Friday, October 06, 2023

Check It Out

Working my way around the Dartmouth website to pull up the link for listening to the audio broadcast of tomorrow's game I once again came across by far my favorite Memorial Field photo and thought to bring it to your attention. A crowd this size would be swallowed up by Franklin Field or Yale Bowl or Harvard Stadium but it looks great in an appropriately sized facility. You can get a better look at the picture when you click through to listen to the game HERE.

Click photo to enlarge.

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 The Yale Daily News has a preview of tomorrow's game HERE that reminds us, "Yale hasn’t managed to secure a win in Hanover since 2010."

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Dartmouth's game notes can be found HERE and the digital game "program" can be found HERE.

Yale's game notes are HERE.

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The Dartmouth finally gets around to posting a story about the Big Green's win over Penn HERE.

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The Associated Press has a story headlined Dartmouth tells NLRB basketball players aren't employees. An interesting nugget from the story regarding the basketball program that wouldn't otherwise ever have been made public (LINK):

According to testimony on Thursday, the school lost $855,000 on total expenses of $1.31 million in 2023, bringing in only $26,000 in ticket sales.

Sportico takes a longer look at testimony regarding the Dartmouth players' push to unionize HERE. From that story:

(Taurian Houston, the college’s executive associate athletics director) explained that in the Ivy League, to be a member of an athletic program is an “additive” to one’s education.

Houston also noted that Dartmouth can recruit a basketball player, provide him need-based financial aid, and then, for one of many reasons, dismiss the player from the team after he enrolls. If the student remains enrolled at Dartmouth as a student, he’ll continue to receive financial aid. That point was designed to show the aid is based on being a student, not a player.

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EXTRA POINT
Stupidity trumped pain for me a couple of days ago.

Huh?

Letting Griff the Wonder Dog out to do his business a little before 6 in the morning as I do every day, I swung our very heavy, very solid front door open and the sharp-angled corner of the door ran over the big toe on my bare left foot. The pain was excruciating.

In any other circumstances I'm sure that kind of thing would have elicited an unintended shriek of some sort. But even in the moment the absolute stupidity of having my foot in front of the door when I opened it won out, and I somehow kept my mouth shut. Even a couple of days later I'm amazed that I didn't howl and wake up the neighborhood.

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