Catching Up With Zack

Click and click again to enlarge Walz' page from the media guide his senior year.

His hometown Los Altos Town Crier in California has a story (LINK) about Dartmouth alum Zack Walz '98, who went on to play linebacker for the Arizona Cardinals and then co-founded the recruiting business, Student-Athlete Showcase.

From the story:

Since 2003, Student-Athlete Showcase has taken off. The company’s website advertises a network of 40,000 college coaches available to recruits and boasts a 94 percent success rate for clients playing their respective sport in college.

According to Walz, the company has attracted clients internationally, with prospective athletes from Australia, Canada and South Africa, among other nations. Student-Athlete Showcase has the same goal for each athlete, “(to) find the perfect college fit in the United States,” Walz said.

Check out the Student-Athlete Showcase website HERE.

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Dartmouth alum Jim Darnell '77, who helped Johnny Manziel retain his eligibility last year after allegations that he was paid for signing autographs, is now representing Baker Mayfield, a quarterback looking to walk on at Oklahoma after leaving Texas Tech. In a story out of The Oklahoman (LINK), Darnell says:

“Anybody, any other student could decide they wanted to leave Texas Tech and go to OU and could just walk away. Because he played football, not because they gave him anything—he never even got a meal—they’re going to try to block him from playing and block his ability to get financial aid. That’s insane. That can’t be right.”

And . . .

"Coaches are oftentimes getting (mistreated). They’ve got a little bit of leeway to fight but kids don’t have any. Sometimes you’ve got to jump in and get into the fight because it’s the right thing to do and this is one of those fights that’s the right thing to do.” 

Find Jim Darnell's legal bio HERE. An earlier BGA post about him representing Manziel can be found HERE.

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Week 2 Dartmouth opponent New Hampshire has opened practice. The Wildcats made it to the NCAA semifinals last fall. Here's a video interview with coach Sean McDonnell:

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Dartmouth games against New Hampshire notwithstanding, the Any Given Saturday message board has a discussion (LINK) lamenting the direction of the Ivy League's nonconference schedule spun out of release of the conference football e-guide. (LINK)  Writes one poster:

Puzzling how a group of schools that pride themselves in striving to be the best as possible in academics and all other sports seek only stagnation and irrelevance in football

Here are the Dartmouth schedules per the e-guide. For what it's worth, the 2016 Dartmouth-Columbia game is listed at Nov. 11, which is a Friday. Given that all the 2016 schedules list a Nov. 11 game, I'm assuming it's a typo and have corrected it to Nov. 12, a Saturday:

DARTMOUTH SCHEDULES (Tentative)

2015 

Sept. 19 at Georgetown
Sept. 26 Sacred Heart
Oct. 3 at Penn
Oct. 10 Yale
Oct. 17 at Central Connecticut
Oct. 24 Columbia
Oct. 31 at Harvard
Nov. 7 Cornell
Nov. 14 at Brown
Nov. 21 Princeton

2016 

Sept. 17 UNH
Sept. 24 at Holy Cross
Oct. 1 Penn
Oct. 8 at Yale
Oct. 15 TBA
Oct. 22 at Columbia
Oct. 29 Harvard
Nov. 5 at Cornell
Nov. 12 Brown
Nov. 19 at Princeton

2017 

Sept. 16 TBA
Sept. 23 TBA
Sept. 30 at Penn
Oct. 7 Yale
Oct. 14 TBA
Oct. 21 Columbia
Oct. 28 at Harvard
Nov. 4 Cornell
Nov 11 at Brown
Nov. 18 Princeton

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The trees at the north end of Memorial Field came down several weeks ago. They've now been replaced by a row of greenery.

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