Tuesday, August 17, 2021

Plus One (Or Two?)


Dartmouth is adding two recruits . . . but just one athlete. Tweeting his intention to play football and baseball for the Big Green is Ivan Hoyt, a 6-foot, 188-pound football wide receiver as well as baseball and track standout at Cornerstone Christian School in Boerne, Texas (LINK):

Find a variety of his football and track highlights HERE.

Hoyt's Twitter suggests in addition to Dartmouth he was being recruited by Yale, Columbia, Lafayette and Davidson. He's also on Instagram HERE.

Per the Five Tool baseball site, Hoyt originally had a different plan per Texas Pro United Baseball Academy:

Please help Congratulate another one of our very own Ivan Hoyt. Ivan will be furthering his academic and baseball career at Pepperdine University. They are getting one heck of a ball player! 

The Perfect Game site lists him as 3B/OF, RHP, SS. (LINK)

Should Hoyt play football and baseball at Dartmouth he'll be the first to do it since Bo Patterson '15, also a wide receiver. Assistant coach Kyle Cavanaugh '09 also played football and baseball at Dartmouth. Both Patterson and Cavanaugh were outfielders.

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The unofficial recruiting class to date per Twitter:

Michael Betsy, 6-4, 280, OL, Don Bosco/Upper Saddle River, N.J.
Ivan Hoyt, 6-0, 188, WR, Cornerstone/Boerne, Texas
Delby Lemieux, 6-4, 260, OL/DL, Duxbury/Duxbury, Mass.
Max Wentz, 6-4, 285, OL, Huntington/Huntington, W.Va.

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Here's Dartmouth's segment from Ivy League media day:


Green Alert Take: Even if you tuned in for the entire Ivy League media day yesterday you didn't learn much beyond everyone being excited to be back on the field, most teams bringing back large rosters, and all the teams having two classes that have seen no collegiate action. Details about quarterback battles, who's going to step in for the graduated sack master, or whether this defense or that offense will be changed up this fall was not the order of the day.
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The BGA Premium preview series  moved on to Ivy League teams last night with a look at Brown. Tonight: Columbia. To sign up or renew your membership CLICK HERE.
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The Analyst (STATS Perform) has a look at the Pioneer Football League featuring one-paragraph capsules on each team, including  Dartmouth opponent Valparaiso HERE.
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The Illinois State University public radio station has a piece about former Dartmouth softball player Tessa Grossman, a grad student at the school, doing a three-week strength and conditioning internship with the Atlanta Falcons through the Bill Walsh Diversity Coaching Fellowship. (LINK)
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Sports Illustrated reports that Georgia quarterback JT Daniels has signed a six-month deal with a trading card company to sign autographs at $100 a pop. Per the story, he could rake in more than $1 million and has pledged to share half of that with his teammates. (LINK)

Green Alert Take: When my kids were younger and I was working Dartmouth football every Saturday in the fall the only chance I had to share the excitement of Penn State football with them came by carting them out to Happy Valley for the Blue-White spring game. Before the game they'd line up at the autograph tables and get posters signed by the players. It was a lot of fun and I feel badly for the little kids in the future whose parents will have to hit up the ATM on the way to a game like that if their kids want autographs that, like those our kids got, will end up years later folded and torn in the bottom of a box in their parents' basement. At $100 a pop.
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EXTRA POINT
Another sign that a real football season is rapidly approaching: The convertible standup desk here in the BGA World Headquarters has been raised. Researching and writing previews and assorted duties getting BGA Premium back and running meant too many hours in my office chair. Yes, I have a program on my Mac that encourages me to get up and stretch at different intervals but I don't always take its counsel. My back was killing me until I went to the standup mode three days ago.

Gotta get back in football shape ;-)
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