Wednesday, January 26, 2022

Engineering A Move

Nate Boone, a 6-foot-2, 240 pound defensive end from Mishawaka is heading home. The fifth-year senior who made his first two tackles last fall, Tweeted his grad transfer plans:


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The Virginia SI page notes that a Georgetown offensive lineman committed to the Cavaliers a few days ago but continues to list Dartmouth's Jacob Flores as another OL weighing an offer to play in Charlottesville. (LINK) 

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Moving on from Harvard to UCLA is Jacob Sykes, a first-team All-Ivy League defensive lineman who had seven sacks last fall. The 6-3, 277-pound senior was a three-star recruit coming out of high school per 247Sports Composite.

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Fifth-year Dartmouth safety Niko Mermigas might have been the best interview on the Big Green football team last fall. Click below to hear about his pro ambitions and more on the college2pro.com podcast.


Green Alert Take: If playing the game doesn't work out for Mermigas, he might want to give commentating a shot. He could be very good.
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Perhaps of some interest to followers of FCS football in the Northeast is the CAA replacing James Madison, which is moving up to the FBS, with the tag team of New Jersey's Monmouth University and Hampton University, the first HBCU to join the powerhouse conference. (LINK) Monmouth had been floated at times in the past few years as a possible addition to the Patriot League.
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EXTRA POINT
I have a fabulous spam filter with my email program that virtually never lets any junk mail slip into my box and only rarely filters out legit mail. Clearing the spam box yesterday I found an email about how my Facebook account had been hacked. Nice try spammer, but if you've been paying attention you'd know I don't have a Facebook account. Never have and never will.

By the way, when I left my job in Dartmouth sports information it was to be a feature writer at the local daily. One of the first stories I was asked to write was a piece about Spam – the meat product – in honor of its introduction 50 years before. I remember standing outside a couple of grocery stores asking shoppers if they happened to buy Spam that day and their thoughts about the product. I have to admit I got a lot of funny looks. I eventually lucked out and found a former GI who had great recollections of Spam from his time in the military and built much of the story around him. Turns out he was a Dartmouth alum and huge Big Green sports fan.
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