Countdown to Colgate

The countdown widget on Dartmouthsport.com shows there are 297 days until the opener against Colgate ;-)

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I haven't seen anything about the football All-Ivy announcement coming out today. For years the team was announced the Tuesday after the season ended so today might be the day.

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Jake Novak of Roar Lions Roar gives a nod to Nick Schwieger as his Ivy League player of the year. For what it's worth, we'll have to wait until Dec. 6 for the announcement of the Asa Bushnell winner. Green Alert Take: The idea of a Heisman-type announcement being made at the National Football Foundation awards dinner next month is nice, but given that the Ivy League season will have been over for almost three weeks and everyone but the Ivies will be involved in the NCAA playoffs between now and then, the timing is ironic.

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The Brown Bear Blogger worked hard to produce a pretty good looking All-Ivy team. Dartmouth players on his first team are Schwieger, offensive lineman Will Montgomery, defensive lineman Charles Bay and defensive back Shawn Abuhoff, who also gets the nod for punt returns. The second-teamer from Dartmouth is defensive lineman Eddie Smith with the honorable mention picks being quarterback Conner Kempe, wide receivers Michael Reilly and Tim McManus, linebackers Bronson Green, Luke Hussey and Tyler Melancon, and defensive backs Garrett Waggoner, Pat Scorah and Joey Casey.

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This week's Sagarin Ratings with last week's rating and result in parentheses:

125. Penn (120 - beat Cornell)
161. Harvard (164 - beat Yale)
182. Brown (185 - beat Columbia)
188. Yale (174 - lost to Harvard)
192. Dartmouth (196 - beat Princeton)
209. Columbia (208 - lost to Brown)
222. Cornell (225 - lost to Penn)
227. Princeton (227 - lost to Dartmouth)

197. Holy Cross (201 - beat Bucknell)
208. Sacred Heart (212 - beat Wagner)
234. Bucknell (235 - lost to Holy Cross)

85. New Hampshire (78 - beat Towson)
172. Colgate (183 - beat Fordham)

(New Hampshire, by the way is one spot ahead of Purdue, five ahead of Virginia and six ahead of Rutgers.)

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The Columbia Spectator has a story about the Campbell Sports Center, slated for construction where the visiting team buses park if what I was told is correct. From the story:

The five-story, 48,000 square-foot facility would be built at Baker Athletics Complex at the intersection of 218th and Broadway and would include new coaches’ suites for football and other varsity sports, a tutoring center, a new weight room, a hospitality suite, and an auditorium.

The facilities war is on. Penn's new strength and conditioning center is astonishing, and Brown has one on the drawing board. As someone whose opinion I respect said to me not long ago, it's a good thing Dartmouth got its facility built because it was desperately needed. The unfortunate thing is Dartmouth went first in this new round of building and the game of can-you-top-this is in full swing.

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Speaking of facilities wars, they are finished at the FBS level and Oregon won. No one is topping what Nike's Phil Knight is doing for the Ducks unless Bill Gates decides to play nice with Harvard. (Thanks for the link.)

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On the subject of Harvard, the Harvard Crimson has a nice story about receiver Marco Iannuzzi's comeback from apparently season-ending injury to help Harvard beat Yale.

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When I first looked at this Yale Daily News video interview I thought it was a parody or maybe a beer commercial. It wasn't. You don't have to watch the whole thing, but just the first 15 seconds or so to see why I thought it wasn't real. Nice lid.