Tuesday, October 24, 2023

Questions, Anyone?

With huge game at Harvard on the horizon, it's time for another installment of BGA Premium's Questions for Coach. 

If you'd like to send along a question for me to ask Coach Sammy McCorkle as he prepares the Big Green for Saturday's showdown with the Crimson, email BGA by clicking HERE. That will address an email to me with the subject line, QuestionsForCoach. (That subject line with no spaces is important.)

If you are not a BGA Subscriber but have a question, send it along anyway. If your question makes the cut I'll send along a link where you can access the story and see how Coach McCorkle answers it.

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Dartmouth had three players named to the weekly Ivy League honor roll. Defensive backs Patrick Campbell and Cam Maddox were joined by placekicker Owen Zalc. (LINK)

Campbell's athletic interception was recognized by ESPN:

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The Dartmouth sports information office has a story on running back Tevita Moimoi in which the Big Green quad-captain said (LINK):

 "Every day, there's an opportunity to improve on something you didn't do as well yesterday. You can choose to dwell about something you messed up yesterday, or you can take that as a learning moment and apply that to today."

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Meant to post this yesterday. Check out the Tulane helmet from Saturday's game: 


Here's a blow-up if that's a little hard to see:


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Headline from the Ithaca Voice:

Wave of Cornell football players announce transfer intentions
The Ivy League’s ban on graduate student athletes is hitting Cornell hard, with 11 players announcing they will use their remaining athletic eligibility as grad transfers elsewhere.

Find the full story HERE. 

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Stats Perform

W-L

Pts

Prev

1

South Dakota State (56)

7-0

1,400

1

2

Montana State

6-1

1,342

2

3

Furman

6-1

1,266

4

4

South Dakota

6-1

1,133

6

5

Delaware

6-1

1,079

7

6

Sacramento State

5-2

1,074

3

7

Montana

6-1

1,056

9

8

UIW

6-1

1,038

5

9

Idaho

5-2

1,005

10

10

Western Carolina

5-2

829

8

11

Southern Illinois

5-2

768

12

12

North Dakota State

5-2

750

14

13

North Carolina Central

6-1

703

16

14

UT Martin

6-1

677

17

15

North Dakota

4-3

596

11

16

Florida A&M

6-1

497

19

17

Chattanooga

6-2

462

21

18

Central Arkansas

5-2

461

20

19

Villanova

5-2

319

22

20

Austin Peay

5-2

227

24

21

Lafayette

6-1

218

13

22

William & Mary

4-3

213

NR

23

Northern Iowa

4-3

196

NR

24

Youngstown State

4-3

181

25

25

UC Davis

4-3

164

23


 Others Receiving Votes (on two or more ballots):  Holy Cross 146; HARVARD 113; UAlbany 112; New Hampshire 74; Fordham 51; Tennessee State 18; Eastern Washington 7; PENN 7; Weber State 6; Lamar 4   





FCS Coaches

W-L

Pts

Prev

1

South Dakota State (26)

7-0

650

1

2

Montana State

6-1

623

2

3

Furman

6-1

587

3

4

UIW

6-1

545

5

5

Montana

6-1

537

6

6

Delaware

6-1

510

7

7

Sacramento State

5-2

475

4

8

Idaho

5-2

471

8

9

South Dakota

6-1

423

16

10

North Carolina Central

6-1

418

10

11

North Dakota State

5-2

388

15

12

Southern Illinois

5-2

343

12

13

UT Martin

6-1

314

19

14

Florida A&M

6-1

304

18

15

Chattanooga

6-2

266

20

16

Western Carolina

5-2

253

14

17

North Dakota

4-3

198

9

18

Central Arkansas

5-2

197

21

19

Lafayette

6-1

120

NR

T-20

Austin Peay

5-2

116

24

T-20

New Hampshire

4-3

116

22

22

Holy Cross

4-3

108

11

23

HARVARD

5-1

87

17

24

William & Mary

4-3

83

13

25

UC Davis

4-3

82

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Others Receiving Votes: Northern Iowa, 65; Villanova, 51; Fordham, 44; Youngstown State, 41; PENN, 25; UAlbany, 4; Mercer, 3; Eastern Illinois, 1; Illinois St., 1; Nicholls, 1.





Green Alert Take: Fun to see old friend Chris Wilkerson's 5-3 Eastern Illinois team getting some notice. Wilk was at Dartmouth as an assistant and later associate head coach from 2005-12. He then went 51-27 as head coach at the University of Chicago and now is in his secondyear as head coach at his alma mater.

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This is fun. Notre Dame head coach Marcus Freeman has a playful exchange with the writer who coaches his son's flag football team:

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EXTRA POINT
As if we needed another reminder of a string of gray skies and the days growing shorter, the solar light above the entryway to our mudroom that turns on when it senses movement has been dark for a couple of days. It can handle one or the other – but not both.

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