Dartmouth's Green-White Game is tomorrow. Because some of you who may be thinking about heading out to Memorial Field don't click through to visit BGA Overtime, here's the way last night's OT post began:
In part because it led to the poaching of their players in the transfer portal, a significant number of FBS football coaches stopped holding spring games and replaced them with one final practice.
The NCAA closed the second portal window this year but the number of spring games at the FBS level still continued to fall.
As they used to say in these parts, “It’s different at Dartmouth.”
While they won’t be drafting teams the way the Big Green did years ago, coach Sammy McCorkle has no intention of turning Saturday’s Green-White Game into a glorified practice.
“We’re going to try to keep it a game situation as much as possible,” he said after Thursday’s practice on sun-splashed Memorial Field. “We’re going to have intermittent stuff. Our depth at defensive line is a little bit of a concern with those guys playing a lot of snaps. So we’ll mix some things in there, like a little punt stuff at halfway points of quarters to give those guys a bit of a breather.
“But overall, we want to keep it as much of a game situation as we can. That’s our goal. I’d like to average about 50 snaps per group, so about 100 for the full scrimmage.”
As has been the case for a few years, the new captains will be introduced Saturday and the most improved players in various areas of the field will be recognized by their position coaches.
The team will be on the field by 10 Saturday morning with the Green-White Game itself starting a bit later.
The BGA Overtime post segued from the explanation of the Green-White Game to Coach McCorkle's answers to questions you submitted. Click HERE to visit the full page. (And yes, I had to look up how to spell segued. ;-)
One last thing: A reminder that there will be coverage of the Green-White Game tomorrow night on the OT.
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The Tampa Bay Buccaneers PewterReport.com has a piece headlined Bucs rookie mini-camp 2026: One word for each defensive player. I thought there was a chance they would use "Strong" for defensive lineman Josiah Green '25, but they took the cliché way out. Here's what they wrote (LINK):
DT Josiah Green: Intelligent
Green was a four-year member and three-year letter winner for the football program at Dartmouth and earned unanimous All-Ivy honors in 2024 before transferring to Duke in 2025. It goes without saying that it takes a great deal of smarts to graduate from Dartmouth, an Ivy League school, and then finish up your college experience at Duke, another prestigious university. But it's not just classroom smarts that you get with Green, a 6-foot, 284-pound tackle. He spends a lot of time watching film and incorporating the opposition's tendencies into his approach on gamedays.
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Sports Illustrated used to have a piece called Signs of the Apocalypse. Maybe it still does, but how would anyone know? But I digress.
This from an ON3 post fits the bill (LINK):
Another blue-blood quarterback from last season, Alabama's Ty Simpson, revealed that he received an alleged $6.5 million offer from Miami that had him seriously considering forgoing the draft and entering the Portal. He ultimately turned that offer down, however, and was selected with the No. 13 overall pick in the 2026 NFL Draft.
Green Alert Take: It's pro football, folks.
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EXTRA POINTSo, you think you are wasting time reading down this far in BGA? Think again!
If you made it this far in your daily visit to BGA back on Dec. 31, you know the correct response. (LINK)
