Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Too Deep?

Wandering by the Colgate football website I stumbled across Dartmouth's two-deep. With so many returnees the surprises are those players who either weren't starters or were infreqent visitors to the two-deep last year. Here are those players:

First-Time Starters
RT Cohle Fowler
WR Brian Kosnik
WR Dana Barabaro
KO Riley Lyons
LS Will Connolly

New (or Relatively New) Backups
QB Andy Gay
LT John Scheve
LG John Hanna
RG Aaron Mondshine
RT Brett Kana
WR Kirby Schoenthaler
WR Shawn Bode
DT Martin Pomykala
LB Tom Patek
LB Brendan Murray
SS Cole Pembroke
PK Riley Lyons
KO Robbie Anthony

As always, take the two-deep with a huge grain of salt because there are at least two players on the two-deep who will not be playing Saturday ... because they haven't been practicing.
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Interesting on Colgate's two-deep is that Jordan McCord, who torched Dartmouth for 212 yards the last time the Raiders played on Memorial Field, is listed as a backup free safety.
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The Daily Dartmouth has a look at the football season that beings this way:
This season, expectations for Dartmouth’s football team are at an all-time high.
"At an all-time high" might be stretching it just a tad for a school that has won more Ivy League championships than any school, don't you think? ;-)

The story includes this:
. . . to rank among the conference’s elite, the Dartmouth squad will have to break through and beat the teams ranked ahead of it —Penn, Harvard University, Yale University and Brown University—a group against which Dartmouth holds a 1-15 record over the past four seasons.
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Message boards, particularly anonymous message boards, are like car wrecks. You really know you shouldn't look but it's hard to turn away when you know they are there. That said, there's an interesting back-and-forth going on about Colgate tailback Nate Eachus here. Seems some folks think there must be something wrong when he comes up just shy of 100 yards against a very good team focused on stopping him. Tough crowd.
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The Patriot League website has a look at Colgate-Dartmouth.
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The Ivy League football page continues to try to drive people to Facebook and Twitter in its announcement of the Ivy Insider radio show. In case you find that as annoying as I do, here's the direct link to the radio show. It kicks off tonight at 7.
Listen to internet radio with InsideIvyLeagueFootball on Blog Talk Radio

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From the Brown football website:
With the high number of expected students traveling up to Cambridge, Mass. for the Friday night game against Harvard on September 23 at 7 p.m., the athletic department will offer fan buses to and from the game, and a game ticket for only $20.
I wonder if Dartmouth has thought of sending a bus down to Harvard for the night game this fall so kids don't have to overnight or drive back late?
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He's been something of a lightning rod since transferring from Nebraska, but it's hard to argue with the idea that quarterback Patrick Witt is making the most of his opportunity at Yale. The Portal 31 blog notes he "had an interview with Yale's three-member Rhodes Scholarship committee and will find out by Monday if they will recommend him to become a Rhodes candidate."
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Dartmouth is ranked No. 11 nationally and No. 1 for best teaching in the latest US News ranking. You can access the complete US News best-college rankings for another 63 hours, 30 minutes and 12 seconds from the time I click "publish post."
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As a Nittany Lion it is nice to see Penn State come in at No. 45 (wish the football team was that good) among top national universities although classifying its setting as "urban" is probably causing guffaws all across the country.
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BGA premium will have another game-week story tonight as well as the third podcast in as many days, this one looking at Dartmouth's opponents and making some projections on how they will stack up.
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Now it's off to the dump for the first time since Irene. In case you are wondering, the dump is just past the plazas in West Lebanon, where flooding was bad enough that several of the big box stores may not be ready to reopen until after Christmas according to news reports.

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