Thursday, July 29, 2010

About That Dartmouth Game, Coach ...

Curious what Sacred Heart coach Paul Gorham thinks about his team playing Dartmouth in its first-ever game against an Ivy League opponent? You can ask him. No, really.

Like the Ivy League, which will hold its teleconference on Aug. 10, the Northeast Conference is putting its coaches on the telephone for a conference call with the media. While the general public won't be in on the call, the NEC teleconference on Aug. 4 has a nice added element in that the pubic is invited to send along questions. To find out how to ask a question of the 1984 New Hampshire grad, click here.
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Speaking of preseason media days, the Colonial Athletic Association got the jump on the other FCS conferences in the region and UNH – which was replaced by Sacred Heart on the Dartmouth schedule this fall – was picked third in the powerhouse conference. Here's how the CAA poll went:
1. Villanova (17 first-place votes)
2. William and Mary
3. New Hampshire (2)
4. James Madison
5. Delaware (1)
6. Richmond
7. Maine
8. Massachusetts
9. Rhode Island
10. Towson
Consider that a bullet dodged.

The CAA has once again produced and posted videos for its preseason all-conference teams. Check them out here.

UNH, by the way, is still doing a media guide that is available via the Internet, here.
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The University at Albany hasn't shown up on the Dartmouth schedule yet, but it wouldn't be a surprise if the Big Green and Great Danes end up playing sometime in the future. (Albany is playing Yale this year and has played Cornell in the past.) Perhaps if Dartmouth holds off long enough it will play in Albany's proposed new stadium. Time will tell if it gets built (and if it looks like this) but check out what they are dreaming about in New York's capital region here.
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DartBlog is hearing interesting things about the Dartmouth athletic director search. From the site:
Word is filtering back that the AD search is now going swimmingly — and not only David Spalding thinks so. It seems that the College has the pick of the litter: the applicant pool is first class.

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