With the early "National Signing Day" period beginning tomorrow and running through Friday it will be interesting to see if any of the Dartmouth entries in the graduate transfer portal make their intentions known.
While we wait to see who ends up where, the Flores brothers have new entries on their lists of offers for their services on the offensive line. Michael Flores '23, who has another year at Dartmouth if he so chooses, has added UMass to a list that includes Morehead State, Butler and the University of San Diego. He also Tweeted preferred walk-on opportunities at Vanderbilt and Colorado.
John Paul Flores '22, who played last fall at Virginia, has added Louisiana Tech to a list that includes Old Dominion, Temple, UMass, Marshall, Troy, Eastern Michigan, Bowling Green and Rice. He still has the option to return to Virginia.
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While former Dartmouth players may headed elsewhere next year, Big Green coaches have been spread out across the country searching for bright and talented players to replace them. The list of states on their preliminary itinerary:
Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and Wisconsin.
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Lehigh, which will provide the opposition for the Big Green in next year's home opener on Sept. 23, will have a familiar face on the sidelines. Introduced yesterday as the Mountain Hawks' new head coach was Kevin Cahill, who had been associate head coach and offensive coordinator at Yale. He replaces onetime Dartmouth defensive coordinator Tom Gilmore, who stepped down after Lehigh finished 2-9 this year, including a loss to Lafayette in their annual rivalry game. Gilmore finished 9-27 with the Mountain Hawks.
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EXTRA POINT
The Great Christmas Card Debacle of 2022 continues. For those of you keeping score, for the first time in recorded history we ordered our cards early, way back on Dec. 6. Tracking said they would be here Dec. 13. When they didn't arrive on the 13th, 14th or 15th and tracking showed they had been hung up for a full week in Springfield, Mass., a call to the card company resulted in a very kind offer to rush us another set – on their dime.
Online tracking originally showed that new set of cards was originally expected here tomorrow, but now says they've been "delayed," and does not offer a new date for delivery.
The good news? The original cards finally fell off the conveyor belt in Springfield and made it to nearby White River Junction, Vt. on Sunday. The bad news? They arrived at the post office in Newbury, Vt. – not West Newbury, where they were supposed to go – yesterday. The two post offices are just 4½ miles apart so no problem, right? Wrong.
This morning's tracking had the cards arriving not at our local PO but at the distribution center in Nashua, NH, a full 125 miles away. A hurried trip to our little one-room post office this morning with a printout of the tracking order had us being told that maybe, just maybe, the tracking order got ahead of itself and the cards haven't actually left the larger post office nearby that would have been responsible for trucking mail down to Nashua.
We're waiting on a phone call about whether the cards can be redirected to our local post office tomorrow (if they haven't already high-tailed it to Nashua) or if we can go to that larger post office and pick them up today (which we were told isn't likely).
Bah, humbug!
LATE UPDATE: We've now been informed the cards are, in fact, in Nashua, 125 miles away after being 4½ miles from our little post office.
