Florida's Sarasota Herald-Tribune has a story talking with Ivy League athletes about fall sports being called off and one of those athletes is Dartmouth sophomore Sam Koscho. (LINK)
The 5-foot-11 safety from Cardinal Mooney High School told the newspaper:
“Hopefully, I will be able to continue making progress. Dartmouth is staying ahead of things. Only 50 percent of students will be allowed to live on campus. Every student will have their own room. Dorms will also be set up for those who need to be quarantined.
“I was able to get a handle on school and football last fall. For now, I will continue to work online and hope everything works out.”
Also from the story:
Koscho has a pair of Dartmouth teammates who are Manatee High products in senior defensive end Seth Walter and junior defensive back Josh Betts.
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More details beyond what Koscho was able to share with the Herald-Tribune are in The Dartmouth. (LINK)
From the story headlined Quarantine guidelines include mandatory testing, meal delivery and ban on unauthorized gatherings:
Students living on campus, as well as graduate students in Tuck residence halls, will be required to remain in their rooms — except to use the restroom — until they test negative for COVID-19 or 48 hours after their arrival, “whichever is later.” Meals will be pre-ordered and delivered, and testing will be conducted “as soon as is reasonably practical,” according to the guidelines.
And . . .
After a negative test result, students will be able to leave their rooms to pick up meals up to three times a day, go outdoors for exercise and “participate in Dartmouth-organized outdoor activities.” Outside of these activities, which will be capped at nine people, no gatherings of “any size” are permitted for two weeks, according to the guidelines.
There's plenty more in the story including a second COVID-19 test seven days after the first test and this:
Students living off campus will also be subject to certain regulations for their first fourteen days in the Upper Valley. According to the guidelines, they will be allowed to leave their residences for outdoor exercise and curbside pickups of “food or essential supplies.”
Green Alert Take: Not to be a cynical journalist, but good luck with that when friends who haven't seen each other since last winter come back with no classes in session and a lot of free time.
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Websites covering the various NFL teams are churning out roster projection after roster projection, hardly an exact science in the best of times.
From Cincy Jungle comes this regarding the Bengal cornerback position (LINK):
The process of weeding this group down could prove to be difficult considering there’s not much that separates them all from one another, which is what makes the release of Isiah Swann even more disappointing.
Swann, of course, is the Dartmouth product released essentially before camp began after having no chance to impress in minicamps.
And Big Blue View, which covers the New York Giants, has Dartmouth's Niko Lalos among four defensive linemen being cut (LINK):
I can’t see the Giants keeping any more than five full time hand-in-the-ground defensive linemen, and I think the top five heading into camp are fairly obvious.
Defensive line (5) — Dexter Lawrence, Dalvin Tomlinson, Leonard Williams, B.J. Hill, Austin Johnson
Out: R.J. McIntosh, Chris Slayton, Dana Levine, Niko Lalos
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If Dartmouth had been playing Towson this fall is might have had to deal with transfer quarterback Jake Constantine, who had announced he was transferring to the Maryland school from Weber State. But with Towson not playing this fall, Constantine is switching to Washington State.
Green Alert Take: Washington State? First thought, he's probably pretty good. And second, I suppose he just found out that Washington State has a major he couldn't find at Towson, right? Yeah, right.
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Never figured to be posting a link from Soccer America here, but a story in the magazine under the headline All but four of 44 NCAA Division III conferences have effectively shut down fall sports once again highlights the differences between the approach to the pandemic where safety is the biggest concern and revenue is a major concern. (LINK)
If you are like me you are wondering who the four outliers are. Here you go:
• The American Rivers Conference (eight of nine members in Iowa)
• The Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association
• The Upper Midwest Athletic Conference (Minnesota and Wisconsin)
• The Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference (New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania)
(The Allegheny Mountain has not yet made a decision.)
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Among the latest to pull the plug on conference competition is the Little East, a Division III conference including New Hampshire's Plymouth State and Keene State as well as Vermont's Castleton.
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The Campbell University football coach has a novel idea for dealing with the pandemic: play every other week instead of every seven days. (LINK)
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And what are the big guys thinking right now? At Ohio State they are now saying if there are fans at games this fall there will be no more than 20 percent of capacity and they will be wearing masks. (LINK)
Oh, and no tailgating.
Green Alert Take: No tailgating? Maybe it's the cynical journalist again, but good luck with that. It may not be on university property and it may not look like it has in the past, but if there are fans there will be gatherings and alcohol in the vicinity.
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EXTRA POINT
We had our first corn on the cob of the summer earlier this week. If I had to grade it, I'd probably give it a 6. I'm sure there will be a few 9's and maybe even a 10 or two later this month and in early September.
Is there any other vegetable that varies so much in taste and quality? I think virtually every time we have fresh on the cob (and that's a lot in the summer) one or the other of us will look up and ask, "How is yours?"
Doesn't matter though, when there's fresh, sweet corn on the cob it means summer has really started!
And if you haven't tried it, try leaving the husks on and cooking sweet corn over a campfire. Now you're talkin'.
