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Lehigh Football Nation, which usually has a pretty good handle on these things, takes a look at the blank spaces that have popped up on Patriot League football schedules and comes to a possible conclusion:. . . (W)hile it's still speculation, there's plenty of reason to view all the public evidence and see a very good possibility that VMI could very well be the very next member of the Patriot League - in time for the 2013 season.VMI, of course, is Virginia Military Institute.
Also in the Lehigh Football Nation column:
. . . (S)ome members of the Ivy League have been very critical of any motion toward Patriot League football scholarships. Back in 2009, Harvard head coach Tim Murphy made a not-so-veiled threat to "adjust" the Crimson out-of-conference football schedule if football scholarships became a reality, so the idea that the Ivies as a unit could exit the quarter-century old agreement is not unfounded.Green Alert Take: I'm not sure I'd read too much into the 2013 schedules, contracts being what they are. Nor would I expect a unilateral decision anytime soon on the Ivy League's part. What I do expect is individual Ivy schools to take a good, hard look at the competitiveness between the conferences in a few years, and decisions to be made based on what they see happening on the field.
The only problem with this theory? The change did not appear to on any Ivy league school schedules. Cornell's and Dartmouth's 2013 schedules still include Bucknell, Holy Cross, and Colgate, so it seemed unlikely that the Ivies had decided as a group to dump the Patriots over the scholarship issue.
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From a Yahoo Sports story:The 11 conference commissioners and Notre Dame met in Dallas on Monday to discuss different solutions — which almost exclusively revolve around a playoff — as a new way to determine college football's national champion.Eleven commissioners and Notre Dame. Argh!
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President Kim's hometown newspaper chimes in about the former Muscatine Muskies' quarterback headed to the World Bank. Speaking of which, the morning paper says the deadline for a decision on the nomination is April 20 and you can expect an interim Dartmouth president to be named in June if things go as expected.•
Back on the Moose Mountain front, through the wonders of Apple's Facetime/Messages program, I had a nice video chat with That Certain Hanover High Graduate from Barcelona yesterday. She informed me that her "host mom" got her signed her up for a 10K race through the streets of the city next month. Given the way "host mom" is feeding her, it's probably a pretty good idea ;-)And a very happy birthday to That Certain Hanover High Senior, who hit the books last night after practice and was still at it as the clock approached midnight.
There was a story in the local daily the other day about a Hanover High grad studying at a top college who said she has a lot of work for school, but that it's nothing like what she had to do at Hanover. I don't think the Hanover High Senior has turned off his desk lamp before 11:30 more than a handful of times since New Year's. To his credit, it would appear senioritis hasn't taken hold.
