Credit the respect Dartmouth football has earned over the past few years for the Big Green being ranked No. 23 in the 2022 HERO Sports FCS Preseason Top 25.
For what it's worth, HERO has Harvard one spot ahead of Dartmouth at No. 22. From the story:
“Harvard gets the nod as preseason favorite here, but it should be an ultra-competitive upper half of the conference in a league that, with said upper echelon, could challenge the neighboring new-look CAA.”
Old friend Holy Cross debuts at No. 17.
Find the full HERO ranking HERE.
Green Alert Take: HERO may have it right but the truth is the ranking is more a result of the Dartmouth going 9-1 in each of the last three seasons and winning the last two Ivy league championships than it is about having any inside knowledge about the Big Green.
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A couple of former Dartmouth players, a former Big Green strength coach and a former Ivy League quarterback are in the news.
Thanks to a loyal reader for pointing us toward a New York Times story about former defensive back JB Andreassi '12 headlined A Broker With a Hometown Advantage Talks About ‘Selling the Hamptons’; JB Andreassi, a real estate agent on a reality TV show, said a lack of inventory has toughened the market for buyers and renters in the popular summer resort area on Long Island. (LINK)
From the story:
Mr. Andreassi, 31, is a broker and builder, selling and developing real estate in the Hamptons, known for its resort towns and waterfront homes. He is an agent for Nest Seekers and is part of the cast of “Selling the Hamptons” on Discovery+, and formerly on the Netflix show “Million Dollar Beach House.”Season 2 of “Selling the Hamptons” is scheduled to begin filming in June.
From the ensuing Q&A with the former Big Green player-turned-reality TV star:
What are the most and least expensive houses you’ve sold?
$20 million. It was listed for $20 million, sold for pretty damn close to that. The least expensive was $810,000, sold to a friend, in Springs.
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The other former Dartmouth player making new is tight end JJ Jones '20 with this Tweet last night:
A long journey that’s just getting started 👣📈
— JJ Jones III 🐺🪶 (@jj_jonessss) May 18, 2022
Excited to announce my commitment tomorrow ‼️5/19/22‼️
THANK YOU to EVERY coach & team that showed interest, whether an offer or conversation.
Praise to the most high!🧎🏽♂️@RivalsPortal @SSN_Portal pic.twitter.com/OXeUUdNpR5
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The former Dartmouth strength coach in the news gets prominent mention in a story about West Virginia's new $10 million, 36,000-square foot Athletics Performance Center. From the story (LINK):
Overseeing the massive new facility is Kaitlin Sweeney, WVU's assistant athletics director of strength and conditioning for Olympic Sports. Sweeney, a Salem, Massachusetts, native, is part of Mike Joseph's 11-person strength and conditioning team tasked with the vital role of developing Mountaineer student-athletes.
Sweeney arrived at West Virginia in 2018 from Notre Dame. More from the story:
Prior to her time with the Irish, Sweeney served as the head football strength and conditioning coach, as well as the assistant Olympic sports strength and conditioning coach, at Dartmouth (2008-10).
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The former Ivy League quarterback making news is Ryan Glover, who played three years at Penn. He then started six games at Western Carolina. Last year he started one game at Cal and now he's transferring to Memphis. The Fan Nation Cal page has blurb about the peripatetic passer HERE. The story includes this:
Memphis will be the fourth college for Glover, who entered the transfer portal midway through Cal's spring practices but continued to practice with the Bears through the end of the spring workouts.
Green Alert Take: Yup, college football is out of control.
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Speaking of which, @InsidetheNCAA reports the NCAA is going to eliminate the 25 players-per-signing class limit for DI football for at least the next two year as a response to teams losing so many players to the transfer portal. Shane Lyons, West Virginia AD and Chair of Division I Council Tweeted:
"Some schools hadn't given out all their scholarships and felt constrained by the annual limit. This temporary change provides schools more flexibility and adds opportunities for incoming and current student-athletes to receive aid."
Green Alert Take: It will be interesting to see what, if any, effect this will have on Ivy League and FCS recruiting.
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The craziness continues. A high school team in Georgia will be scrimmaging tomorrow with custom QR codes instead of numbers on the jerseys for each senior. Scan the code and it will bring up a page with the player's recruiting information. (LINK)
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EXTRA POINT
I often listen to the Tony Kornheiser Show podcast while hiking and during a commercial this morning TK's son Michael was complaining about problems with deer on his lawn. Tony jokingly suggested a scarecrow as a solution. I may have a better solution. A scarecrow who moves. We'll call it the MVP – Mobile Venison Petrifier!
