Today's issue of The Dartmouth features a story on the recent deregulation of recruiting by the NCAA. Included were a couple of revealing quotes from Dartmouth Athletic Director Harry Sheehy:
“I think they simply couldn’t control a lot of things so they just decided if we can’t control it, let’s make it legal."
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“The fact that we are able to do these things does not necessarily mean that Dartmouth will choose to do these things."If you click through and read the story in The D, be sure to check out what John Infante of College Sports Scholarships has written about deregulation. He looks at what he sees as problems with the changes and offers several groundbreaking alternatives. Infante is a former compliance officer at several universities and a well-respected blogger (perhaps an oxymoron, huh?) on the subject.
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Quoted in the recruiting story in The Dartmouth is sophomore quarterback Alex Park, who has one younger brother who is an offensive lineman at Northwestern and another who will play O-line at Amherst. From the story:“When I was going through the recruiting process, Facebook wasn’t as huge as it is now, Twitter didn’t really exist,” Park said. “But when one of my younger brothers went through the recruiting process, they were both contacted on Facebook by particular coaches. Typically they’ll friend you and send you occasional messages to avoid sending mail.”
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OK, so it's not football but listen up. This is pretty good stuff. On its way to a 3-0 start Dartmouth baseball has beaten a Big Ten team and a Pac-12 team (along with one from the MAC).The Big Green, which earlier knocked Minnesota's highly touted pro prospect and then beat Northern Illinois, yesterday topped Utah to win the Dairy Queen Classic in Minneapolis. Utah coach Bill Kinneberg (quoted in the Deseret News):
"We made some key mistakes on defense that hurt us, but we lost to a good ball club."Third baseman Nick Lombardi was awarded the Silver Stick as the tournament's MVP after going 6-for-12 and driving in three runs. Named to the DQ All-Tournament team from Dartmouth were first baseman Dustin Selzer, second baseman Thomas Roulis, shortstop Matt Parisi, outfielder Nick Rupert and pitcher Kyle Hunter. (For those of you keeping score, the Dartmouth infield was unanimously chosen ;-)
The Big Green returns to action March 16 against Army in the initial game of a 10-game tournament in Winter Haven, Fla. The first home game is slated for March 27 against Siena and the first Ivy League game March 30 at Penn. Dartmouth has advanced to the Ivy League Championship series five consecutive years and eight times since 2000.
