Sammartino is a big time transfer, named to the Ivy League First Team in 2019. At 6'3 295 pounds, he is considered potentially NFL level talent. According to the transfer he is considering Boston College, Rice, Baylor and Colorado State.
247Sports has a story under the headline, Dartmouth OL Sammartino a hot commodity on grad transfer market (LINK) that includes this:
"Boston College, California, Virginia, Syracuse, TCU, Baylor, Stanford, UCLA, Colorado State, Louisiana-Monroe, Rutgers, Rice, Central Michigan and Coastal Carolina have all reached out to me," Sammartino told 247Sports.
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A Fortune story headlined, ‘Lights Out’: A new book investigates how and when things fell apart at General Electric features an excerpt from the book that includes this
(Paulson) and Immelt had a history together. They did business when Paulson was a banker and executive at Goldman Sachs. Both had played football at Dartmouth, although they had graduated a decade apart, and both attended Harvard Business School. Paulson was known to be dead serious, while Immelt always seemed to have time for a joke.
Paulson, of course, is Henry Paulson '68, the former secretary of the treasury. Jeff Immelt '78 was the CEO of General Electric. This video below isn't new but Immelt's sense of humor is on full display when he talks about his absolute preference for football over futbol:
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The Southwest Conference has called off its 100th anniversary season and become the fifth FCS league to announce it won't play football. (LINK) But that buries the lede, as they say.
While announcing it wasn't going to play this fall the conference of 10 historically black colleges and universities became the first to announce a . . .
. . . plan of a seven-game football schedule beginning with an eight-week training period in January 2021. Each program would play six conference games (four divisional and two cross-divisional) with the option to play one nonconference game.
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Missed this last month but OneClass had a very revealing story headlined, How Much Money NCAA Schools Will Lose Without Football? (LINK)
From the story:
For each Power Five school, that would be an average loss of $62 million, which includes $18.6 million in lost ticket sales and $4.7 million lost from game-day fan spending.
The story has charts showing that in the FCS fully 69 percent of football revenue is from institutional/government support (44 percent) and student fees (25 percent). By way of contrast, those two sources account for just 16 percent of revenue at the FBS level.
At the FBS level, NCAA/media/postseason (29 percent) together with donor contributions (20 percent) and ticket sales (17 percent) account for 66 percent of football revenues. At the FCS level those three sources account for a total of just 19 percent of revenue.
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More stats from Dartmouth sports information:
Five FCS Teams Allowing Fewest Sacks, 2017-19
1. Davidson – 17
2. Wofford – 23
3. Kennesaw State – 24
4. San Diego – 29
5. Dartmouth – 31
Pass Attempts For Five FCS Teams Allowing Fewest Sacks Since 2017
1. San Diego – 1,229
2. Dartmouth – 750
3. Davidson – 691
4. Wofford – 498
5. Kennesaw State – 428
Pass Attempts Per Sack
1. Davidson – 40.6
2. San Diego – 39.6
3. Dartmouth – 24.2
4. Wofford – 21.6
5. Kennesaw State – 17.8
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EXTRA POINT
Unless you've been living in a cave you've probably heard something about a comet being visible right now. Like me, you may not have been paying it much attention. I remember reading that it was easiest to see in the wee hours and I wasn't about to get up at 3 a.m. to see it.
Last night we visited friends on a mountaintop near here for a socially distant barbecue, and before we left they encouraged us to take a look because the comet NEOWISE is now visible at night, even with the naked eye.
When we got home I grabbed a pair of binoculars and headed out to our yard and all I can say is . . . WOW! You don't need binoculars but if you put a pair of binox on it I venture to say you'll say WOW as well. How can I describe it? It looks almost like a spotlight in the sky and seems to be coming right at you.
Now this is your wakeup call.
Today is July 21 and the EarthSky page below (LINK), writes:
(After) July 22, it gets dimmer and dimmer as it gets farther from Earth. And it very quickly becomes something that you cannot see with your naked eye, even on the clearest night.
That's tomorrow folks. If you've got a pair of binoculars, get out there tonight and don't miss it! You'll thank me later.
