More On Suspension Of UNH Series

Today's Daily Dartmouth has a followup on the suspension of the Dartmouth-UNH football series. Nothing really new in the piece. Interim AD Bob Ceplikas tells the paper:

“UNH is currently one of the strongest teams in the country, in division I-AA, and the game hasn’t been as competitive as we would like it to be,” he said. “We feel confident that our program will get stronger and stronger over the next few years and we’ll be excited about the opportunity to play them a few years down the road.”

Green Alert Take: A line from the story got me thinking. There probably aren't very many schools in the country where the school paper could write, "The change is the first alteration made to the ... football schedule since 2000."

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The D also has a story about now-retired AD Josie Harper. Her legacy, the story suggests, is the improvement in facilities at the College.

The Sports Network preseason All-America team features one Ivy Leaguer on the first unit, players from six different Dartmouth opponents on its three teams, and a first-team fullback who at one time wanted to play in Hanover.

Dartmouth opponents on the TSN All-America team
First Team Offense
James Williams, 6-5, 295 tackle, Harvard
Scott Sicko, 6-3, 230 tight end, UNH
Second Team Offense
Dominic Randolph, 6-3, 223 quarterback, Holy Cross
Pat Simonds, 6-6, 223 wide receiver, Colgate
Third Team Offense
Buddy Farnham, 6-, 200, wide receiver, Brown

Second Team Defense
Chris Wynn, 5-9, 190 safety, Penn
Pat Simonds, 6-6, 223 wide receiver, Colgate
Third Team Defense
David Howard, 6-3, 270 tackle, Brown

First Team Special Teams
Andrew Samson, 6-1, 180 kicker, Brown
Austin Knowlin, 5-10, 190 punt returner, Columbia

Named to the first team as a fullback was 6-2, 232 Maine sophomore Jared Turcotte, who flirted with Dartmouth. From a Maine Today story back when he was looking at schools:

Because he ranks in the top 10 percent of his class and carries a 93.6 grade-point average, every Ivy League school also is interested. Turcotte is looking at a number of schools but is learning toward Dartmouth, coached by Buddy Teevens, a former UMaine coach.

"I like the school and Coach Teevens a lot," said Turcotte.

Here's Turcotte's bio from last fall. What might have been ...