Linebacker Ross Andreasik, defensive lineman Jackson Yost and wide receiver Kellen Love represent Dartmouth in the 2012 National Football Foundation Hampshire Honor Society “comprised of college football players from all divisions of play who each maintained a cumulative 3.2 GPA or better throughout their college career.”
Find a Dartmouth release HERE and the full list of players honored across the country at the FBS, FCS, DII, DIII, NAIA and Sprint levels HERE.
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You need a subscription to get behind the paywall and read the full entry about Dartmouth offensive coordinator Kevin Daft, but suffice it to say he is the lone FCS coach in a column that also mentions assistants from Arkansas, Western Kentucky, Wisconsin and Pitt. (LINK)
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The Associated Press has a story under the headline, Pandemic-driven spring football requires virtual creativity. (LINK)
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USA Today sports columnist Dan Wolken has a piece about the one-time transfer rule being passed this week headlined, Opinion: NCAA's new transfer policy may be messy, frustrating for coaches, but above all, it will be fair. A few excerpts from the column (LINK):
(T)he NCAA’s decision — as clunky and drawn-out as it might have been — is a real victory for the rights of college athletes. It’s not complete freedom of movement, which is a right coaches, professors and regular students have, but it’s a much fairer and more sensible system than what has been in place for decades.
And . . .
According to a 2015 study by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, 37 percent of all students it tracked between 2008 and 2014 transferred at some point in their college career — way more than the 25 percent or so of Division I basketball players who will transfer this year.
Did you ever hear any outcry about a so-called transfer epidemic among biology or English students? Have you ever heard anyone say that we need to make the music major stay for at least two years to teach them to fight through adversity?
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It was only in five sports — football, men’s and women’s basketball, baseball and men’s hockey — that transfers were required to sit out a year. Why those sports? Because they’re the ones that generate revenue for schools. Nobody bothered to care what happened with the rest.
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Dartmouth sits atop a list compiled by Forbes (LINK) that is introduced this way:
The season for college rankings is upon us, and each year media outlets (including this one) vie to create the most insightful listings, often with increasing complexity. However, the best way to evaluate a four-year college education may actually revolve around just one variable – alumni giving. At its core, the goal of most colleges is to produce happy and successful graduates who give back. So instead of crunching the usual ROI metrics –like employment statistics, salaries and job placement stats–Forbes developed a proprietary ranking we call the Grateful Graduates Index.
Here's the full list so you don't have to get annoyed by the "click bait" continue button the way I was:
1 DARTMOUTH
2 Williams
3 PRINCETON
4 Amherst
5 Davidson
6 Claremont McKenna
7 Haverford
8 Wellesley
9 Wabash
10 Notre Dame
11 Washington and Lee
12 Bowdoin
13 Carleton
14 Stanford
15 Duke
16 YALE
17 MIT
18 Harvey Mudd
19 BROWN
20 PENN
21 Chicago
22 Middlebury
23 Hamilton
24 Cal Tech
25 Pomona
Find Forbes' Dartmouth capsule HERE.
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Not to bury the lede, but this is from The Dartmouth with italics added (LINK):
At the College’s “Community Conversations” livestream on Wednesday, Provost Joseph Helble announced that all students must be vaccinated for COVID-19 before returning to campus for fall of 2021, or must be vaccinated shortly after arrival.
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EXTRA POINT
After paying way too much money two years ago to have an octogenarian with a tractor brush hog the field in front of our house, last fall I put in a lot of hours cutting the growth down with my electric lawn tractor. While it seems as if it was just last week that the last of the snow melted already there are a couple of patches of green that need to be cut down before they become problematic.
I better finish this up and get out there with the tractor before . . . wait for it . . . before the snow starts.
That's right, while I'm not sure our elevation is quite high enough for it to happen here, the forecast calls for six to eight inches of the white stuff to accumulate overnight and into tomorrow in the Green Mountains.
Ah, life in Northern New England.
