Thursday, November 06, 2025

Notes On A Quiet Thursday

No idea how long it will be up because of rights issues, but for those of us who have YouTube TV and might not have been able to watch the Dartmouth-Harvard game, here's the full broadcast (with former Crimson coach Tim Murphy on color commentary):


On a very quiet day in the blogosphere, here are a few comments from Dartmouth coach Sammy McCorkle from yesterday's weekly media call. First he addresses part of what went wrong Saturday, and then he goes on to talk about the fix. (Comments are gently edited for clarity):
"Obviously you don't want to fall down 17 points against a team of the caliber of Harvard. I thought our guys did a good job coming out at halftime and really battled and put ourselves right back in the game, in a situation to make some noise.

"But they just out-executed us, and we just didn't make enough plays. When we did get that momentum going, unfortunately we couldn't keep the momentum. We just weren't able to keep that going. I just think it was just a couple plays here and there. Every time we got it going, something (happened and we) couldn't keep it. We couldn't execute well enough."

And on the response in practice this week:

"Good energy, really good energy. The guys came out, and I think that's the one thing we talked about on Sunday, was just execution. We want to make sure we go out and execute at our best. You don't want to be in a situation where that your opponent executes better than you. That's been our biggest message this week. And I tell you what our guys have responded. We tell them, 'Hey, take one snap at a time and let's lock in and focus and execute that.' And they've done a good job to date."

I'll be at practice later today and will have a Dartmouth-Princeton preview on BGA Overtime tomorrow.

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Here's something most of us would have paid no attention to a year ago:

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With the rankings out, HERO Sports posted its playoff predictions again and the good news for those who follow Dartmouth is the Big Green got a mention. The bad news is where. From the column (LINK):

Bubble Teams Left Out
Ordered from the best chance to make the bracket out of this group to the worst chance.

25. Northern Arizona
26. Dartmouth
27. William & Mary
28. Presbyterian
29. Austin Peay
30. Southern Illinois

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Former Brown standout Michael Hoecht did the Ivy League proud with his response after an Achilles injury during the Buffalo Bills' win over the Kansas City Chiefs:

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EXTRA POINT

Hiked in a drizzle late yesterday afternoon and woke this morning to a little more rain, which is a good thing. After a very dry summer, wells and ponds in Northern New England are starting to slowly recover. The Dartmouth today has a story headlined New Hampshire lifts statewide fire ban (which actually happened last week).


I've got to admit, this line in the story made me snicker:

While citizens can make fires after 5 p.m., Hanover fire chief Michael Gilbert said students should still be “really cautious of when and where (they are) burning. You don’t want to be too close to anything combustible  … or too close to your home."

I'm just not sure a fire chief would need to warn students at Harvard or Columbia about when and whereto do their burning. On second thought, I'm not really sure he needed to warn Dartmouth students  ;-)

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