Time To Decide

Q&A Session II with Dartmouth football coach Buddy Teevens is slated for 11 a.m. today. If you have any last-minute questions you would like me to ask, fire 'em this way ... soon.

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The Sports Network suggests the FCS (I-AA) playoffs may be expanding from 16 to 20 teams in time for the 2010 playoff. There's no indication that the Ivy League is even considering the idea of joining the rest of the free world, but it could. From the column:

"The Ivy League and the Southwestern Athletic Conference are eligible to apply for auto bids, but scheduling issues and other obstacles keep those leagues out of the playoff mix."

Green Alert Take: If the Ivies are ever going to do the right thing, this would be the time. But don't look for it to happen.

Harvard Month has been extended to Harvard Months, plural, at Any Given Saturday, the popular forum for fans of FCS football. The Fact-A-Day about Harvard is in its second month. It's a good thing there's a long history of football at the school. ...

Speaking of Harvard, former Crimson wide receiver Corey Mazza has another edition of his ESPN blog about playing for the Parma Panthers in Italy. He notes that John Grisham, author of Playing for Pizza, will be a guest at the Parma season-opener this weekend.

Dartmouth will be breaking in a new starting quarterback this fall for the fourth time in Buddy Teevens' fourth year back as head coach. Things are a little different across the state at the University of New Hampshire, where it's a wide-open race for the QB slot for the first time since 2002 according to this Seacoast online story. The race has a darkhorse I hadn't heard of before: Kyle Auffray, a 6-foot-6 walk-on transfer from Mississippi State.

The Yale Daily has an overview of the admissions picture in the Ivy League this spring. Here's an interesting outtake:

Yale’s financial-aid offer made a difference for Daniel Olson, a high school senior at Cranston High School West in Rhode Island, who was accepted regular decision.

Olson, who said he is leaning toward Yale, said the financial-aid packages at Dartmouth College and Williams College “do not come close” to what Yale has offered him.

Saw this yesterday and debated posting it because it's about a former Dartmouth hockey player, not a football player, and because I've linked to pieces on him before. But this story that mentions Shaun Peet serving as a jackman for a NASCAR crew and how that crew prepares is too good not to link to, so click here to read it. For a look specifically at Peet, click here.