On The Recruiting Front

With the addition earlier this week of New Jersey defensive back Trey McFadden, the unofficial Dartmouth recruiting class BGA compiled is up to 26 names. As always, additions and clarifications are encouraged in the Contract Form over to the right. Here's how the list looks at this point:

• WR Blake Betette, 5-1, 185, Richard Northeast HS/South Carolina
• LB JJ Bolz, 6-2, 220, Bishop Verot HS/Florida
• DB David Brown III, 6-1, 162, Cypress Woods HS/Texas
• QB Jack Cannon, 6-2, 210, Holmdel HS/New Jersey 
• OL Tim Church, 6-5, 300, Buckingham Browne & Nichols/Massachusetts
• LB/WR George Duggins, 6-3, 200, Mona Shores HS/ Michigan
• DL August Dupree, 6-3, 215/Folson HS/California
• DE/TE Quinn Enguita, 6-4, 215, Bishop Verot HS/Florida.
• WR Kareem Fisher, 6-2, 180, St. Vincent Pallotti/Maryland
• RB/DB Jacob Henry, 5-11, 190, Maumelle HS/Arkansas
•LS Will Hester, 6-1, 215, Lexington Christian/Kencuky
• S Kiyanté Ingram, 6-0, 195, McEachem HS/Georgia
• LB/DB Emory Jones, 6-1, 180, Cass Tech/Michigan
• DB/WR Gavin King, 6-4, 230, Loyola Academy/Illinois
• DL Kayden Lee, 6-2, 275, Mishawaka/Ind.
• DL/TE Will Maloof, 6-5, 210, St. Peter's Prep/New Jersey
• WR George Loop, 5-11, 170, Isidore Newman/Louisiana
•  LB Parker Maiers, 6-1, 220, Brebeuf Jesuit HS/Indianapolis
• DB Trey McFadden, 6-3, 190, Montgomery HS/New Jersey
• OL Brody McLeod, 6-4, 280, Ponte Vedra HS/Florida
• OL Mikey McMahon, 6-4, 290, Bergen Catholic HS/New Jersey
• OL Jake Namnum, 6-2, 292, St. Josephs Prep/Pennsylvania
• K/P Tanner Pidwell, 6-2, 175, Park City HS/Utah
• TE Ayden Sadler, 6-5, 215, Green Hill HS/Tennessee
• OL Nick Schenkel, 6-4, 270, Liberty HS/Pennsylvania
• DL Roman Sosnovyy, 6-3, 245, Lyons Township HS/Illinois 

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Recruiting for the next Dartmouth class is already happening and Danny O'Dea, the Big Green's former running backs coach who now oversees recruiting offers this helpful advice for high schoolers hoping to land in The Woods:

And O'Dea reposted this, labeling it "Quality Advice!"

Editor's Note: "Slides," as you probably guessed, are open-ended footwear, like shower shoes.

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Another sign that recruiting is heating up well before the weather is (heating up, that is ;-) a graphic put out by Dartmouth announcing dates and signup for the Sammy McCorkle Football Camps. No longer about spending a few days on a college campus swimming, eating hot dogs and making new friends while learning a little more about blocking and route running, football camps these days are essentially tryouts in front of college coaches.

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It's the weekend and you have the time. Here's a song from the upcoming Band of Heathens album Take the Cake. In the white cowboy hat is former Dartmouth linebacker Gordi Quist '02, one of the front men for the Austin-based band. Two seats to his right is former DB Trevor Nealon '02, the band's keyboard player.

And if you enjoyed that, here's a terrific live performance of Hurricane that the Band of Heathens did in Nashville last year.

Read about Hurricane in a 2023 story in The Tennesseean headlined The Band of Heathens: The unsigned alt-rock band with a gold record HERE.

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EXTRA POINT
As a silly gift, Mrs. BGA stuffed a "hardwood trail whistle" in my stocking at Christmas. It was silly because we joke occasionally about a hiker we see on my regular trail who wears bear bells to ward off attacks. (I've hiked that trail more than a thousand times and have never seen a bear. Mrs. BGA did see one on her own hike one time, but when it spotted her it spooked and quickly ran off.)

But I digress.

The wooden trail whistle sits on our second-floor railing and I've taken to blowing it loudly when Mrs. BGA is downstairs and I'm headed down the steps. She continues to laugh when she hears it, but I'm taking bets on how soon she decides giving it to me was a bad idea and makes it disappear. ;-)