Tuesday, September 10, 2024

Catch This

This video of first-year Dartmouth wide receivers coach Dan Hebert "mic'd up" is kind of fun:

  

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Dartmouth nonconference opponent scores to date:

Fordham (0-2)
at Bowling Green 41, Fordham 17
at Central Connecticut 33, Fordham 3
This week: Stony Brook at Fordham 

Merrimack (0-2)
at Air Force 31, Merrimack  6
at Connecticut 63, Merrimack  17
This week: at Bucknell 

Central Connecticut (1-1)
at Central Michigan 66, Central Connecticut  10
at Central Connecticut 33, Fordham 3
This week: at St. Francis

Green Alert Take: That's a combined 1-5 record, but that deserves an asterisk because four of the losses were to FBS schools. On the other hand, the only win was between two of the teams . . . and someone had to win that game. ;-)

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In case you are wondering who the rest of the Ivy League is playing out of conference:

Brown
Georgetown 2-0
Bryant 1-1
Rhode Island 1-1
Combined records: 4-2

Columbia
Lafayette 1-1
Georgetown 2-0
Wagner 1-1
Combined records: 4-2

Cornell
Colgate 0-2
Albany 1-1
Bucknell 1-1
Combined records: 2-4

Harvard
Stetson 2-0
New Hampshire 1-1
Holy Cross 0-2
Combined records: 3-3

Penn
Delaware 1-0
Colgate 0-2
Bucknell 1-1
Combined records: 2-3

Princeton
Lehigh 1-1
Howard 1-1
Mercer 2-0
Combined records: 4-2

Yale
Holy Cross 0-2
Central Connecticut 1-1
Lehigh 1-1
Combined records: 2-4

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FCS polls after two (and in several cases three) games:

Stats Perform

W-L

Pts

Prev

1

South Dakota State (44)

1-1

1386

1

2

North Dakota State (6)

1-1

1333

2

3

Montana State (6)

3-0

1301

3

4

Idaho

1-1

1195

7

5

Villanova

2-0

1175

5

6

South Dakota

1-1

1127

6

7

Central Arkansas

1-1

945

9

8

Montana

1-1

927

4

9

Southern Illinois

1-1

919

10

10

North Dakota

1-1

853

23

11

Sacramento State

0-2

834

8

12

UIW

1-1

646

12

13

William & Mary

1-1

632

13

14

Chattanooga

0-2

610

11

15

UC Davis

1-1

578

18

16

Tarleton State

2-1

452

20

17

UAlbany

1-1

430

16

18

Illinois State

1-1

374

21

19

Lafayette

1-1

347

19

20

Weber State

1-1

333

24

21

Youngstown State

1-1

252

25

22

Elon

1-1

216

NR

23

Mercer

2-0

207

NR

24

Nicholls

0-2

200

22

25

Abilene Christian

1-1

122

NR


Others Receiving Votes (schools listed on two or more ballots): Southeast Missouri (2-1, 1-0 Big South-OVC) 111; Richmond (0-2, 0-0 CAA) 100; Wofford (2-0, 0-0 SoCon) 85; Northern Iowa (2-0, 0-0 MVFC) 70; Florida A&M (2-1, 0-0 SWAC) 69; Western Carolina (0-2, 0-0 SoCon) 67; Eastern Illinois (1-1, 0-0 Big South-OVC) 64; Furman (0-2, 0-0 SoCon) 52; Campbell (1-1, 0-0 CAA) 49; Southern Utah (1-1, 0-0 UAC) 48; Lamar (1-1, 0-0 Southland) 15; Alabama State (1-1, 0-0 SWAC) 13; North Carolina Central (1-1, 0-0 MEAC) 12; Saint Francis (1-1, 0-0 NEC) 11; Austin Peay (0-2, 0-0 UAC) 8; Charleston Southern (1-1, 0-0 Big South-OVC) 7; Harvard (0-0, 0-0 Ivy) 5; Drake (1-0, 0-0 Pioneer) 4





FCS Coaches

W-L

Pts

Prev

1

South Dakota State (22)

1-1

645

1

2

North Dakota State (2)

1-1

620

2

3

Montana State (2)

3-0

599

3

4

Villanova

2-0

553

5

5

Idaho

1-1

545

7

6

South Dakota

1-1

515

6

7

Central Arkansas

1-1

433

9

8

Southern Illinois

1-1

426

12

9

Montana

1-1

405

4

10

North Dakota

1-1

362

20

11

Sacramento State

0-2

304

8

12

UC Davis

1-1

283

18

13

William & Mary

1-1

281

14

14

UIW

1-1

277

11

15

UAlbany

1-1

266

13

16

Chattanooga

0-2

265

10

17

Tarleton State

2-1

231

21

18

Lafayette

1-1

218

19

19

Illinois State

1-1

202

22

20

Youngstown State

1-1

183

23

21

Northern Iowa

2-0

86

NR

22

Florida A&M

2-1

70

24

23

Nicholls

0-2

65

25

24

Mercer

2-0

64

NR

25

Weber State

1-1

63

NR


Others Receiving Votes: Southeast Missouri State, 61; Furman, 51; Richmond, 49; Wofford, 46; Abilene Christian, 38; Elon, 37; Southern Utah, 31; Eastern Illinois, 28; Western Carolina, 27; North Carolina Central, 16; Northern Arizona, 14; Delaware State, 13; New Hampshire, 13; Harvard, 11; UT Martin, 10; Missouri State, 8; Yale, 8; Saint Francis (Pa.), 6; Drake, 5; Alabama A&M, 4; Alabama State, 2; Georgetown (D.C.), 2; McNeese, 2; Rhode Island, 2; Campbell, 1; Indiana State, 1; Lamar, 1; Prairie View A&M, 1; Stephen F. Austin, 1.





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EXTRA POINT
For Christmas we received a bird feeder with a camera that sends video of visitors who stop by to grab something to eat to a phone or computer using wifi. I say "visitors," and not birds because sometime this summer a red squirrel discovered the free eats here at our Vermont hillside home.

Mrs. BGA's father once had problems with squirrels and he solved it by hanging the feeder on a wire strung between trees and stringing the wire horizontally through two-liter soda bottles that effectively spun the squirrels to the ground before they could get to the goal line.

That approach won't work with the video bird feeder because for the picture to be watchable, the thing has to be mounted and perfectly steady.

There is a siren on the feeder you can sound when you spot a squirrel and that was a lot of fun the first half dozen times or so we used it. Red squirrels can really fly! Ah, but they also learn fast, and now they just ignore the siren. I swear I've seen a smirk on the squirrel's face when the siren starts.

Frustrated I went to the bird feeder website, which offered this oh-so-clever suggestion:

When you see a squirrel approaching, use the app to say commands like "Go away!" This vocal intervention can effectively prevent squirrels from accessing bird feed.

As the Beav might say, "Gee Wally, do you think saying 'Please' would help?" 

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