A Great Story Gets Even Better

Former tailback Chad Gaudet's story keeps getting better.

The June grad, who saw his once-promising football career ended by a freak knee injury on the first carry of his sophomore season before making a name for himself on the Dartmouth lacrosse team, will use his final year of NCAA eligibility playing lacrosse as a graduate student at the University of Virginia. One of the top faceoff specialists in the country, Gaudet will be enrolled in the M.S. in Commerce Program at Virginia, which made it to the NCAA semis at Foxborough last May before dropping a one-goal game to Syracuse. For a story I freelanced last spring on Chad, click here.

A Tuesday posting listed Dartmouth opponents mentioned in the SME (Sports Media Entertainment Network) preseason Top-25 poll. The SME Ivy League poll looks like this:

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

From the SME website: "Ivy League projections were voted on by SME Network staff broadcasters and reporters." I don't know who they are but comparing this poll to some of the others we've already seen, the thought occurs there might be one or two voters from Princeton ;-)

Spotted this in the Miami Herald:

"Three members of the University of Miami football team's top-rated recruiting class will be heading to Milford Prep in New York state this fall ..."

Ah, but don't expect to see them playing against the Dartmouth junior varsity on Memorial Field this fall. The reason the Big Green jv schedule currently has just three games is the annual visit by Milford has been dropped.

While it might not have been all that much fun playing the game, for fans it was entertaining checking out the blue-chip running backs and wide receivers that Milford usually brought to town. Googling their names after the game would reveal they were headed to Iowa, Pitt, West Virginia, Rutgers ... or Miami.

There can't be many FCS coaches who welcome walk-ons as readily as does Dartmouth's Buddy Teevens. Some even end up helping the team. No position seems to bring as many walk-ons as kicker and it sounds as if Dartmouth may have another one or two would-be kickers show up this fall. Whatever is in the water, Teevens may want to share some of it with Pat Sullivan down at Samford. From a story in the Birmingham News:

Can you kick a football? Are you enrolled at Samford University?

If so, then, boy, does Pat Sullivan have a job for you.

The Samford head football coach and Ross Robinson, his recruiting coordinator, need to fill a couple of holes on their depth chart and they are turning to the student body.

Robinson sent out a mass e-mail asking all students if anyone wants to try out for jobs as backup place-kicker and punter.

And finally this ... The rain has finally stopped in the Upper Valley and just in time. My driveway (the only pavement on our entire road) now features a deep gully between the end of the blacktop and the road. Cars coming in and out of our driveway will bottom out until I can get out there with a wheelbarrow and shovel and fill the "canyon" in a bit. But that won't be until Monday at the earliest because I'll be working today through Sunday night as the media coordinator/blogger for the Tommy Keane Invitational golf tournament at Hanover Country Club. (It was while working up the TKI blog that I came up with the new template for the Green Alert Blog - hope you like it.)

While I'm working golf this weekend I won't be able to "approve" Green Alert subscriptions quite as readily as when I'm at the keyboard writing during the week. So if you sign up (you are going to sign up, aren't you?) and fill out a new subscriber form, it may sit dormant until late at night. (Remember: Only new subscribers need fill out the form asking for a UserName and Password.)