The D On Spring Football

The Dartmouth visited practice recently and reports on Sammy McCorkle stepping in for Buddy Teevens as the Big Green’s acting head coach. Find the story HERE.

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A story out of Pittsburgh centers on former All-Ivy League tight end Cole Marcoux, the Pittsburgh Steelers' Director of Football Administration, who added new responsibilities when Omar Khan was named the team's' general manager. Interestingly, Khan got his start working for Buddy Teevens at Tulane, and Marcoux was a Teevens recruit.

Khan quoted in the story:

(W)hen I got this job I had to pass on several of my responsibilities to Cole. He got promoted and he’s done an amazing job. He’s an Ivy Leaguer and has spent a lot of time at the league office. He sees things a little differently. He’s got a great perspective on things.”

Find the full story HERE. 

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Following up on Monday's offensive statistical returners for Dartmouth football and Tuesday's statistical returners on defense, today the specialists with stats. Again, UPPERCASE players are returning while italics represent graduates.

PUNTING	No.	Yds	Avg	Long	TB	FC	I20	50	Blk
DAVIS GOLICK	49	1790	36.5	48	2	17	13	0	0

FIELD GOALS	M-A	Pct	I20	20-29	30-39	40-49	50	Lg	Blk
Ryan Bloch	7-10	70	0-0	5-6	2-4	0-0	0-0	32	1
IVAN HOYT	0-1	0.0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-1	0-0	0	0

KICKOFFS	No	Yds	Avg	TB	OB
Ryan Bloch	25	1305	52.2	2	1
IVAN HOYT	12	599	49.9	4	0

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The Columbia Spectator had a piece last week headlined, Columbia student-athletes speak out on the Ivy League's athletic scholarship lawsuit that offered up background on the issue and included this from freshman linebacker Lucas Bullock about why he favors the addition of scholarships:

It’s ridiculously difficult … I mean, taking five classes, trying to work a job, you know, four to seven hours of five to six days a week are already taken up by sports. So you’re pretty much cutting everyday in half. And then cutting that part in half again, by trying to work a job is just like trying to fit all of your academic requirements into just a very few amount of hours in a day. It is definitely a challenge, to say the least.”

Find the story HERE. 

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BGA Premium last night covered the first spring football practice in pads for the Big Green and reports that acting head coach Sammy McCorkle, a self-proclaimed "true believer" in not tackling each other in practice, has no intention of veering off The Dartmouth Way.

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It's no secret this has been another tough year for Dartmouth athletics beyond the 3-7 record on the gridiron last fall. Struggling more than most have been women's basketball, which finished the season 2-26 overall and 0-14 in the Ivy League, and baseball, which slipped to 1-23 last weekend and 0-9 in the Ivy League after being swept by Harvard. The local Valley News takes a look at the baseball program, which lost a number of players to the transfer portal. Find the story HERE.

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EXTRA POINT
With Mrs. BGA now retired and no football practice Monday we popped into town to catch a matinee of the new movie Air, about NIKE's courting of Michael Jordan. Two things.

First, it's a solid movie that we'd both recommend. Ben Affleck was a good Phil Knight and Matt Damon was fine as Sonny Vaccaro, although even with a few extra pounds and some stuffing under his clothes he didn't look even a bit like Vaccaro. A young Joe Pesci could have played the role to perfection. Watch the trailer for the movie HERE.

And second, a Monday afternoon matinee in Hanover? We saw it listed online but because it was hard to believe that would be much of a draw, we actually called the theater to make sure it wasn't a typo. It wasn't a typo and surprise, it wasn't much of a draw. We were the only two people in the theater.