The Dartmouth Sports Publicity office has a short piece about offensive lineman Matt Kaskey '19, seeing his first official NFL action with the Carolina Panthers in the team's final game of the year. (LINK)
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Yesterday we brought you a Fansided NY Giants keep or dump column that recommended the Jints bring back Dartmouth's Niko Lalos '20 next year. Now it is NJ.com with a column headlined, Stay or go: Who will Giants bring back in 2021? Analyzing entire roster, including Leonard Williams, Will Hernandez, more. This one lists Lalos as an outside linebacker and has this to say about that position group (LINK):
Stay: Lorenzo Carter, Oshane Ximines, Carter Coughlin, Cam Brown, Niko Lalos
Go: Jabaal Sheard, Kyler Fackrell
Analysis: No group needs an upgrade in talent more than this one. The Giants are in desperate need of help at pass rusher. They could bring back Fackrell at a reasonable cost, but they should focus their attention elsewhere. Carter and Ximines are coming off injuries and this could be their last chance to prove they can be productive players. Coughlin and Brown have shown some flashes of talent.
Green Alert Take: No explanation for why Lalos is in the "stay" category, but it beats no explanation and being on the "go" list, right?
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Cleveland Magazine has posted its Most Interesting People 2021 list and Callie Brownson, the former Dartmouth quality control assistant/recruiting director and now Cleveland Browns' chief of staff, has made the cut. (LINK)
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Say what you will about how Dartmouth recruiting is going, the Big Green has developed a history of being on the radar of some pretty talented players. Today's headlines include two who got away.
The Burlsworth Trophy is presented annually to college football's top former walk-on and this year's winner is Pitt center Jimmy Morrissey, a four-year starter and two-time all-ACC pick. From a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette story about him (LINK):
The only FBS coach that expressed real interest was former Pitt offensive line coach John Peterson. Morrissey’s family paid for him to attend a Pitt prospect camp in June 2015, where he left a lasting impression on Peterson. Seven months later, Morrissey accepted a spot at Pitt as a walk-on, spurning partial scholarship interest from Dartmouth and a few other FCS programs.
And then there's this from a story about Notre Dame linebacker Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah, the 2020 Butkus Award winner as the nation's top linebacker and first-team All-American declaring for the NFL draft (LINK):
He signed with Notre Dame as part of the 2017 class. Owusu-Koramoah chose the Fighting Irish over scholarship offers from Michigan State, Virginia, Army, Dartmouth, Marshall and a handful of others.
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While most of the FCS is champing at the bit for the start of the spring season, the Ivy League, of course, will be on the sidelines. But what about the Patriot League, the academic conference sometimes referred to as the Ivy's sister league?
The Patriot's last announcement about the possibility of rescheduling fall sports came way back in July when it wrote: ""The League is committed to exploring creative approaches and alternatives to providing future competitive experiences to our fall sport student-athletes, including the possibility of conducting fall sport competition and championships in the second semester."
Now comes this tweet from the always well-sourced Craig Haley, FCS editor of STATS Perform (LINK):
The Patriot League has yet to announce a spring football schedule, but two sources confirmed to me one is in place, likely starting in early March and with possible divisions.
Green Alert Take: If Colgate, Holy Cross, Lehigh and the rest do play this spring that will really sting for Ivy League football players, many of whom chose the Ancient Eight after being recruiting by Patriot League schools.
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Dartmouth Sports Publicity has a piece on former Big Green softball player Bianca Smith '12 being hired to coach in the Boston Red Sox organization HERE.
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And more from the College Sports Madness in a Pandemic Department:
Boston University men's and women's basketball players are required to wear masks during games, both at home and on the road. The BU men played last night at Holy Cross and wore masks while the Crusaders did not. The BU and Holy Cross women also played last night and because the game was in Boston both teams had to wear masks. The Holy Cross men will play at BU tonight and, like the women last night, will be required to join the Terriers in wearing masks. (LINK)
There's no need for the No. 3 Villanova Wildcats to wear masks for their next three games for a simple reason. All three have been postponed because of COVID-19 in the 'Nova program.
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EXTRA POINT
In June's PAT I wrote this about how thrilled we were with our robot vacuum:
Golden retrievers are sweet, gentle and smart dogs that always aim to please, but they shed. A lot. No matter how much you brush them. It seemed just about every day I would grab a powerful handheld vac and chase down tumbleweeds of golden fur that an open door or window would blow out from under a couch and across our hardwood floors. But no more.
That's because at 2 a.m. each day the robo vac saddles up and goes to work.
It took seven months for me to wake up. Correction: Not wake up.
Come again?
Maybe I should start at the beginning. The vacuum has a timer function enabling it to run automatically for 90 minutes or so at whatever time you choose. I figured it would make sense to have it run overnight and so I set it to clean the downstairs floors at 2 a.m.
Understand, the vacuum has a sensing mechanism that does a pretty good job of limiting crashes into dog dishes, trashcans, baseboards and the like. Notice, if you will, the use of the word "limiting" instead of "eliminating." It certainly doesn't hit hard when it hits something and it quickly spins and goes right back to work, but it does make a little noise on those occasions when it runs into something.
One other thing. While the rest of our downstairs is hardwood floors, the kitchen floor is covered with large tiles, and as the vacuum rolls from one tile to another to another there's a barely audible bumpity, bumpity, bump.
I should have said it would be barely audible at 2 p.m. It's a lot more audible at 2 a.m. Same with those little crashes into chair legs and dog dishes.
As I write this in my upstairs office, I can hear "Robo" (that's what we call our tireless, automated friend) rolling around downstairs, bumping into the occasional object and bumpity, bumpity, bumping along.
That's right. Last week I finally reset Robo's clock so it would kick into gear at 7:30 instead of 2 in the morning. It only took me the better part of seven months to realize it's better for the vac to make noise while I'm working on BGA Daily than when I'm trying to sleep.
To quote the late golfer Roberto De Vicenzo, What a stupid I am.
