Freshmen Round Two

The introduction to Dartmouth's freshmen continues in the program's social media feed and only this morning did it occur to me the order being used. They are alphabetical by first name. What was the first clue? Yesterday it was Andy Belles, Bruce Williams and Cameron Alston. Today it was two more Camerons along with a Chris. Even I could spot the pattern. ;-)

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Speaking of freshmen, Jake Novak down at the Columbia Roar Lions blog beat me to it this year and worked up a list of states where this year's Ivy League freshmen played their high school ball. Here is his breakdown. I've added the number of Dartmouth freshmen who played in those states in parentheses:

1t) Georgia 19 (2)

1t) Texas 19 (3)

3t) Florida 14 (1)

3t) New Jersey 14

5) Massachusetts 13

6t) New York 12 (2)

6t) Pennsylvania 12 (1)

8) California 11

9) North Carolina 10 (2)

10t) Connecticut 9 (3)

10t) Maryland 9

10t) Ohio 9

10t) Tennessee 9 (3)

14t) Illinois 7

14t) Michigan 7 (2)

16t) Colorado 3

16t) Indiana 3 (2)

16t) South Carolina 3 (2)

16t) Washington 3 

20t) Arizona 2

20t) District of Columbia 2

20t) Kansas 2

20t) Louisiana 2 (1)

20t) Minnesota 2

25t) Alabama 1 (1)

25t) Delaware 1

25t) Mississippi 1

25t) Missouri 1

25t) Nebraska 1

25t) Nevada 1

25t) New Hampshire 1

25t) Oregon 1

25t) Virginia 1 (1)

25t) Wyoming 1 (1)

(Ontario and Quebec have one each.) 

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The East-West Shrine Bowl includes 70 FCS players in its preliminary list of the top 1,000 NFL prospects. Four Ivy Leaguers are among the 70:

Harvard DE Nate Leskovec

Harvard DL Thor Griffith

Princeton OT Jalen Travis

Yale OT Kiran Amegadjie

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EXTRA POINT

I have a three-month whiteboard in my home office here at the BGA World Headquarters. With August and all I have to do fast approaching, I spent some time yesterday filling the calendar with assignments, deadlines, dates and more.

Before I could do that, however, I had to clear off everything already on it. That's not an easy task because the "dry erase" pens I have used for the past few years are much better at the "dry" part than the "erase" part. That being the case, I had to Google the best way to clean the board. Suggestions ran the gamut from isopropyl alcohol to hand sanitizer to fingernail polish remover to toothpaste, which it turned out worked best. A lot of elbow grease was involved as well.

When I went to start filling the calendar in again I pulled a pen out of a baggie that holds perhaps a dozen different kinds of pens for the whiteboard only to discover it was of the "wet erase" flavor. What the heck, I thought, it couldn't work any worse.

As it turns out, no isopropyl alchohol, hand sanitizer, fingernail polish remover or toothpaste was required to wipe it clear. A little water on a paper towel and a little elbow grease and voilà, the board will look like new.

To quote the late Argentine golfer Roberto De Vicenzo, "What a stupid I am."