Looking Ahead

With the regular-decision recruiting class unofficial but now pretty much identified, this is the way the Dartmouth offense appears to shape up for next fall. Check out the defense tomorrow. The key word: unofficial ;-)

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The Dartmouth Review has a lengthy look back at the 2015 Big Green football season with a quick glimpse ahead. The story includes this quote from Coach Buddy Teevens:

“People look at us and say, ‘Wow Dartmouth is a number one school in football and number one in terms of graduation rate. Man, it’s an Ivy institution with world class intellects and the football team is in that group while playing pretty physical and successful football. That’s where we’d like to be. We’ve got a number of engineers and pre-med kids with high 3.0’s, with 3.5’s, 3.6’s, 3.7’s in GPA. Our team GPA has been over 3.0 for the past 11 years. I want great players who are intellectuals at all times and great guy at all times. When people see my players, my kids, they say ‘Oh he’s in my class. Pretty cool dude.’ If you expect excellence and you preach and prod that and encourage that, you get what you ask for. I think that’s where we are right now.”

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The Dartmouth writes about the fact that there will not be a snow sculpture on The Green for Winter Carnival this year. From the story:

“The main factor obviously was weather — the Green is greener now, there’s not really any snow,” chair of the Winter Carnival Council Harrison Perkins ’18 said. “The second factor was a lack of student support in building the actual sculpture in the past few years.”

Green Alert Take: Sorry, but I'm not buying the lack of snow argument. That has never stopped the sculpture before. In the past snow has been trucked in and that was a possibility this year. We live less than eight miles from campus and there's plenty of snow here. Around Dartmouth they like to say, "Lest the old traditions fail." They failed.

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The beauty of having a DVR hooked up to your TV is the ability to zip through commercials. We didn't do that during the Super Bowl but I freely admit we started to think about it. You may disagree but here on the shoulder of Moose Mountain there was agreement that this was easily the least entertaining group of Super Bowl commercials in recent memory. The other advantage of a DVR? The ability to zip through overblown halftime shows. Thanks to the fast forward button while we didn't hear one note of halftime music we didn't miss a snap.