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The Dartmouth football media guide could be – that's could be – posted online as early as today. If not today, then shortly.

The Daily Dartmouth has a column spun out of media day when Dartmouth was picked last in the preseason voting. Regarding the poll, coach Buddy Teevens trotted out the line coaches use all the time: "The one (poll) I’m most concerned about is the one at the end of the season."

For the record, here's how Dartmouth has been picked since 1996, when the Big Green won its last Ivy League championship:

1996–Picked first, finished first, 7-0 Ivy, 10-0 overall
1997–Picked third, finished second, 6-1, 8-2
1998–Picked sixth, finished tied for seventh, 1-6, 2-8
1999–Picked eighth, finished sixth, 2-5, 2-8
2000–Picked seventh, tied for sixth, 1-6, 2-8
2001–Picked seventh, finished tied for seventh, 1-6, 1-8
2002–Picked fifth, tied for sixth, 2-5, 3-7
2003–Picked fourth, tied for second, 4-3, 5-5
2004–Picked fifth, tied for seventh, 1-6, 1-9
2005–Picked seventh, finished seventh, 1-6, 2-8
2006–Picked seventh, finished tied for sixth, 2-5, 2-8
2007–Picked eighth, tied for fourth, 3-4, 3-7
2008–Picked seventh, finished eighth, 0-7, 0-10
2009–Picked eighth, finished?

OK, as long as we are on the subject of polls/rankings, etc., here's what Jeff Sagarin sees based on, well, good question. The Sagarin Ratings seem to become more accurate as the season goes, on, so caveat emptor:

1–USC
2–Florida
3–Oklahoma
4–Texas
5–Ohio State

...

90–New Hampshire
121–Harvard
137–Yale
153–Holy Cross
154–Penn
156–Colgate
161–Brown
173–Princeton
188–Cornell
209–Dartmouth
211–Columbia

The New Haven Register has five questions heading into Yale's first practice today. The first one is about replacing coach Jack Siedlecki with Tom Williams after last season. The paper asks: "A change for the better?"

A follow on yesterday's note that Dartmouth will not have one televised game this fall. I'd forgotten, but the Big Green had SIX games on TV last year via time Warner Sports, WMUR TV and Versus.

The Sentinel in New Jersey has a story about 6-foot-2, 190-pound East Brunswick linebacker/tight end Tim O'Sullivan, who his coach says is, "about as intense and reckless a player as you can imagine, especially on kickoffs." The story talks how he could get college credit for his AP classes, and says ...

"That is, if he doesn't decide to matriculate at Princeton, Columbia or Dartmouth, Ivy League schools that do not accept AP credit — which is a distinct possibility, O'Sullivan said.

"The Ivies don't offer athletic scholarships but can put together financial aid packages based on need (O'Sullivan has two other brothers currently in college)," he said. "If I have a choice, I would definitely like to go that route."

Green Alert Take: Can't have enough hard-nosed players from New Jersey and Pennsylvania on the roster.

Remember Nyk McKissic, the Rivals three-star Texas high school quarterback who announced in January for Dartmouth but did not end up on the final list of recruits? He's at Jackson State where you can find his bio here.

The Daily Dartmouth has a couple of follow stories on the imminent departure of Dean of the College Tom Crady and the appointment of Sylvia Spears, "who previously served as director of the Office of Pluralism and Leadership and acting senior associate dean," as the acting dean for two years. The latter story says:

The College will not begin the search to find a permanent replacement for Crady before spring or summer of 2010, Provost Barry Scherr told The Dartmouth on Tuesday.

Green Alert Take: First, I'm no administrator and I don't know the nuts and bolts of doing something like this, but yikes that seems like a long time before they even start a search. And second, I never met Tom Crady, but I've been told by several people who should know that he was a friend of athletics who will be missed.