Time Changes "Did Not Have A Positive Effect"

School vacation week is over in New Hampshire and there were at least a couple of kids waiting for the bus this morning with long faces. Those faces brightened considerably when they were reminded that the next week's vacation in April will be capped by our annual trip to the Penn State Blue-White spring football game in Happy Valley. ...

Missed an NCAA release regarding a rollback of the time-saving rules. It included this interesting quote:

“The changes we made last year, overall, did not have a positive effect on college football at all levels,” said Michael Clark, chair of the committee and head coach at Bridgewater (Virginia) College. “Our charge is to protect the game and do what is best for college football. Last year’s game lost too many plays, but it accomplished the need to shorten the overall time it takes to play a game. The changes we have made for 2007 balance both of these issues.”

To read what those changes are, click here.

The sentiment is sweet but the facts are wrong in this Orlando Sentinel note about former Dartmouth linebacker Reggie Williams:

Congratulations to Reggie Williams, one of the truly good guys on the Orlando sports scene. Williams, vice president of Disney Sports Attractions, was one of eight honorees inducted into the Ivy League Football Hall of Fame. Williams was a standout linebacker at Dartmouth and for 14 seasons in the NFL with Cincinnati.

There isn't an Ivy League Football Hall of Fame. As this release notes, Williams was one of eight former players honored by the Ivy Football Association. The erroneous Hall of Fame note was also carried here. For what it's worth, there isn't a Dartmouth Hall of Fame either. Selected former athletes, coaches and administrators are inducted into the Wearers of the Green, but that isn't a true hall.

The Boston Herald has a story about UNH's David Ball and Brown's Zak DeOssie taking to the big stage at the NFL Combine.

James Jones, who served as Dartmouth's defensive line coach in 2005 before leaving for Kansas State, will not be returning to the K-State staff.