Ya Gotta Have Heart

Sacred Heart officially announced its 2010 football schedule and there it is: a Sept. 25 game at Dartmouth. It will be the fourth game of the season for the Pioneers and the second for the Big Green. The subhead of the story tells the import:

Dartmouth and Georgetown highlight the 2010 slate

To get an idea who the Big Green is playing and how it fits in, here's the Sacred Heart schedule:

• Sept. 3 at Marist
• Sept. 11 Robert Morris
• Sept. 18 at St. Francis (Pa)
• Sept. 25 at Dartmouth
• Oct. 2 vs. Central Connecticut State
• Oct. 9 at Bryant
• Oct. 16 at Duquesne
• Sept. 23 Georgetown
• Sept. 30 at Monmouth
• Nov. 6. vs. Albany
• Nov. 20 vs. Wagner

The release notes that this is Sacred Heart's 20th year of football. (The Pioneers were Division III in 1991-92, Division II from 1993-98 and then moved up to Division I-AA/FCS.) From the release:

The month of September will close with a trip to Hanover, New Hampshire to take on the Dartmouth Big Green. For the first time in program history, the Pioneers will face an opponent from the Ivy League as they meet Dartmouth on Memorial Field on Saturday, September 25th. The Big Green finished 2-8 last season.

The Sacred Heart schedule also includes the Pioneers' first-ever game against Georgetown.

Sacred Heart's 2009 Results (2-8)

• Marist, L 31-12
• at Holy Cross, L 52-21
• at Albany, L 22-9
• at Central Connecticut State, L 24-12
• St. Francis (Pa), W 29-7
• Monmouth, L 42-20
• at Wagner, L 49-28
• at Robert Morris, L 9-7
• Bryant, W 24-14
• Duquesne, L, 45-42

Sacred Heart records since moving to I-AA/FCS

• 1999 – 2-9
• 2000 – 10-1
• 2001 – 11-0
• 2002 – 7-3
• 2003 – 6-5
• 2004– 6-4
• 2005 – 4-6
• 2006 – 2-9
• 2007 – 3-8
• 2008 – 8-3
• 2009 – 2-8

A couple of reminders from the Dartmouth Friends of Football arrived yesterday. The Big Green will have its Career Day on May 17th. From the e-mail:

Career Day – The football team will host and will invite all student-athletes from both our Men's and Women's programs across the athletic department to attend. The day will be a "coaching session" that focuses on their approach to identifying jobs/internships and the prep work necessary to be effective. We are looking for alums who are willing to talk one-on-one with the student-athletes following Career Day to provide guidance and insight into different careers.

Also, the 13th annual Dartmouth football golf outing is slated for June 19 at Hanover Country Club.

In Ivy League action last night the Princeton men's basketball team defeated Duquesne in the College Basketball Invitational (CBI) at Princeton, 65-51. The Tigers will now face IUPUI in Indianapolis on Monday. Harvard, meanwhile, dropped a 93-71 decision to Appalachian State in yet another tournament, the CollegeInsider.com Tournament (CIT) in Boone, N.C.

Green Alert Take: Let's see. The NCAA. The NIT (no Ivy team this year but there has been in the past.) The CBI. The CIT. But football can't go on. Sure, it's starting to sound like a broken record but come on.