Elsewhere . . .

Next up in the "Ballad of the Big Green Grad Transfer" is corner Isaiah Johnson, who chose to graduate this spring and turn his wardrobe orange.

Syracuse Orange.

This is from a 247Sports story on the start of practice for the team that plays in "the facility formerly known as the Carrier Dome" (LINK):

Dartmouth transfer Isaiah Johnson stood out physically as the tallest cornerback in SU's position group, possibly having the longest arms as well. Babers is hopeful that Johnson has the on-field performance to pair with those valuable traits: "He’s long, and any time you’ve got a long cornerback, he doesn't have to be as fast or as quick. Those arms, they matter. That length, those six inches, they matter in football. That length is what excites us, and we’ve got to see if he can help us on the football field."

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Former Dartmouth teammates Garrett Waggoner '13 (left in photo) and Andy Gay '14 are featured in a Business Observer story about Cirkul, their reusable water bottle/flavor cartridge system that has gone viral. From the story LINK:

What we’re doing is transforming the way beverages are delivered to customers,” says co-founder and CEO Garrett Waggoner, 31. “The notion of single-use bottled beverages is archaic, in our opinion.”

The a-ha moment for Waggoner and co-founder Andy Gay, 30, occurred while they were student-athletes at Dartmouth College in the early 2010s. While in the locker room before football practice one day, Waggoner was pouring sports drink powder into a bottle of water but spilled the powder all over the floor.

“I was trying to make the powder go into that small hole but made a big mess,” he recalls. “I said to Andy, ‘What if we had something we could just pop in and then drink, no mess, no powder, no liquids, no shaking, stirring or any of that stuff?’ ”

And a decade later . . .

Cirkul’s success has not gone unnoticed by investors. The company recently garnered $70 million in a Series C round led by SC Holdings, a New York private equity firm, and its pre-money valuation has reached $1 billion, officially affording it “unicorn” status. It has nearly 600 employees and revenue has grown at a 150% clip, year over year, since 2018 . . .

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This Tweet from Craig Haley, the onetime Princeton beat writer and now the lead FCS guru for Stats Perform/The Analyst had me wondering because most of what I hear is the exact opposite:

The final FCS preseason poll is the Ivy League on Monday.

With a lack of transfers and no redshirt rule, I have to wonder if the league's talent level is falling behind in today's college football.

That may be OK with the Ivy presidents, but it's surely occurring regardless.

— Craig Haley (@CraigHaley) August 5, 2022

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Speaking of The Analyst,  this graphic got me wondering how Ivy League teams stand:

Here's what I found when I researched the "longest active streak in FCS winning seasons" for Ivy teams:

Dartmouth – 4
Princeton – 3

Columbia – 1

Harvard – 1

Brown – 0

Cornell – 0

Penn – 0

Yale – 0

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The first Buck Buchanan Watch List for the FCS Defensive Player of the Year has been released and the only Ivy Leaguer who gets a mention is Clay Patterson, Yale's 6-foot-3, 267-pound defensive lineman from Frisco, Texas.

Dartmouth will face two other players on the initial Buchanan Watch List this fall and both are classified as defensive linemen. They are  Kevin Peprah of Sacred Heart and Josiah Silver of New Hampshire.

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This has been posted on BGA Daily previously, but with the Dartmouth football program's official Twitter site resurrecting it, here it is again:

 

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OK, I’m officially speechless. College football has jumped the shark and if you don't believe me CHECK THIS OUT.

Seriously, Mel Tucker's shoe?

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EXTRA POINT
Speaking of shoes . . .

With the soles of my regular hiking shoes worn smooth and the inside wearing out, I dug in a closet in our mud room a few weeks ago and pulled out a pair of "trail runners" with plenty of life left in the sole but a lot less in the shoe per se. There was about an inch-long tear on one side and the hint of a tear on the other but the middle was holding strong so  I used Gorilla tape to pull it together and it did a pretty good job. At least it did until this morning when the front of the shoe finished separating itself.

Even with the shoe issues, my morning exercise routine has its rewards. Here's a pic I snapped at the summit overlook this a.m.:

Click for a better look ;-)