Tackling The New Rules

Yet another media member suggests the Ivy League initiative on concussions is more hat than cowboy. From the New Haven Register's Portal 31 Yale football blog:

While I applaud the initiative, I see the limitations of full-contact drills to be much ado about nothing.

Also ...

I'm not sure that a committee needs to be formed to come up a teaching point of not having as many hits to the head.

And in response to this: "Continued adjustment to practice plans when depth at a given position is low to reduce the number of hits experienced by a particular player." ...

This one actually made me laugh. Obviously if a team has been hit by injuries at a particular position, the last thing they are going to do is put healthy players at that position in harm's way.

A final thought from Portal 31:

I do not want anybody to think I am taking this issue lightly because nothing could be further from the truth but I just don't see where the committee did anything but ask the Ivy League football coaches to continue the practices they have be utilizing in year's past.

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Cornell President David Skorton talks about the new Ivy League initiative in this podcast.

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Dartmouth senior football bios continue to be updated including running back/h-back Chris Hardy, corner Chad Hollis, offensive lineman Pat Lahey and linebacker Ben Magnus.

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Stop back for some pictures of the new lights at Memorial Field later today. They are getting close . . .