With 28 days until the first spring (sic) practice, Dartmouth has announced its new nickels coach.
Joining the Big Green program is Joe Castellitto, a former Utica College player who spent three seasons at UConn (two as a grad assistant and one as a defensive analyst) after one year coaching linebackers at Central Connecticut. His coaching career began as a grad assistant at Utica and included a short stint at Western Connecticut. He played his college ball at Utica.
Find a Dartmouth release about the new coach HERE. He replaces Ahmaad Smith, who spent two seasons with the Big Green.
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Per old friend Craig Haley of Stats Perform/The Analyst, Princeton receiver Andrei Iosivas was one of the two FCS players at the NFL Combine who had the "biggest" performances. Iosivas' college choice coming out of Hawaii came down to Princeton and . . . Dartmouth.
#FCSOvertime@CraigHaley on which two FCS prospects had the biggest performances at #NFLCombine2023.
— FCS Football (@FCS_STATS) March 6, 2023
Full recap: https://t.co/D57YjlbRmF pic.twitter.com/gZL1uCPHVF
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Taking advantage of a COVID Super Senior Season is a lot easier for a Dartmouth football player than a basketball player because it requires being on campus for just one extra term. Because of the overlap of seasons, basketball requires being "on" for two extra terms and therefore taking more time off, hard to do when your season overlaps terms (or in most cases semesters). Dame Adelekun, the 6-foot-8, 220-pound forward who became a dominant Ivy League force for Dartmouth this season, has chosen to enter the portal as a grad transfer and already has attracted the interest of Wisconsin, Ohio State, Arkansas, Vandy, Seton Hall and others. (LINK)
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The Dartmouth has named Kristin Chapman ’24 Editor-in-Chief of the school newspaper, effective March 15. (LINK) Chapman's father, Pete '91, was a co-captain of the 1990 Big Green, Buddy Teevens' first Ivy League championship team. I always enjoyed my interactions with Pete when he was a player and I was the beat writer covering Dartmouth for the local daily, and we share a friendship to this day.
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EXTRA POINT
Some people say there are five seasons in New England: Spring, summer, fall, winter and mud. Former Hanover High soccer player Noah Kahan, a singer-songwriter now selling out venues nationwide, has added another to the fold with his well-regarded single, Stick Season.
Sitting here in the BGA World Headquarters I'm reminded of yet another season: sugaring. Our hillside home abuts a real Vermont sugarbush and the farmer who taps the maples has a right-of-way through our lower field to access his trees. A sign that sugaring is starting up was this ATV with snow tracks on heading down to the pump house that collects sap and pumps it underground to the farm at the top of the hill where it is boiled. For those of you from away, sugaring season relies on below freezing temperatures at night in late winter/early spring, and above freezing temps during the day.
Oh, and it takes 40 gallons of sap to make one gallon of syrup, which is why the sweet stuff ain't cheap. ;-)
