New Year, New Jobs?

The humor columnist for the local daily has a piece in today's paper headlined:

The Year in Advance
Predicting Dartmouth Football, Sarah Palin and More

Here's his prediction about what will be taking place on the Hanover Plain:

Dartmouth shakes the Ivy League to its foundations when it announces that President Jim Yong Kim and football coach Buddy Teevens are switching jobs. "President Kim found that he loves sports more than administration," a college spokesman says, "and Buddy is, well, Buddy. He's a winner." First order of business: changing the school motton from "Vox Clamantis in deserto," to "Beat Harvard."

Green Alert Take: I am shocked! I thought that was the college motto ;-)

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A California running back from Palos Verdes High School named Marc Sasso (1,649 yards and 20 touchdowns last fall) has a list of colleges on his radar that includes "Yale, Harvard, Brown, Dartmouth, Columbia, Cornell, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, Claremont McKenna, Northwestern and Holy Cross" according to the Palos Verdes Peninsula News.

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Want to read what message board posters from around the country think about the Ivy League ban on the playoffs? Find a thread on the ban here.

In case you are wondering, the FCS championship game pitting Delaware against Eastern Washington will be this Friday night in Frisco, Texas. And yes, Ivy League champion Penn will still be idle.

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When you are watching the big boys and their bowls over the next few days, keep college football's $1.1 billion profit in mind. The most profitable football programs as published on CNNMoney.com:

• Texas - $68.8 million
• Georgia - $52.5 million
• Penn State - $50.4 million
• Michigan - $44.9 million
• Florida - $44.3 million

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On the flip side, not everyone makes money, even when they go to a bowl. Despite a hefty check from the St. Petersburg Bowl last year, Rutgers ending up $740,000 in the red for its junket to Florida last year according to this Bloomberg.net story shared by a loyal reader who also shared this Tulsa World story about how Tulsa will get a $600,000 check for playing in the Hawaii Bowl and end up $20,000-$30,000 down.

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Our loyal reader also shared a link to a Public Radio posting of rules and regulations for the Rose Bowl parade that some of us will be watching this morning. A few excerpts that may bring a smile:

• Small, professionally manufactured barbecues elevated at least one foot off the ground are allowed on the parade route, as long as they are 25 feet from buildings and other combustibles. Also, a fire extinguisher must be available.
• Dress for cold weather. Children and seniors should have extra layers of clothing to avoid hypothermia
• It is also illegal to buy, sell or give away horns on the parade route
• Spectators also may not throw any projectiles into the parade, including seemingly harmless items such as tortillas, marshmallows or flowers.

Happy New Year!