This And That

From the Dartmouth football office:

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If you missed yesterday afternoon's special posting of a Q&A with Dartmouth Athletic Director Harry Sheehy regarding the cutting of sports, be sure to scroll down. In the meantime, WMUR, a Manchester, N.H., TV station, had a piece about the decision to pare back the athletic department.

Judging by Sheehy's comments to The Dartmouth, the petition effort discussed in the WMUR piece has no chance to reverse a move that seems to be more about reducing athletic admissions slots than anything else. Watch the video and read the WMUR story HERE.

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While the Ivy League and Patriot League have canceled football and all fall sports the powerhouse Colonial Athletic Association hasn't made a public announcement about what it is doing this fall.

The CAA originally turned its media day into an online event scheduled for July 21. Yesterday it postponed the virtual media day as it likely weighs a delayed start to the season, perhaps a more dramatic alteration of the schedule, or even the cancellation of the season. (LINK)

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The Division II Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (think Slippery Rock and Indiana University of Pennsylvania) has voted to postpone its 2020 fall sports season including football. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has a story about the move, which affects 18 schools. (LINK)

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Taking a different approach is USA South, a Division III conference in the southeast. It has shifted all sports – including football – to a divisional schedule and is considering neutral-site contests midway between schools to avoid overnight travel. Football teams will play home-and-home series against division opponents with a championship game at season's end. (LINK)

Green Alert Take: If the Ivy League had taken the same approach for football the Big Green would have played Harvard, Yale and Brown both home and away for six games. Penn, Princeton, Columbia and Cornell would have each played each other twice and the north and south winners would have squared off for the Ivy League title.

Green Alert Take II: The Ivy League was never going to take the USA South approach, and that Dartmouth-Princeton game would have been missed – unless it happened in the championship. That would have been something!

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For all the news it made when the Trump administration announced international students taking classes exclusively online would have to leave the country, the news of the reversal of the policy didn't seem to earn the same kind of headlines. (LINK)

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Someone is offering a lot of 50 trading cards featuring NFL football players from Dartmouth for just $6 on eBay. (LINK)

The lot includes a few cards of quarterbacks Jay Fiedler and Jeff Kemp along with piles of cards featuring linebacker Reggie Williams and kicker Nick Lowery. Missing from the collection of players who have appeared in games is linebacker Zack Walz, who spent his entire career with the Cardinals, and tight end Casey Cramer, best known for his stints with the Titans.

Will there be a Matt Kaskey (Panthers), Isiah Swann (Bengals) or Niko Lalos (Giants) card added to the collection after this fall?

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EXTRA POINT

Mrs. BGA popped into the office this morning with a question about a future date and laughed when she spotted a large dry-erase calendar on the wall with absolutely nothing written on it. I laughed a little sardonically as I steered her toward a printed calendar hanging alongside a bookshelf.

The smile on my face disappeared as reality set in when I noticed the calendar hadn't been flipped. It still read March 2020. Time really has stood still since then.