The Wise Guys have spoken, installing Dartmouth as an 11½ point favorite over Brown in the 2022 finale on Memorial Field.
Elsewhere:
Princeton is favored by 10½ at home against Penn.
Harvard is a 1½-point home favorite over Yale.
Columbia is a 6½-point home favorite over Cornell.
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Jake Novak's weekly Power Poll from his Roar Lions 2022 blog:
1. Yale
2. Princeton
3. Harvard
4. Penn
5. Cornell
6. Columbia
7. Dartmouth
8. Brown
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Craig Haley has Yale-Harvard as one of his FCS Football Preview and Predictions: Week 12 Games of the Week and he goes with . . . Yale. (LINK)
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As a fifth-year senior, running back Zack Bair cannot return to the Ivy League. He does, however, have a COVID super-senior season remaining:
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Find a piece I wrote detailing Dartmouth football student assistant Evan Ditchman's dramatic story on the athletics website, click HERE.
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Former running back Matthew Shearin '19 has joined the Los Angeles Rams organization in the role of Manager, Football Administration. Shearin worked previously in New York City as an investment banking analyst for JP Morgan and then as an associate at a Los Angeles-based private equity firm.
Green Alert Take: Matthew Shearin's story is one of tremendous determination and perseverance in the face of long odds. For a story I wrote on him in 2017, click HERE.
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An ESPN story headlined, College athletes advocating for revenue sharing, new model includes this (LINK):
The Ivy League does not offer athletic scholarships. The group of prestigious universities previously had a Congressional antitrust exemption to allow that to happen, but that expired earlier this year. Now, some players say the policy is violating the law and limiting their options.
From the story:
Michigan's Hunter Dickinson and Pitt's Jamarius Burton are among a group of athletes who will be writing the letter S on their hands during games this season to draw attention to their attempt to advocate for a new business model in college sports. The S, according to the players, stands for share.
And . . .
Dickinson said that issue is important to him because of friends he has playing in the Ivy League.
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EXTRA POINT
The insurance came off our '84 VW poptop camper yesterday, which means it is headed for its winter home in our garage within days.
When we lived on the shoulder of Moose Mountain our garage wasn't big enough for "Wiffle," but by parking it cross-wise in the back of our larger garage here in Vermont we can still get our two cars inside and out of the snow.
The trick is getting the VW cross-wise in the back of the garage. That entails a ridiculous number of turns jockeying it back-and-forth turns – inches at a time – with a four-speed transmission and no power steering. Or, winding the proprietary VW jack clockwise to lift all the wheels off the ground, sliding cheap Harbor Freight dollies under each one, pushing the V-dub into place and then jacking it up again to remove the dollies that wouldn't fare well during a winter under that kind of weight. I've done it both ways and I'm not sure which is worse.
Whichever route we take, it's a lot of work but it's worth it to keep the old bus happily under cover until spring.
