The Philadelphia Inquirer has a story headlined, Here’s why Penn has a shot against Ivy League champion Dartmouth. From the story (LINK):
The Big Green finished the 2021 season ranked No. 23 in FCS with a 9-1 record and have held onto the Ivy title since 2019. But even Goliath is beatable. Heading into Week 2, Dartmouth was a 14.5-point favorite over Sacred Heart, but lost, 38-31, in overtime to break the Big Green’s 20-game nonconference win streak that stretched to 2014.
Green Alert Take: The reason Penn can win is because "even Goliath is beatable." Seriously?
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The local Valley News has a preview HERE.
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Unlike your Boswell (look it up if it doesn't ring a bell, kids) who simply picks the winners each week for BGA Premium's Fearful Forecast, Jake Novak down at the Roar Lions blog picks against the spread. Brave guy. Anyway, the sharps have Dartmouth as an 11½ point favorite and Jake picks the Big Green to win by more than that. Check out all of Jake's picks HERE.
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In advance of tonight's game I freelanced a piece on Dartmouth defensive lineman Shane Cokes that you can read on the Dartmouth website HERE.
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The Dartmouth has a terrific Q&A with former Secretary of the Treasury Hank Paulson ’68 that includes this (LINK):
During your time at Dartmouth, you wore many hats as a starter on the football team, a member of Phi Beta Kappa and a member of a fraternity. How did balancing these responsibilities prepare you for later challenges in your career?
HP: When the football team won the Lambert Trophy in 1965, the football team had a higher academic average than the student body overall. I played with three starting linemen who went to medical school and another who became a Presbyterian minister — and I went to business school. My primary goal was to do well academically, and then I had an opportunity to play on a team that did very well on the field for three years.
I’ve always felt that a good key to success is being able to balance multiple activities. I think one of the things I learned while playing football at Dartmouth is the discipline it takes to pursue a number of different things at the same time. I was playing with others who cared a lot about their success in the classroom. I also had a coaching staff that recognized how important it was for all of us to do well in the classroom.
Green Alert Take: One of the feeble excuses the Ivy League presidents make for refusing to let their champion go on to the playoffs is that extending the season is an academic burden on the players. Kind of sounds as if Paulson would consider facing that kind of challenge "a good key to success."
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EXTRA POINT
I may have written about this before and if I have I apologize. An old friend used to host a call-in radio show, not about sports but rather about all kinds of local issues. He was always amazed that he could be discussing very important issues and the phones would be dead. But on days when he opened up the lines and a caller would bring up something really important, like someone at the grocery story going to the "8 items and fewer register" with a dozen items, the phone wouldn't stop ringing.
That came to mind after yesterday's equally silly PAT about golf shirts having logos (almost) exclusively on the wearer's left. A bunch of emails came this away, including several with explanations you may – or may not – buy.
Three people offered this explanation, including Mrs. BGA:
"Logos should be on the left of a shirt because when someone is at an event that requires a name tag, those should be on the right side. Why the right side? So when you reach out to shake someone’s hand, your name tag goes toward them, making it easier to read."
Another emailer shared this from a more definitive source:
"Right-aligned logos have a negative impact on brand recall. According to the findings of a study done by the Nielsen Norman group, when firms’ logos are displayed on the left rather than the right, people are more likely to recall them. Placing your logo on the left increases the number of visual gazes directed at it, allowing more users to recall your brand."
This one, tracing back to when people first started pinning things on their shirts, makes the most sense to me:
Ask yourself, where is my heart and where do I wear my medals and ribbons?
And leave it to Mrs. BGA to send this along yesterday, forcing me to add the parenthetical "almost" to the sentence about "exclusively on the wearer's left:"
