A Little BGA Houskeeping

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A new story went up on BGA premium in which head coach Buddy Teevens discusses the whereabouts of two intriguing transfers, the new Ivy League rules on contact, the lights at Memorial Field, the status of the quest for a home night game, the start of practice and Dartmouth's potential NFL free agents. Again, you can access those stories and more by visiting the new Big Green Alert premium. Also on the home page are transcripts of off-the-cuff remarks by the coordinators at the Friends of Football meeting last month.

By the way, the new site will be home to the Green Alert Podcast, which will debut soon.

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Yale released its schedule for YES broadcasts and as expected the Dartmouth game is not included among the three games to be televised. The Yale games that will be shown on YES are Bulldog contests are at Columbia, home against Brown and at Princeton.

Counting the games that will be carried on Versus against Cornell, Penn and Harvard, this year's Yale team will be on TV no fewer than six times. As of now, no Dartmouth games are slated to be televised but history would suggest that will change.

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Thanks to a reader for passing along a link about Boise State not being allowed to wear its all-blue uniforms on the blue turf next fall per a ruling by the Mountain West Conference, which the Broncos join this year. Love this comment from the BGA reader:

Hopefully they won't ban green uniforms on our green turf..

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I had a chance to interview Dartmouth men's rugby coach Alex Magleby for about an hour a while back and the innovations he'd like to introduce to the Big Green program are eye-opening. Magleby recently coached the US All Americans to a 2-1 series win over New Zealand Universities and if you watch this video you'll see one novel way the team prepared. Warning: It may tire you out just watching it. I know it did me. (Thanks for the link.)

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Once-and-future opponent New Hampshire has been picked fourth in the CAA preseason poll. Link

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And finally, with our 1984 VW Vanagon poptop camper at the shop and both cars in play, I rode an old 10-speed bicycle home from campus yesterday. (Yes kids, bikes used to be 10 speeds, not 24.) Sure, the ride to Moose Mountain is only eight miles, but at least five of them are uphill and several are seriously uphill. In the interest of full disclosure, I bicycled across the country twice, including once in 32 days, but that was a long time ago. I'm not going to say I was as worn out as the All Americans by the hills yesterday, but those last few were a challenge ;-)