Dartmouth’s Senior Spotlight this week is on Ross Andreasik, a 6-foot-2, 220-pound llinebacker from Glen Ellyn, Ill., who started the final nine games last fall after missing his junior year. This is my favorite part:
Fastest runner on the team: Drew Estrada
Best hands: Drew Estrada
Hardest hitter: Niko Mermigas
Spends most time reviewing film: Nate Boone
Strongest teammate: Jack Traynor
Strongest teammate pound for pound: Seth Simmer
Most intense: D.J. Avery
Best instincts on the field: Ryan Roegge
Most likely to become a Division I head coach: D.J. Avery
Best dancer: Isaiah Johnson
Best singer: DeWayne Terry Jr.
Funniest teammate: Jared Gerbino
Most outgoing: Jared Gerbino
Best dresser: Naeem Morgan
Find the full Senior Spotlight HERE.
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This week’s Woods Watch Party will stream the 2016 football game against Towson on Memorial Field. Safety Charlie Miller ’17, who spent time on NFL practice squads, and corner Isiah Swann ’20, who signed with the Cincinnati Bengals last spring, will comment on the game along with offensive line coach Keith Clark. Find a release about the Watch Party HERE.
(As has been the case each week, BGA Daily will post the preview story that appeared on BGA Premium tomorrow and the game story on Sunday.)
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The Sacramento Bee reports that Sac State, the 2019 Big Sky co-champion, will not play football this spring for player safety reasons. From the story (LINK):
The opt-out decision is designed to prevent overworking student-athletes in a violent, collision sport such as this, where recovery time is vital in an era of extra caution on the toll of bodies and brains. The FCS season is scheduled to run until the middle of May, and the 2021 fall season would kick off in late August with training camp. Players on some teams could play as many as 26 games in less than a year.
Sacramento State’s decision came from head coach Troy Taylor, who earned national Coach of the Year honors in 2019 in his first season after leading the Hornets to a share of the Big Sky championship. Sac State football also surveyed its players, anonymously, and the concerns were similar: Safety.
And from the head coach:
"It’s unprecedented to play a spring season and then turnaround for fall. No one has done it before. It was not worth the risk. No one loves football more than me. Our guys love playing. Would they have played this spring? Yeah. They’re warriors. The recovery time you need, the down time to let your body recover from football, that’s serious stuff when you’re messing with the rhythm."
Green Alert Take: You can be pretty sure that has Ivy League athletic directors, football coaches and maybe even presidents (?) thinking even if their student-athletes were only playing 14 or 15 games over the same time period.
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Here's something that should get all of us thinking a little more:
• Alabama’s Nick Saban (and his athletic director) will miss Saturday’s game after being diagnosed with COVID.
• At the FCS level Jacksonville State and Stephen F. Austin head coaches will be at home.
• Florida-LSU, Oklahoma State at Baylor, Vanderbilt at Missouri, Cincinnati at Tulsa and FIU at Charlotte have all been called off. So was Wednesday’s App State at Georgia Southern game.
Green Alert Take: Wait. Is anyone thinking at all?
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It started with Miami's turnover chain. Now this. To be sure, those aren't real Benjamins, but I think if this were my team I believe I'd encourage them to go in a different direction:
Arkansas State has turnover cash pic.twitter.com/nrOuhOBjdV
— CJ Fogler #BlackLivesMatter (@cjzero) October 16, 2020
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From a story in The Dartmouth (LINK):
As Dartmouth approaches week six of fall term, the College’s COVID-19 task force has begun planning for the winter. Though some students have been given the option to return to campus, many are questioning the value of an “on-campus” experience given remote classes and restrictions on socializing.
In an email sent to campus on Tuesday, Dean of the College Kathryn Lively wrote that after surveying students who had previously received approval for on-campus residency in winter term, the College would open a “quick waitlist” for those not yet approved to be on campus. The waitlist is open to ’23s, ’22s, ’21s and older classes — all ’24s will be required to enroll remotely this winter — and will prioritize students who have so far only been approved to be on campus for one term. The waitlist will close at 5 p.m. on Friday evening.
And . . .
Lively clarified that while prior communications from the College had indicated that students would have the “opportunity to be here on campus for two of the four possible enrolled terms,” this was not meant to be a “guarantee.” She added that given the lack of housing space under current guidelines for spring term, some students may ultimately not receive “two terms that work for them.”
Green Alert Take: It sure sounds as if not only anything resembling a meaningful spring football season is in jeopardy but the winter sports seasons as well.
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EXTRA POINT
This is a TV report from earlier this week about the company that built and installed our solar tracker. (You might have to click the play arrow twice, and it also will expand to full screen.)
