Wednesday, September 13, 2023

A Fitting Tribute

(Photo courtesy Dartmouth football)

 From a Dartmouth release (LINK):

As Buddy Teevens, the Robert L. Blackman Head Football Coach at Dartmouth, continues to recover from injuries sustained in a bicycle accident in March, the eight schools in the Ivy League have banded together to wear a decal with his initials on their football helmets this fall to demonstrate their continued support of Coach Teevens, his family and the Dartmouth community.

The Ivy League schools also will read a public address announcement during all conference games to explain the decal on the helmets and express their support.

The initiative to add the initials to the helmets was coach-led by Teevens' peers.

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Two more recruits are in the Dartmouth fold. To the list of commitments add quarterback/athlete Kyle Meier of Whitesboro, N.Y., and lineman Julian Sutton of Hamden, Conn.

A story about 6-foot-3, 225-pound quarterback Kyle Meier out of update New York said Meier chose .  . .

. . . the Big Green among other Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) offers including the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) and Sacred Heart, a program coached by Whitesboro alumni Mark Nofri. There were also rumors that Syracuse University may have been interested in the class of 2024 quarterback, but the Orange never made him an official scholarship offer.

Per the story he passed for more than 1,000 yards, ran for 2,270 and was responsible for 42 touchdowns last fall.

Julian Sutton, a 6-4, 305-pound lineman from Loomis Chaffee chose Dartmouth over offers from Coastal Carolina, Army, Akron, Cornell, Fordham, Lehigh, Monmouth and Howard per his Xwitter. He attended Notre Dame High School in the shadow of Yale in West Haven before prepping at Loomis.

His twin brother Jalen (6-foot, 175 pounds) reportedly holds offers from Dartmouth, Yale, Columbia, Penn and Sacred Heart. 

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WMUR TV in Manchester, N.H., is drumming up Saturday night's Granite Bowl game from the New Hampshire perspective.

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FLO Football's CAA notebook has a piece headlined Dynamite Dylan Laube Continues To Raise The Bar For UNH; A record-setting day receiving at Central Michigan showed off yet another element to Dylan Laube's all-around playmaking ability. Find the story HERE.

A reminder that Saturday's game can be streamed live for a fee on the FLO Football site. For more information, CLICK HERE.

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The wise guys have worked up the numbers on this week's games and have New Hampshire a 6½ point home favorite over Dartmouth.

Elsewhere they have:
• Bryant a 6-point favorite at home against Brown
• Columbia favored by 4 points at Lafayette 
• Cornell is a 3-point favorite at Lehigh 
• Harvard a 17½ -point favorite at home against St. Thomas
• Penn at 9½-point favorite at Colgate
• Princeton a 24-point pick at San Diego
• Yale a 2½-point favorite at home against Holy Cross 

Green Alert Take: I've never placed a bet and never will but some of those numbers have me scratching my head.
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EXTRA POINT

I stopped on my way to practice the other day to buy a Coke and was flabbergasted when I got to the register and the clerk told me it would be $2.93. I almost put it back but wussed out.


The bottle contained 20 ounces.


At our local Hannaford grocery store, a two-litter bottle of Coke is $2.29. Had to Google this but two liters is 67.6 ounces, meaning there are more than three times as much soda in the bigger bottle – and it costs 64 cents less.


There are 128 ounces in a gallon. That means at the convenience store price it would cost you $18.75 to buy a gallon of Coke compared to $3.84 to buy a gallon of gas. Think about that.

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