Thursday, September 26, 2024

Academic Heisman X 3


This showed up on the Merrimack football page only in the last day or so, but the school has announced the Dartmouth game Saturday will be carried not only on NESN+ but also on ESPN+. That means every Big Green game this fall will be available via ESPN+.

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This is really special.

Not one, but three team captains with Dartmouth on their resumés are among the 203 national semifinalists for the Campbell Trophy, often referred to as the Academic Heisman.

First, linebacker Braden Mullen, a 2024 Big Green co-captain:

Find a story out of Dartmouth HERE and an older BGA post about Mullen's nomination HERE.

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Next, defensive back Tyron Herring, a 2023 Dartmouth grad chosen as a captain in his second year with the undefeated Delaware Blue Hens:

Find a story out of Delaware HERE. 

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And finally, defensive lineman Gannon McCorkle '24, named a captain this fall in his first season at Marist:

Find a story out of Marist HERE. 

Green Alert Take: Says something about the players Dartmouth recruits, huh?

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Jake Novak over at the Roar Lions 2024 blog has posted his Ivy League power rankings and they look like this:

1. Dartmouth
2. Yale
3. Columbia
4. Penn
5. Harvard
6. Brown
7. Princeton
8. Cornell 

Jake writes of Dartmouth:

Hear me out on why they're #1 despite Yale's victory over a more impressive opponent: The Big Green usually start out a little slow... at least in the fundamentals department. This team with a lot of very experienced talent looks 100% ready now. 

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For a view of last week's game from outside the Dartmouth bubble, check out a Fordham Ram school newspaper story headlined, Banged-Up Fordham Football Loses Big to Dartmouth. (LINK)

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Back on the subject of transfers, former Dartmouth running back Joey Richmond had originally committed to Roosevelt University as a grad student. Turns out he's instead doing his graduate work and playing at DIII Moravian University in Pennsylvania. Through three games he's second on the team in rushing and has a TD catch out of the backfield. Find his Moravian bio HERE.

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The Boston Globe has a story about onetime Dartmouth quarterback Jonathan DiBiaso, who earned his degree at Tufts and at 30 years of age is now quarterback coach at Boston College.

Headlined, Inside QB coach Jonathan DiBiaso's incredible rise; A former standout at Everett High and a tireless worker, DiBiaso has been a student of the game for basically his entire life the piece includes this (LINK):

DiBiaso spent time at Phillips Exeter, Dartmouth, and his father’s alma mater, Tufts, before injuries derailed a promising career. He had two elbow surgeries, shoulder surgery, biceps surgery, and also battled a concussion.

And . . .

After graduating from Tufts in 2018, DiBiaso proved himself as an offensive graduate assistant at BC through 2020. He made stops at Vanderbilt as an offensive analyst, Pittsburgh as an offensive graduate assistant, then returned to BC under then-head coach Jeff Hafley as an offensive analyst.

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More details are emerging on former Holy Cross standout Matthew Sluka's decision to redshirt after quarterbacking UNLV to a 3-0 start. At the center of the dispute: $100,000 of NIL money. (LINK)

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EXTRA POINT
I've written this before but if I were to start over in sportswriting my dream would be to cover the pro golf beat. There's a school of thought that the smaller the ball, the better the writing and from having written a ton of golf I'm here to tell you there's something to that.

Last night I did a phone interview for a story I'll be writing about a Hanover High School graduate now living in Manhattan who came back home to win the Tommy Keane Invitational at The Quechee Club over the weekend. I couldn't cover the tournament for the first time since 2005 because it conflicted with my Dartmouth football responsibilities, but looking over the notes from my interview reminded me why golf is such fertile ground for a writer.

It also reminded me how terribly unfortunate it is that Dartmouth closed Hanover Country Club, the longtime home of the tournament honoring the Big Green's legendary golf coach. If you want to get a tear in your eye just take a drive down the Lyme Road and look at the overgrown mess the venerable old course has become.

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