The fellow from Australia who runs the Wide World of Stadiums YouTube site has posted another of his somewhat interesting (?) football stadium videos, this time featuring the Northeast Conference.
At the 2:41 mark you can see a little bit of Sacred Heart's 3,500-seat Campus Field, where Dartmouth will play the homestanding Pioneers on Sept. 24.
Central Connecticut's Arute Field, where Dartmouth played in 2015 and is slated to play again in 2027, is also in the video.
In case you were looking the other way when I posted it earlier, the Aussie fellow with a strange sense of humor took a look at Ivy League stadiums HERE.
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Draft Scout has a list of its 75 Top Small School Prospects in the rising senior class HERE and it includes two Ivy Leaguers. Both are from Princeton.
Coming in at No. 10 is 6-foot-2, 200-pound wide receiver/decathlete Andrei Iosivas, a member of the All-Ivy League second team last fall. Uche Ndukwe, a 6-3, 270 defensive end who checks in at No. 51, another member of the 2021 all-Ivy second team.
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Several weeks ago this space posted the 247Sports ranking of all-time Dartmouth recruits HERE. Those of you who have been regular visitors know we here at BGA (that would be Griff the Wonder Dog and me) don't put much stock in recruiting rankings at the FCS level. In fact, we don't put any stock in them.
A visit to the all-time ranking for not just Dartmouth but every Ivy League school reinforces the doubts we have about the rankings.
Here are the top-rated recruits all-time (or at least since 247Sports started) for each Ivy League school with the composite ranking, year of high school graduation, high school and town:
Brown
Corner Joshua Morris .8199
2013 LaSalle Academy (Providence, R.I.)
Columbia
Wide receiver Marcus Libman .8299
2020 Pinnacle (Phoenix, Ariz.)
Cornell
Quarterback Harley Kirsch .8221
2016 Eastside Catholic (Sammamish, Wash.)
Dartmouth
Tight end Jordan Kirkbride .8480
2019 Bishop Hartley (Columbus, Ohio)
Harvard
Athlete Cooper Barkate .8889
2022 Mater Dei (Santa Ana, Calif.)
Penn
Center Travis Spreen .8577
2018 Jesuit (Portland, Ore.)
Princeton
Quarterback Brevin White, .8946
2018 Paraclete (Lancaster, Calif.)
Yale
Offensive lineman Jon Bezney .8649
2014 Mariemont (Cincinnati, Ohio)
Green Alert Take: Not much in the way of household names there, huh? Morris spent one year on the Brown roster. Libman led Columbia in receiving last fall. Kirsch was the No. 3 quarterback at Cornell as a sophomore but then disappeared from the roster. Kirkbride did not end up enrolling at Dartmouth. The jury is out on Harvard's Barkate, who will be a freshman this fall. Spreen was a spot starter at Penn, appearing in 18 games. White, who can be a fifth-year senior this fall, has yet to play at Princeton despite being 247Sports' highest-rated recruit ever. Bezney had the biggest impact on this list, earning first-team All-Ivy League recognition.
Green Alert Take II: Can I ask a favor of those of you who insist on using rankings like these to compare recruiting classes? Please stop.
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EXTRA POINT
With the temperature in the mid-80s yesterday I played a little hooky from the computer and headed to a pretty little lake a bit north of here with Mrs. BGA.
Vermont has mountains but they will never be confused with those in Colorado. Unlike California, it doesn't have a dramatic seacoast (even if Burlington is sometimes referred to as the west coast of New England). And it certainly doesn't have a skyline like New York City.
Still, there's something incredibly beautiful and peaceful about the Green Mountain state as this screengrab showing the little lake where we spent the afternoon shows:
