“If I was placing a bet, I think it’s 98 percent, 99 percent likely that this thing is moving to the spring for the fall sports based on everything I’ve heard,” one Ivy League source said.
“The financial ramifications of whatever decision they’ve made, you need to have plenty of time to start working on those things. It’s not like they’re going to wake up the morning of the 8th and go with something. The decision’s been made.”Green Alert Take: I agree that a decision is probably all but made. What it is, I have no idea, but do not, under any circumstances join the "anonymous source" and take that bet.
Green Alert Take II: Oh, and if you want your story to show up in Forbes, it never hurts to cite "financial ramifications."
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The Daily Pennsylvanian has a story under the headline, A spring football season is the Ivy League's only option that says the Ivy has "only three realistic options." (LINK):• Play the season as usual
• Cancel the season
• Play in the spring
Green Alert Take: Nope, there's a fourth that has been under serious consideration. Play a fall "Ivy League only" season.
Green Alert Take II: If the author of the piece read yesterday's BGA Daily he'd see why his proposed Ivy League championship playoff is more unlikely than spring football.
Green Alert Take III: If there's college football on ESPN in the spring it won't be of the Ivy League variety.
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Colgate, abiding by the Patriot League guidelines about not flying to games, is no longer on the Western Michigan football schedule for Sept. 4. The Raiders have been replaced by Stony Brook. (LINK)
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Add Amherst to the list of schools deciding not to play fall sports this year. Williams and Bowdoin also have called off their fall seasons, leaving six football-playing NESCAC schools yet to make formal announcements. Often referred to as the Little Ivies, NESCAC schools play nine football games a year, all against conference opponents.
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STATS has a story under the headline Five biggest story lines of the FCS offseason (LINK):5. FCS Endures Worst NFL Draft
4.Trey Lance Hype Machine
3. MEAC Falling Apart
2. Grad Transfers Galore
1. COVID-19
I have tremendous respect for what Craig Haley does at STATS but in this case he got it wrong. Here are the five biggest storylines:
5. COVID-19
4. COVID-19
3. COVID-19
2. COVID-19
1. COVID-19
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Earlier this week ESPN had an exhaustive look at the difficulty getting on the field this fall under the headline, How college football is trying to answer its biggest return-to-play questions. While the story is about the FBS level a lot of it pertains to the FCS and Ivy League levels as well. (LINK)
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Dartmouth's reopening plan having two classes on campus at a time has not been tremendously well received by the student body per a story in The Dartmouth. (LINK)
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EXTRA POINTWhen Gmail rolled out in 2004 you needed to have an invitation to get an email address with the service. I was fortunate enough to know someone at an Internet service provider who forwarded one of his then-precious invitations to me. That's one of the reasons why my email address is simply my first name, middle initial and last name without a bunch of numbers after it. If your name is Aloysisus Z. McTavish you probably would never need numbers after your name. But when your name is two syllables, easy to spell and not exactly uncommon, getting in early was the ticket.
That's not to say there isn't a down side to having a very simple Gmail address. I was reminded of that again this week when I got a confirmation for my stay at a hotel in Connecticut. And then a thank you for signing up for the chain's frequent guest program. And no, I hadn't made a reservation at a hotel in Connecticut. Nor had I signed up for their frequent guest program.
It's at least the third time that someone in Connecticut had filled in the wrong email address and that my in-box was the unintended victim. (I think I know the fellow's name ;-)
Last year I got an email from the state of Florida with a form to fill out to get my Connecticut motorboat registered down there. I've got a kayak but it's here in Vermont and no, I wasn't registering a boat of any kind in Florida.
I emailed the Florida boat folks and explained to them that I couldn't fill out their form because it went to the wrong email. After a few more emails from them and a few more responses from me the emails finally stopped.
This time I hit the hotel chain's unsubscribe button but then I had another thought. I called the hotel in Connecticut and explained to the clerk that the person who made the reservation had filled in the wrong email address and that he had done that a number of other times. Surprise. She said she actually knew him and would pass that message along.
We'll see if that stops it. Otherwise I might have to tack a few numbers onto the end of my email address ;-)
