Two Signing Day predictions of sorts came through.
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First, as expected there wasn't a single email with photos of school celebrations or links where to find those Signing Day photos. I'm starting to wonder if BGA is passé. ;-(
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And second, while I didn't exactly predict it, I had a hint this was coming. Dartmouth has a final (?) addition to the recruiting class:
Committed to the Process! Go Big Green 🌲 pic.twitter.com/St8VZMg8Tf
— James Rush (@wavyjames_4x) February 3, 2026
If my research is accurate, the 5-foot-11, 175-pound running back/safety/corner who is expected to play safety at Dartmouth, was originally committed to Princeton. He also had reported offers from Penn, Buffalo, Kent State, Bowling Green and Navy.
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Jim Kenyon, a fellow alum of our local daily, started at my old newspaper as a sportswriter and eventually became a columnist on the news side. Until his retirement last fall he was well known for holding Dartmouth's toes to the fire.
BGA linked last week to a story in The Dartmouth about the college's role in a student's opinion piece about its Evergreen.AI initiative. Now Kenyon has gone nuclear on the issue in a guest opinion piece of his own under the headline Dartmouth Ran a PR Sting on Its Own Students. The column begins this way (LINK):
The College’s website lists 43 people working in the Office of Communications. With an army of in-house flacks at its disposal, why then would the College need to employ a student and secretly work with him on an op-ed hyping Evergreen.AI for The Dartmouth?
Simple.
The independent student newspaper has credibility — an essential commodity, which under the Beilock administration, the College sorely lacks.
Green Alert Take: To quote the late Dartmouth sports information director Kathy Slattery, "Ouch, babe."
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EXTRA POINT
Not to get political or anything, but how many of us knew the word "tranche" before, let's see, Dec. 19, 2025? I could be wrong, but I'm going to guess many of the commentators using the word these days had to look it up, just as I did.
