D-A-R-T-M-O-U-T-H

The regular chant between stretching and the official start of practice Tuesday afternoon...

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Spring practice No. 3 for the Big Green today. With shoulder pads on the action should pick up a bit. Check in tonight for a recap on BGA.

Princeton is the latest team to come under the Roar Lions Roar scrutiny as blogger Jake Novak continues his look at the Ivy League prospects for 2009. He has Princeton pegged as a possible 4-3 Ivy finisher, depending on the outcome of games against Yale and Columbia. That's because, as he writes, "I think Princeton can beat Cornell and Dartmouth, but will have a very rough time edging Harvard, Penn, and Brown."

Just stumbled across the Princeton Athletics Channel on YouTube. While all of the Ivy League schools have some version of subscription (and free) video sites on their home pages, putting together a YouTube site offers the opportunity to pull in an entirely new audience that wouldn't normally visit the individual school sites. While exploring the Princeton Athletics Channel site I clicked on a recent video with Princeton receiver Adam Berry. He seems to be everything an Ivy League student-athlete should be. Very impressive.

Visting one of my usual haunts this morning I found an ad for a football coach at Greenville College, a Division III school. The qualifications for candidates to be considered for the linebacker and defensive line coach caught my eye:

Computer skills and a working knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, Power-point, and Access software are needed. Some experience with DVS digital editing system is a plus.

Wow.

Two thoughts:

• Coaching has changed.
• Joe Paterno, Bobby Bowden, most BCS head coaches and a good many FCS coaches need not apply because they wouldn't make the first cut.

Out of curiosity, I zoomed off to learn a little more about the football program at Greenville, which, fittingly, is in Greenville, Ill. I eventually ended up at a link for a page about the Foundations of Biblical Football.