A New Jersey outlet has a story about the final high school basketball game for Dartmouth-bound Chris Corbo, a tight end/wide receiver. He scored 26 points in West Essex' 62-57 loss in the state tournament. From the story (LINK):
Corbo, who will attend Dartmouth and continue his football career there, concluded a stellar basketball career Thursday night. He averaged 24.5 points per game this season--ranking among the leaders in Essex County--and leaves as West Essex' all-time leading boys' basketball career scorer with an unofficial total of 1,335 points.
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Speaking of incoming recruits, there might be anywhere from one to a handful of additional names I haven't been able to find or who still haven't finalized their college choice. If you have any names or corrections, send them along. In the meantime, here's the recruiting list we (think we) know, broken down by a best-guess at position:
OFFENSIVE LINE
Michael Betsy, 6-4, 280, Don Bosco/Upper Saddle River, N.J.
Delby Lemieux, 6-4, 260, Duxbury/Duxbury, Mass.
Vasean Washington, 6-5, 280, Springfield HS/Springfield, Ohio
Max Wentz, 6-4, 285, Huntington/Huntington, W. Va.
TIGHT END
Chris Corbo, 6-5, 215, West Essex/North Caldwell, N.J.
Sean Ward, 6-4, 240, St. Ignatius/Cleveland, Ohio
WIDE RECEIVER
Daniel Haughton, 6-1, 190, Charlotte Latin/Charlotte, N.C.
Ivan Hoyt, 6-0, 188, Cornerstone/Boerne, Texas
Grayson O’Bara, 6-1, 188, Guyer/Denton, Texas
RUNNING BACK
Desmin Jackson, 5-10, 175, Orange Lutheran/Orange, Calif.
QUARTERBACK
Logan Klitsch, 6-3, 190, Conrad Weiser/Robesonia, Pa.
DEFENSIVE LINE
Joe Onuwabhagbe, 6-2½, 260, Hebron/Carrollton, Texas
Dakota Quinonez, 6-1, 280, Byrnes/Duncan, S.C.
DEFENSIVE END
Thaddeus Gianaris, 6-2, 230, Maine South/Park Ridge Ill.
Jabari Johnson, 6-4, 230, University Lab/Baton Rouge, La.
LINEBACKER
Zyion Freer-Brown, 6-1, 230, St. Edwards/Lorain, Ohio
Nico Schwikal, 6-3, 230, Taft School/Berlin, Germany
DEFENSIVE BACK
Patrick Campbell, 6-0, 190, Brookwood HS/Snellville, Ga.
Jamal Cooper, 5-11, 195, Montgomery Academy/Montgomery, Ala.
Tyson Grimm, 6-2, 200, Archbishop Hoban/Akron, Ohio
Sean Williams, 5-11, 180, Battle Ground Academy/Franklin, Tenn.
ATHLETE
Darius “DJ” Crowther, 5-9, 185, Christian Brothers/Sacramento, Calif.
Again, those positions are largely educated guesses. If I had to guess at "athlete" DJ Crowther, I'd guess defensive back.
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Earlier this winter the most popular Ivy League message board reported that Cornell Athletic Director Andy Noel was going to retire at year's end. That was followed soon after by a message denying the AD was hanging it up. It turns out the first report was correct. The Cornell sports website reports that Noel's 23rd year at the helm will be his last, although he will stick around until a successor is identified. (LINK)
Green Alert Take: Is Cornell a good job? Many believe the largest school in the Ivy League really is something of a sleeping giant in athletics. But it has a reputation for a lack of commitment to athletics at the upper level of administration.
Green Alert Take II: Has anyone heard anything about the search for a new Dartmouth athletic director? It seems the last we heard was way back in November when interim AD Peter Roby told the local daily he was not going to pursue the position on a permanent basis. The understanding was that a new athletic director would be announced in June.
Green Alert Take III: The announcement by Phil Hanlon that he was stepping down as Dartmouth president at the end of the next school year certainly didn't help matters. If I'm a smart AD candidate, I want to know how much value the school puts on athletics and I'm going to think long and hard about a position at a school where the president is not friendly to my cause. If Jim Yong Kim (who preceded Hanlon) is my president, where do I sign?
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At the NFL Combine yesterday Brown quarterback EJ Perry ran 4.65 in the 40, the second-fastest time of the QBs who ran. Per the NFL Combine tracker he ran a 4.65 in the 40, had a 34.5 vertical jump and went 10-3 in the standing broad jump. He was measured at 6-foot-2, 211 with 32-inch arms and relatively small nine-inch hands. (LINK)
That NFL.com page offers this overview of the Ivy League's offensive player of the year:
Productive quarterback who became a dual-threat playmaker against Ivy League competition. Perry has average size and arm strength but below-average mechanics and consistency as a passer. He doesn't value the football enough as a decision-maker and lacks a desired level of ball placement. His toughness and talent as a runner create attention, as teams might ask Perry to add a few more pounds in order to see if he can become a valuable Swiss Army Knife who's able to help at a variety of positions, including special teams.
Among the comments on the plus side, the overview says: "Might be able to play versatile, Taysom Hill-like role for an offense."
Among the comments on the minus side: "Footwork and mechanics create inconsistent delivery."
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As the final week of Dartmouth's winter quarter wraps up, the school newspaper reports, "Nearly 40% of the student body has tested positive for COVID-19 since Jan. 1." (LINK)
Also from the story:
The number of active cases peaked on Jan. 21, when there were 783 active cases among students, faculty and staff. The vast majority of cases all term were among undergraduate students.
Case numbers have since fallen drastically; as of March 3, there are 53 total active COVID-19 cases.
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EXTRA POINT
At Christmas we got a new set of telephones that Mrs. BGA hoped would help us screen out spam calls. As it turned out, that functionality requires having Caller ID, which we don't have and have no interest in paying for.
That being the case, we instead simply let calls go to the answering machine and pick up if we are here and know the caller, or that the call is important.
If we're not here we check the answering machine and return messages. We've had the new phones and answering machine hooked up since late December. We've had one – count 'em – one message left on the machine.
