I ask every recruit we have, ‘Hey, have you ever thought about playing professionally? With the NFL, the USFL, the new league – the XFL – I think it is, or playing up in Canada. There’s overseas opportunities. We’ve had number of guys go over and have their MBA paid for playing football in in London and Switzerland and so forth. It’s a big thing for me to have guys want to be the best they can be, push the dream as far as they can, but always graduate and not compromise their academics along the way. In a place like Dartmouth you can do it."
That message is getting out. Here's a Tweet from incoming recruit Chris Corbo of West Essex High School in New Jersey. Corbo is an athletic 6-foot-5, 215-pound tight end/wide receiver:
After seeing so many dreams come true this weekend, I’ve never been so motivated to be in that position one day! 🙏🏼🙏🏼
— Chris Corbo (@ChrisCorbo3) May 1, 2022
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Here's another message that is getting out and you can blame Google for the translation if it's a little rough ;-)
Dartmouth ist eine gute Schule für Bildung und American Football.
Apparently the Big Green is building a pretty good Rohrleitung (pipeline) from Germany to Hanover. Last year Dartmouth added Konstantin Spörk, a 6-foot-5, 275-pound offensive lineman from Pulheim, Germany, who cut his American football teeth playing with the Cologne Crocodiles.
In this year's recruiting class is Nico Schwikal, a 6-3, 230, linebacker from Schönfeld, Germany by way of Taft School.
Although he just announced for Virginia Tech, the Big Green also was in the mix for yet another German product, Hannes Hammer, a 6-6, 272-pound offensive tackle who had offers from Richmond, William & Mary, UMass, Eastern Michigan, Penn and Elon as well as from the Big Green.
For good measure, sophomore offensive lineman Nicholas Schwitzgebel's father can help Spörk's and Schwikal's parents as well as the families of any future recruits from Germany if they need translation of any Dartmouth or football intricacies. Patrick Schwitzgebel was born and raised in Germany.
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Given how late the Ivy League starts the football season and the Dartmouth schedule, the Big Green has on occasion been the last Division I team in the country to take the field in the fall.
A story on 247Sports noted a related distinction with the calendar turning over to May (LINK):
The new month begins with just two spring football games left to play. UAlbany goes today (yesterday). Dartmouth goes Saturday. And then that's that for all of Division I.
That's right. Unless 247Sports missed a game, the Green-White will be the final spring game of 2022. (And for those curious, although the game will not be streamed there will be full coverage on BGA Premium.)
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Dartmouth President Phil Hanlon and his wife Gail have tested positive for COVID-19. (LINK)
BGA Take: Mrs. BGA, That Certain Dartmouth '14, That Certain Nittany Lion '16 and yours truly have all dodged it so far but it's hard not to think that no matter how hard you try to avoid it, COVID-19 will eventually find you.
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EXTRA POINT
One of my peccadillos is when something like a piece of electronics breaks down, for as much as I might have liked it before it stopped working, I prefer not to replace it with an identical model. It would just feel like a waste of money buying something I already had that was working fine just a few days earlier. I would rather get something at least a little different (hopefully better) so it feels as if the money went for an upgrade and not a simple trade.
Got that?
OK, you've read here a few times about Robo, the name we've given our robotic vacuum cleaner. It's not a big-name model and to be honest it's kind of lower-end, but it works for us. In fact, it works wonderfully. At least it did until Easter Sunday.
It hasn't worked since.
I've pulled the battery and let it sit, hopefully so it would maybe benefit from a hard reset. That did nothing. I messed around a little with the wiring that I could get my fingers on, to no avail. This morning I pulled out the operator's manual hoping there was helpful information. There wasn't.
When nothing worked I finally decided not only would I bite the bullet and buy a replacement, but this one time I was going to buy the exact same model. It's that good (and that economically priced).
Then I thought of something.
That Certain Nittany Lion '16 was visiting over Easter weekend and unlike me, he likes to sleep in. Robo is set to automatically go to work at 8:30 and, to be honest, it's not particularly quiet.
You've probably guessed where this is going. Yup, I had turned Robo's master power off so TCNL'16 could sleep a little later. Because it still showed a blue charging light while parked on its home base, it never occurred to me that I'd toggled the switch on its underside to off.
It's working just fine now, thank you very much.
