Thursday, December 12, 2024

Be Sure To Watch This

A moving tribute to Buddy Teevens featuring Charles Davis, the NFL television analyst:

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Dartmouth had an athletic director years ago who said he wanted to hire promising young coaches eager to move up to the next level. His belief was that, while they wouldn't be around for long, their desire to make a name for themselves would drive coaches like that to be successful while they were in Hanover. That thought occurred to me when I saw this about Joe Castellitto, who joined the Dartmouth program in March of 2023 and has already moved on:


Csatellitto's move to UMass is reported in a news story HERE.

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Author John Feinstein has a piece in the Washington Post under the headline What makes Ivy League football special? Everything, that includes this (LINK):
The Ivy League wasn't formally created until 1956, and the league presidents eventually got together to create rules and restrictions that guaranteed the onetime national powers would no longer be national powers. Now, Ivy League teams are often included in the Football Championship Subdivision rankings but, unlike in other sports, Ivy League football champions don't get to participate in postseason play.

"It makes no sense," Yale Coach Tony Reno said - echoing all the coaches and players in the league. "We only play 10 games to start with. Why not let the kids who win the league championship get a chance to show people how good they are?"

This is yet another example of administrators mouthing clichés about "doing what's best for the 'student-athletes,'" then doing nothing to help the "student-athletes." Even in the Ivy League, hypocrisy lives.

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A story out of Pittsburgh headlined Aliquippa High's academic transformation: Players shine in the classroom includes this from starting quarterback Marques Council (LINK):

"I am being considered by University of Penn, Princeton, Harvard, Dartmouth, and Michigan State," Council said.

From the story about the Aliquippa initiative:

If a student's GPA falls below 3.0, they must attend the study table to get it back up. If it falls below 2.0, athletes cannot dress for the next game.

Council, a 6-foot-2, 185-pound junior who has a 4.0 GPA, is joined in the backfield by Tikey Hayes, an Academic All-American headed to Penn State, another 4.0 student. The Quips went 8-3 this fall.

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Stadium Journey has a piece headlined Lionheart: Q&A with Jake Novak, Columbia football's biggest fan in which the longtime Roar Lions blogger shares how he came to be such an ardent supporter of the Columbia program, and the history and future of his blog. (LINK)

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EXTRA POINT
Each year when we put the the '84 VW camper away for the winter we do what we can to try (unsuccessfully) to keep mice out. We've done the mothball thing in the past, and for the last few years we've placed dryer sheets all around the bus including every possible entry point.

This year we're trying something new – one of those "electronic rodent repellents" that is supposed to send out an annoying noise the critters can hear but we can't. Given the reviews I've read online, I don't have much faith in the thing, but it can't hurt. And it didn't cost much.

I suppose as long as we still do the dryer sheet thing at the very least the VW will smell nice in the spring.;-)

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