Yale Football Coach To Be Replaced

Jack Siedlecki is out as Yale football coach after going 6-4 this fall. Depending on what you read he was dismissed or reassigned or has decided to retire. Unless I missed it, fired doesn't show up in any of those reports, but let's go with that one.

(An aside: At the newspaper I once received notice that a coach had resigned. When I asked the athletic director if he considered not accepting the resignation, the silence was deafening. Siedlecki, you can be sure, did not resign.)

From the Portal 31 Yale football blog, part of the New Haven Register:

Yale lost seven of its last eight against Harvard, the worst run against the Crimson since a 1-8 mark from 1910-1922. The bottom line is that if you are the head coach at Yale, you have to beat Harvard. It is as simple as that. Outside of a three-year win streak against Harvard from 1998-2000, his only other win over the Crimson came in 2006 with a convincing 34-13 victory. Going 4-8 against Ohio State will get you fired at Michigan, going 4-8 against Oklahoma will get you fired at Texas. Going 4-8 against Harvard will get you reassigned at Yale.

Siedlecki was 23-7 over his final three years, including a glittering 17-3 in the two seasons prior to this one. The complete New Haven Register story is here.

The $12.2 million reconstruction of the west (home) stands at Memorial Field slated to have begun on the Monday after the final home game earlier this month has officially been put on hold for at least a year, a victim of the global financial crisis. From a college statement on the project:

Instead, Dartmouth will address the immediate maintenance needs of the stands during the spring and summer of next year so that it will be ready for the fall season.

A 6-1, 205 outside linebacker/tight end from Catholic Memorial in Massachusetts has Dartmouth as one of the Ivies on his radar. The Boston Herald writes of Josh Boyd that he is ...

... valedictorian of his class, the captain of the football and wrestling teams, and finds himself in the enviable position of having his pick of Ivy League schools to attend next fall. The list of possible destinations? Harvard, Brown, Columbia and Dartmouth.

Back to Yale for a second, the band has been suspended for its show at Harvard as reported in the Yale Daily. The Harvard Crimson has a more detailed story. No word on what the suspension entails, but the guess here is that if Yale is invited to a New Year's Day bowl game, the band will not be allowed to accompany the football team. (Insert laugh here.)

An Alert reader shares the news that the Patriot League all-star team has been announced and no fewer than 11 of the 14 players on the first team offense were from either Colgate or Holy Cross, the two teams Dartmouth played. Bad news for the Big Green: that freshman Colgate tailback, Nate Eachus, made the first team so Dartmouth will see plenty of him until the contract with the Raiders runs out after two more seasons. Not surprisingly, Eachus was the rookie of the year in the Patriot League.

Off the field of play, Dartmouth is being sued again regarding the composition of the board of trustees. The Boston Globe has a short story and there's another story in the Daily Dartmouth.

And finally, I saw former Dartmouth quarterback Josh Cohen at last night's basketball win over Furman and asked if his younger brother Jake, a talented 6-foot-10 high school basketball player in Pennsylvania, has decided on a college. Turns out he had. Recruited by Stanford, Northwestern, Penn State and Nebraska among others, the younger Cohen decided on Davidson. Find a story about him here.

Safe travels everyone. Oh, and do check in Green Alert Premium tonight for a piece out of my sit-down with coach Buddy Teevens yesterday. He had some interesting and provocative things to say.