From the This Is UConn Country Twitter account:
New arrivals who should make an immediate impact with #UConnFootball include:
— ThisIsUConnCountry (@UConnSN) March 29, 2022
*RB Will Knight (0)
*OL Jake Guidone (72)
*WR Nigel Fitzgerald (2)
*OC Nick Charlton pic.twitter.com/H7WUpDg3fE
That's former Dartmouth All-America lineman Jake Guidone wearing his familiar No. 72 in an unfamiliar position. Guidone played tight end as a Big Green junior and guard last fall. Here's a closer look at the pic above:
Find Guidone's UConn bio HERE.
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Speaking of Dartmouth grad transfers, former All-Ivy League tight end JJ Jones, who is weighing five offers, Tweeted that he'll be taking a recruiting trip this weekend to Samford.
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Given graduations and transfers, Dartmouth football will have a little different look this year and not just between the white lines. New staff additions noted here previously (LINK) include tight ends coach Wendy Laurent, coming in from Penn State, and defensive quality control assistant David Coleman, last at Division III Alvernia University.
Also joining the program is offensive quality control assistant (D'ante) Keeon Shaw.
Shaw comes to Dartmouth from West Alabama, where he served as a defensive graduate assistant the past two years. A Jacksonville, Fla., native, he played corner at Liberty University. He graduated in 2015 with a degree in business marketing and sport management after starting his career at Brevard College.
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Largely a result of the Chiefs-Bills playoff travesty, the NFL has approved a change in overtime rules that guarantees both teams a possession in the playoffs. (There's no change to the regular-season rule.) If the score remains tied after both teams have had the ball the game will revert to sudden death. (LINK)
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EXTRA POINT
After nearly getting my car stuck in the mud earlier this week on an aborted drive to my nearby trailhead, I decided yesterday to inspect the road to my hiking trail by walking the two miles or so there. I was pleasantly surprised to discover the town crew had done yeoman work to finally make the road passable again.
After nearly getting my car stuck in the mud earlier this week on an aborted drive to my nearby trailhead, I decided yesterday to inspect the road to my hiking trail by walking the two miles or so there. I was pleasantly surprised to discover the town crew had done yeoman work to finally make the road passable again.
Not coincidentally, on my walk to the trailhead I listened to a Vermont Public Radio broadcast titled Mud Season Madness. (LINK)
I have to admit I was a little surprised to learn that Vermont actually has more miles of dirt roads than paved roads.
The bigger surprise was shared by the road foreman from the town of Danville, up in what is referred to as the state's Northeast Kingdom. I had thought, given the time and effort that goes into making dirt roads passable in mud season – and grading them in the summer – that paving them over would save money in the long run. Apparently it's not so, and it's not even close.
Per the Danville road foreman, his town has four times as many miles of dirt road as it does paved roads, but his annual budget for taking care of the paved roads is 40 percent higher.
The things you learn sticking around to the end of BGA Daily. ;-)
