Tuesday, January 14, 2025

And Another

The hits just keep on coming . . .

Another day, another new name to add to the list of Dartmouth recruiting commitments. This time it is Santino Cicarella, a 6-foot-2, 175-pound wide receiver from University Liggett School in Grosse Point Woods, Mich.

Per published reports, Cicarella had 55 catches for 1,235 yards and 10 touchdowns last year under head coach Andre Rison, the former NFL star. He was named the Sports illustrated Michigan Athlete of the Week after a game in which he caught nine passes for 164 yards and a touchdown, collected 11 tackles and closed out the contest with an interception.

Find a story about Cicarella in the Grosse Pointe News HERE.

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From a story about former Dartmouth linebacker Flo Oriomlade '17 returning to the Calgary Stampeders (LINK):

(Stampeders defensive tackle) Mike Rose considers him "the real deal."

Pundits felt losing him a few winters ago was the biggest drop in recent free-agency windows by the Calgary Stampeders.

So the Red and White getting sack-master Folarin 'Flo' Orimolade back to terrorize quarterbacks is a big deal.

And . . .

"Flo's built different than a lot of people," (Stampers head coach and GM Dave) Dickenson said. "Twitchy, strong, relentless motor, violent, super smart, great person. I just enjoy watching him play. 

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Former Dartmouth wide receivers coach JJ Jackson's success this year as head coach at Texas College has been noted here before but the honors keep rolling in. From a story about the award and his season (LINK):

Jarrail Jackson, who sparked a turnaround in the Texas College program, has been named the top coach on the 2024 All-Texas Non-FBS Football Team, Dave Campbell’s Texas Football Magazine announced on Monday.  

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And on the subject of former Dartmouth coaches, here's a little more about Adam Scheier heading to UNLV as special teams coordinator (LINK).

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Thanks to a friend for sharing a link to an ESPN story about the Los Angeles Rams moving their playoff game to Arizona and the role a couple of Dartmouth grads played in making that happen. Team president Kevin Demoff, widely quoted in the story, holds two Dartmouth degrees and was a Big Green football broadcaster while in Hanover. Tony Pastoors, the team's VP of football and business administration, is a former Dartmouth safety. From the story (LINK):

"'There was no way we were going to take players and staff without their families,' Demoff said."

And . . .  

"Tony Pastoors put it best: 'Hope is not a strategy,'" Demoff said. "Watching [Thursday] in the middle of practice when all hell broke loose, those players can't focus. And they can't focus with their families behind and having them have to make a choice between do I pay attention in a meeting, do I pay attention or do I worry about my family? That's an untenable position to put anybody in."

And . . .

The Rams' traveling party Friday night comprised 335 people and two dogs.

"We got Noah's ark going over to Arizona today," tight end Tyler Higbee quipped on Friday after practice. 

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And finally, that note yesterday about Dartmouth looking to hire a new OC for the football program accurately reproduced verbatim what FootballScoop had posted. But it turns out the Scoop had it wrong. The posting said the Big Green was looking for a new offensive coordinator. What it should have said is Dartmouth is looking for an operations coordinator. Sorry for the confusion.

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EXTRA POINT

If you've been visiting this electronic precinct for a while, you know we have a solar tracker in our field that pretty much eliminates our electric bill. The unfortunate part is that it sends its production directly to the grid, and that electricity is credited against our usage. It's unfortunate because when the power from the grid goes out we can't fall back on the solar tracker because the system was not set up to allow it to send power to a power wall-type thing in our house or garage.


The good news is that technology has come to the rescue. Last week we bought a converter that will allow us to pull energy back out of our EV (electric car) to power the house. As long as we are conservative in how much else we try to run, we can keep our refrigerator, small appliances, lights and more going for several days with power from the car, and still have enough juice left to drive it into town for a charge if necessary. Given how frequently we lose power here, it's a huge win.

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