Camp Musings

It used to be that sports camps were about going away for a week or so, learning a a few things from a staff headed up by a college coach or two (but filled out with high school coaches and former players), fooling around in the pool or at the lake, complaining about the food and making new friends.

It's not that way anymore.

Camps these days aren't about coaches making a few extra bucks showing players things but instead are about the players showing the coaches things, and The Buddy Teevens Football Camp is no different.

Coaches still work with the players, of course, but the real reason they will be there is because what are called camps have actually become tryouts in everything but name. That's why so many players don't go to just one camp, but instead make a full swing through camps at like-minded programs. It puts them in front of as many eyes as possible as shown by the graphic above that lists fully two-dozen schools that will be represented at the Teevens camp in addition to Dartmouth.

Buddy Teevens Football Camps have now opened up registration for eight regular camp sessions and one specialist session. Rather than last a week, they are just a few hours long. All but the first session start with registration at noon, activities kicking off at 1, and everything wrapping up by 4:30. (The opening session is the same length but starts at 4:30 and finishes under the lights.)

Check out the Buddy Teevens Football Camps website HERE.

Green Alert Take: The camps are great for players to get exposure, and for coaches to see a bunch of kids in action at the same time. Still, I hope there are at least some of the old-fashioned camps around.

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The Dartmouth has a story under the headline, One-on-one with interim athletic director Peter Roby ’79 noting that the "athletics action plan" will be announced by March 15, "the date by which we are required to publicize the plan based on the settlement agreement that was reached when the teams were reinstated," said Roby. (LINK)

Roby tells The D:

The search firm has been hired and has been busy at work communicating with people both on the search committee but also nationally in terms of soliciting interest. My sense is that they’re moving along at a pretty good pace.

And regarding his decision not to pursue the position or extend his duties as the interim AD:

I had “retired” once already, and I’m at a point in my life where I want to get on to doing the things that I have wanted to do and spending it with the people that I care most about.

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With the winter season for all sports except skiing wrapping up with men's ice hockey being eliminated in the ECAC playoffs, here's a look at how Dartmouth teams fared (league standing in parentheses):

Men’s basketball 9-16, 6-8 (5th)
Women’s basketball 3-23, 2-12 (7th)

Men’s ice hockey 7-22-3, 5-15-2 (T-11th)
Women’s ice hockey 9-19-1, 3-18-1 (11th)

Men’s indoor track (7th)
Women’s indoor track (7th) 

Men's swimming and diving 2-6, 1-6 (8th)
Women's swimming and diving 2-7, 0-6  (7th)

Men’s squash 7-10, 1-6 (7th*)
Women’s squash 9-9, 1-6 (7th*)

Skiing (NCAA’s this week)

*Brown does not appear in the Ivy League squash standings
(Tennis competes in the winter but it is not the regular season.)

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EXTRA POINT
With the temperature topping 50 degrees yesterday, Mrs. BGA and I decided to take a nice afternoon stroll with Griff the Wonder Dog. The problem is that we live on a dirt road and with heavy rain earlier in the day and warmer temperatures our road was mud, not dirt. Wanting to walk somewhere scenic, paved and relatively flat, we drove one town south to walk around beautiful Lake Morey.

That's a five-mile loop, no problem given all my hiking. Except . . .

Except wanting to save the soles of my hiking shoes I instead wore a pair of sneakers, the kind That Certain Nittany Lion '16 likes to call my "Dad shoes." They are white, some kind of leather product and, like me, they were cheap. Very cheap.

The problem with cheap sneakers? We got to the far end of the lake and I was already developing blisters on the outside of both pinky toes. Did I mention we were at the far end of the lake? Suffice it to say it was a long walk back and it wasn't much fun.

Barring a lot of moleskin and adhesive tape I don't think I'll going on a hike today. And if I do, I deserve exactly what I get.