Here's the schedule prepared a while ago, keeping in mind it usually changes at least a bit:
Tuesday, April 2 - 5-7 p.m.
Thursday, April 4 - 5-7 p.m.
Saturday, April 6 - 10 a.m.-noon
Tuesday, April 9 - 5-7 p.m.
Thursday, April 11 - 5-7 p.m.
Saturday, April 13 - 10 a.m.-noon
Week Of April 14 - No practice
Tuesday, April 23 - 5-7 p.m.
Thursday, April 25 - 5-7 p.m.
Saturday, April 27 - 10 a.m.-noon
Tuesday, April 30 - 5-7 p.m.
Thursday, May 2 - 5-7 p.m.
Saturday, May 4 - 10 a.m.-noon (Green-White scrimmage)
A couple of things to note:
First, there will be coverage of each session on BGA Premium. Most of the reports will be posted the same night but given the later practice times and the distance we are temporarily living from Hanover it's possible some reports will go up the following morning.
More significantly, the new problems with the website continue. In short, when it is updated it works fine until the webhost essentially backs up its files and the site goes blank. If I change anything on the site and republish, it will stay up until the webhost does its thing again. More than you need to know, but I'm going to be chatting with someone from the company that hosts the site today to see if we can clear up the issue. If we can't, I will switch over and use an emergency BGA Premium alternate site and post a link to it here tomorrow. Stay tuned and keep your fingers crossed.
(I will also be speaking with a local web designer about a complete site overhaul that would fix the issue but it remains to be seen if that will fit in the slim BGA budget ;-(
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There's a new Twitter site from someone self-described as a "Former sportswriter in the northeast for 30 years. Ivy football fan." No it's not me, but if we've both been knocking around the Ivy League for that long we ought to know each other, or of each other. Either way . . .
Ivyfootballinsider has announced his/her "2019 way too early predictions." It looks like this:
1. Yale
2. Dartmouth
3. Princeton
4. Columbia
5. Harvard
6. Penn
7. Cornell
8. Brown
Green Alert Take: I have no argument with the top three, although perhaps in a different order. The bottom two is almost a gimme. It is jarring, but not unexpected, to see perennial powers Harvard and Penn picked so low and Columbia picked so high. Is there a new order in the Ivy League? This year may tell.
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On the Roar Lions blog Jake Novak picked just his preliminary favorite to win it all next fall. The choice? Dartmouth.
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Ivyfootballinsider, by the way, also ranked both the top defensive and offensive coordinators in the Ivy League. While it's an impossibly subjective ranking Dartmouth fans probably appreciate that Don Dobes was the pick defensively and Kevin Daft offensively.
From the Twitter account:
An Ivy League veteran, Dobes enters his 9th season as the leader of the defense. Dartmouth has consistently posted a top 3 defense during his time and doesn’t appear to be leaving anytime soon. With multiple returning all-league players, look for Dobes in 2019.And . . .
After a solid second year running the Big Green’s offense, Daft looks to improve on the Dartmouth model of “don’t beat yourself." Doubt we see a ton of innovation here, but it seems like Daft has found a formula that works no matter the players.
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Dartmouth News Service has a story under the headline A Course on Daniel Webster, Class of 1801 about a class that "traveled to Washington to observe as former acting solicitor general Neal Katyal ’91 and former solicitor general Gregory Garre ’87 re-argued the Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward—aka, the Dartmouth College Case, the landmark ruling that upheld Dartmouth’s right to remain a private institution—at the U.S. Supreme Court, before none other than Chief Justice John Roberts."Quoted in the story was graduating Big Green running back Matt Shearin, who had this to say:
“I never thought I would be sitting in the Supreme Court experiencing the highest level you can get in the judicial framework of America. It really allowed me to appreciate what Dartmouth has done for me.”The college couldn't ask for a better spokesman for itself than Shearin and not just because of what we journalist types call the "money" quote used by the news service. For a story I freelanced several years ago for the defunct PEAK Magazine that lets you know a little more about Shearin, CLICK HERE.
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With baseball season heating up, The Dartmouth writes about pitcher Kyle Hendricks' $55 million contract extension with the Chicago Cubs. Theo Epstein, Chicago's president of baseball operations offered high praise describing the former Big Green star's impact (and character) in an MLB.com story about Hendricks '12:"(I)f you look at the numbers since he's been up here, he's one of the most effective half-dozen starting pitchers in the game since he's come up. The names on that list are guys on Hall of Fame trajectories, so Kyle's in rare air for what he's done."
