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A few entries came in with nicknames for Dartmouth's new indoor practice facility, all of which are better than the IPF, which, I repeat, sounds like a sunscreen.
Among the entries:
The Canopy
The Shelter
The Chalet
The Cabin
The Hut
The Barn
The Hangar
The Airport
The Headquarters
The Woodshed
and these just in . . .
The Darthouse
The Dartshed
The Dartboard
and these just in . . .
The Darthouse
The Dartshed
The Dartboard
The winning nickname and what the facility will be called? Two choices that work on several levels. Wait for it . . .
THE GREEN HOUSE
or
THE WOODSHED
or
THE WOODSHED
Editor's Note: The building shall be referred to by one or the other sobriquet until such a time as someone puts their name on it and we have to come up with some kind of play on their name as in Leverone Field House being called the LeverDome. Under absolutely no circumstances should IPF ever be used again unless you are buying sunscreen.
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The NCAA's 2018 ruling allowing college football player to participate in up to four games in a season and not burn their redshirt year has presented a valuable opportunity for Ivy Leaguers. While they can't use that year in the Ancient Eight, which does not allow graduate students to play sports, they can use elsewhere.
Taking advantage of that rule is Dartmouth defensive lineman TJ Simpson, who has been offered a scholarship to Indiana State University that will allow him to begin his graduate studies while continuing his football career.
Green Alert Take: Given that junior varsity football is slowly (rapidly?) disappearing in the Ivy League and even talented freshmen at the stronger programs don't see as much action as they might with struggling programs, it would be a surprise if more players don't take the grad school route in the future if the NCAA doesn't tighten up the graduate transfer rules.
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Dartmouth will have another freshman running back on the roster this fall.
Letting the staff know this week he intends to play for the team after returning from his two-year LDS Mission is 5-foot-9 Jarom Miller of Union High School and Roosevelt, Utah. Find his highlight video HERE.
Per MaxPeps he ran for 1,139 yards and a 7.3-yard average in 2017, his senior season. He averaged 103.5 yards per game with 13 touchdowns including 11 rushing. He ran for 198 yards in one game, 197 in another and 173 in a third. He also caught 14 passes for 163 yards and two touchdowns. He was a 3A all-star selection.
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The NCAA Sport Science Institute has issued a paper titled Core Principles of Resocialization of Collegiate Sport. The introduction to the "three phase" principles says they are . . .
. . . "offered as a premise for resuming practice and competition at the collegiate level. They are meant to be consistent with the federal guidelines and otherwise reflective of the best available scientific and medical information available at the time. These core principles are intended as resources for member schools to use in coordination with the federal guidelines and related institutional and local governmental decision-making, all of which remain subject to further revision as available data and information in this space continues to emerge and evolve."•
And if those phases are not successfully met? The New York Post has a story under the headline, NFL weighing Saturday games if college football doesn’t resume in fall. (LINK)
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EXTRA POINT
Maybe it was a sign from the heavens that there are better days ahead.
For fully 20 minutes last evening the sky put on a show here in rural Vermont. It was breathtaking.
Here's about one minute of what we were lucky enough to witness:
