Highlight Video Online

Don't ask me how it turned out because our internet connection is way, way too slow for me to download it, but if you'd like to watch the 2007 Dartmouth highlight video, click here. (I guess what scared me off was the warning, "Very large file.")

With this year's recruiting class all but wrapped up by most coaching staffs, news is starting to break about juniors on the radar. Among those getting some attention from Dartmouth is linebacker Antonio DeBouse of All Saints High School in the Fort Worth area according to this Star-Telegram story.

The terrific Lehigh Football Nation blog excerpts the Patriot League scholarship question of the Chris Lincoln Q&A and offers this response:

... (I)n terms of the Patriot League and scholarships, he's right: it would be expensive. But to me it signifies an important shift in the debate. Last year, this type of question might have been dismissed as "against the principles of the Ivy (and Patriot) League". Now, in light of the academic aid largesse of Harvard and Yale? It becomes more of a question of economics. Could it be that the principle of football athletic scholarships being taboo is a thing of the past - and now it's all about the money?

Former Dartmouth quarterback Jay Fiedler might not be playing anymore, but he's keeping busy. He'll have a youth football camp in North Miami next month according to the Sun Sentinel. Jay was in Pikesville, Ky., yesterday watching the basketball team he co-owns bow out of the CBA playoffs as this story notes.

Speaking of Fiedler, while he never played for Bill Parcells, the Tuna apparently flirted with signing him a few times, including with Dallas. Given all the former Cowboy types, do you think if Jay were healthy Parcells would be interested in bringing him back to Miami as a backup? Nah, that would be just too weird. Or would it?