Lehigh coach Kevin Cahill, the longtime Yale assistant, makes the hiring of Keeon Shaw as corners coach official in a press release HERE. Shaw spent the past two seasons as the offensive quality control assistant at Dartmouth.
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Ivy League Executive Director Robin Harris to ffers some thoughts in a Collegiate Sports Connect interview about student-athletes becoming employees prior to the Dartmouth men's basketball union vote. The recording is behind a paywall but this excerpt is revealing (LINK):
“I can’t even envision how that would work because what we are providing is an opportunity for student-athletes to truly pursue the sport that they've been playing and that they love to play and to provide them all the benefits that come through college sports: the leadership skills, the learning, how to bounce back from failure and losing, team building and setting a goal, working hard and achieving that goal or surpassing that goal – maybe not meeting that goal and what do you do to adjust. So, for us it really is about the student-athlete experience. It’s not an employer-employee relationship in any way, so I don't even know what that would look like.”
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How is the idea of college athletes unionizing playing out in the court of public opinion? It depends, to an extent on your age and your party affiliation. But on the whole, the reaction is not favorable. Find the results of a survey and an Associated Press story HERE.
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Following up on yesterday's listing of Dartmouth's Ivy League football rookies of the year, here are the Big Green's Ivy League Players of the Year:
1970 – Quarterback Jim Chasey
1978 – Quarterback Buddy Teevens
1990 – Running back Shon Page
1991 – Running back Al Rosier
1992 – Quarterback Jay Fiedler
2010 – Running back Nick Schwieger*
2016 – Linebacker Flo Orimolade
2018 – Defensive back Isiah Swann
2019 – Linebacker Jack Traynor
* Shared with Harvard running back Gino Gordon
Winners by School (Last)
Princeton 14 (Linebacker Liam Johnson 2022)
Harvard 13 (Defensive lineman Truman Jones 2022)
Yale 12 (Quarterback Nolan Grooms 2023)
Penn 10 (Defensive lineman Joey Slackman 2023)
Dartmouth 9 (Linebacker Jack Traynor 2019)
Cornell 5 (Quarterback Jeff Mathews 2011)
Brown 5 (Quarterback EJ Perry 2021)
Columbia 2 (Quarterback John Witkowski 1982)
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EXTRA POINT
The '84 VW poptop camper came out of the garage yesterday after its long winter sleep. Once again, German engineering came through as the 40-year-old bus started up on the first turn of the key.
Speaking of turns, if you have been a regular visitor to this space you've read before about all the back-and-forth jockeying it takes to get the VW cross-wise in the back of our deep garage. I'm here to tell you that's not much fun in a four-speed without power steering.
I managed to minimize the number of turns getting it into place last fall but I was reminded again yesterday that it doesn't have to be that hard. All it took was one back-up, one forward and one back-up and I could then turn it enough to get out the door. If only I could exactly replicate those turns in reverse order it would be so, so, so much easier putting the bus away for the winter.
Or course, instead of reversing the turns we could just buy the new ID. Buzz VW bus with Memory Function Park Assist . . . although probably not until they bring out a pop-top camper version. ;-)
