Three Of A Kind

From a story out of Lafayette, La.:

For years, the Saunier name has been a familiar one at Lafayette High School.

This fall, senior quarterback Richmond Saunier is adding another chapter to the family's football legacy while preparing for his future at Dartmouth.

Saunier is the third brother to serve as Lafayette's starting quarterback, following older brothers Xan and Grayson. Grayson, a former Super 16 selection, now starts at quarterback for Dartmouth, where Richmond will continue both his academic and athletic career after committing to the Ivy League program in May.

Find the full story about the future Big Green quarterback, the current Dartmouth QB, and their older brother who chose to play college baseball, HERE. 

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In this video, Georgia Tech-bound tight end Chris Corbo '26 talks about how being on the scout team as a Dartmouth freshman aided his development, about how his Ivy League education prepared him for his MBA studies at Tech, about the different pace of life in The Woods compared to Atlanta, and how Dartmouth got him ready for his grad transfer experience in the ACC. 

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Following up on yesterday's note about Dartmouth opponents on the initial watchlist for the Payton Award as the top offensive player in the FCS, today the Analyst has its first watchlist for the Buchanan Award to the top defensive player in the FCS. (LINK)

Among the 30 players named to the Buchanan list are two from the Ivy League, and another Dartmouth will face early in the season:

• DB Abu Kamara, Yale

• DB Demien Henderson, Harvard

• DB Nick Peltekian, Lehigh

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EXTRA POINT
I listened to a 1A public radio program yesterday titled, How cities and states are fighting subscription traps. The intro began this way:

The average American spends $219 every month on subscriptions. That's more than $2,600 a year. Subscriptions mean predictable profits for companies. That is unless you cancel. Enter subscription traps. That's when companies make it easy for customers to sign up but difficult to cancel. Some also use deceptive tactics that automatically enroll customers into a subscription after a free trial ends without making the terms clear. In recent years, cities and states have moved to crack down on subscription traps.

That hit home for me. Not because I have fallen into subscription traps – I haven't – but because I almost created one a few years ago.

I used to start signing people up for BGA Premium each year on July 1. As a shoestring operation, I had to do the behind-the-scenes stuff manually, and that was always a massive headache. I thought I had a solution when I found a "subscription" functionality – only to discover to my horror a couple of days after turning it on that it would automatically renew each year.

When I realized renewals were automatic, I went back in and removed the "subscription" button. I'm sure that cost me a lot of readers, but at least I knew there wasn't anyone paying for BGA without realizing it. In the final analysis, converting to a donation model for BGA Overtime a couple of years ago probably wasn't the best business decision I ever made, but at least I can sleep at night. ;-)