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Among Dartmouth's incoming recruits is offensive lineman Kyle Brown, whose highlight video shows someone who plays with the attitude coaches like between the lines:
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Speaking of offensive linemen . . . missed this one from way back in March when Hunter Folsom, a 6-foot-3, 275-pound All-Pioneer Football League offensive lineman from the now-defunct Jacksonville team Dartmouth hammered last fall announced his decision to transfer to Brown. He Tweeted his intentions on March 17 HERE.
There may be more transfers that we don't about yet, but so far the Ivy League is welcoming Folsom, Columbia quarterback Joe Green (San Diego State) and Princeton QB Blake Stenstrom (Colorado).
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Yahoo Sports has a story about how the California State University opting for distance learning in the fall could impact FBS college football. (LINK).
Fresno State, San DiegoState and San Jose State are all members of the Mountain West Conference. From the story:
That does not bode well for the normal return of football in the fall, especially when coupled with recent comments from Mountain West commissioner Craig Thompson and NCAA president Mark Emmert. In an interview with the Mountain West Network, Thompson said there would be no athletics taking place until campuses are open and fully operational.
"Unless they're in full mode with dormitories and housing and all of the other facilities are open, we won't have college athletics," Thompson said April 21. "We will not have college athletics until the campuses are open."Green Alert Take: The first domino has fallen.
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From the Harvard Crimson (LINK):Harvard Medical School will begin classes online for all first-year students in its medical, dental, and graduate programs this fall, the school announced Wednesday.
In an email to school affiliates, Medical School administrators wrote that the school is planning to offer on-campus research and clinical training for returning students. They added that they hope all students can return to campus by January 2021.
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And this from The Dartmouth:In an email to campus on Wednesday morning, Dean of the College Kathryn Lively announced that seniors’ belongings left on campus will be packed and shipped to them by mid-June and that all other items will be returned to students no later than August 15. The College will pay for packing and shipping.Green Alert Take: Harvard and Dartmouth dominoes haven't fallen but it sure seems as if they are wobbling.
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EXTRA POINTNone of the guesses about the front-end loader here at BGA World Headquarters yesterday got it right. Here's a crew working on a similar project elsewhere in Vermont:
They had hoped to finish today but the discovery of ledge where they cabling is being buried slowed their progress.
When we were considering putting in a solar tracker the engineers took a reading on our property and found that our available sunlight was something like 95 percent of maximum, which made going ahead with the project a no-brainer.
