Check It Out

The usual warnings about those of a certain age turning down the volume or muting before watching this new video from the Dartmouth football office apply:

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Following up on yesterday's posting about Dartmouth's all-time record against FBS conferences, here's a look at the Big Green's results against FCS conferences and schools:

Conference	W	L	T	Pct
Patriot League	66	66	7	.500
Colonial Athletic Association (CAA)	27	26	2	.509
Northeast Conference (NEC)	6	2	0	.750
Pioneer Football League (PFL)	7	0	0	1.000
Patriot
Holy Cross	40	37	4	.519
Colgate	7	18	1	.288
Lafayette	6	2	0	.750
Lehigh	2	5	0	.286
Bucknell	5	2	0	.714
Fordham	4	1	0	.800
Georgetown	2	1	0	.667
CAA
New Hampshire	18	19	2	.487
Maine	7	1	0	.875
William & Mary	1	6	0	.143
Towson	1	0	0	1.000
NEC
Sacred Heart	4	2	0	.667
Central Connecticut	2	0	0	1.000
PFL
Butler	2	0	0	1.000
Davidson	2	0	0	1.000
Jacksonville	1	0	0	1.000
Marist	1	0	0	1.000
Stetson	1	0	0	1.000

(Teams are listed according to most recent conference affiliation.)

Green Alert Take: It is surprising how few conferences against which the Big Green has played a game. Dartmouth is yet to play against anyone from the Big Sky, Big South, Mid-Eastern, Missouri Valley, Ohio Valley, Southern, Southland and Southwestern Athletic conferences.

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The Holy Cross home game against Colgate in October has been scheduled for Polar Park, new home of the Worcester Red Sox, the Triple-A affiliate of the Boston Red Sox. The stadium seats 9,508 for baseball. (LINK)

Green Alert Take: On the outside looking in, this one is hard to understand. Fenway Park and Yankee Stadium are iconic venues in big cities that are themselves a draw for out-of-town fan. A brand new minor league stadium in Worcester that is actually smaller than your home stadium? I don't see the appeal.

Green Alert Take II: This is off topic a bit but they are calling the AAA team playing in Worcester the WooSox. I always kind of liked the PawSox but the WooSox? Doesn't work.

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Headline in the New York Times: Stanford, Facing Pressure, Reverses Plan to Cut 11 Sports. Here's the lede (LINK):

Ten months after revealing plans to cut nearly one-third of its varsity athletic programs, Stanford announced on Tuesday that those 11 sports would not be discontinued after all, ending a battle between the university and the supporters of those sports.

University leaders, in announcing the reversal, cited improvements in the school’s investments and also said supporters of the programs had helped reveal a new path toward funding the sports — 10 of which are featured at the Olympics.

And . . .

Even more pressure for Stanford to reverse its decision arose last week when a pair of lawsuits were filed in federal court, alleging that the university defrauded recruits by not telling them their sports might be dropped and also saying that Stanford would be violating Title IX edicts if the sports were not reinstated.

Green Alert Take: It would seem playing the Title IX card is a winning strategy, huh?

Oh, and there was this from a CBS take on the same story (LINK):

Though Stanford is the biggest name of the bunch, it is still the latest school to reverse course on cutting numerous athletic programs. Other schools that have made similar reversals are William & Mary, Dartmouth and Bowling Green.

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EXTRA POINT
As promised yesterday, I strapped the action camera on my car and headed into metropolitan downtown Newbury, Vt. (2,160 hearty souls spread over 64.4 square miles) to get that video I wanted to share here. This time the video worked but the subject I wanted to record was AWOL. That would be a row of flowering crabapples that runs almost the length of the village's classic New England main street. Unfortunately, what had been brilliant pink over the weekend had faded dramatically in the last couple of days. By yesterday afternoon the color that was left was almost invisible on the video.

If I'd thought of shooting the video a few days earlier it would have looked like THIS.

As they say in baseball, maybe next year.