Saturday, February 16, 2013

They Call Them Highlight Tapes

Trying to make an assessment of the quality of this year's still unofficial recruiting class for Dartmouth (or some other school) based on highlight videos? Good luck with that.

Watch this compilation of high school highlight clips that were posted last year and think about what you saw of these players as Dartmouth freshmen last fall. It's a reminder that 1) it can take time for kids to adjust to the college game and 2) that highlight tapes are just that, highlight tapes.



An eagle-eyed reader sent along a link to a New York Times story on the Millrose Games that mentions Abbey D'Agostino '14 running in the famed races's mile and former nose guard/Olympic shot put medalist Adam Nelson '97 being honored. D'Agostino runs at 8:40 tonight and if  you are lucky enough to be able to access ESPN3 (we aren't :-( you can watch her.