Here's hoping you checked out the Dartmouth-Fordham game story yesterday on BGA Overtime HERE. There will be a notes column on the site today, another piece tomorrow and a Merrimack preview on Friday so don't be a stranger. ;-)
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Another day, another recruit commits to Dartmouth.
This time it is Ethan Couvertiere, a 6-foot-2, 180-pound safety from Bearden High School and Knoxville, Tenn.. Couvertiere is reported to have chosen Dartmouth over offers from Marshall, Cornell and Wofford. Through three games this fall he had two interceptions and a fumble recovered for a touchdown. Find his commitment post HERE.
Couvertiere is the fourth commit in a week, following Matisse Brosseau, a defensive end/linebacker from Montreal, wide receiver Immanuel "Manny" Johnson of Columbia, S.C., and defensive end Aiden Holewski of New Port Richey, Fla.
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The Dartmouth has easily its best football writer in a long time in Will Dehmel, whose brother Luke spent some time as a linebacker with the Big Green and then working with the program. Read Will's story on the Fordham game HERE.
Green Alert Take: Both during my time working at Dartmouth in what was then called sports information, and later at the newspaper I got to know and helped mentor some very talented young writers. One went on to become a terrific reporter at the best newspaper in his state, another became a widely-acclaimed novelist and two who gave me a run at uncovering stories gave it up to become lawyers. Will Dehmel doesn't have to take a back seat to any of them and The Dartmouth is lucky to have him.
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The local Valley News has a talented first-year writer covering the team as well this fall. Find Alex Cervantes' story HERE.
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Remember the snide remark on this page last week about why the fact that because they don't compete in the postseason Ivy League teams have the inside track when "longest active win streaks" in the FCS are posted? That perspective changes when your team makes the cut, right? ;-)
FCS Longest Active Winning Streaks
— FCS Football (@OptaAnalystFCS) September 22, 2024
Overall
5 – Yale
4 – Dartmouth, Mercer, Montana State
Home
23 – South Dakota State
21 – Florida A&M
15 – Montana
Road
6 – Yale
3 – Brown, Butler, Wofford
Conference
17 – South Dakota State, MVFC (plus one in postseason)
15 – Florida A&M,…
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Data Skrive, the computer-created writing program that needs a little (a lot?) more human oversight, now has produced an Ivy League power ranking. It's the same deal with this as it is with the "longest active win streak." If the team you follow is getting some love you don't knock it. That being said, here's what Data Skrive has come up with (LINK):
1 Dartmouth
2 Yale
3 Princeton
4 Penn
5 Columbia
6 Harvard
7 Brown
8 Cornell
Green Alert Take: Seriously? Look no further than Princeton losing badly to Lehigh and Columbia knocking off Lafayette to see how deluded the computer ranking is.
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Speaking of deluded, I came across a release out of Harvard under the headline, Football Sells Out Season Tickets for the First Time in History. Keep in mind, per the university, Harvard Stadium seats 30,323. My first thought after reading they've sold out season tickets was, "Holy cow, move over Penn State."
Then I kept reading and learned that they have sold "'over 2,250" season tickets. (LINK)
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EXTRA POINT
The view outside my window here at BGA World Headquarters when I turned on the computer this morning:
