Kudos to Dartmouth social media for resurrecting this from the fourth quarter of Saturday's win over Yale (LINK):
There's also this:
Delby Lemieux (@DelbyLemieux) named 4th team Phil Steele FCS Mid-Season All American and was the only Ivy League Athlete named on the list.#TheWoods #GoBigGreen pic.twitter.com/CDKqcB84XI
— Dartmouth Football (@DartmouthFTBL) October 15, 2024
Green Alert Take: Look, I think Delby Lemieux is a terrific player and deserves every honor he's going to get – and there will be a lot of them before he's through. But mid-season All-America teams are kind of jumping the gun a bit, and Phil Steele going four deep at mid-season is silly. But hey, if you are curious, here it is:
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Recognize the guy on the right?
Howard currently leads the 5-1 Bulldogs with 348 rushing yards and five touchdowns on the ground. He's enjoying success throwing the ball as well, completing 26-of-36 passes (72.2 percent) for 363 yards with five touchdowns.
Howard knows a little something about sharing quarterbacking duties of course. From the story (LINK):
(W)hile Andrew may have had the inside scoop on The Butler Way, Howard is still the seasoned veteran when it comes to football experience. During his tenure at Dartmouth, he even had the opportunity to play in an offense with more than one quarterback.
“It was a lot of what we did when I was playing at Dartmouth, so it’s nothing out of the ordinary for me,” Howard said. “Bringing that here has been really good for our team. We utilize both of our skill sets to the maximum.”
Howard’s maturity and play style have provided ample opportunities for Andrew to learn, the same way Howard relied on him for help with his adjustment to Butler.
“(Howard has) had a historic college career and it’s been awesome to learn from him, get some new perspective on things and play alongside him,” Andrew said. “It’s been a blessing in disguise; I’ve loved every second of it.”
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Speaking of grad transfers, yesterday's note on this page had an update on former Dartmouth defensive linemen making their mark at the FBS level. Two more grads are doing their thing behind the defensive line, both at UMass.
Macklin Ayers has 16 tackles at linebacker for the Minutemen while Leonard St. Gourdin has 14 stops with two pass breakups as well as half a sack from his spot in the secondary. St. Gourdin had four tackles including his half sack against No. 21 Missouri last week. Ayers had three stops in the game, played in front of 16,102 in Amherst.
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Missed this last week. From a Reuters story headlined US judge dismisses Ivy Leaguers lawsuit over sport scholarship bans (LINK):
The eight U.S. universities known as the Ivy League on Thursday won dismissal of a prospective class action by current and former student athletes challenging the schools’ bans on sport scholarships and other compensation for their athletes.
And . . .
The lawsuit sought unspecified monetary damages and an injunction to open up scholarships to student athletes.
The students called the Ivy League "big business" and said its sports conference "comprises eight of the wealthiest commercial organizations in America" with collective endowments of more than $170 billion.
The schools countered that they have power to set their own rules for financial aid and compensation for student athletes. The schools also said the sports scholarship ban is meant to "foster campus cultures that do not prioritize athletics."
Green Alert Take: Ivy League coaches must love that last line. Here it is with the part coaches recruiting against the Ivy League will use:
"The schools also said the sports scholarship ban is meant to 'foster campus cultures that do not prioritize athletics.'
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Now this is funny. First, a Penn State alum spends $1,800 (plus the price of his ticket) to take part in a "special pregame VIP experience" of running on the Coliseum field behind the USC team just prior to Saturday's kickoff between the Trojans and the Nittany Lions in LA. Now the twist: The fan in question ia wearing a blue Penn State hat, a sleeveless shirt with a large Penn State logo splashed across his chest and Penn State gym shorts as he leaves the tunnel.
This is the funny part. A couple of days later this coda has suddenly been added to the page inviting fans to fork over money for the VIP experience:
“All participants must be in USC apparel to partake in Game Day Experiences. USC Athletics reserves the right to remove individuals who are not compliant.”
Find a story explaining what happened with a look at the video the PSU fan shot of his hilarious run onto the field HERE.
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EXTRA POINT
I was on my way down the mountain yesterday when I said hello to a couple of women still on their way up. When I got to the trailhead 20 minutes later there were two cars in the small, gravel parking lot. One was mine. The other was a silver Miata convertible.
The temperature never got out of the 40s yesterday and just when I got to my car it started raining. Oh yeah. Did I mention the Miata's top was down?
I hope the women enjoyed their hike because I'm pretty sure they didn't enjoy the ride back home.
