With spring practice winding down and Ivy League football returning in the fall (barring something we don't even want to imagine), I thought it would be interesting to see what the ticket re-sellers were up to these days with regard to Ivy League football. There wasn't much of interest online except on the GAMETIME site. From the re-seller's Dartmouth web page (LINK):
College football historians understand the importance of the Ivy League in the history of the sport. More importantly, they also know that the Dartmouth Big Green is one of the most storied programs in Ivy League history. In modern times, it’s been relatively easy to track down cheap Dartmouth football tickets. However, that could start to change in the years to come. The Big Green appears to be a team on the rise, meaning last-minute Dartmouth football tickets will once again be in high demand.
The re-seller was complimentary about the fellow with the whistle in a paragraph headlined, Everyone’s Buddy:
If there’s been one prominent figure in Dartmouth football in modern times, it’s undoubtedly Buddy Teevens. As the starting quarterback at Dartmouth, he led the Big Green to the 1978 Ivy League title. He returned as head coach in 1987 and won Ivy League titles in 1990 and 1991
before leaving for other jobs. Of course, Teevens returned in 2005 to fix a struggling program. It was a long journey that included a winless 2008 season. But the school had faith in Teevens, who eventually got Dartmouth back to the top of the Ivy League, winning conference titles in 2015 and 2019, setting up the Big Green for bright days ahead.
But GAMETIME was a little ahead of its skis in the section titled, How much are Dartmouth Football tickets?
Dartmouth ticket prices will differ depending on a number of factors. Generally speaking, the average ticket price for Dartmouth tickets is around $52 a ticket. But you can be looking at a few hundred dollars more, depending on the opponent, stage of play, and demand.
Green Alert Take: You did notice the headline on this posting, right?
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BGA Premium wrapped up it's three-part look at this year's freshmen with coach Buddy Teevens last night. The team's final practice will be tomorrow evening with a recap to appear on BGA later in the night. And be sure to keep an eye out for a look at the incoming freshmen on BGA Premium as early as next week.
A reminder that signup for BGA Premium for the 2021 season won't begin until early July. Until then, the spring coverage is on me ;-)
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Elsewhere in the Ivy League, Princeton Athletic Director Mollie Marcoux Samaan is leaving the school after seven years to become commissioner of the LPGA. An accomplished amateur golfer, Marcoux Samaan's senior thesis at Princeton was titled, The Social Construction of Sport and Gender: A History of Women's Golf from 1895 to 1955. (LINK)
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The Daily Pennsylvanian has a story headlined, Wharton receives $5 million Bitcoin donation, the largest crypto donation in Penn history. (LINK)
Green Alert Take: Had to chuckle about the "in Penn history" part. Seriously, UPenn has been around in some form or another since 1740 and in all that time no one gave more than $5 million in crypto currency? Hard to believe it never happened 50 or 75 years ago, huh? ;-)
From the story (and the italics are mine):
"The donation was announced just one day after Bitcoin’s value decreased by nearly 30%. Immediately upon receiving the donation, Penn liquidated it through NYDIG, an alternative asset manager which regulates and verifies Bitcoins to institutions and high net-worth persons."
Green Alert Take 2: Those Wharton folks aren't dummies.
More from the story:
"Penn began accepting crypto donations in January 2021. As a general rule, Penn will sell cryptocurrency as soon as it is received."
Green Alert Take 3: See the final sentence in Green Alert Take 2.
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CLICK HERE to read a Q&A in The Dartmouth with school president Phil Hanlon in which he “reflects on the challenges faced by the College throughout the pandemic and discusses its impact on Dartmouth’s future.”
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EXTRA POINT
I have what I freely admit is a well-deserved reputation for being a somewhat slow driver. Maybe that's one of the reasons why I love our '84 VW Vanagon camper. It gives me an excuse for taking my time going down the road.
I generally drive a little faster going home after Dartmouth football practice, the better to get you that night's BGA Premium report in a timely fashion. That was unfortunate last night.
Don't get the wrong idea. I didn't get my first-ever ticket or anything. And by most people's standards, I wasn't actually going fast. Probably 68 or so.
The unfortunate part was that even 68 mph was too fast to pull over and pull out my camera before it was too late.
It was about 7:40 last night on deserted I-91 north in Norwich, Vt. that something to my left caught my eye.
It took a second to register that with huge wings spread wide, legs extended and a brilliant white head it was a bald eagle landing gently on the grass alongside the passing lane. I don't know if it spotted some road kill, a rabbit or some other prey but by the time it occurred to me to slow down, pull over and grab my camera I knew it would be gone.
