Monday, November 25, 2024

Once More With Feeling

Drum roll, please . . .


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The local Valley News takes a look at Dartmouth's Ivy League-clinching win over Brown HERE.

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If you like "cinematic "highlights, here you go:

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Missed this earlier, but Dartmouth quarterback Jackson Proctor got an ESPN College Football Final helmet sticker for his seven-touchdown performance Saturday:

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Long-suffering New York football fans finally have something to cheer for:

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Sammy McCorkle, like Buddy Teevens before him, supports players who graduate and then enter the transfer portal. The graduation piece was the key with Teevens, and now with McCorkle.

In the past week a bunch of graduating Dartmouth seniors have entered the portal, but not all Ivy League players going in the portal are graduating seniors.

Penn running back Malachi Hosley, who led the Ivies in rushing with 1,192 yards this fall, is exploring transfer options following his sophomore season. Find a Daily Pennsylvanian story HERE.

Green Alert Take: Ryan Butler should be a cautionary tale for Ivy players thinking about transferring as undergrads. Butler set a Princeton record for rushing touchdowns by a freshman (11) while running for 501 yards in 2022. He then transferred to Stanford where he had 18 carries for 60 yards last year and just seven carries for 44 yards while appearing in eight games this fall. To his credit, he will get a Stanford degree and he still has another year to make his mark on the football field, but it's hard not to wonder what he would have accomplished on the field if he had remained at Princeton.

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The FCS playoff bracket is out and one 2024 Dartmouth opponent and two old friends will be back in action on Saturday.

Central Connecticut (7-5) will visit Rode Island (10-2) at noon, New Hampshire (8-4) will host UT Martin (8-4) at 1 p.m., and Lehigh (8-3) is at Richmond (10-2) at 2 p.m.

Here's the bracket:

Click to enlarge or CLICK HERE for a better bracket.

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EXTRA POINT
Count me among the many who enjoys Ken Burns documentaries. His films on the National Parks, the Civil War and baseball were particular favorites. While I was excited to learn he'd turned his camera on Leonardo da Vinci I have to admit I didn't even make it through the first part. For as interesting as the subject is, I was working too hard trying to understand heavily accented interview subjects and I found Burns' new split-screen presentation too distracting. We recorded the four-hour documentary and I'm sure at some point I will give it another try at some point, perhaps with closed captioning turned on.

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