Happy August!
It's been a long, long time coming but we can now officially say Dartmouth preseason camp and the first college football games of the year kick off "later this month."
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I wrote this once before and now a second time: I never thought I'd be posting a link to a story from People magazine on this site.
Jennifer King is a former Dartmouth quality control coach:
Wanting to keep his players fresh this year, (VMI coach Scott) Wachenheim talked last fall with Northwestern coach Pat Fitzgerald and Dartmouth coach Buddy Teevens to get some ideas for the January and February practices that led into VMI’s spring season. Teevens has gained fame for not having his players tackle each other in Dartmouth practices. Fitzgerald is not big on scrimmages.
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Most college football "camps" aren't camps at all. At least not in the old sense of spending a few days on campus, sleeping in the dorms, going for a swim in the afternoon and winding gimp into a lanyard. (OK, that never happened at football camp ;-)
Curious what happens at a camp these days? Watch a video of a Maryland linebacker being put through his paces at the Buddy Teevens camp HERE.
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From an AP story headlined NCAA sets timetable for dramatic overhaul of how it governs collegiate athletics in an ESPN posting (LINK):
In the wake of a stinging loss in the Supreme Court and radical changes to the way athletes can be compensated -- and with College Football Playoff expansion and major conference realignment already in motion -- the NCAA said it wants to "reimagine" how it manages the needs of its more than 450,000 athletes.
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EXTRA POINT
There are a lot of smiles here on our Vermont hillside this morning. And a lot of yawns.
That Certain Dartmouth '14 is visiting on a two-week break from her work as a ranger with the National Park Service, her first trip back to the Upper Valley in a year-and-a-half. And as for the yawns . . .
She paid a premium to fly out of the small airport in Gunnison, Colo. – rather than make the long drive to Denver – only to have her plane delayed because the crew hadn't gotten enough rest. While she said she absolutely didn't want to fly with a tired crew, the delay meant she missed her connection in Denver, which meant a rebooked flight and a lengthy layover. And the layover meant she would miss the Dartmouth Coach bus from Boston to Hanover, which she was planning to catch at 3:30.
When the dust settled her delayed flight to the Hub was going to give her just 15 minutes or so to grab her bag off the carousel and zip out to the curb to catch the night's last bus to Hanover. And if she missed that bus, she'd have another hour to wait for the Concord Coach to the New Hampshire state capital, where we'd have to drive 90 minutes to pick her up around 11:30 p.m..
Bottom line, she was scheduled to leave Gunnison at 7:45 a.m. and it was closing in on midnight when we picked up up in Hanover. Yeah, and that was after paying extra to make the trip less arduous.
But she's here and we couldn't be happier.
