Groundhog Day Scheduling

It appears my old editor at the local paper noticed the Green Alert blog post a couple of weeks back about the static nature of the future Dartmouth football schedules. Don Mahler had a column in Saturday's paper that blasts the scheduling.

Find that column here. ... Some of what he has to say about the Big Green being contractually obligated to continue playing Colgate, New Hampshire and Holy Cross:

Four more years! It's like Groundhog Day for gridiron sadomasochists. When is this exercise in futility going to end? When is this slight to local college football fans going to stop? When is this joke of a schedule going to change?

Not until 2012, I'm sorry to say.

That means fans of Dartmouth and Ivy League football must put up with four more years of the same old, same old. Or, in Big Green football terms: Colgate, UNH and Holy Cross -- better known as the non-league opposition on the schedule.

I really like this line:

The trio must feel like parts of the family now, having been on Dartmouth's schedule since 2000. And they will remain there, like an annoying relative who just doesn't know when to leave, until after the 2011 season. That’s a 12-year run.

Former Dartmouth defensive lineman Derham Cato '05 shows up in a YouTube video posted to help him land a football home after he spent part of last year with the Toronto Argonauts of the CFL and saw the AAFL postpone its inaugural season for a year. Find the video here. It is accompanied by the following information:

Derham Cato(DT/DE) #92/#94
Height: 6-4
Weight: 295 lbs
Speed: 4.68/4.71 x 40(track)

Toronto Argonauts(CFL)-2007
Nashville Kats(AFL)-2006
Frankfurt Galaxy(NFLE)-2006
4.72/4.75/4.78 x 40(grass)
20: 2.71/2.74/2.76
10: 1.58/1.61/1.65

Here's a bio page his agency has put together on him.
Bench: 27 x 225
Vertical: 29
Short Shuttle: 4.34/4.37/4.41
3 Cone: 7.40
BroadJump: 8'10"