“He felt that this was the best fit for him athletically and academically. I’m happy for him that he was able to push and go as far as he did, but I also feel quite comfortable that of all the things that he’s seen, Dartmouth is the thing that he values because of the academic level, the support he saw through faculty and the engaged student body.”By the way, this appeared on the BGA blog last week about Marcoux:
... (H) dropped from No. 69 to No. 70 on the Scout.com recruiting list in the past week. It's not like that means much, but it is curious how the rankings change when players haven't, um, played.Well, it happened again. He's now at No. 72 nationally according to Scout.com.
Marcoux did get something of a backhanded compliment from Stewart Mandell on SI.com. In an Inside College Football story headlined, Searching for sleepers in weakest QB class in recent memory, Mandel writes:
In other words, there is no Matt Barkley primed to start for a national power from Day 1, no Matthew Stafford carrying a "future No. 1 pick" tag, no Tim Tebow worthy of starring in an ESPN documentary before even stepping on campus.(Thanks to a handful of e-mailers for the link.)
And it showed earlier this month at both the U.S. Army All-American Bowl in San Antonio and the Under Armour All-America Game in St. Petersburg, Fla., where the defenses dominated. The most noteworthy passing performance in either game came from New York's Cole Marcoux, a two-star prospect who earned his U.S. Army invite through a reality-show contest and will be attending ... Dartmouth.
Speaking of Marcoux, someone is working the viral message board angle at the LSU TigerDroppings.com blog. This message appeared in a thread on Marcoux Monday:
Have you ever been to Dartmouth College? It is the most beautiful setting to go to college on the planet, gets an IVY League degree and be damn well guaranteed a great job with their amazing alumni connections once he gets out. Sounds like this kid is looking to the future.Still on the subject of recruits, one that got away has landed at Yale. California's Placer Herald reports that running back Jackson Cummings, the 5-foot-8, 165-pound offensive MVP of the Sierra Football League who visited Dartmouth on the same trip that brought him to Yale two weeks ago, will be attending school in New Haven. Cummings ran for 2,406 yards and scored 42 touchdowns for his 14-1 team this fall.
The Ithaca Journal is all over the hiring of Kent Austin as Cornell's new football coach. There's a Q&A with Austin. There's a story with the Big Red athletic director headlined, Cornell's Noel confident he's found another coaching gem, and another story headlined, New Cornell football coach: 'I didn't come here to lose.'
Believed to be one of the leading candidates at Cornell was former Big Red quarterback Bill Lazor. Coincidentally (or not) FootballScoop.com reports today:
Former Seattle Seahawks quarterbacks coach Bill Lazor has accepted the offensive coordinator position with Virginia. Lazor coached the Redskins’ quarterbacks from 2004-2007."Big Dog" Carl Ehrlich had a few very entertaining blog postings as a member of the Harvard football team a year ago. He's back at it now as a two-way lineman/linebacker for the Valencia Firebats of the Liga Nacional de Futbol Americano, Spain’s American football league. His first posting for ESPN.com can be found here. Next, he writes here about getting booted out of his first game in Spain.
The Harvard Crimson has a story about Ehrlich heading to Spain here.
The final Sagarin Ratings for the 2009 college football season were posted by USA Today last week and not surprisingly, Dartmouth had the toughest schedule of any team in the Ivy League. The rankings for toughest schedules went this way (from toughest to easiest ranking):
- Dartmouth, 170
- Princeton, 182
- Penn, 185
- Harvard, 186
- Columbia, 187
- Brown, 191
- Cornell, 198
- Yale, 201
Stepping aside from football for a second, a Dartmouth news release yesterday began this way:Dartmouth’s legacy of participation in Olympic Winter Games will continue next month, as eight athletes with Big Green ties will represent four different nations at the Vancouver Olympics starting February 12. Dartmouth has sent representatives to every winter Olympics since the Games’ founding in 1924.The list:
- Biathlon – Laura Spector '10, Sara Studebaker '07
- Nordic – Ben Koons '08 (New Zealand), Tucker Murphy '04 (Bermuda)
- Alpine – Andrew Weibrecht '09, Tommy Ford '12
- Ice Hockey – Gilliam Apps '06 (Canada), Cherie Piper '06 (Canada)
- Freestyle skiing – Hannah Kearney (Norwich, Vt.)
- Ski jumping – Nick Alexander (Lebanon)
- Ice Hockey – Hilary Knight (Hanover)
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