Tuesday News Day

Scrimmage No. 2 is in the books for the Big Green and a recap went up last night on BGA Overtime. There's no practice today so the team and OT will be back at it tomorrow.

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It's official . . . for now. With help from the courts, former Dartmouth safety Sean Williams is on the official Arkansas website as a member of the team despite trying out with the Tennessee Titans last spring. Find the Arkansas bio detailing his career in Hanover HERE.

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I knew immediately what this was, but I was not aware of the term "content farm" until doing a little digging on the video below. It was posted by something called Trending News 24 usa.

The description I read of "content farms" explains that in search of "clicks," these sites scrape the internet for content, use AI to use what they find online to develop a script and have a computer generated-voice do the narration, in this case with someone purporting to be reading the script (but who clearly is not).

Green Alert Take: Uh, no . . .

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As of this writing, the FCS Coaches Poll has not been released. The STATS poll has Week One Dartmouth opponent Lehigh  (2-0), moving up this week from 10 to 9, Yale dropping from 16 to 19, Harvard moving into the rankings at 25, and Monmouth (1-1) going from receiving 16 votes to receiving four.

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	STATS	W-L*	Pts	Prev*
1	Montana State (57)	2-0	1425	1
2	South Dakota State	1-1	1303	2
3	Montana	2-0	1292	3
4	Tarleton State	2-0	1272	5
5	Illinois State	2-0	1209	4
6	North Dakota	2-0	1037	8
7	UC Davis	2-0	1003	7
8	Rhode Island	1-1	994	6
9	Lehigh	2-0	941	10
10	Youngstown State	1-1	939	9
11	South Dakota	2-0	901	11
12	Tennessee Tech	2-0	836	12
13	Stephen F. Austin	2-0	806	13
14	Lamar	1-1	545	14
15	Austin Peay	1-1	540	15
16	William & Mary	2-0	506	17
17	Idaho State	2-0	478	23
18	Mercer	2-0	417	19
19	Yale	0-0	383	16
20	West Florida	2-0	317	25
21	Villanova	1-1	275	18
22	South Carolina State	2-0	270	21
23	Abilene Christian	0-2	196	20
24	Northern Arizona	1-1	160	22
25	Harvard	0-0	64	NR
	Dropped Out: Western Carolina (24)
	Others Receiving Votes (schools listed on two or more ballots): Alabama State (2-0), 55; Southern Utah (1-1, 0-1 Big Sky), 51; Campbell (2-0), 49; Cal Poly (2-0, 1-0 Big Sky), 46; Southern Illinois (1-1), 30; Richmond (2-0, 1-0 Patriot), 28; Houston Christian (1-1, 1-0 Southland), 24; Elon (2-0), 21; Jackson State (2-0), 21; Wofford (2-0), 19; Western Carolina (1-1), 15; Southeast Missouri (1-1), 14; UAlbany (1-1, 1-0 CAA), 13; UTRGV (1-1), 12; Prairie View A&M (1-1, 1-0 SWAC), 8; Monmouth (1-1, 1-0 CAA), 4; The Citadel (1-1, 0-1 Southern), 3

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Here's a first look at where the Sagarin Ratings algorithm has Ivy League teams and Dartmouth's opponents:

140 Yale
141 Harvard
173 Dartmouth
191 Penn
197 Princeton
218 Columbia 
219 Brown
223 Cornell

132 Lehigh
185 Monmouth
244 Merrimack

Notre Dame comes in at No. 1 with Stetson last in the country at 266.

For what it's worth, if Dartmouth and Lehigh were playing this Saturday in Bethlehem, Sagarin would have the Mountain Hawks as nine-point favorites.

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And finally, the lone former Dartmouth standout collecting a check for what he's doing on the field these days (depending on NIL of course ;-) is Flo Orimolade of the Calgary Stampeders. He was made available to the media after his team fell last night to the Edmonton Elks, 38-28. See what he had to say HERE.

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EXTRA POINT
The inexpensive but very capable replacement robot vacuum we were sent when the refurbished one we bought went kaput isn't playing nice anymore. Unfortunately, the sketchy manual translated from Chinese isn't much help. Today's assignment is to figure out how to take the thing apart enough to get at the battery, pull it out and see if that will reset the vac to the factory settings. Here's the crazy part – the thing was working perfectly until I followed the instructions to turn it off for the first time. It's been acting up ever since I turned it back on.

Literally, A Look At The Freshman Class

Dartmouth's second and final scrimmage of the preseason is on tap today. There will be full coverage on BGA Overtime tonight.

In the meantime, check out last night's OT practice report for thoughts from head coach Sammy McCorkle about what might be the deepest "room" on the team at this point, and which "room" most needs to prove itself. Interestingly, one "room" shows up in both areas. Click HERE to read more.

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With no news to report this morning, here's a flip-card of freshman faces drawn from the Dartmouth football home page. Click the graphic for a closer look.

While we're at it, here is an updated list of the freshmen with heights and weights per the Dartmouth website.

As is usually the case, a few players came in an inch – or in one case two inches – shorter in the offofficial measurements. The biggest weight gainers are, not surprisingly, on the offensive line where  Mikey McMahon was 290 on the earlier BGA list but comes in at 314. Brody OL McLeod was 280 in the BGA listing and is at 305. And Nick Schenkel is an inch taller at 6-5, and 15 pounds heavier at 285, than BGA originally had him.

Per the Dartmouth website:

• LB Ayomide Adeniyi, 6-3, 227

• WR Blake Betette, 5-11, 181

• LB JJ Bolz, 6-1, 220

• DB David Brown III, 6-1, 164

• QB Jack Cannon, 6-2, 205

• OL Tim Church, 6-4, 283

• S George Duggins, 6-3, 205

• DL August Dupree, 6-3, 230

• DE/TE Quinn Enguita, 6-4, 237

• WR Kareem Fisher, 6-2, 185

• RB Jacob Henry, 5-11, 192

• LS Will Hester, 6-0, 216

• LB Tim Ioane Jr., 6-1, 218

• DB Emory Jones, 6-1, 184

• LB Gavin King, 6-3, 236

• WR George Loop, 5-11, 174

• DL Will Maloof, 6-5, 196

• DB Trey McFadden, 6-2, 191

• OL Brody McLeod, 6-4, 305

• OL Mikey McMahon, 6-4, 314

• OL Jake Namnum, 6-2, 282

• K Tanner Pidwell, 6-2, 175

• DB James Rush, 5-10, 190

• TE Ayden Sadler, 6-5, 215

• OL Nick Schenkel, 6-5, 285

• DL Roman Sosnovyy, 6-3, 250

• DL Harlem Taylor, 6-1, 281

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EXTRA POINT
Sometime in the last few years I made the switch from good ol' cow's milk to drinking almond "milk." That Certain Dartmouth '14, who knows all about this stuff from living in the west, has reminded me about how much water it takes to produce almonds, and I can appreciate that. But that's not what I'm getting at today.

Yesterday I opened a new gallon of almond milk. I'm here to tell you that's something I do not look forward to doing because under the cap they seal the container with what our AI friends describe as an "induction seal liner—a thin, multilayer laminate."

Whatever, it looks like stiff aluminum foil to me, and it is a royal headache to get off. Yesterday I had to use a pair of pliers, which of course ripped the thing. That being the case, I had to carefully peel the shreds off the jug opening while making sure not to have any of them slip into the jug.

Look, I understand post Tylenol why companies seal things for safety. But I'm here to tell you that the producers of the almond milk I prefer have gone way overboard. I actually thought it was me until Mrs. BGA admitted yesterday that she has the same frustration with the containers.