Critical Mass-ey

In this wonderfully done promo for FCS football the narrator says, "But in the FCS it's not always about the outcome," and as he continues, "it's also about how you play the game," you see a slide of three Penn Quakers hoisting the Ivy League championship trophy. Coincidence or did they plan it that way? The Penn players holding the trophy are visible from the 11-14 second mark.

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Well, it was fun while it lasted.

The Massey Rankings are in and Dartmouth is back again to being the seventh-ranked team in the Ivy League:

Massey Ivy Ratings
15. Penn
23. Harvard
46. Brown
59. Yale
72. Columbia
74. Princeton
86. Dartmouth
96. Cornell

Current, recent past and future opponents:
9. New Hampshire
27. Holy Cross
30. Colgate
81. Butler
91. Bucknell
111. Sacred Heart
117. Georgetown

Massey has the Ivy League as the 7th-ranked conference, slotted between No. 6 Patriot League and No. 8 Southland.

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Maybe John Belushi was right ...

Hard as it is to believe, there's still one player left at Stanford who was recruited by Buddy Teevens, now beginning the sixth year of his second stint in Hanover. A San Francisco Chronicle story begins this way:

Teammates call James McGillicuddy "The Old Man" and "Godfather." It's only a matter of time before they start asking him what it was like playing for Pop Warner.

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With the unfortunate demise of the printed media guide, schools are moving much of their football information to the web. Check out the recently debuted Harvard Crimson Football Media Center. The Cornell Football Information Center has been up for a while. Other schools will no doubt be following suit.

Green Alert Take: Hopefully the new Ivy League football website will eventually include a direct link to each school's version of an online media guide.

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Did you know that it was football that brought TJ Rodgers – Dartmouth trusteee and founder/CEO of Cypress Semiconductor – to Dartmouth? The San Jose Mercury news has a story about Rodgers, a nose guard at Dartmouth for one year. For a laugh, be sure to check out No. 4 in the Five Things About TJ Rodgers piece at the bottom.

If the name TJ Rodgers isn't familiar, to read this 2007 Wall Street Journal piece about Rodgers and his return to Dartmouth as a trustee.

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If I'm reading things right, Week Two opponent Sacred Heart is in at least its second week of practice. Sorry, but there's been nothing on the school website and I haven't seen anything in the press since the NEC media day.