Monday, October 26, 2026

A New Name

BGA Overtime had What They Did & What They Said last night. Come back tonight for Your Mileage May Vary, one of BGA OT's most read features. (LINK)

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Heading Dartmouth way next year is defensive lineman Jonathan Ibeawuchi of Rock Bridge HS and Columbia, Mo. The 6-foot-1, 265-pound Ibeawuchi, whose social media shows some impressive weightlifting numbers, also has offers from Arkansas State and Missouri State. (LINK)

Ibeawuchi is the 21st recruit BGA has identified in this cycle. Find the list before his commitment by scrolling down HERE.

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Speaking of recruiting, former Yale receiver Mason Shipp has done some digging and has an interesting post on his social media that begins this way:
It seems like anybody can beat anybody this year in the Ivy League

Except Harvard

Harvard is one of three undefeated teams remaining in the entire  @NCAA_FCS
 and is the only undefeated team in @IvyLeague conference play thus far

I was curious to see if their early season dominance links back to recruiting

My findings: They stand in a league of their own

When a recruit holds a Harvard offer & an offer to another Ivy League program (and commits to one of them), the recruit picks Harvard 65% of the time

Find Shipp's full post HERE, and be sure to bring up his chart of how many recruits at each Ivy League school turned down Harvard offers. His study suggests Dartmouth and Yale lead the way with three each.

Green Alert Take: The sense here is the numbers may not be completely accurate but the picture they paint is – if that makes any sense.

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The local Valley News has a Columbia game story HERE.

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The Columbia Spectator has a story HERE.

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Here's a video recap from Dartmouth's social media:

Recap

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Click HERE for another story about Dave Shula '81, the former record-setting Dartmouth wide receiver and later assistant coach, returning to run Shula's Restaurant Group.

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EXTRA POINT
The hourly forecast for our part of northern New England  suggests it will be mostly sunny with a high in the low 60s today. With colder weather just around the corner, this seems like a perfect day to fire up the '84 VW camper, park it somewhere interesting in the sun, and get some writing done in my "mobile office." There won't be many more opportunities before "Wiffle" heads into the garage for winter storage, and who knows what the future holds for the bus when it comes out of hibernation in the spring?


I ruined my share of model airplanes and cars growing up but Mrs. BGA gave me this kit not long after we got our bus and I have to say I did an OK job with it. Since putting this together I replaced the canvas poptop with a gray one that has screen windows on the side, but apart from that, this is a pretty fair representation of our old bus.

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While I'm in a weather forecasting mode, it could still change but the temperature at kickoff for Friday's game against Harvard is projected to be 57 degrees, going down to 48 by the end of the game. There's full sun in the forecast during the day and just a light breeze expected. Perfect.
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