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It's been two years since the site covered regular-season football and more than a few people – myself included – forgot their BGA password.

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The Dartmouth newspaper has a story under the headline, Under new NCAA policy, Dartmouth student-athletes can now earn payment that takes a look at the Name, Image, Likeness rules. (LINK)

Linebacker Jalen Mackie and tailback Zack Bair as well as Interim Athletic Director Peter Roby and several other athletes are all quoted.

From the story:

Mackie sees potential endorsements for Dartmouth sports coming mainly from “local businesses” due to lower “notoriety around the country.” 

And . . . 

Football running back Zack Bair ’22 agreed, saying that the NIL policy change “probably won’t have huge effects” for the football team as a less nationally recognizable team.

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In advance of the 25th edition of the Manning Passing Academy, a story offers up background on the origin of the camp including the role played by Dartmouth coach Buddy Teevens and his childhood friend Jeff "Hawk" Hawkins, a member of his first Big Green staff. From the story (LINK):

Buddy Teevens, the current head coach at Dartmouth, was head coach at Tulane, and Jeff Hawkins, the current director of football operations at Oregon, was a recruiting coordinator for Teevens. (Archie) Manning, his sons, Teevens and Hawkins have been the driving force behind the camp’s success since its inception.

“Those five people, the three boys along with Teevens and Hawkins, have never missed a minute of the camp,” said Manning. “We never thought that we would be doing this 25 years later. It was just supposed to be a fun thing with the boys. I never thought it would be anything more than a regional type thing."

This year's camp runs July 15-18.

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Add to yesterday's short list of football transfers into the Ivy League Jake Biggs, a 6-foot-1, 205-pound wide receiver from the University of Utah. A walk-on with the Utes, Biggs served an LDS mission in Mexico. Find his Utah bio HERE and while Yale hasn't yet updated its football roster for 2021 he shows up on the YaleFB blog list of incoming recruits HERE.

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HERO Sports has its first preseason FCS Top 25 and it's hardly a surprise that no Ivy League team gets a mention. (LINK)

Green Alert Take: I've written this before but the big surprise will be if no Ivy gets a mention after the season.

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FootballScoop has a story headlined, Collegiate Sports Video Association names top recruiting video of 2020-21; Beautifully shot and masterfully produced, Appalachian State's "Something About These Mountains" expertly sells Mountaineer football to its target audience. (LINK)

What caught my eye was this paragraph that nicely summarizes the challenge Dartmouth, like App State, always faces:

A school in a small, rural town in western North Carolina is never going to be for everybody, and the strength of this video, and the university it's selling, is that it recognizes it's not for everyone. They're after the kid who thinks App State might be for him. Because if you're leaning toward App at all, "These Mountains" will tip you all the way over.

Sounds familiar, huh? Here's the three-minute video, which really is good:

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Another challenge that comes with Dartmouth's location is the dearth of off-campus housing opportunities in a small town. New Hampshire Bulletin has a story under the headline, 'The perfect storm’: Housing shortage pinches the Upper Valley that includes this (LINK):

This year is worse than usual because of the pandemic. The college’s study-abroad programs have been suspended along with other off-campus programming, and the Upper Valley has seen an influx of people fleeing urban areas.

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There are real advantages to living in this part of the world, of course. New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine are three of the top four states in the country where residents feel the safest in this chart from Safewise (LINK):

And overall The Safest Cities report shows that Vermonters rank No. 1 in the nation when it comes to its residents feeling safe. (LINK)

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EXTRA POINT

If you've been a regular visitor to this site over the years you have probably figured out that I'm not what you would call mechanically inclined ;-)

That's one of the reasons why we take our '84 VW poptop camper to the Bus Whisperer up near Lake Champlain.

One of the neat things about these old VWs is the crowd sourcing of information and help that keeps them on the road. To that end, there are what essentially amount to VW bus jamborees around the country and this weekend, to our surprise, there's one in southern Vermont. I share that by way of explaining that we're headed to a campground with (hopefully) dozens of other devotees of these unique vehicles this weekend.

I have no idea if there will be WiFi available so I can't promise BGA Daily will be updated Saturday and Sunday. If I do have internet access, I'll be back at you. If not . . . see  you Monday.