Friday, December 08, 2023

A Question For You

OK, this is fun. I think so, at least.

A friend of BGA sent along this photo that an associate of his shot near Galveston, Texas recently. We're all curious about whose truck it is.

If it is your truck, or you know who owns it, drop me a note and I'll share it with the friend who sent the picture along. If you are the owner of the truck and let me know it's OK, I'll post that here as well. If not, no problem.

Anyone?


Green Alert Take: You know, even without the Dartmouth Football lettering below the block D, a lot of people would know immediately what this truck is repping. I'd venture to guess even if the D wasn't there, the green lines would have some people smiling and thinking, "That's almost like the Dartmouth helmet."

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Portal developments include defensive lineman Gannon McCorkle receiving an offer from Stetson and running back Joey Richmond fielding an offer from DIII Salve Regina in Newport, R.I.

Quarterback Nick Howard's Xwitter shows a trip to Butler, which had offered him previously. It also includes a visit to Notre Dame. At least one portal transfer site has picked up on that posting, although it stops short of interpreting it as an offer:

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Cornell has hired Dan Swanstrom as its next football coach. (LINK)

Swanstrom should be a familiar name both around the Ivy League and in Ithaca in particular. Between two stints on the staff at Penn (QB coach and recruiting coordinator 2014-16, and offensive coordinator 2022-23) he spent five seasons as head coach at Ithaca College. Swanstrom went 32-11 at Ithaca, winning three league titles.

In other coaching news in the region, Bob Chesney, who had a strong run at Holy Cross, has been named head coach at James Madison.

For a look at all the head coaching changes at the FCS level this year, click HERE.

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New Hampshire Business Review has an update of sorts on the bid by Dartmouth men's basketball players to unionize. Find the story HERE.

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EXTRA POINT
I am a huge Sharpie fan. Kids use them for autographs and I have a bunch of different colors I use around the house to label things because, as they say on the side, they are "permanent" markers.

I've written in this space previously about how the letters on the auxiliary keyboard I use with my Mac laptop wear off (LINK). Well, I've been working on something that requires me to occasionally use the > symbol and because I have five keys in that neighborhood that are now blank I grabbed a black Sharpie and wrote the > symbol on the key.

That looked so good I figured, what the heck, and wrote the letters and symbols on the rest of the keys that were blank.

It is two days later and the "permanent" Sharpie lettering is now illegible on the E, A, S, D and N keys and barely readable on the M and C.

The good news is that the > is still clearly marked. I guess I don't hit that one as often as I thought.

The other good news? Because Sharpies aren't quite as permanent as they would have you believe, I'll be able to get the ink off my fingertips.

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