Tuesday, December 13, 2022

Add One

To the list of players who have Tweeted that they are announcing their "commitment to the admissions process" at Dartmouth add the name of Cameron Lee, a 6-foot-4, 200-pound defensive end/tight end from Bishop O'Connell High School and Arlington, Va. In addition to Dartmouth he lists offers from Penn and Georgetown. Find his commitment message on Twitter HERE.

Lee Tweeted earlier that he is "Blessed to be invited to play in the @TheStJames senior bowl January 6th for Team Virginia.


Green Alert Take: That "commitment to the admissions process" boilerplate is starting to spread ;-)

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Gotta admit, this one fooled me. 

Working my way through Tweeted "offers" from this year's Dartmouth seniors I was surprised to see Tulane, Rice, Bowling Green and Eastern Michigan suddenly show up for senior Michael Flores. But then I looked closer and those offers were actually for his brother John Paul '22, who has re-entered the transfer portal after spending the past season at Virginia. What's up? The drop-hed on a piece about John Paul’s decision to consider his options tells the story (LINK) :

Flores enters the portal one day after the departure of UVA offensive line coach Garett Tujague to NC State

The story notes that John Paul Flores . . .

. . . started in five games at left guard for the Cavaliers this season. An injury in the game against Louisville kept Flores from starting the rest of the way, but he still appeared in each of UVA's 10 games this season. 

Green Alert Take: And no, he can't return and play another season at Dartmouth because he graduated. Yes, basketball's Brendan Barry graduated from Dartmouth, played a year at Temple and then returned to Hanover for one more season as a grad student but that odd development was allowed by the Ivy League as part of a one-time, one-year grad student exemption because of COVID.

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Yale quarterback Nolan Grooms was announced as the Ivy League offensive player of the year while Princeton linebacker Liam Johnson and Harvard lineman Truman Jones were named co-defensive players of the year at the annual Bushnell Cup ceremony yesterday.

Green Alert Take: Harvard running back Aidan Borguet was the odd man out while the other three were being celebrated. Former Dartmouth quarterback Dalyn Willliams '16 could relate.

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From Dartmouth News:

In this video, the Haldeman Family Director of Athletics and Recreation talks about his priority in fulfilling the gender-equity plan to boost women’s teams and programs and how athletics and recreation “are very much a heartbeat of the student experience here.”

 

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EXTRA POINT
I've written about this before but when That Certain Dartmouth '14 and That Certain Nittany Lion '16 were born I shot photos on my 35 mm film camera, paid a king's ransom to have that film delivered in an hour, and then paid a king's and queen's ransom to have the dark and out-of-focus prints overnighted to excited grandparents the next day.

Today, of course, you could shoot perfect photos on your phone and the newly minted grampa and grandma would have the pictures (or even video) almost before the baby's second breath.

I thought about that because of the wonderful present Those Certain Two gave Mrs. BGA for her birthday. It's a beautifully designed electronic picture frame used to share photos automagically. Imagine you are sitting in your living room enjoying memories as the gizmo scrolls through photos when all of a sudden you realize you are looking at a picture you've never seen before – because it wasn't there five minutes earlier. Nice.

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