That's right. It's yet another slow day on the Dartmouth/Ivy League football front, which makes it as good a time as any for another dive into the record book.
Dartmouth has won a record 19 Ivy League football championships, but do you know who has won the most titles since 2000?
IVY LEAGUE FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIPS SINCE 2000
8 Penn ('00, '02, '03, '09, '10, '12, '15, '16)
8 Harvard ('01, '04, '07, '08, '11, '13, '14, '15)
4 Princeton ('05, '13, '16, '18)
3 Yale ('06, '17, '19)
2 Dartmouth ('15, '19)
2 Brown ('05, '08)
0 Columbia
0 Cornell
IVY LEAGUE FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIPS ALL-TIME
19 Dartmouth
18 Penn
17 Harvard
16 Yale
12 Princeton
4 Brown
3 Cornell
1 Columbia
SOLO IVY LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIPS ALL-TIME
13 Penn
9 Dartmouth
8 Harvard
7 Yale
4 Princeton
1 Brown
0 Cornell
0 Columbia
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Here's the Dartmouth recruiting class we've identified to date listed by region. Corrections and additions welcomed:
Northeast
James Coslet, 6-3, 255, OL/DL, Watchung Hills/Watchung, N.J.
Carson Franks, 6-1, 195, S, State College/State College, Pa.
Alex Geraci, 6-4, 215, TE/DE, Don Bosco/Cornwall, N.Y.
James Morrison, 6-6, 240, TE/OL, St. Joe’s/Midland Park, N.J.
Southeast
Ejike Adele, 6-2, 245, DE, Westminster School/Atlanta Ga.
John Ballowe, 6-2, 215, LB, Collegiate School/Richmond, Va
Davis Golick, 6-2, 200, P, Woodward Academy/College Park, Ga.
Dillon Holifield, 6-1, 188, S, Roswell/Roswell, Ga.
Painter Richards-Baker, 6-2, 170, ATH, Christ School/Arden, N.C.
Charis Spence, 6-1, 205, LB, Eagles Landing/McDonough, Ga.
Southwest
Cayman Duncan, 6-6, 295, OL, Kinkaid School/Houston
Midwest
Remington Gall, 6-4, 185, WR, Avon/Avon, Ind.
Jackson Gerard, 6-2, 187, WR/QB/ATH, St. Francis/Warrenville, Ill.
Josiah Green, 6-2, 240, DL, North Central/Indianapolis
Micah Green, 6-1, 220, LB, North Central/Indianapolis
Braden Mullen, 6-3, 215, LB, Loyola Academy/Glenview, Ill.
Rocky Mountains
Ahmir Braxton, 6-0, 175, DB, Vista Ridge/Peyton, Colo.
Q Jones, 5-11, 185, RB, Fountain-Fort Carson/Fountain, Colo.
Pacific Northwest
Sean Harmon, 6-5, 225, TE, Bishop Blanchet/Seattle
Jackson Proctor, 6-2, 195, QB, Kent HS/Kentwood, Wash.
Other
Zachary Lytle, 6-5, 230, DE, St. Paul’s/Winnipeg, Man., Canada
Konstantin Spörk, 6-5, 250, DL, Phillips Andover/Cologne, Germany
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Today's note revealing another of the "unintended consequences" of the NCAA not counting this year's participation against an athlete's four years of eligibility might be a first. VMI quarterback Reece Udinski, selected as the Southern Conference preseason offensive player of the year by the league’s coaches, will play this spring for the Keydets while already having accepted a scholarship to play next fall at Maryland. From the Roanoke Times (LINK):
“I’m still focused on VMI. That’s my No. 1 priority,” Udinski said. “I never thought about opting out of the season. I was always going to play at VMI, and Maryland was OK with that.”
And . . .
“I had talked to other schools, but other schools were not comfortable with me playing in the spring at VMI,” he said. “I never thought about opting out, just because my teammates and my coaches mean the world to me. I would never want to let them down. … The VMI football program as a whole means too much to me.”
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The University of Vermont women's basketball team is the latest college hoops squad to pull the plug on the season because of the pandemic (LINK), joining Division III Northern Vermont University-Lyndon women’s team, which also voted to opt out of competition for the 2020-2021 season.
And out in Ann Arbor there is this from the University of Michigan school paper, regarding the arrival of the new COVID-19 strain (LINK):
A source told The Daily that there were five confirmed cases of the new variant, with 15 more presumed positives throughout the athletic department. The novel strain was first introduced to Michigan at the beginning of the semester by a U-M athlete traveling from the United Kingdom. All members of the athletic department are expected to quarantine for 14 days.
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EXTRA POINT
Over its first few years BGA Daily ran on a platform that is no longer accessible, so I can't tell you how many posts went up before I brought it over to Blogger. What I can tell you is that on this platform BGA Daily will hit the 7,000-post plateau tomorrow.
Given that I have no idea how long I'll keep at it, this is as good a time as any for a math lesson.
These days I spend at least two hours each day surfing, researching and writing BGA Daily. Given the occasional times when I have double-posted or in the case of Signing Day, posted 6-7-8 times a day, the overall average is probably less than two hours, but I'll go with that number for fun.
Seven thousand posts, times two hours a day, would amount to 14,000 hours of work since moving over to Blogger. Assuming a work week is 40 hours, that's 350 weeks, or seven years of full-time work if you figure in a two-week vacation each year. Not that BGA Daily has ever gone dark for two weeks. ;-)
