TJ Simpson, who posted 13 tackles as a Dartmouth senior in 2019 and started an MBA program at Indiana State this year with anticipation of returning to the field next month when the Sycamores were scheduled to open the spring FCS season at Southern Illinois, will instead have to wait until the fall to play for his new school.
The Terra Haute university has just opted out of playing this spring. From an Indiana State release (LINK):
The decision was made following consultation with doctors and health officials, in addition to training and strength and conditioning personnel.
The Sycamores had the full backing of Indiana State University to play, but with both a spring and fall championship season, the Sycamores would play a minimum of 19 games in just under nine months, bypassing the necessary time for development and recovery.
Find Simpson's Indiana State bio HERE.
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From SI.com (LINK):
The NCAA's The Division I Council announced on Monday it will delay voting on a proposal that would allow "student-athletes to benefit from their name, image and likeness."
The latest proposal drafted by the Division I Council would have allowed student athletes to use their name, image and likeness for endorsements, autographs and private camps and clinics , , ,
Green Alert Take: I don't know about you, but I'm curious how the Ivy League is going to handle this issue when it eventually does pass, which it will. Remember, the Ivy League marches to its own drummer in not allowing its athletes to collect a check in one sport and maintain eligibility in another. If, like former Princeton baseball and basketball standout Chris Young, you turn pro in baseball you are ruled ineligible in basketball or whatever your second sport might be.
Green Alert Take: If the Ivy League rules against players accepting payment for "Name, Image, Likeness," will some of the better athletes who currently come to the Ivy League go elsewhere? Would an Ivy ban even be legal? Inquiring minds are interested to find out.
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DARTMOUTH ALL-AMERICANS since the start of formal Ivy League play in 1956:
|
Year |
Name |
Pos |
Team |
|
1957 |
Joe Palermo |
G |
Hearst (First) |
|
1958 |
Jake Crouthamel |
HB |
Newspaper Enterprise Assn. (Second) |
|
1962 |
Bill King |
QB |
Newspaper Enterprise Assn. (Third) |
|
1962 |
Don McKinnon |
C LB |
Football Writers (First) AP (Second) Newspaper Enterprise Assn. (Second) Football Coaches (Third) UPI (Third) |
|
1965 |
Ed Long |
E |
AP (Second) |
|
1970 |
Murry Bowden |
DB |
Football Coaches (First) Walter Camp (First) |
|
1973 |
Tom Csatari |
DE |
AP (Third) |
|
1975 |
Reggie Williams |
LB |
Football Coaches (First) AP (Second) |
|
1988 |
Craig Morton |
WR |
AP (Second) |
|
1990 |
Dennis Durkin |
K |
AP (Third) |
|
1991 |
Al Rosier |
TB |
AP (First) |
|
1992 |
Dennis Durkin |
K |
AP (First) |
|
1992 |
Jay Fiedler |
QB |
AP (Third) |
|
1996 |
Brian Larsen |
OT |
AP (Third) |
|
1996 |
Lloyd Lee |
DB |
AP (Second) |
|
1997 |
Dominic Lanza |
C |
AP (Third) |
|
1997 |
Zack Walz |
LB |
AP (Third) |
|
2000 |
Caleb Moore |
OG |
AP (Third) |
|
2002 |
Casey Cramer |
TE |
Football Coaches (First) Sports Network (First) Walter Camp (First) AP (Second) |
|
2010 |
Shawn Abuhoff |
RS |
Sports Network (First) Phil Steele (Third) |
|
2011 |
Nick Schwieger |
RB |
College Sports Madness (Second) AP (Third) |
|
2016 |
Folarin Orimolade |
LB |
Athlon (First) STATS (First) AP (Second) Football Coaches (Second) |
|
2018 |
Rocco Di Leo |
DL |
Football Coaches (Second) STATS (Third) Phil Steele (Fourth) |
|
2018 |
Matt Kaskey |
OL |
Football Coaches (Second) STATS (Second) AP (Third) Phil Steele (Third) |
|
2018 |
Isiah Swann |
DB |
AP (First) Athlon (First) Football Coaches (First) Phil Steele (First) STATS (First) Walter Camp (First) |
|
2019 |
Isiah Swann |
DB |
ATHLON (First) Phil Steele (First) Football Coaches (Second) Associated Press (Second) STATS (Second) HERO (Third) |
Today's online issue of The Dartmouth has a story headlined Bianca Smith ’12 becomes first Black woman to coach professional baseball. (LINK)
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EXTRA POINT
We dropped my candy-apple red Honda Fit off for inspection exactly three months ago today. The odometer read 40,726 miles. This morning it sits at 41,344. That's a difference of 618 miles. In three full months.
Here's where it gets interesting. (Or not ;-)
It's three miles round trip from here to our tiny, one-room post office. I make that trip six times a week (because there is no mail delivery on this part of our dirt road). That's 80 trips, or 240 miles. With the idea that something good has to come out of the pandemic – and with way too much time on my hands – I've endeavored to work on my fitness, and to that end have been hiking up and down a nearby mountain almost daily. I'm probably being conservative when I estimate that I've hiked the mountain at least four times a week since my car inspection. It's four miles round trip to the trailhead, so if I've hiked 52 times that's another 208 miles.
The trips to the post office and to the trailhead add up to 448 miles. That leaves 170 miles driving elsewhere.
I can recall one trip to Hanover (35 miles south of here), which leaves 100 unaccounted miles. In three full months.
Now, it's about 25 miles to a lake where we visited friends at Halloween (before things really got crazy), so that's another 50 miles round trip. That leaves 50 miles. I can remember three trips into town (four miles each way for 24 miles).
The bottom line is I can account for all but about 25 miles of driving. In three full months.
At this rate I would drive just 2,472 miles over the course of a year.
Let's just hope it doesn't come down to that.
