging of recruits? The Daily Pennsylvanian followed up with an interesting story that included this note from Quaker basketball freshman Justin Reilly: "Once I got 1,900 text messages, the majority from coaches, and it was a $700 bill." Said Penn football coach Al Bagnoli: "I don't think a complete ban is necessary, but I do think it should be moderated. You can't have a top recruit turning off his phone for football practice and turn it on afterwards to find 20 text messages from coaches."
Columbia coach Norries Wilson has a colorful (and painful) way of explaining his offensive philosophy. In a story about both his offensive and defensive playbook, he told the Spectator: "It's like the first time a guy goes to shave," Wilson explained of the slash-and-burn. "You don't know what you're doing, you just keep nicking at a spot, and all of a sudden that nick becomes a gash. That's what we want to do with our run game-just keep nicking at different spots until we can turn those small gains into big gains, and once we're able to get them to commit to stopping the run game, we burn them with some mid-range and deep passes." The Spectator also offers its preview of Princeton.
In his comments after Thursday's practice, Tennessee Titans coach Jeff Fisher said of a former Dartmouth tight end he claimed off waivers from the Carolina Panthers: "I think Casey’s (Cramer) got a full plate right now because he’s got to play a couple of different positions, in addition to the special teams." ... Former Yale tight end Nate Lawrie, who, like Carmer was drafted by Tampa Bay and like Cramer has bounced around the NFL, is with the Saints right now. In addition to tight end, he found himself stepping in as the team's emergency quarterback. According to this story, he's never thrown a pass in a football game at any level. Interestingly, the Lawrie-Cramer parallel continues; Cramer was Dartmouth's emergency quarterback one year and even played a little out of the shotgun at Harvard. (He didn't throw any passes either.)
Former Princeton player Marc Ross, now a scout with the Buffalo Bills, was in Durham, N.H., this week to take a look at UNH wide receiver David Ball according to the Union Leader. Ross, who recalled the Tigers being tortured during his career by one Jay Fiedler, had this to say about Ball: "“He’s probably not a burner like most people. But he’s got good play speed and a big thing for him is he doesn’t have to be two yards ahead of a player to make a play. He can be even and he has the ability to go up. At our level, you don’t get wide, wide open. It’s how you make plays in tight areas and that’s what separates him right now."
A happy ending to this post. Khaliq Gant, the Cornell baskeball player who dislocated two vertebrate in his neck in a practice collision last winter, is back taking classes and walking on his own after "a seven-hour surgery, and months of inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation at the Shepherd Spinal Center in Atlanta." For the uplifting Cornell Sun story about Gant's journey back, click here.
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