Watch It If You Dare

If you have an Internet connection at 4 p.m. today you can watch the full 2015 football game between Dartmouth and Harvard, which is being replayed via Twitter HERE.

A quick story should serve as a word of warning for newbie Dartmouth fans intending to tune in.

With a good deal of talk about the 2015 night game between top Ivy League teams possibly selling out, Mrs. BGA jumped the gun and bought a ticket for the game online. (I suggested to her after hearing that she had bought the ticket in advance that she might have saved the online fee by buying her ticket at the gate because it was most assuredly not going to sell out, which it did not. Attendance was listed as 13,058. It might have been higher than announced but it was nowhere near a sellout.)

But I digress.

Not long after the game Mrs. BGA received an email from Harvard asking her to evaluate her experience purchasing her ticket online. In a space left for comments, as she recalled it this morning, she wrote:

"I respectfully request that in the future you shorten the length of games to 59:21." 

She said she did not get a response ;-)

Here are highlights from the game:



Green Alert Take: Even just watching those highlights it is a reminder about how magical Dalyn Williams was at quarterback.

Green Alert Take II: If they did shorten games to the length Mrs. BGA requested she would have headed home from Cambridge very disappointed last fall.

Green Alert Take III: It would be a hilarious tit-for-tat response to Harvard's decision to show the 2015 game on Twitter if Dartmouth were to show last fall's on Twitter. I hope they do it!

Green Alert Take IV: Perhaps a Harvard fan watching a Dartmouth replay of last year's contest would recommend games be shortened to 59:59.

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Speaking of athletics in Beantown, Boston College Athletic Director Martin Jarmond has stepped down after three years to accept the position as AD at UCLA.

Brian Mann

With Boston College beginning a search the folks in Chestnut Hill or whatever headhunting company the school is using could do worse than inquire if someone very familiar to Dartmouth football fans might be interested in coming back East.

Former Dartmouth quarterback Brian Mann '02 is the Senior Associate Athletic Director and Chief Development Officer for Cal Athletics. (LINK) Prior to working at Cal, the native of Canton, Mass., worked in similar capacities at Rice for four years. He was in Dartmouth athletic administration for five years, first as director of operations for football, then as Assistant Athletic Director for External Relations in 2011 (among other duties overseeing the Friends of Dartmouth Football). He then assumed the role of Managing Director for Leadership Giving in the Dartmouth Office of Advancement.

As someone with deep New England roots, a graduate of an Ivy League school with more than a decade's experience at three high academic universities, and as a product of Xaverian Brothers High School, Mann would seem to check some very important boxes for the Jesuit university.

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His Pennsylvania hometown paper has a story about Dartmouth-bound offensive lineman Josh Balara and 16 of his teammates headed to college in the fall. (LINK)

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Per the 247Sports site Bucknuts Ohio State players will return to campus on Monday, June 8. (LINK)

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Four FCS school will be ineligible for the postseason because of their Academic Progress Report scores. (LINK)

Here's a revealing list at how NCAA sports fielded by at least 50 schools scored in the APR over the four-year period of 2015-16 through 2018-19. To avoid sanctions requires a score of 930 on the scale of 1,000:

Men's Sports
Golf – 987
Ice Hockey – 985
Lacrosse – 984
Tennis – 983
Swimming  – 983
Cross Country – 982
Soccer – 978
Baseball – 977
Wrestling – 975
Track & Field – 974
FBS Football – 968
Basketball – 966
FCS Football – 959 

Women's Sports
Gymnastics – 994
Lacrosse – 994
Swimming – 993
Golf – 992
Tennis – 991
Field Hockey –  991
Soccer – 990
Cross Country – 989
Rowing – 989
Volleyball – 988
Softball – 986
Track & Field  – 984
Basketball – 983

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EXTRA POINT
I don't know about you but I'm not a fan of the "snooze" function on a clock radio or cell phone. Mrs. BGA is a huge devotee of the function but it just annoys me. Honestly, if you find waking up so painful why in the world would you want to do it three or four or five times each morning? It makes absolutely no sense to me. Of course, I'm famous for being able to fall asleep on a moment's notice and virtually always wake up before the alarm goes off the first time.

By the way, have you ever wondered why the traditional snooze alarm is nine minutes instead of 10? It is explained HERE.