The Pick Is In . . .

Even if you didn't buy them, it used to be fun to stop by the Dartmouth Bookstore and flip through the college football magazines to see how the annual publications thought the Ivy League would shake out in the fall. Unfortunately, the Dartmouth Bookstore no longer exists, college football magazines have been making like newspapers and disappearing into the ether, and the few that still find their way onto store shelves ignore the Ivy League with the notable exception of Lindy's.

Thanks to a loyal reader who follows this stuff closely, here is how Lindy's sees the 2023 Ivy League race:

1. Yale
2. Princeton
3. Penn
4. Harvard
5. Dartmouth
6. Columbia
7. Cornell

8. Brown

Green Alert Take: Lindy's didn't exactly go out on a limb with those predictions.

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Here are the top 10 FCS football Twitter accounts in terms of followers, with all but one Ivy making the cut:

1  @NDSUfootball  103.4K
2  @gojsutigersfb  82.8K
3  @yalefootball 73.3K
4  @DartmouthFTBL 66.9K
5 @PrincetonFTBL 60.1K
6 @PENNfb 55.8K
7 @MontanaGrizFB  54.6K
8 @CULionsFB 50K
9  @BrownU_Football 48K
10 @HarvardFootball 47.6K

Finishing out of the running is Cornell with 39,692 followers as of this morning.

Dartmouth's official count as of this morning was 66,965.

Green Alert Take: Ivy League attendance continues to struggle but the Ancient Eight is still among the leaders in the Twitterverse. What gives and how come BGA Premium doesn't do any better?  ;-)

Green Alert Take II: While I'm at it, a reminder that signup for BGA begins four weeks from today, on July 1.

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There's a lot of moving and shaking going on in the Dartmouth athletic department. Approaching his first anniversary in office, Big Green Athletic Director Mike Harrity is searching for a new men's lacrosse coach just a little over a week after hiring a new women's basketball coach.

Moving on is Brendan Callahan, who guided Dartmouth lacrosse to a 6-6 overall record and a 1-5 Ivy League mark this fall. In nine years at the helm he was 2-40 in Ivy play and 25-71 overall.

Dartmouth also is searching for a new women's volleyball coach to replace Gilad Doron, who stepped down after seven years with a 32-50 Ivy League record and a 70-76 overall mark.

Hired in December as women's soccer coach was Taylor Schram.

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EXTRA POINT
Weather permitting, it's farm day for us with Open Farm Day featuring hay wagon tours, fiddling, free hot dogs and ice cream and more  at Newmont Farm this afternoon. Then it's the first Pizza Night of the  year at Crossmolina Farm this evening, an experience I would highly recommend for anyone "from away."