Tuesday, May 05, 2020

Tune In

Today is the Southeast stop on the 2020 Buddy Teevens (Virtual) Tour under the auspices of the Friends of Dartmouth Football. At noon today the Big Green coach will speak to listeners from Florida, Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Mississippi and Louisiana.

Those interested in participating when Teevens (virtually) visits the Southeast today, the middle of the country tomorrow at 4 p.m. (Eastern) or the West on Thursday at 3 p.m. (Eastern) should CLICK HERE to sign up.
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Speaking of listening in, The Bret Franklin show on 94 ESPN Radio will have an interview at 12:20 p.m. today with former Dartmouth defensive end Niko Lalos, a free agent signing of the New York Giants. To catch the broadcast, CLICK HERE.
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And while the subject is Lalos and free agent signings, The Dartmouth has a story about the defensive end earning a contract as well as the Cincinnati Bengals' signing of Big Green corner Isiah Swann. (LINK)

Swann told the paper about the reaction of those around him when the call came from Cincy:
"“They were just happy. My mom was happy. She was relieved. She was waiting there along with me for a call, and then I finally got one. And all my friends — I got a flood of DMs, text messages, just congratulating me. People that I barely remember from third grade Pop Warner days were congratulating me, so that was really cool.”
Lalos told the school paper about the reaction when word got out that Big Blue had signed him:
“My phone just turned into a brick. (It) just shut off and wouldn’t turn back on just because it was getting so many notifications at one point.”
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Both Swann and Lalos would have had a better shot at hearing their names called in the draft in any other year as Craig Haley of STATS explains in this video Tweet:



Editor's Note: If that didn't work for you, CLICK HERE to listen to Craig.
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Sad news out of Florida with the passing of Don Shula, the winningest coach in NFL history, father of Dartmouth wide receiver coach David Shula '81,  and grandfather of Dan Shula '06.

CLICK HERE to read in a BGA story the role Don played in David’s decision to change his mind about playing at Florida State and attend Dartmouth, and what he said when David told him he was thinking about leaving the Shula's Steakhouse business to return to Dartmouth as the wide receivers coach.

A news aggregating website called Heavy has updated a posting under the headline, Dave Shula, Don Shula’s Son: 5 Fast Facts You Need To Know. Interestingly, they stumbled across the BGA story.
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On the subject of Dartmouth coaches – former Dartmouth coaches, actually – The Dartmouth catches up with Callie Brownson, now the Cleveland Browns' Chief of Staff. (LINK)

And 247Sports prefaces a video clip featuring another former Dartmouth coach this way:
Georgia continues to release videos highlighting its football program and coaching staff, and on Sunday the team Twitter account released video of wide receivers' coach Cortez Hankton mic'd up. Hankton was hired away after three seasons at Vanderbilt as the wide receivers' coach after serving as an assistant for three seasons at Dartmouth.
Here's the video on Cortez' Twitter:

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A year ago the Ivy League would have been just like the Pioneer Football League and be AWOL from a story listing conference-by-conference games by FCS teams against FBS teams. Princeton's game against Army this fall avoided that indignity. (LINK)

That said, the Northeast Conference (NEC), which Ivy faithful pooh-poohed for years as not being up to Ivy League football standards, will have seven games against FBS teams this fall while the Ivy's sister conference Patriot League, will feature six:
Bucknell: Army (Sept. 4)
Colgate: Western Michigan (Sept. 4), Syracuse (Sept. 19)
Fordham: Hawaii (Sept. 12)
Holy Cross: Boston College (Oct. 31)
Lafayette: Navy (Sept. 12)
Dartmouth is slated to play at Army on Sept. 28, 2024.
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The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) has announced that women's flag football will be considered a varsity sport in 2021. (LINK)

Green Alert Take: This is an off-the-wall thought but given Title IX concerns perhaps the NCAA might consider that same idea.

Green Alert Take II: As revolutionary as women's flag football as a college sport might be, it is a lot more deserving of varsity status than video games, which are going varsity at Northeastern. (LINK)
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And on the subject of bringing football to the masses, USA Football has a new app to help teach and coach kids. (LINK)
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Dartmouth's Office of the President put up a posting yesterday under the heading, Planning for Fall Term. (LINK)

From the posting:
It is also our strong desire to bring some number of undergraduates back to live and study on campus this fall--the largest number we feel we can accommodate while minimizing risk for students, faculty, staff, and our neighbors in the Upper Valley. In the most likely scenario, we expect to have a mix of in-person and virtual classes in the fall for both undergraduates and graduate and professional students. We will also need to modify the ways in which students live to achieve less density in our residence and dining halls and maintain capacity for students who fall ill or need to self-quarantine.
And this from Princeton under the subheading, Princeton will decide in early July whether the undergraduate teaching program will be online or residential in the fall term  (LINK):
To bring back our undergraduates, we need to be confident of our ability to mitigate the health risks not only to them, but also to the faculty and staff who instruct and support them, and to the surrounding community.  . . . We do not yet know enough about the path of this pandemic, and the medical response to it, to determine whether that is possible.
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EXTRA POINT 
The iPad dinged around dinner time last night and up popped a photo, a reminder about how much things have changed in the digital world.

When That Certain Nittany Lion '16 was born I shot photos of the new baby and Mrs. BGA in the hospital with my 35-millimeter camera and then rushed the film to Kmart for overnight processing. (Maybe it was one-hour, I'm not sure.) When I picked up the pictures (some out-of-focus  of course, and some dark) I then rushed to FedEx to overnight them to the grandparents. At best it was two days after he was born that they got a look at the future Nittany Lion.

Flash forward and last night the iPad delivered a picture within seconds of this happening on the Connecticut River. No rushed processing, no FedEx charges and perfectly in focus.


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