Thursday, July 11, 2024

Old Friends

Adam Scheier '95 was a four-year letterwinner at Dartmouth under coach John Lyons. Here's his bio from his final year in a Big Green uniform:

In town for Sammy McCorkle's camp with his rising senior son Brady, a 5-foot-9, 170-pound slot receiver, Scheier is currently special teams coordinator and tight ends coach at Temple. Find his Temple bio HERE.

After serving on Lyons staff with the undefeated 1996 team Scheier embarked on a football journey that has featured 10 more stops:

1996 Dartmouth
1997-99 Columbia
2000-01 Princeton
2002-08 Lehigh
2009-13 Bowling Green
2014-16 Wake Forest
2017 Ohio State
2018 Texas Tech
2019 Mississippi State
2020-21 Rutgers
2022- Temple

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It's HERO Sports' turn to post The Best Returning 2024 FCS Inside Linebacker In Each Conference. (LINK). Here are the players who earned the nod in the Ivy League and who Dartmouth will face in a nonconference game:

IVY
Anthony Roussos, Columbia, Sr.
2023 STAT LINE: 93 tackles, 10.5 TFLs
Roussos, a Florida native, was selected a First Team All-Ivy League performer by several outlets last year and was second in the Ivy League in tackles (93 in 10 games). Considering that pace, he ended up being a top 10 performer in the nation in the FCS by averaging 5.7 solo tackles per game, while also standing out as one of the nation’s top inside/middle linebackers when it came to negative yardage plays (10.5 tackles for loss). His older brother Mike Roussos also has played at Columbia.

PATRIOT
James Conway, Fordham, Sr.
2023 STAT LINE: 129 tackles, 6 TFLs, 2 FF
Conway may be playing football in New York City for the Rams, but he’s a Nebraska native. It turns out he was the perfect fit for the Patriot League as he set a freshman record at Fordham with 131 tackles in 2021. He comes into 2024 with 386 career tackles – good for third all-time on the school list. He had 12 solo tackles with a TFL and a fumble recovery in the Rams’ win over FBS Buffalo. Keep an eye on Lehigh’s Mike DeNucci, too.

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Lest you think the Ivy League's archaic eligibility rules are leading to transfers only in football, Noles247 has a story headlined, FSU Baseball: Seminoles land transfer portal commitment from Dartmouth catcher Nathan Cmeyla; Cmeyla led Dartmouth with a .350 AVG over 143 at-bats this season. Find the story HERE.

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EXTRA POINT
Mrs. BGA was trimming shrubbery around our Vermont hillside home yesterday when a she paid the price for disrupting a bee hive. Understandably, she did not finish the trimming.

After reading that bees are most lively between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., I suited up in early evening to finish the work. On came a mosquito headnet cinched around a neckie tucked into a raincoat with cuffs held absurdly tight with velcro. Sweatpants were tucked into heavy wood hiking socks. Absolutely no skin was exposed. I was invincible.

The good news is I finished the trimming before I felt a stinging pain – literally – on the inside of my right ankle and ran inside just ahead of a very angry posse.

I would later ask ChatGPT about the protection offered by heavy hiking socks and received this response:

"If the socks are thin or if the bee is particularly determined, it might be able to sting through them."

I've known for a while that you have to be careful with ChatGPT. Last night I learned you have to be even more careful around "particularly determined" bees.

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