Dartmoose Making Noise ... And Video

However you feel about the Moose as a Dartmouth mascot -- the Dartmoose if you will -- there's a pretty fair PR campaign pushing it. Check out these videos:



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The Moose certainly would be original in the NCAA ranks. But my vote would be for the Dartmouth North Stars. (I'm still partial to the Dartmouth BackPackers, but I can understand a few concerns about that name ...)

A Times-Picayune staff blogger uses Dartmouth to make a point (link):

BATON ROUGE - It is a truism that were the (LSU) Tigers playing Dartmouth, LSU Coach Les Miles would talk about how The Green are a, "quality opponent," not to be overlooked.

He did not disappoint at his first full-scale press conference Monday on campus, telling the assembled reporters the Mississippi State Bulldogs will represent a genuine challenge for the No. 2 ranked Tigers when they open the season Thursday night in Starkville.

In truth, Mississippi State is considerably better than Dartmouth in football, and LSU's coaches and staff insist no one on the team is looking past the Bulldogs, coming off back-to-back three-win seasons, to what could prove a tumultuous game against Virginia Tech in Tiger Stadium on Sept. 8.

He's right, of course. But it still feels like a shot.

The College Sporting News 2007 FCS Preseason Magazine is ready and the five-page Ivy League section can be previewed at this link. (That's a PDF file -- a 6.6 MB download). The CSN prediction for the league race looks like a lot of other predictions from the Dartmouth perspective:

1. Yale
2. Princeton
3. Cornell
4. Penn
5. Harvard
6. Columbia
7. Brown
8. Dartmouth

Yale tailback Mike McLeod is the CSN preseason offensive player of the year. Penn linebacker Joe Anastasio is a surprise defensive pick (in my humble estimation) over Yale's Bobby Abare.

CSN has 10 featured Ivy League games of the week. None include Dartmouth. Here's columnist Chuck Burton's bottom line on the Big Green:

"Teevens' rebuilding effort continues but with so many key offensive
players graduating it could be a tough year."

Not surprising giving his quotability as well as his seat on the Tennessee Titans bubble, The Nashville City Paper quoted Dartmouth grad Casey Cramer on what it's like as final cuts near. (link) Said Cramer:

If this is your first rodeo, you’re going to be a lot more nervous than someone who has been cut five times like I have.

Double sessions today. Check the Green Alert main site somewhere around 12:30 p.m., for a report on the first session. The second report will be up tonight. ... It's a gorgeous morning up here on the mountain with crystalline blue skies. It's foggy down in the valley but could hit 88 degrees so it will be a hot one on the artificial turf.