Those two old guys you love and hate were at it again last night on BGA Overtime HERE.
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Pro football is a business. Former Dartmouth corner Tyron Herring '23, who signed with Green Bay as an undrafted free agent after two years as a grad transfer at Delaware, learned that when the Packers cut him late in the preseason.
And when he was signed to the Patriots practice squad three weeks ago.
And when he was released again yesterday (LINK).
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With the addition of kicker Tanner Tidwell and the deletion of another player who snuck through the BGA database from last year's class and was already on the team, the list of players who have announced for Dartmouth stands at 21.
• WR Blake Betette, 5-1, 185, Richard Northeast HS/South Carolina
• LB JJ Bolz, 6-2, 220, Bishop Verot HS/Florida
• DB Taiga Briskey, 6-1, 180, West Boca Raton HS/Florida
• DB David Brown III, 6-1, 162, Cypress Woods HS/Texas
• QB Jack Cannon, 6-2, 210, Holmdel HS/New Jersey
• OL Tim Church, 6-5, 300, Buckingham Browne & Nichols/Massachusetts
• LB/WR George Duggins, 6-3, 200, Mona Shores HS/ Michigan
• DL August Dupree, 6-3, 215/Folson HS/California
• DE/TE Quinn Enguita, 6-4, 215, Bishop Verot HS/Florida
• WR Kareem Fisher, 6-2, 180, St. Vincent Pallotti/Maryland
• RB/DB Jacob Henry, 5-11, 190, Maumelle HS/Arkansas
• LB Gavin King, 6-4, 230, Loyola Academy/Illinois
• DL/TE Will Maloof, 6-5, 210, St. Peter's Prep/New Jersey
• WR George Loop, 5-11, 170, Isidore Newman/Louisiana
• LB Parker Maiers, 6-1, 220, Brebeuf Jesuit HS/Indiana
• OL Brody McLeod, 6-4, 280, Ponte Vedra HS/Florida
• OL Mikey McMahon, 6-4, 290, Bergen Catholic HS/New Jersey
• OL Jake Namnum, 6-2, 292, St. Josephs Prep/Pennsylvania
• K/P Tanner Pidwell, 6-2, 175, Park City HS/Utah
• OL Nick Schenkel, 6-4, 270, Liberty HS/Pennsylvania
• DL Roman Sosnovyy, 6-3, 245, Lyons Township HS/Illinois
Additions and corrections welcomed over in the "contact form" over there to the right.
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Here are this week's Sagarin Ratings with last week's in parentheses:
98 Harvard (97)
158 Yale (159)
168 Penn (170)
170 Dartmouth (166)
182 Brown (189)
197 Princeton (180)
225 Columbia (213)
233 Cornell (240)
185 New Hampshire (175)
211 Central Connecticut (219)
242 Fordham (246)
Green Alert: Beat Yale and go down while Yale goes up? Your guess is as good as mine.
Sagarin has Dartmouth as a nine-point favorite at Fordham Saturday. The ratings had the Big Green as a 1½ point favorite over Yale last week, and as you know, Dartmouth won by one point.
Here are Massey’s FCS National Rankings
9 Harvard
32 Dartmouth
38 Yale
43 Brown
52 Penn
65 Princeton
81 Columbia
105 Cornell
40 New Hampshire
84 Central Connecticut
93 Fordham
North Dakota State is at No. 1 while Stetson comes in at the bottom at 129.
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And finally, here's an excerpt from the Ivy League's Football AQ Tiebreaker link:
2. In the case of a three-team tie, the following procedure will be used:
a. The AQ will be determined based on cumulative record against all other teams tied at that spot.
i. If all three teams have the same cumulative record, move to 2b
b. The AQ will be determined based on the average ranking of metrics (KPI, ESPN SOR, ESPN FPI, Massey).
That sent me scurrying to check out the rankings of the services other than Massey. I came up empty except for KPI, whose national FCS ranking has me more than a little curious . . .
1 Lehigh
2 Presbyterian
3 North Dakota State
4 South Dakota State
5 Penn
6 Mercer
7 Harvard
8 Montana
9 Dartmouth
10 Brown
That's impressive but I'm not sure the rest of the FCS would agree that four Ivies are in the top-10 and Lehigh is No. 1. ;-)
For what it's worth, KPI describes itself this way:
KPI, developed by @KevinPauga is a results-based metric ranking team resumes on a game-by-game basis for numerous NCAA sports.
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EXTRA POINT
Our EV manufacturer announced in March it was going to send everyone, gratis, an adapter to allow us to charge our cars at Tesla chargers. Great. With our Route 66 trip set for this summer, being able to charge at the ubiquitous Tesla chargers would be a welcome insurance policy it were found ourselves running low on juice.
We followed every protocol for requesting the adapter and filled out all the online "paperwork" the first day it went up. While some received their complimentary adapter a week or two after filing for it, we waited, and waited, and waited. Phone calls to the help line offered little or no help. And so we continued to wait.
Eventually, with our Route 66 trip a few weeks away, we bought an adapter – just in case. (We ended up using it twice – once because we didn't want to wait in a line at another charger, and once at Bryce Canyon, where that was all that was available.)
We were told by the EV manufacturer on our last call that the adapter would be shipped within 16 weeks, and that we could get an email with the shipping information so we could track it.
The email never came.
The adapter did. Yesterday. More than six months after we made sure we were at the head of the queue, and more than two months after we set off on our trip.