With Nick Howard graduating, the Big Green will be moving to a new starting quarterback.
Howard, of course, is back for a fifth year and practicing this spring.
And . . .
The Big Green have to replace some key contributors defensively most notably defensive end Shane Cokes and safety Quinten Arello. Both were all league performers and leave a gaping hole at their respective positions.
Cokes is playing at Colorado this season but Arello, like Howard, is back for a fifth year and is a leader this spring in practice.
Green Alert Take: To its credit, Dartmouth posted an updated spring roster several days ago that will help reduce these kinds of mistakes. It's unfortunate that more of the Big Green's opponents don't do the same thing. Each year BGA Premium writes long, detailed previews of Dartmouth's opponents and several of those schools did not post updated rosters last year until well after the previews went up at the start of preseason.
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A different kind of highlight for an incoming Dartmouth football player. Here 5-foot-11, 190-pound running back Chris Roper of Adairsville HS in Georgia blasts a home run and then shows his speed on a double:HR and a double in a big region game! @AdairsvilleB pic.twitter.com/RHLXAgj2Nv
— ๐ฎ๐๐๐๐ ๐ฝ๐๐๐๐ † (@chris_roper18) April 14, 2023
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Dartmouth senior James McCarthy, who moved into an undergraduate assistant coaching role last spring after injuries cut his playing career as an offensive lineman short, will move on to a graduate assistant role at James Madison after graduation. McCarthy has been working under Dartmouth O-line coach Keith Clark, who had this to say in last night's BGA Premium practice story:
“One of my closest friends in coaching is the O-line coach at James Madison and he called me up and said he needed to hire a GA. I told him I just happen to have a guy that you should definitely talk to. He has had some injuries and has been coaching with us. He’s really smart and has done a phenomenal job for us.
James is a sponge, taking it all in, and no job is too small for him. He does it all without complaining. He’s a very humble guy who comes from a football family and understands the game because his dad comes was a football coach. He'll do a great job down there.”
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Dartmouth’s all-time record against 2023 opponents:
Brown – 63-32-4
Columbia – 71-20-1
Cornell – 62-42-1
Harvard – 48-72-5
Penn – 38-49-2
Princeton – 51-46-4
Yale – 44-56-6
Colgate – 7-18-1
Lehigh – 2-5
New Hampshire – 19-20-2
And against Ivy League opponents in the last 10 seasons:
Brown – 8-2
Columbia – 7-3
Cornell – 8-2
Harvard – 3-7
Penn – 6-4
Princeton – 7-3
Yale – 8-2
The only Ivy League school to have a winning record against Dartmouth over the last five seasons? Why that would be Columbia, which is 3-2 against the Big Green in the last five. Didn't have that one, did you?
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EXTRA POINT
The mercury (silicon?) topped out at a remarkable 86 degrees in Hanover yesterday afternoon. It didn't get quite that warm in our little corner of Vermont about 25 miles to the north, but it was warm enough that I did my daily hike in shorts and shot this picture. It will be a few more days before all the white stuff on the trail disappears. ;-)
