Can You Hear Me Now?

The last few weeks before the start of the preseason are being spent finishing up a few freelance projects, getting some stuff done around the house (the plan is to be out power sanding the deck later today) and retooling the Green Alert website. I haven't finished all the testing on the new site yet, but it should make publishing BGA significantly easier on this end and allow the inclusion of photos, audio and video in a much cleaner presentation. Subscribers can get a sneak peek at the new site here.

One exciting bit of news with the retooled site is the ability to offer a Green Alert premium podcast. No decision quite yet on how often it will be updated but the tentative plan is to do a pilot of the show next week. If all goes well I should be able to share some of the specifics before long.

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The Dartmouth office of sports publicity has a short story noting that three of former defensive end Charles Bay's nine tackles in the world championships were sacks and five were for a loss. Find the story here.

Bay was one of eight former FCS players who won gold medals at the fourth International Federation of American Football Senior World Championship in Austria according to The Sports Network.

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Penn has announced start times for all of its games except one. Wanna guess which once is the outlier? Yup.

Here are Penn's first four games:

Sept. 17 vs. Lafayette 6 p.m.
Sept. 24 at Villanova (Franklin Field) 6 p.m.
Oct. 1 at Dartmouth TBA
Oct. 8 vs. Fordham, 6 p.m.

Any chance all four of them will be at 6 p.m.?

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Portal 31 reports that YES will be televising several Yale football games this year. Could one be Dartmouth's Oct. 8 game at the Bowl? The schedule hasn't yet been released but according to Portal 31 it would appear not. The New Haven Register blog speculates that the Yale-Princeton game is one of three games on the slate with contests against Cornell and Brown the leading contenders for the other two slots.

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The Patriot League, founded on the Ivy League model, does things the right way. Fordham, which is still a member of the PL but is ineligible for the football championship since deciding to go scholarship, is apparently doing things its own way. The Rams have now offered a scholarship to a Georgia running back who was headed to prep school as a "non-qualifier," before a review of his final GPA and board scores lifted him over the NCAA's Mendoza line of eligibility. There's a story in the Courier Post.