Monday, April 19, 2021

Sounds Like Progress, Right?

 Good news in this morning's edition of The Dartmouth under the headline, Off-campus students granted access to campus facilities. (LINK)

From the story:

Since April 9, roughly 400 off-campus students enrolled in classes have been accepted through a waitlist process offered by the College for on-campus access to facilities including Baker-Berry Library, the Hopkins Center for the Arts, the Collis Center and Alumni Gym, according to College Health Service director Mark Reed.

College spokesperson Diana Lawrence wrote in an email statement that all eligible students who completed the one-time waitlist application by April 7 were approved for on-campus access to select facilities. 

And this:

Dean of the College Kathryn Lively outlined a series of protective measures, including those already established for students living on campus.

“You must comply with all testing, physical distancing, face covering, facilities use and other College health and behavioral guidelines,” Lively wrote. “Failure to do so will lead to immediate revocation of any waitlist access privileges for the remainder of spring term, and revocation of approval for summer for those of you who may have that in place.” 

Green Alert Take: I'm not sure exactly what this means for Dartmouth football players living off campus this spring but it beats the alternative, right?

The NCAA released the bracket for the FCS playoffs yesterday and in games of some local interest, Sept. 25 opponent Sacred Heart (3-1) will travel to Delaware (5-0) for a game to be carried on ESPN3 Saturday night at 7. 

Holy Cross (3-0) visits South Dakota State (5-1) in a Saturday matchup slated for 3 p.m. on ESPN3.

With the pandemic still sidelining players and teams, the NCAA had this addendum to the tournament schedule:
Should a team need to withdraw due to COVID-19 prior to the release of the bracket, the committee will make adjustments as necessary before finalizing the bracket.

Any SELECTED team that needs to remove themselves AFTER the bracket is released, has until 3:30 ET Monday, April 19 to notify committee and a replacement team will be determined.

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Speaking of Sacred Heart and the fall schedule, here's another look at the next four Big Green seasons:



2021

Sept. 18

A

Valparaiso

Sept. 25

H

Sacred Heart

Oct. 2

A

Penn*

Oct. 9

H

Yale* (Homecoming)

Oct. 16

A

New Hampshire

Oct. 23

H

Columbia*

Oct. 30

A

Harvard*

Nov. 6

H

Princeton*

Nov. 13

H

Cornell*

Nov. 20

A

Brown*






2022

Sept. 17

H

Valparaiso

Sept. 24

A

Sacred Heart

Oct. 1

H

Penn*

Oct. 8

A

Yale*

Oct. 15

H

New Hampshire

Oct. 22

A

Columbia*

Oct. 29

H

Harvard* (Homecoming)

Nov. 5

A

Princeton*

Nov. 12

A

Cornell*

Nov. 19

H

Brown*






2023

Sept. 16

A

New Hampshire

Sept. 23

H

Lehigh

Sept. 30

A

Penn*

Oct. 7

H

Yale*

Oct. 14

A

Colgate

Oct. 21

H

Columbia*

Oct. 28

A

Harvard*

Nov. 4

H

Princeton*

Nov. 11

H

Cornell*

Nov. 18

A

Brown*






2024

Sept. 21

H

Fordham

Sept. 28

A

Army West Point

Oct. 5

H

Penn*

Oct. 12

A

Yale*

Oct. 19

H

Central Connecticut State

Oct. 26

A

Columbia*

Nov. 2

H

Harvard*

Nov. 9

A

Princeton*

Nov. 16

A

Cornell*

Nov. 23

H

Brown*

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EXTRA POINT
I got a bill last week for a year's worth of BGA Premium website hosting as well as the monthly charge for the service that handles registration and access to the site. It was kind of annoying because without a season or subscribers that money was essentially thrown away. 

In hindsight I suppose I could have taken the site down, saved the money and rebuilt the site as needed, but if I'm going to be completely honest getting it going the first time was hassle enough. I didn't need to go through that again. ;-)

Spring practice is (tentatively?) slated to begin May 1 and I'm (more tentatively???) going to offer some sort of coverage. Stay tuned for details as I learn more.

About the only thing I can say for sure is that I'm going to have to spend a little time re-learning how to post and update the BGA Premium website. It's been so long since I've spent any time on it that I've forgotten how to access and use much of the functionality I built into it.

It's a problem, but a good problem to have, right?