A couple of recent Tweets that I've marked up, blurring the player names to save them embarrassment. First:
That Dartmouth University thing is really annoying. To get an offer like that these guys should be smart enough to either know it is Dartmouth College or curious enough to look it up and get it right.
Here's another one that took me by surprise because while I've seen "Dartmouth University" many, many times before, this is a new one for me:
It's nice to see that even a school as well-known as Princeton can suffer the same indignity.
Green Alert Take: Just a thought, but someone might want to make sure kids know the formal name of the school before they Tweet so that when admissions folks pore over their social media accounts they appear to have done at least a little bit of homework about the schools.
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If you have a subscription to The Athletic, I commend to you the tragic story of one of Tom Brady's roommates as a rookie living in Franklin, Mass., just a stone's throw from Foxboro. That roommate was Chris Eitzmann, a former Harvard tight end and captain who later earned his MBA from Dartmouth's Tuck School. Eitzmann died in December at age 44 "from issues related to alcohol disorder."
Eitzmann left behind his wife, Mikeaela and four children. Find the story in The Athletic, which if you have a subscription you can read
HERE.
The story features a link to a Concussion Legacy Foundation campaign explained this way (
LINK):
As part of Chris's legacy, the Eitzmann family has started the Chris Eitzmann Memorial Fund for CTE Research at the Concussion Legacy Foundation. Chris loved the game of football, but even more he loved the friends he made through the game. Through this fund we aim to help and heal football players and their families fighting chronic traumatic encephalopathy.
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A Tweet earlier this week teased that a Power 5 school would have representation at one of the Buddy Teevens Football Camps this spring/summer and we now know who it is:
That's Wake Forest, on the top line, with the accompanying text reading: "We welcome the 2021 ACC Atlantic & Gator Bowl Champs. @WakeFB
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From Yahoo Sports (
LINK):
The Mid-American Conference is partnering with Genius Sports on a wide-ranging data and sponsorship agreement that the two sides are calling the first of its kind between an NCAA league and a data provider.
Under the deal, Genius Sports will capture, manage and distribute official MAC statistics for use by media companies and fan engagement platforms.
From a story in The Athletic about the arrangement (italics are mine):
The Mid-American Conference on Wednesday announced a statistical data partnership with Genius Sports, the U.K.-based firm that handles data and sports betting information for the NFL and other professional sports leagues. It is the first NCAA conference to establish such a partnership.
And . . .
"This isn't about us promoting gambling or sports wagering, it's about us taking back control of our statistical data," MAC commissioner Jon Steinbrecher told The Athletic. "(We'll be) providing transparency and ensuring integrity while taking assets — our statistics — and levering those assets for the benefit of our student-athletes and our institutions."
Green Alert Take: First the transfer portal, then NIL, now this. College sports is, uh, changing.
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EXTRA POINT
Gotta admit, with gas prices topping $4 per gallon and sure to go higher, I'm feeling pretty smug about buying an EV last summer (even if the range has been throttled back while we await a full battery replacement recall). Combine that with our solar tracker providing electricity that is free apart from a few fees and we are in good shape.
Not that we've been driving much. Mrs. BGA takes a shuttle bus each day to DHMC and until Dartmouth spring football starts earlier next month I'm working out of the house, so pretty much the only driving I do is two miles to my favorite hiking trail and 1.4 miles to the post office each day.
With how little driving I've done since the end of football season something funny happened last weekend when Mrs. BGA and I headed up to the Athenaeum in St. Johnsbury, Vt., to check out its collection of sculpture and paintings, most notably Albert Bierstadt's wall-sized epic
The Domes of Yosemite.
"St. J" is about 25 miles up Interstate 91 and that drive was one of the first I've made on a highway since the last Dartmouth football practice.When we got on the Interstate I had to laugh when I realized I had forgotten how to engage the cruise control. That came back to me pretty quickly but the EV, which we bought last summer, also has a "lane keeping assist" function. Here's the embarrassing part. After three-and-a-half months of driving almost exclusively on dirt roads – where there are most certainly no lanes – I'm don't remember how to engage it. I'm going to have to pull out the manual to refresh myself.
