Thursday, March 28, 2024

Taking His Shot

While some of his fifth-year classmates have gone the grad transfer route former Dartmouth safety Quinten Arello has different plans:

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Tight end Jace Henry, a true senior last fall, is one of 17 grad transfers at Nevada, including another tight end from the University of Florida. Henry is listed on the Nevada transfer tracker HERE.

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The Daily Pennsylvanian has a story headlined Following the Green: What Dartmouth's unionization could mean for Penn football HERE.

Said one football player anonymously on the possibility of unionization of his team:

“Personally I am all for it. I also know football is hardly revenue-making at Penn, and the first thing Penn would do once we get minimum wage is cut the sport, somewhat dishearteningly. … They’re too smart to pay us.”

Said another:

 "(T)here's a bunch of us, and I know it takes a lot of money, but it'll be nice if the school came to help us out or if they could figure out how to fuel us a little bit better," another football player said in regards to certain nutritional standards. 

Quarterback Aidan Sayin offered this:

 I think (Penn) has done a great job with athletics, especially with the football team. You know, we have this new locker room and the whole facility and everything so I don't know if I could say I'm not grateful for everything we've gotten to this point." 

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EXTRA POINT
Our power is out yet again. The shame is that our solar tracker was installed in such a way as to send the electricity we generate directly to the grid in exchange for what is essentially a rebate. In a perfect world the tracker would feed to a battery bank in our house and only push the excess to the grid after topping off the batteries. Then we could draw from our batteries at times like this.

If we could retrofit the tracker setup to work that way we would but unfortunately that's not possible.

All of which means I better sign off before the shoebox-sized Jackery battery and portable hotspot I'm using decide they've had enough.