Wednesday, September 10, 2025

Here And There

Once more, with feeling . . .

If you have a question for Dartmouth football coach Sammy McCorkle click HERE and I'll pose it to him after practice later this week. Look for a story featuring his answers your questions this weekend on BGA Overtime.

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Dartmouth athletic communications posted a video coming out of Monday's scrimmage. For statistics and more details check out the BGA Overtime coverage HERE if you haven't already.

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I've been working on my upcoming Ivy League preview for BGA Overtime and with just over a week to go until the season kicks off, the Ivy League football record book hasn't yet been updated. Not that it has much information on the upcoming season, but it is frustrating.

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Green Alert Take: Here's hoping no one around the Ivy League brags again this year about being the final team/s in the country to start play. It's not something to brag about.

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Here is something to brag about.

In this era of teams jumping from conference to conference, the Ivy League has refused to play that game. It features the same eight teams it has featured since its official founding in 1954, and the formal start of Ivy League football play in 1956.

The Analyst has a story headlined What Are the FCS Conference Realignment Changes in 2026? that includes these tidbits (LINK):

• After playing as an independent in 2023 and '25, former Dartmouth opponent Sacred Heart will join the CAA for football.

• The Northeast Conference is losing Saint Francis, which is going to DIII after this year, and is adding Chicago State. Chicago State in the northeast???

• Former CAA members Villanova and William & Mary will follow Richmond to the Patriot League.

Here's how the three leagues will shape up a year from now:

CAA: UAlbany, Bryant, Campbell, Elon, Hampton, Maine, Monmouth, New Hampshire, North Carolina A&T, Rhode Island, Sacred Heart, Stony Brook and Towson.

NEC: Central Connecticut State, Chicago State (planned 2026 launch), Duquesne, LIU, Mercyhurst, New Haven, Robert Morris, Stonehill and Wagner.

Patriot: Bucknell, Colgate, Fordham, Georgetown, Holy Cross, Lafayette, Lehigh, Richmond, Villanova and William & Mary.

Green Alert Take: The runaway winner in the reorganization sweepstakes is the Patriot League. The reawakening of Lafayette and Lehigh, the addition of the three CAA emigres, and the potential for Colgate to re-emerge combine to give the Patriot a legitimate chance to be a successor to the CAA powerhouse of old.

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EXTRA POINT

Some days I just can't help snapping another picture when I look out the window. Fog generated down in the valley by the Connecticut River isn't unusual this time of year, but for it to be this uniform is unusual, and doesn't look real. That's New Hampshire's Piermont Mountain rising above the thick blanket of fog.


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