Up here on the shoulder of Moose Mountain we got about 4-5 inches of snow last night and for about 10 seconds just now there was an avalanche thundering off the metal roof out my window. Impressive.
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News that a once-homeless Baylor running back has been rule ineligible for accepting improper benefits caught my eye not just because of the headlines but because of the player's name – Silas Nacitas. That struck a bell and a little Googling confirmed what I thought. Nacitas began his collegiate career at Cornell, where he ran for 99 yards and six touchdowns as a freshman in 2012. Find his Cornell bio HERE.After leaving Ithaca, Nacitas eventually ended up walking on at Baylor where the story of a homeless football player caught the attention of many, including Sports Illustrated (LINK). Nacitas was an Academic All-Big 12 selection last fall as a junior majoring in health, human performance & recreation.
SI wrote about his eligibility concerns HERE and finally about his being ruled permanently ineligible by the school HERE.
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Dartmouth opens its home season Sept 26 against Sacred Heart, which will be bidding to be just the second school to win three consecutive Northeast Conference championships. Whether the Pioneers can pull that off is anybody's guess at this point, but it's a pretty safe bet they will have a winning record coming into Hanover.Sacred Heart has announced its 2015 schedule (LINK) and prior to Dartmouth it will play Division II St. Anselm, Valparaiso (which posted two of its four wins last year against non-Division I opponents) and Marist (which was 4-7 with one of the wins over Valpo, and another over sad-sack Davidson).
