This is cool:
On to the next chapter… pic.twitter.com/IMDxJVOm1q
— Jake Guidone (@guidone_jake) January 10, 2023
Here's the text from the Dartmouth '21:
I'd like to begin by thanking God for continually guiding me in the right direction. Without him, I would not be where I am today.
Thank you Coach Mora, Coach Charlton, and Coach Sammis for giving me the opportunity to prove myself at the FBS level. Thank you for believing in me, both as a player, and as a person. Also a big shoutout to UConn nation. Thank y'all for your constant support of the team this season. It's been an honor to be a part of the Husky revolution.
I'd also like to thank Dartmouth for taking the chance on me at the beginning of my collegiate career. It's been a long road since then, but I will never forget the memories and lifelong friends I made in Hanover. To Coach T, Coach Clark and Coach Blackshear, thank you.
Lastly, I want to thank my family. Their love and support has been essential in allowing me to continue following my dream.
With that, I would like to announce that I will be declaring for the 2023 NFL Draft.
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Another Dartmouth product making news is former linebacker Jalen Mackie '22, who has been chosen to play in the Tropical Bowl all-star game in Orlando's Camping World Stadium on Jan. 21, after leading UMass this fall with 100 tackles. He announced his intentions regarding the NFL Draft HERE.
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Speaking of former Ivy League players making good, Yale grad Foye Oluokun hasn't missed a step after moving on from the Atlanta Falcons to the Jacksonville Jaguars. The NFL's leading tackler in 2021 as a linebacker signed a $45 million deal with the Jags after last season. He came back out this year and led the NFL in stops this season for the second year in a row. Oluokun is a 2018 Yale graduate who was a member of the All-Ivy second team as a senior before being drafted in the sixth round by the Falcons.
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A writer for the Daily Pennsylvanian has ranked his favorite Ivy League football stadiums. In his lede he says the idea was to "focus on how well-suited they are to host college football games in the present day, with a reduced emphasis on historic aspects." Find the story with comments on each of the stadia HERE, and his listing below:
1. Princeton Stadium
2. Penn's Franklin Field
3. Brown Stadium
4. Yale Bowl
5. Dartmouth's Memorial Field
6. Harvard Stadium
7. Columbia's Wien Stadium
8. Cornell's Schoellkopf Field
Green Alert Take: If the focus of the story is how well-suited these facilities are to host IVY LEAGUE football games, Franklin Field and Yale Bowl would have to go to the bottom and Memorial Field, the only stadium whose capacity is appropriate to Ivy fan interest, would have to bubble to the top.
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It was 2 degrees here at our Vermont hillside home earlier this morning but the temperature in Hanover is supposed to moderate this weekend. It could challenge 50 degrees on Friday and should be partly sunny with a 30 degree high Saturday, with a fully sunny Sunday hitting 33 degrees.
Why is that woth mentioning? With students back on campus this is a big football recruiting weekend at Dartmouth. The expectation here is that perhaps a dozen or so prospects will be making their official visits. Keep visiting BGA Daily for commitment news as it hits social media!
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EXTRA POINT
When we lived on the shoulder of Moose Mountain high above Hanover I built the 7-foot Christmas star decorated all the way around by a string of lights pictured above. One year, rather than wrestle the star into the garage, I left it in the edge of the thick woods along the north side of our house. Bad idea. I never found out who was responsible but some critter chewed the wires on each side of the large, colorful bulbs, and made off with every single one of them. As you can tell by the photo, that was a lot of work for the critter(s).
After moving to Vermont I built another, similarly sized star, and I have made sure to store it in our garage. Not a bulb has disappeared.
In addition to the star in our field we string lights through the shrubbery and then over the porch on the side of our house facing the road, and one day last week when I went to turn the lights on nothing happened. I tried the circuit breaker and again, nothing.
It wasn't until I took the lights down a few days ago that I found a couple of wires had been cut. I wondered if maybe I'd strung the lights too tight and the wind had snapped them.
Alas, when I was winding the lights to put them away that I noticed it wasn't just that the wires had snapped. They had been chewed up both before and after where . . . a bulb was missing!
Yup, there had been another pilfering. This time, probably because the lights were in a trafficked area, the thief didn't have the time or license to steal that the other critter did, and had his crime spree stopped after just one bulb.
When I asked a naturalist friend a few years ago who might have been responsible for the original crime, he wouldn't say definitively what animal is celebrating the holidays with us, but he suspected it was a raccoon.
