A lot of BGA Daily readers either aren't "fluent in social media," or choose to avoid it. That being the case, they (you?) might not see photos posted by the football program. Not to worry. Here's a quick look at what the players are up to this winter, again, courtesy of the Dartmouth football program.
"Just the exposure," Penn football sophomore wide receiver and 2023 first-team All-Ivy selection Jared Richardson said. “I just reposted it on my [Instagram] story, and I’ve had people that I know that own their own businesses reach out to me … We’re moving in the right direction.”
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In 2023, then-senior guard for Penn women’s basketball Kayla Padilla remarked on the differences between Penn and the high-level Division I schools that were recruiting her for her post-graduate year of eligibility. Padilla added that one of the schools recruiting her was averaging $50,000 in annual NIL money per player, and that the transfer process had allowed her to see “what [she] might have missed out on.”
“Being an Ivy League institution, you know NIL is not the biggest priority here,” Padilla said. "But when you hear stuff like that, it's like, 'Wow, my life could be changing if I had that kind of money.'”
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Jake Novak has a post on his Roar Lions blog headlined Biting at the Apple that includes this (LINK):
The Columbia Football coaching staff is doing something really interesting today by sending its recruiters to just about as many high schools with football programs in the New York metropolitan area that they can in one day in what they're calling the "Empire Rush."
Green Alert Take: As someone familiar with a lot of the high schools the Columbia coaches visited, it was fun scrolling through the many photos of the schools they posted on Xwitter HERE. It's a recruiting idea that hints at some innovative thinking in Morningside Heights.
Green Alert Take II: I'm just not sure sending Dartmouth coaches to all the football schools in New Hampshire and Vermont would be worth the effort. ;-) Just saying.
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Don't forget that you can catch Isaiah Johnson '22, the grad transfer defensive back who played the last two years at Syracuse, in the East-West Shrine Bowl tonight on the NFL Network at 8 p.m. Eastern. (LINK)
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EXTRA POINT
Still another dreary, overcast, gray day in these parts. I can't ever remember a winter so little sunshine in our little Shangri-La on the Connecticut.
It's been so bad that our solar tracker is using more energy turning and angling to face the non-existent rays of the sun than it is collecting. For the second month in a row – which had never previously happened in the three years we've had the tracker – we've gotten an electric bill and the most recent one was surprisingly high.
It has gotten so bad we may have to call in Dr. Rick, because I'm becoming my father. I've been going around turning off lights, making sure the fridge isn't left open too long and asking that the TV be turned off instead of instead of being allowed to go to sleep.
