Looking Ahead

While we await the confirmation of the 2024 Dartmouth football schedule – which will or will not include a game at Army – the non-conference schedules for six of the other seven Ivy League schools are now public. Only the Penn schedule is unavailable. (Anyone know anything?)

Here's what is on tap for next fall, keeping in mind that it's early and changes are possible:

BROWN
at Georgetown
Bryant
at Rhode Island

COLUMBIA
Lafayette
at Georgetown
at Wagner

CORNELL
at Colgate
Albany
at Bucknell 

HARVARD
Stetson
New Hampshire
Holy Cross 

PENN
Unavailable

PRINCETON
at Lehigh
Howard
at Mercer

YALE
at Holy Cross
Central Connecticut
Lehigh 

Green Alert Take: Had to double-check that all three of Harvard's non-conference games are at home, which they are. The Crimson will, however, have just three Ivy League games at home and four (including Dartmouth) on the road.

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Isaac Boston, Dartmouth's second-leading receiver last fall in terms of yards (182 on 16 catches) has grad transfer offers from Butler, New Haven, Gannon and Sterling and on his Xwitter account has announced his acceptance at the University of Miami.

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Onetime Dartmouth assistant coach Joe Moglia, who rose to the role of CEO of TD Ameritrade before eventually returning to coaching at Coastal Carolina, certainly knows finance and obviously knows college sports. That being the case, his column in Sportico headlined Is College Athletics Ready To Take On Players Unions? is worth a read. From the story (LINK):

College athletes will be paid as professionals sooner rather than later, whether loosely under the auspices of the NCAA or via an independent Power Five. Players unions will come soon after. It’s time for athletics directors and their superiors to go to school and learn how to negotiate.

Thanks for the link! 

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Can't take credit for this one either. It was shared by a friend and loyal reader who recently paid four years of tuition to Kalamazoo College where a bobbled snap on an extra point led to "what are believed to be the first non-kicking points by a woman at any level in the history of NCAA football." Find the story HERE.

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EXTRA POINT
We put Christmas lights up on our porch and garage earlier this week and it was a reminder of how far holiday lights have come. If you are of a certain age you remember how fragile outside lights were and if they clunked against each other or into a hard surface when you were hanging them the thin, colored glass bulb shattered or the filament inside broke. And how if one bulb burned out they all shut down. Thankfully, today's bulbs are virtually unbreakable plastic and the rest continue to work if one goes out.

We did have one problem, although it was nothing like a few years ago when critters chewed every . . . single . . . bulb off our 7-foot star and absconded with them to points still unknown. This time two different strands of lights each had one orphaned wire sticking out like Alfalfa's cowlick. With one wire cut (and as we figured out one light missing) on each string they weren't working. Because each strand had three wires and every other bulb was wired differently that required snipping out a few bulbs and then stripping and splicing the wires in proper sequence. I'm happy to report I didn't electrocute myself and that the lights are hung and working just fine, thank you very much.