Great weekend official visit for @AnthonyNdika at @DartmouthFTBL! @coachirishodea @coach_dobes @LoomisFootball @LoomisAthletics pic.twitter.com/QemGjotMyZ
— Gridiron Imports Foundation (@GridironImports) June 26, 2023
And now for the official Tweet from the 6-foot-4, 290-pound Nigerian playing at Loomis Chaffee:
Committed! #TheWoods@BTeevens @Coach_McCorkle @coachirishodea @coachkeithclark @LoomisFootball @GridironImports @coachbanks9 @coachwilks77 pic.twitter.com/8sRvfiHi6D
— Anthony Ndika AKA Moose ‘24 (@AnthonyNdika) August 3, 2023
Ndika, who apparently goes by "Moose," doesn't trouble people with pronouncing his real first name: Chukwuebuka.
He's choosing Dartmouth over an eclectic collection of offers including Cal, North Texas, Northern Arizona, Texas State, Bucknell, Colgate, Monmouth, Bryant and Penn.
For the record, Moose will be joining a program that already features one Nigerian, one Canadian and two Germans!
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Now the recruiting class that has gone public looks like this:
• DE Jackson Ashford, 6-2, 250, IMG Academy/Bradenton, Fla.
• WR/DB James Elliott, 6-2, 195, Willison Northampton/Leeds, Mass.
• OL Anthony Ndika, 64, 290, Loomis Chaffee/Nigeria
• WR Luke Rives, 6-0, 170, Stratford HS/Houston
• OL Ryan Turk, 6-4, 280, Loyola HS/Los Angeles
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I voted in the annual Ivy League football media poll yesterday. The poll will be released on Monday and I expected a very, very interesting projected finish for the conference.
The Ivy League media day will be conducted on Aug. 14. Because it is conducted so late and the goal is always to have the BGA Premium opponent preview series wrapped up by the start of Dartmouth practice, the Brown and Columbia previews will already have been posted by that point. I anticipate going back into those previews and updating them if any significant news comes out of the media day.
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Stats Perform/The Analyst has released its preseason watchlist for the Buck Buchanan Award, presented to the best defensive player in the FCS, and Dartmouth will see three of the players who made the cut, with two being from the Ivy League:
• DL Thor Griffith, Harvard, Sr., 6-2, 305
• KB Liam Johnson, Princeton, Sr., 6-0, 220
• DL Josiah Silver, New Hampshire, Jr., 6-2, 243
Find the full watchlist HERE.
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EXTRA POINT
On our way back from Burlington, Vt., yesterday we stopped by the Ben & Jerry's factory in Waterbury, Vt. Having finished our ice creams we were walking up to the Ben & Jerry's Flavor Graveyard beyond the playground on the hill above the facility when we heard a confused young girl ask innocently, "Are Ben & Jerry dead?"
It was pretty funny.
The answer is no, the guys who got their start with a $5 correspondence course from Penn State are still alive and kicking. But a good number of their old flavors are buried in the graveyard. Here are a couple of flavors that didn't make the cut, memorialized in poem on honest-to-goodness Vermont granite along with a surprisingly large number of others:
