Need some background on the Letter of Intent? Check out this NCAA story.
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Boston.com has a listing of players from the Beantown area choosing colleges and Brown raked in five while Harvard and Penn have one each. Still in play: Massachusetts' all-time TD passing leader. The story notes:Everett will hold a press conference Friday as record-setting quarterback Jonathan DiBiaso will announce his decision between prep school and the Ivy League.
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The New York Times has a story about New York Giants receivers coach Sean Ryan headlined: Secret of a Coach’s Success? Ivy League Recruiting BattlesFrom the story:
“When there is a kid who is good enough that you want and has the grades to get in and you’re fighting for him with Yale? Now that’s challenging,” said Ryan, who came to the Giants in 2007 after serving as an assistant and the recruiting coordinator at Harvard. “The Ivy League doesn’t have all the hoopla of the N.F.L., but that doesn’t mean it isn’t serious.”
He added, “I think a lot of the skills I built there have helped me succeed in my job here.”
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As part of the reorganization of the Dartmouth football schedule, the Big Green will play at Holy Cross for the second year in a row on Sept. 22. That will be the second Holy Cross home game in a row, and second of three contests the Crusaders play against Ivy League teams. They have a home game against Brown the week before Dartmouth comes to town and a visit to Harvard the next week. The Dartmouth game will be Homecoming in Worcester according to the schedule Holy Cross announced yesterday.The Crusaders, by the way, have their 2012 spring roster posted. While they are graduating terrific fifth-year quarterback Ryan Taggart (17 TD passes, 7 ints, 62.3 percent completions, 268.0 yards per game and 45.1 rushing yards per game) the cupboard under center is not bare. They are returning a fifth-year quarterback in Kevin Watson. As a junior he completed 42-of-74 passes for 375 yards and two touchdowns while also running for 70 yards. He was neck-and-neck with Taggart for the starting position after the graduation of standout QB Dominick Randolph.
Watson – or another QB – will have a lot of weapons with which to work. The top eight receivers from last fall all return. Also back will be the top four runners minus Taggart. The Crusaders will also welcome back their placekicker (12-of-15 FGA). Defensively they have five of their top 10 tacklers returning.
The challenge could be up front where just one starter from the year's final depth chart (and two from the depth chart against Dartmouth) return, although all those listed on the second line of the two-deep are back.
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Email delivered a link to a Forbes.com column that appears under the headline, What Is It With Yale Football And The Rhodes Scholarship? The piece is written by a 2007 Yale grad. (Thanks for the link.)From today's Yale Daily News:
Patrick Witt ’12 told the News Tuesday night that he decided to play in the Nov. 19 Yale-Harvard Game before he was notified that the Rhodes Trust had asked Yale to re-endorse his candidacy.
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FoxSports has one of the better pieces I've read on former Dartmouth defensive assistant-turned-CEO Joe Moglia taking over as head coach at Coastal Carolina. From the story:Being a CEO and being a head football coach are closer than you'd think. You make smart hires then delegate. You motivate and unite. You operate under pressure. You bring together a team under one strategic vision, and you look for competitive advantages over opponents. "People have this kind of mystical vision of a head coach, that he does all these things," said Brandon Noble, a former NFL player who is one of Moglia's coaches, "but what a coach does is the same as a CEO: delegate, deal with the press, sell your company, all those things that ride in big-time college football."
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Speaking of signing day, remember "the most infamous college football recruit ever?" He's choosing again – or is he? – this time between a couple of Division II schools instead of Cal and Oregon. Click here for an interesting update.•
Reuters is carrying a story about the sister of a Dartmouth player that includes this:Joy Womack, a 17-year-old dancer who is to become the first American to graduate from the academy's Russian course this spring.Chase Womack will be a senior corner at Dartmouth in the fall but he's used to sharing the spotlight as a triplet with five brothers and three sisters ;-)
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Dartmouth Now has a note that the The 101st Winter Carnival, “Carnival in Candyland: The Sweetest Carnival Ever,” will be held February 9 through 11. Unfortunately, there's not much snow left down in the valley and there will be significantly less at the end of the day today with the forecast calling for 46 degrees and rain.•
Um, check out this cheerleader picture. No, really. Check it out.•
And finally, last night at Hanover High was a perfect example of what winning does for attendance at athletic events. To be honest, the local high school boys' basketball team has rarely been much of a draw. But last night a huge crowd turned out to watch the Marauders improve to 12-0 with a convincing win over a once-beaten team from the Concord area. Even the team from Hanover's nearest rival showed up, albeit to loudly root for the visitors after being vanquished by Hanover the last time out. They didn't have much to say after the few few minutes ;-)The Marauders' athletic 6-4 center/forward (and all-state receiver) who has an application in at Dartmouth had 15 points and 14 rebounds in the win. Hanover got a game-high 24 points from the son of former quarterback Steve Ferraris '77, also a standout running back for the local high school.
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