A Couple More Names

A couple of potential recruiting targets have popped up. Both are quarterbacks who, like many high school QB's, might play another position in college. One has a last name you'll recognize. ...

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that Shady Side Academy quarterback Dan Rooney has visited Holy Cross, William & Mary and Dartmouth. And no, he's not related to Mickey Rooney. He's the grandson of Pittsburgh Steelers chairman Dan Rooney and the son of Art Rooney II, the Steelers president. (Thanks to a reader for the link.) ... Dartmouth also gets a mention in a North County Times Q&A with Daniel Minamide, a quarterback at San Pasqual High School, the San Diego area school that sent Ryan Fuselier to Hanover. Minamide has run for 1,187 yards in the San Pasqual option offense. ...

Former Dartmouth coach John Lyons gets a mention in USA Today for a few of the German players he's brought to the undefeated Kimball Union Academy team. (Thanks to another reader for that link.) ...

Brown flanker Bobby Sewall is one of the national offensive players of the week as named by the College Sporting News after his all-around game against Dartmouth Saturday. Surprisingly, he did not get the nod from The Sports Network, which begs the question: Just what more could he have done to be a national player of the week? ...

There's a column in the New Haven Register about the Ivy League's prohibition against football participating in the postseason. Just don't look for that one simple reason why football is the only Ivy sport not allowed to play on because, well, because it doesn't exist. ...

The Ivy League office has posted its Dartmouth-Princeton preview here. ... Find Dartmouth's game preview here.

With all the new athletic building going on at Dartmouth, don't think the other schools are standing still. The Daily Pennsylvanian has a story about facility building and improvements being planned at Penn. ...

I got a little nervous after seeing this headline in the Columbia Spectator: Football Needs a Shake-up. It's way too early to start judging coach Norries Wilson and fortunately, that's not the direction the opinion piece goes. It's more about the need to take a look at the entire program before it backslides into being the Columbia of old.

And finally, the new roof has been finished on our house. It's a green, standing-seam metal roof, the roof-of-choice in this part of the world. Ice dams won't be a problem anymore and on sunny, warm days we should have avalanches of snow come sliding off instead of being locked in place for the winter. We've got a couple of issues that we need to talk to the contractor about, but it's good to have the work done before the first real snow falls up here on the mountain.