You Make The Call(s)

Listing starters in college football can be a dicey proposition. Is a starter the player who is actually on the field for the first play on his side of the ball even if that's his only play of the game? Or is the starter the player who instead plays the vast majority of snaps on his side? How do you handle determining the starters on defense if you usually play a 3-4 defense and open with a 4-3? Or if you open with two or three tight ends?

Understanding that knowledgeable people can disagree about who is, and who isn't a starter in a game and on a season, here's a reasoned list of Dartmouth starters from last year. Your mileage may vary.

This list was drawn from the Big Green's official statistics. Starts in 2023 are listed after the player's name and players who have moved on  are in italics. 

–OFFENSE–

QUARTERBACK

Nick Howard 8

Jackson Proctor 2

Dylan Cadwallader 1

TAILBACK

Q Jones 10

WIDE RECEIVER

Paxton Scott 10

Isaac Boston 10

Painter Richards Baker 5

Daniel Haughton 4

Jackson Gerard 1

TIGHT END

Jace Henry 8

Nic Sani 2

CENTER

Thomas Hartnett 5

Nick Marinaro 5

LEFT GUARD

Nick Schwitzgebel 10

LEFT TACKLE

Delby Lemieux 7

Kyle Brown 3

RIGHT GUARD

Kyle Brown 7

Tristan Holmbeck 3

RIGHT TACKLE

Konstantin Spörk 10

–DEFENSE–

NOSE GUARD

Josiah Green 10

DEFENSIVE END

Charlie Looes 10

Hank Knez 10

MIKE LINEBACKER

Danny Cronin 8

Micah Green 2

WILL LINEBACKER

Macklin Ayers 10

SAM LINEBACKER

Braden Mullen 5

Teddy Gianaris 4

Micah Green 1

NICKEL

Tyson McCloud 8

Cam Maddox 2

CORNER

Leonard St. Gourdin 10

Jordan Washington 9

Patrick Campbell 1

STRONG SAFETY

Sean Williams 10

FREE SAFETY

Quinten Arello 9

Cam Maddox 1

KICKER

Owen Zalc 10

PUNTER

Davis Golick 10

LONG SNAPPER

Josh Greene 10

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EXTRA POINT
Good thing I got off my back side and got a little exercise hiking early yesterday afternoon because the rest of the day was spent watching the Masters and then the Billy Joel "live" special recorded last month in honor of the 100th show of his soon-to-conclude Madison Square Garden residency.

I find myself wondering this morning, if I had the opportunity to choose to see just one of those two events in person – which would I pick? I've been to the Masters twice (albeit in a working capacity) and I saw Billy Joel in concert shortly after graduating from college, so neither has the edge in that regard. So what would it be?

After thinking it over, I would probably have been at the Garden this year instead of watching Scottie Scheffler win his second green jacket in front of the (faded) azaleas at Augusta National. Not that I could afford either, of course.

Another year, who knows?

And oh by the way, count us among the fortunate who did not have our local station cut away to the news while the Piano Man was performing Piano Man. ;-)