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Check back later today to see the 2014 poll and learn a few tidbits from the Ivy League conference call.
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Dartmouth Athletic Director Harry Sheehy is the subject of a lengthy Q&A in the local daily that includes this in the introduction (LINK):
After firing his men’s heavyweight rowing and lacrosse coaches, promoting his women’s rowing coach into an administrative position and seeing his softball coach depart for Stanford, Sheehy and his lieutenants have been busy identifying, interviewing and vetting replacement candidates. At the same time, there’s a growing sense inside and outside the department that Sheehy’s leadership and initiatives need to soon bear more visible fruit.Sheehy, from the Q&A:
Winning one or two Ivy League championships per (academic) year is unacceptable. I think three, four, five is what we’re aiming for. The most we’ve ever won (in one academic year) is five, so it’s not like we were knocking it out of the park before. When I talk to alums, they’ll talk about the golden era in Dartmouth athletics and I’ll say, “No, you’re talking about when the football team was good, because there hasn’t been an extended golden age for us.”
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Former Dartmouth linebacker and tight end Damon Jones '95, has gone from coaching high school football to banking, to working in mining, to opening a barbecue stands, to coaching high school football again in Florida. The News-Press has a story. (LINK)
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From an Ivy League release (LINK)
The National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame (NFF) and the Ivy League are partnering for the fifth-consecutive year to co-host the presentation of the Asa S. Bushnell Cup, which honors the Ivy League Football Players of the Year, on Monday, Dec. 8 as part of the festivities surrounding the NFF Annual Awards Dinner in New York City.
Green Alert Take: While it's great for the nominees, from a news perspective I much preferred when the player (not and players, plural) of the year came out with the All-Ivy League team. I just don't know that the Ivies get enough bang for their buck from holding off the announcement. Just my 2¢.
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Week One Dartmouth opponent Central Connecticut has been picked fourth in the seven-team Northeast Conference (LINK).
Chosen to the preseason NEC first team from CCSU are running back Rob Holloman, wide receiver Tyrell Holmes and lineman Tyler Hurd on offense and linebacker Josh Alaeze on defense.
CCSU finished 4-8 last year. Sacred Heart earned six of seven first-place votes on the way to being chosen the favorite.
