Per Twitter, former Dartmouth wide receiver/Swiss Army Knife, Drew Estrada '20, has added TCU to his growing list of offers to play football as a graduate transfer. He already held offers from Florida State, Utah, SMU, Rice, Western Kentucky and Texas State.
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Dillon Holifield, a safety from Georgia's Roswell High School, has Tweeted his commitment to Dartmouth HERE. The 6-foot-1, 188-pound Holifield holds offers from Penn, Yale, Cornell, Bucknell and Tennessee State per Rivals.
Find his highlight video HERE and a TV piece about his selection as a Georgia Lottery Scholar Athlete HERE.
Holifield is the 14th recruit BGA has identified to date. As always, corrections and additions aren't just encouraged but are welcomed:
• Ejike Adele, 6-2, 245, DE, Westminster School/Atlanta Ga.
• John Ballowe, 6-2, 215, LB, Collegiate School/Richmond, Va.
• James Coslet, 6-3, 255, OL/DL, Watchung Hills/Watchung, N.J.
• Cayman Duncan, 6-6, 295, OL, Kinkaid School/Houston
• Remington Gall, 6-4, 185, WR, Avon/Avon, Ind.
• Alex Geraci, 6-4, 215, TE/DE, Don Bosco/Cornwall, N.Y.
• Jackson Gerard, 6-2, 187, WR/QB/ATH, St. Francis/Warrenville, Ill.
• Davis Golick, 6-2, 200, P, Woodward Academy/College Park, Ga.
• Sean Harmon, 6-5, 225, TE, Bishop Blanchet/Seattle
• Dillon Holifield, 6-1, 188, S, Roswell/Roswell, Ga.
• Zachary Lytle, 6-5, 230, DE, St. Paul’s/Winnipeg, MB
• Braden Mullen, 6-3, 215, LB, Loyola Academy/Glenview, Ill.
• Jackson Proctor, 6-2, 195, QB, Kent HS/Kentwood, Wash.
• Painter Richards-Baker, 6-2, 170, ATH, Christ School/Arden, N.C.
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Dartmouth joins Columbia, Harvard and Yale atop the national rankings in the NCAA's latest student-athlete Graduation Success Report with 99 percent of student-athletes who began their careers in 2013 collecting their diplomas. Every Ivy League school had at least a 96 percent rate, making it the only conference in the country able to make that claim.
Football was one of 14 of Dartmouth's 20 NCAA-sponsored sports to finish with a perfect 100 percent. (Dartmouth press release)
Ivy League Graduation Success Report per the NCAA:
Dartmouth 99
Harvard 99
Columbia 99
Yale 99
Princeton 98
Brown 97
Penn 97
Cornell 96
He was the President of Fidelity International in London, after serving as President for Fidelity Capital Markets and Global Head of Equity Trading in Boston for FMR. He has also held senior roles at JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, ABN AMRO and SAC LLC.
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If you've been a regular visitor to this electronic precinct you've read periodic notes about the great lengths FBS schools have been going to have football seasons. Here's another from Insider under the headline, University of New Mexico is paying $70,000 a week to keep its entire football program in a Las Vegas hotel after COVID-19 prevented them from playing at home (LINK):
The University of New Mexico's football team now resides in Henderson, Nevada.
With New Mexico's government banning gatherings of more than five people due to the coronavirus pandemic and unwilling to make exceptions for sports, the Lobos packed up and moved to Nevada to play its season.
According to The Athletic's Nicole Auerbach, University of New Mexico's athletic director Eddie Nunez searched for options in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, and Texas, needing a stadium to play and practice, a hotel, and access to frequent COVID-19 testing.
The New Mexico State men's basketball team, meanwhile is relocating to the Arizona Grand Resort & Spa in Phoenix. (LINK)
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EXTRA POINT
We had a little snow last night after two days of howling wind. While the wind was blowing Monday I headed outside with the camera to answer a question from an emailer about what happens with our solar tracker – essentially a big and expensive sail – when the wind really picks up.
First, a snap of the solar tracker pointed at the sun:
And now, a look at what happens when the wind is howling:
The tracker has an anemometer on one corner that measures the wind. When it reaches a certain speed the tracker goes into this "stowed" position.
Per the folks who built and installed the solar tracker, they have the capability to follow the arrival of a storm by reports the trackers send back to their headquarters as one after another goes into the stowed mode.
