There are probably others but this is the first NIL connection I've stumbled across featuring a Dartmouth athlete, in this case linebacker Tanner Cross.
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Dartmouth has issued a release officially announcing the incoming football recruiting class. (LINK)
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Three more of the players mentioned in that release are featured in the quick introductory videos from the football office. They are:
Jackson Proctor, a 6-1, 190 quarterback from Kent, Washington (LINK)
Sean Harmon, a 6-5, 220 tight end from Seattle (LINK)
Davis Golick, a 6-1, 200 punter from College Park, Ga. (LINK)
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In yesterday's post featuring the Lindy's predictions for the Ivy League, Pioneer Football League and CAA I wrote that I thought Central Connecticut was the choice in the Northeast Conference. Before I could get to the bookstore and double-check that a loyal BGA reader shared the NEC predictions. Turns out I had it wrong. Here's what he sent along (thanks!):
Northeast Conference
1 – Sacred Heart
2 – Duquesne
3 – Central Connecticut
4 – Bryant
5 – Wagner
6 – Saint Francis
7 – LIU
8 – Merrimack
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This is almost impossible to believe but it's true. An East Tennessee State University linebacker will be the first player in NCAA history to have eight (EIGHT!) seasons of eligibility. Craig Haley writes about Jared Folks, who will turn 26 in mid-November, HERE.
How has the 6-1, 230-pound Harrisburg, Pa., product's career gone? Here is a year-by-year synopsis:
2014 – Temple redshirt
2015 – DNP (Torn right labrum surgery)
2016 – Temple (13 games)
2017 – Temple (1 game, torn left labrum)
2018 – ETSU (11 games)
2019 – ETSU (5 games, groin injury)
2020 – ETSU (6 games - shortened spring season)
2021 – ETSU (NCAA doesn’t count 2020 season toward eligibility)
Fortunately, Folks isn't an academic piker. He was a member of the AAC All-Academic team at Temple and SoCon Honor Roll at ETSU. He earned a masters in "brand and media strategy," and is now working on his MBA.
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From a Dartmouth release about the Big Green baseball team's starting catcher, who is slated to be a senior this fall (LINK):
Rising senior Ben Rice of the Dartmouth College baseball team was selected by the New York Yankees in the 12th round with the 363rd overall pick of the 2021 Major League Baseball Draft on Tuesday afternoon. Rice is the 37th Big Green player to be chosen in an MLB Draft since its inception in 1965 and first in four years.
And this, which had to be worded just so because another catcher committed to Dartmouth signed before starting college:
Rice is the third player associated with Dartmouth to be chosen by the Yankees in the draft. The first was Jim Beattie '76, who enjoyed a nine-year career in the big leagues, and the other was Brad Ausmus '91, who had an 18-year MLB career behind the plate but never played for the Big Green after signing out of high school in 1987.
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EXTRA POINT
A year ago we put in a solar tracker that has meant no more paying for electricity.
Yesterday we took it a step further, and it means no more paying for gasoline. At least not by me.
Now sitting in our garage topping off with free electricity is a silverish 2022 Chevy Bolt, a 100-percent electric car.
