Given the pandemic and remote learning, the "early signing period" instead of the traditional National Signing Day, the fact that the Ivy League doesn't recognize the National Letter of Intent, and snow up and down the east coast it's no surprise that reports about high school football players making Dartmouth their college choice were sporadic yesterday. Here's a representative sampling:
“Lytle is the first Manitoban in some 50 years to take his gridiron talents to an Ivy League school.”
And . . .
The Grade 12 student at St. Paul’s Collegiate, a towering defensive end for the powerhouse Crusaders, is headed to Dartmouth College in New Hampshire on a full ride next year.
Green Alert Take: A reminder that while there is generous financial aid at Ivy League schools, there are no football "rides" or scholarships.
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Painter Richards-Baker, a 6-foot-2, 170-pound "athlete" from Christ School and Arden, N.C., celebrates with his family.
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The NCAA on Wednesday announced it had formally adopted the much-discussed one-time transfer rule that will allow student-athletes the ability to transfer one time in his or her athletics career and receive immediate eligibility.
While it’s just for the current academic year, the move is seen by coaches as a precursor to a similar vote scheduled next month by the NCAA.
Its expected passing earlier in the day on Wednesday already was affecting recruiting decisions across multiple sports, none more so than college football. Multiple Football Bowls Subdivision programs, Power-5 teams and Group of 5 residents alike, opted to not fill up their entire scholarship allotments in order “to comb the (NCAA) Transfer Portal.”
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USA Today has a story headlined, Democratic senators introduce 'College Athletes Bill of Rights' that could reshape NCAA. The Bill of Rights was co-sponsored by Senators Cory Booker of New Jersey, a former Stanford tight end, and Richard Blumental of Connecticut. From the story (LINK):
Among other things, “Booker, D-N.J., and Blumenthal, D-Conn., want to see athletes annually receive money directly based on the revenue surpluses they help their teams generate. They also want athletes to have long-term health care and a set of educational protections.”
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Add Kansas State, Virginia Tech and Louisville to the list of college football programs choosing to opt out of bowl games. At the same time, the list of canceled bowl games has grown to 11. (LINK)
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EXTRA POINT
Have you ever left your iPhone in the sun and seen this warning?
I use the iPod Touch for recording interviews, checking email and messages, making very infrequent Skype phone calls via Wifi and taking photos. For the most part, though, I use it to listen to podcasts like Fresh Air, Here & Now, On Point and Freakonomics.
My podcast of choice when I'm doing my daily hike up the mountain is The Tony Kornheiser Show. It usually runs a little over an hour and except on days when I take a longer trail, the podcast ends just about when my hike ends.
Yesterday as I bundled up and headed out the temperature was hovering in single digits. I was about 40 minutes into my hike listening to an episode titled Feral Swine Bomb (don't ask) when Kornheiser asked Chuck Todd, host of Meet the Press, about Mitch McConnell "throwing in the white flag." Just as my ears perked up my iPod Touch went down.
I pulled the thing out of my jacket pocket and the screen was black. No amount of button pushing could bring it back to life. I was still curious about what Todd had to say as I slid the iPod under the sleeve of my jacket and against my skin to warm it up.
It was another 15 or 20 minutes down the trail when the iPod, which I'd almost forgotten about, came back to life with the message "Bluetooth connected." After a re-start I finally got to hear Todd agree that McConnell had indeed thrown in the towel.
I wonder if I missed an iPod screen like the one above but with a blue thermometer and the words," iPod needs to warm up before you can use it."
Nah, I didn't think so either.
