The Dartmouth football office has posted this, which isn't too shabby:
We're only getting started🌲#TheWoods x #GoGreen23 pic.twitter.com/JUNTntlW7Q
— Dartmouth Football (@DartFootball) March 23, 2022
For the uninitiated, that's:
2017 – 8-2
2018 – 9-1
2019 – 9-1 (Ivy League champion)
2020 – No season
2021 – 9-1 (Ivy League champion)
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Dartmouth athletics has posted a job that the D1 Ticker site describes this way:
Support Dartmouth Athletics HR efforts pertaining to recruiting/hiring plans and contracts, performance mgmt., employee recognition, and data mgmt., while adhering to the policies and procedures.
Find the official posting HERE.
Green Alert Take: Gee, working in sports sure sounds like a bucket of fun, huh?
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From USA Today this week (LINK):
Adidas announced a name, image and likeness network on Wednesday that will be accessible to every athlete at a Division I university the company has partnered with.
And . . .
The eligible athletes would have the opportunity to earn a percentage of the sales they drive at adidas.com or the adidas app, as well as be paid per social media post.
Green Alert Take: I believe, but don't hold me to it, that Brown is the only Adidas team in the Ivy League. Dartmouth football is NIKE.
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Have you seen the new rules that will be used this spring by the reconstituted USFL? Among others, they include these (LINK):
• Added three-point conversions from the 10-yard line.
• Overtime will be a best-of-three from the two-yard line followed by sudden death if needed.
• Onside kicks are allowed but a team can instead try a fourth-and-12 from their own 33.
• Two forward passes behind the line of scrimmage allowed.
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With Dartmouth baseball opening its home season today check out the Daily Journal story, Minor league players still struggle to get by for a sobering look at how players on the Pittsburgh Pirates’ Triple-A team make ends meet. (Or try to.) Featured prominently is former Dartmouth pitcher Beau Sulser. (LINK)
Sulser's brother Cole, another Dartmouth product, is a pitcher for the Baltimore Orioles.
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EXTRA POINT
Back when I was at the newspaper one of our reporters went to a night meeting and the next day when the editors were looking for his story it hadn't been filed and the reporter was nowhere to be seen. Eventually he phoned in and explained that he was feeling so stressed that instead of writing his story or even coming to work he was at the Fairlee Diner in Vermont trying to settle himself down.
Recognizing that pressures can build up to the point that they can make functioning impossible, the newspaper instituted what we referred to colloquially as a Fairlee Diner Day. When things get to be too much, take a day away.
I have no idea if anyone ever took their FDD at the diner after that, but good on the newspaper for recognizing the necessity to occasionally regroup.
That out of the way, Fairlee is the next little town south of us and when I was driving by the diner yesterday I pulled over and snapped this picture. The sign has always amused us and I think it will amuse you as well. If you don't see why, read what it says again and think about it. (And no, I don't think they were trying to be funny.)
