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Speaking of quarterbacks, the Any Given Saturday message board (LINK) has a newish thread about the year of the senior quarterback in the FCS. Take any discussion of top FCS quarterbacks that doesn't include Dartmouth's Dalyn Williams with not a grain of salt but a shaker of salt.
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A seven-round mock draft by NFL.com has Yale tailback Tyler Varga as the only Ivy Leaguer drafted. The site has him going to the Atlanta Falcons. (LINK)
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While The Sports Network agrees Varga should be drafted, it calls Harvard defensive end-outside linebacker Zach Hodges the top Ivy prospect. (LINK)
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The New York Times details a proposal to tear down Columbia's football stadium and replace it with a 25,000 seat facility for New York City's new major league soccer franchise. Columbia would share the facility. (LINK)Green Alert Take: Not to be snide or anything, but that's just what Columbia needs – 8,000 more empty seats. I can't speak for the condition of a stadium opened in 1984, but it looks to be in pretty good condition to me. It would seem wasteful to put the wrecking ball to one of the nicest facilities in the Ivy League. And let's not talk about access and parking for 25,000 people.
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Joe's Pond in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom is famous for its annual "ice out" contest that is determined each spring when melting ice unplugs an electric clock placed on a pallet out behind old Homer Fitts' deck. (LINK)I bring that up because if you had yesterday, April 28, as "snow out" up here at our place on the shoulder of Moose Mountain, you are a winner. Sure, we've still got some snow where it slid off our roof and piled up this winter, but the last square foot of snow out in the yard disappeared yesterday, much to the chagrin of Griff, the Wonder Dog, who absolutely loved to roll in the stuff.
For what it's worth, "ice out" on lLake Winnipesaukee was Friday at 4:34 p.m. (LINK)
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The high-tech stuff that has been going on at Dartmouth football practice will pick up speed at the next-to-last spring practice tomorrow. Be sure to visit BGA Premium for a story out of the practice and a look at the defensive players in the regular-decision recruiting class. Last night's story looked at the incoming players on offense in the regular-decision class.