With campus visits off the table because of the pandemic, Dartmouth football continues to put out "recruiting material," the latest being another multimedia presentation:
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“When I had her in college, I knew she had the right stuff,” (former NFL general manager Charley) Casserly said last week during a phone interview with the Beacon Journal.“You could see that she was ahead of the game, mature beyond her years, wasn't intimidated by anything, had excellent work ethic, smart, organized, all the positive traits that you'd want.”
“She got a lot of publicity — well earned and well deserved. She's a trailblazer,” said Casserly, an NFL Network analyst. “But you can go two ways with that. You can let it affect you and go to your head. It never did with her. She has the right DNA — nose to the grindstone and keep working.”
And (italics are mine) . . .
“Buddy Teevens took a chance, so to speak, and his instincts were right,” Casserly said.
And . . .
“(Browns head coach Kevin Stefanski) mentioned it when we hired her that he sees her as a future head coach, and I would echo those sentiments,” (GM Andrew) Berry said on Zoom in January. “She has just a really, really high ceiling in this profession.”
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STATS Perform has a story spun out of Saturday's UNH opener under the headline McDonnell embraces return to New Hampshire sideline. From the story (LINK):
In many ways, Sean McDonnell is a different person than he was when he last coached a game on Nov. 17, 2018. In many ways, he hasn't changed one bit.
A week before he was about to lead UNH into the 2019 campaign, he stepped away from coaching to go on medical leave due to bladder cancer. After months of treatment and surgeries, he received medical clearance to resume his coaching position as of last March 1, but less than two weeks later, the global COVID-19 pandemic shut down the normal way of life almost everywhere.
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A column on the Football Scoop website yesterday had me wondering if high schools have lost their minds the way colleges have in this era of Super Seniors and grad transfers: Kentucky is going to allow high school seniors an extra year of eligibility. The story begins this way (LINK):
The NCAA decided months ago that players that opted to play this past fall would not have to use a year of their eligibility to do so, creating a host of issues for programs starting with roster and scholarship confusion that they are still waiting for answers on.
Today, in Kentucky, the state Senate passed a bill by a unanimous 36-0 vote that will allow high school seniors to stay for another year of school and play sports.
After doing a little bit of Googling I found another story from the Louisville CBS TV station WLKY that refocused the thinking by decision by the state senate under the headline, Kentucky bill would allow high school seniors to repeat year, get another season of sports. From the story (LINK):
Senate Bill 128, introduced by Sens. Max Wise, Rick Girdler and Danny Carroll, would allow public high school students enrolled in Kentucky to request to use the 2021-22 school year as a supplemental school year so they can retake, and supplement, coursework already completed.
The green light to play another year of sports would be a byproduct of the decision to allow kids to repeat their senior year, not the reason why they would repeat the year.
Green Alert Take: A least that's the way the second story reads . . .
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The Dartmouth reports just one additional COVID positive case among students, running the active total to 139. (LINK)
The college headlined a summary of the latest Community Conversation: Signs Suggest Outbreak Is Slowing. (LINK)
And as always, find the college's COVID Dashboard HERE.
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EXTRA POINT
How windy was it here in Vermont the past few days?
We received this wonderful solar spinner as a gift perhaps a dozen years ago and it spun for years at our house on Moose Mountain, during our interim off-the-grid summer in the tiny house, at the rental we lived in for ninth months before moving here, and finally on our Vermont hillside, all without incident.
When I looked out the window this morning not only was the spinner no longer perfectly upright, but one side of it had turned aggressively enough to fly right off.
I'll be digging through the snow to find the nut that holds the side on and trying to get the thing back in ship-shape later today. Here's hoping the wired connections that feed LED lights on each of the petals haven't been shredded or I'm going to have to jerry-rig the thing somehow.
