Friday, January 31, 2025

We Know That Guy

Screengrab from TV broadcast

From an NFL.com story headlined 2025 NFL Draft: Five prospects who stood out in East-West Shrine Bowl (LINK):

Tyron Herring, CB, Delaware

Herring (6-1, 202) played at Dartmouth and Delaware, so he needed a big week to show scouts he can make the jump to a higher level of competition. He exhibited good hands on an interception in the second quarter. Herring also had a big hit on Abilene Christian WR Blayne Taylor from off coverage, knocking the ball out after the catch. Players from FCS-level programs can get more mileage out of strong performances in all-star games, and Herring took full advantage of his opportunity.

Watch Herring's INT HERE and and check out the commentators saying the East's defensive coordinator both called him his "ballhawk" and predicted he would have a pick.

Find Herring's Dartmouth bio HERE. 

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Speaking of the Shrine Game . . .

Just as FBS coaches miss out on talented players who land in the Ivy League, there are probably a few Ivy coaches who wonder how they missed out on 6-foot-3, 317-pound Thomas Perry, an offensive lineman at Vermont DIII Middlebury.  Perry showed he belonged on the field with the big boys during Shrine Week and that he was a star in the classroom with a 3.96 GPA at Midd, one of the NESCAC "Little Ivies." 

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Viewers who didn't know much about Buddy Teevens learned about some of the innovations he introduced in the new film The Buddy Way. But they didn't learned about all of them. From a story out of Dartmouth headlined Tuck Bridge Leads the Way as Undergraduate Programs Innovate, Grow (LINK):

 In 2025, joining Bridge and TuckLAB—thematic course offerings for Dartmouth undergraduates—is a new, career-oriented program designed specifically for first-year Dartmouth students called Tuck Pathfinders. The concept for Pathfinders grew out of an offering imagined by Dartmouth’s late legendary football coach Buddy Teevens D’79. Recognizing that his players needed tangible skills beyond the field, Teevens partnered with Tuck to provide his team with fundamental financial accounting and team building skills through what was known as the Tuck Business Bootcamp.

“Buddy and I always imagined that the Bootcamp could expand beyond the football program and become broader in scope. We knew it had the potential for greater impact, to reach more students at Dartmouth and set them up for success as they envision their futures and the career paths they may pursue,” Tedeschi says. “Pathfinders is that next phase, building on what the Bootcamp started.”  

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Another clip from the film, this time about the decision to stop tackling in practice:

 After a 0-10 season, @DartmouthFTBL Head Coach Buddy Teevens made the decision to eliminate tackling in practice. 

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EXTRA POINT

We've been in this house for almost five years and I still occasionally hit the wrong light switches. It doesn't help that the panel between the living room and our sun room has three on/off switches and three dimmer dials that control both rooms.


Anyway, last night I was trying to dim the living room lights and instead turned on the ceiling fan. And that got me thinking about something I read last summer. That is, per Mr. Google, you can save as much as 15 percent on your heating bill by using a ceiling fan in the winter.


We haven't tried it yet, but with the temperature expected to dip down to single digits tonight and below zero in a few days maybe the time has come. Again, from Mr. Google:

In the colder months, your ceiling fan should rotate clockwise. With the leading edge lower than the trailing edge, the fan pulls cool air upward, which in turn pushes the warm air that rises to the ceiling down along the walls and back into the living space. This redistribution of warm air can help maintain a more consistent room temperature, reducing the need for extra heating and thereby saving energy.

Now if only I could remember which switch to throw. ;-)

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