With so little turnover in the Dartmouth football coaching ranks the past few years there hasn't been much news regarding the whereabouts of former coaches. One who has moved around a bit since leaving Hanover is Mike Bruno, who coached nickels in these parts for five years.
After two seasons as a grad assistant at Mississippi State, one year at Louisville as a defensive quality control assistant and four seasons in a defensive quality control role at Cal, Bruno spent the last year served as linebackers coach at UNLV. With the firing of head coach Marcus Arroyo the staff was also let go.
Bruno resurfaced this winter as defensive coordinator and linebacker coach at Minot State. He joins the staff of new head coach Ian Shields, who had been on staff at UNLV as well. Shields was the head coach at Jacksonville when Dartmouth defeated the Dolphins in 2019, 35-6.
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Jared Gerbino '20 had a busy first game of the 2023 season with defending Italian Football League champion Guelfi Firenze and the '22 MVP could be even busier in the coming weeks. With the American tailback who played a big role in last year's championship run moving on and their dynamic quarterback hurt late in Guelfi's opener, Gerbino will be doing double-duty. American Football International writes (LINK):
“Gerbino undoubtedly provides an excellent replacement, but the loss does take a level of dynamism away from the reigning champions who will now seem a little less invincible.”
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A Sportico report on YahooSports goes into a little more depth on the lawsuit regarding the Ivy League's refusal to offer athletic scholarships. From the story (LINK):
Noting that the Ivy League colleges have a combined endowment of more than $170 billion, Choh and Kirk take issue with how out of the more than 350 colleges and universities in DI, only the Ivy League schools collectively “refuse to provide any athletic scholarships or other compensation/reimbursement for athletic services.”
And . . .
The complaint notes that Ivy League colleges agree to restrain competition in ways that other academically elite universities—such as Stanford, Georgetown, Notre Dame or Duke—do not. “These [non-Ivy] schools,” the complaint charges, “demonstrate they can maintain stellar academic credentials while competing for excellent athletes, and without agreed-upon limits on price.”
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Sticker prices for tuition, room, board and incidental expenses can exceed $80,000 a year, an amount that need-based financial aid falls short of covering.
Meanwhile, Ivies generate significant revenues from athletics, such as Yale reaching a 10-year, $16.5 million branding rights deal with Under Armour in 2016. They also attract contributions from donors; for example, Penn announced last year it would start construction of a new track and field facility that will cost $69 million, with donors pledging support.
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EXTRA POINT
On a shelf here in BGA headquarters I have a Simon & Shuster audiotape presentation of Charles Kuralt reading his book A Life on the Road. I was a huge Kuralt fan and thought it would be fun to dub the book from the cassettes onto a sound file on my iPod to listen to while I hike.
Serendipitously, I had a Walkman on the shelf right next to the Kuralt cassettes and put two double-A batteries inside. I was pleased to see the red power light come on, and before inserting the first cassette tuned the radio to an FM station I like. Nothing. I turned the volume control up and still nothing.
Then I put palm to forehead and thought, "You idiot." The Walkman doesn't have a speaker!
So I plugged in a set of headphones and voilá, I was listening to NPR.
At that I powered down the radio, pulled open the tape door, slapped in the first Kuralt tape and hit the play button. The readout read TAPE but nothing happened.
Thinking perhaps the AAA batteries were a little weak, I put in two new ones. Still nothing. The tape wouldn't move.
Somewhere in a box in our basement I think we have one of my mother's beloved cassette players that I'm pretty confident will work and allow me to move Kuralt's stories onto the iPod. In the meantime the best I can do is check out those shared by CBS commentator Steve Hartman, a worthy successor On the Road who recently offered up this piece:
Last August, Blossom the goose lost her mate, Bud. They'd lived on a pond at Riverside Cemetery in Marshalltown, Iowa. Blossom's grief was evident to the cemetery's staff, and so general manager Dorie Tammen decided to post a personal ad for Blossom. https://t.co/thqAas7H5K pic.twitter.com/80J7UJ6kaa
— CBS Sunday Morning 🌞 (@CBSSunday) March 5, 2023
