Dartmouth social media introduces another of the Big Green's new coaches:
There's no bio up yet for the Big Green's new defensive coordinator/linebackers coach, but this went up on BGA a few days ago:
Belfiori comes to Hanover from Butler University, where he had been defensive coordinator and linebackers coach, the role long held at Dartmouth by the recently retired Don Dobes. Belfiori previously coached for seven years at Colgate, where he served as the Raiders' defensive coordinator. He's 2012 graduate of Central Michigan.
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Sam Herder of HERO Sports offers a few thoughts coming out of the FCS Oversight Committee meeting:
The message here: Discouraging scheduling non-D1 opponents and encouraging the Ivy League to play one more non-conference game.
— Sam Herder (@SamHerderFCS) March 12, 2026
The Ivy plays a 10-game regular season while most of the rest of the FCS plays 12. It got 2 teams into the 2025 FCS bracket in its first season… https://t.co/ZuehB60mBI
The second part of that Xweet offers a little more information (bold is mine):
The FCS Oversight Committee reviewed a recommendation from the FCS Championship Committee to update the at-large selection criteria policy to include prioritization of teams who competed against at least 11 Division I opponents.
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TigerBlog starts today's post off with a nod to Justin Lafleur, former football contact in the Dartmouth office of athletic communications. Now working at his alma mater, Lafleur was in Cleveland yesterday watching the UMass men's basketball team hand Miami its first loss in the MAC tournament semifinals. (LINK)
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Mention of a college basketball tournament reminds me of something that has been bothering me ever since the Ivy League finally relented and started its own postseason tournament. And this is it: They call the thing Ivy Madness.
How derivative is that for a league that always railed against having a tournament?
If they had asked me, I would have recommended "Ivy Intensity."
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Reading a headline yesterday, the refrain from the Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young song Deja Vu was echoing in my head, "We have all been here before."
What headline?
Swimming restored at UMass Dartmouth.
The public university in Dartmouth, Mass., has reinstated the men's swimming program it cut for financial reasons in 2020. (LINK)
Dartmouth College went down that same road with swimming not once, but twice trying to cut the sport and then reinstating it. The first time was in 2003 (story) and the second time in 2021 (story).
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EXTRA POINTIf you live in other parts of the country you may have never seen anything like what happened a short drive north of our Vermont hillside home yesterday. Check out what it looked like when the ice broke up on the Moose River near St. Johnsbury. This was shown on our semi-local TV station:
