Feel The Draft: Jalen Mackie, LB, UMass https://t.co/HTJRF2PYRz
— New England Football Journal ® 🏈 (@newftbj) March 8, 2023
At 1:40 Mackie talks about how a rare strain of double-pneumonia in his senior year of high school played into his ending up at Dartmouth.
At 4:10 he shares why he so values playing at Dartmouth.
At 4:50 he talks about not tackling each other at Dartmouth but how the Big Green practiced tackling "more than any college in the country."
At 5:44 he touches on Coach Buddy Teevens' stressing the importance of being best person you can be off the field and the best player you can be on the field. He credits Dartmouth football for making him "the man I am today."
At 8:00 he discusses going from Don Dobes' bend-don’t-break concept to Don Brown's blitzing all the time approach.
#
Watch as Jared Gerbino '20 scores the first touchdown and Dartmouth gets a nod from the announcer when Gerbino's Guelfi Firenzi team begins defense of its Italian championship. Gerbino was the season MVP last year.The Road to Toledo and the @italianbowlusa began yesterday in Firenze as the @guelfifirenze 🏈 defeated Varese in impressive fashion 👀, 42-7, to open the @fidafgameday season. 👏 pic.twitter.com/3WMtLPCZkm
— BCSN (@BCSNsports) March 5, 2023
#
Headline in the Wall Street Journal:
Ivy League’s Agreement to Ban Athletic Scholarships Is Illegal, Lawsuit Says; Suit alleges Ivies engage in price-fixing by not awarding financial aid like other Division I schools do
From the story (LINK):
"The eight schools that make up the Ivy League engage in illegal price-fixing by not awarding athletic scholarships, alleges a lawsuit filed Tuesday by current and former Brown University basketball players."
From a piece in the Law360 site headlined, Ivy League Athletes Hit 8 Universities With Price-Fixing Claim (LINK):
Eight Ivy League universities are engaged in an illegal price-fixing scheme to raise the cost of education and suppress the compensation that student athletes receive for their services, two basketball players alleged in a proposed federal class action filed Tuesday in the District of Connecticut.
From a Philadelphia Inquirer story (LINK):
The two plaintiffs are current Brown University women’s basketball player Grace Kirk and former Brown men’s basketball player Tamenang Choh. The suit says they are bringing the lawsuit “on behalf of a class of fellow current and former Ivy League collegiate athletes.”
The Inquirer also includes this:
In detailing the commercial aspects of Ivy League sports, the suit alleges that Penn “demonstrated its commercial zeal by selling the naming rights for its iconic Palestra ...,” and that Penn athletic fundraising in 2018-19 was $63 million, also noting “the importance of revenue generation to the University Defendants is underscored by the million dollar-plus salaries paid to their Presidents and other high-ranking officials, and to those who manage their investments.”
Robin Harris, the Ivy League executive director, responded to the challenge this way, per the Inquirer:
“As students and their families consider the higher education and, specifically, the intercollegiate athletics opportunities available to them, there are a wide variety of options. Each choice, including the Ivy League, represents an individual decision and carries its own distinct features and benefits.
“The Ivy League athletics model is built upon the foundational principle that student-athletes should be representative of the wider student body, including the opportunity to receive need-based financial aid. In turn, choosing and embracing that principle then provides each Ivy League student-athlete a journey that balances a world-class academic experience with the opportunity to compete in Division I athletics and ultimately paves a path for lifelong success.”
Green Alert Take: I wonder if this suit will have former Ivy League football players-turned-lawyers thinking about ways to pressure the conference into allowing its football teams to do what it allows every other athlete to do, and that is compete for a national championship.
#
EXTRA POINT
Vermont is just 157 miles north to south, 42 miles east to west on the Massachusetts border and 90 miles across at the Canadian border. Although it's a small state the Vermont Association of Snow Travelers (VAST) grooms more than 4,700 miles of trails for snowmobiling.
One of VAST's trails crosses our road at the top of the hill and runs along the far edge of the property belonging to our nearest neighbor. I'm the furthest thing from a snowmobiler but I have to admit it's kind of cool that I could get on one of those things essentially in my back yard and travel from north to the Canadian border or south to Massachusetts.
