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2008
Schedule
Sept.
20 at
Colgate
Sept. 27 UNH
Oct. 4 at Penn
Oct. 11 Yale
Oct. 18 Holy Cross
Oct. 25 at Columbia
Nov. 1 Harvard
Nov. 8 at Cornell
Nov. 15 Brown
Nov. 22 at Princeton
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Improved Depth
'Almost' Everywhere
Wide
Receiver Is Another Story, But Teevens Says He's Not Worried
By Bruce Wood
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Aug. 27, 2008
HANOVER – After Wednesday’s first practice for the 2008 season,
Dartmouth coach Buddy Teevens was asked about the improving depth of
his team.
Teevens talked about the increased number of skilled players in the
secondary. (The preseason roster features 23 players there, including a
whopping 13 corners.) He talked about an offensive line that for the
first time in the four years he’s been back in Hanover is fully stocked
with 15 of the big guys. And he talked about the quarterback position,
where the Big Green now goes six deep.
He did not talk about wide receiver and with good reason.
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Added Points
Total Ivy Projection
Favorites
Are The Same, But There Are
Some Surprises
By Bruce Wood
www.biggreenalert.com
Aug. 21, 2008
HANOVER – Someone asked the other day if I was going to "cook the
books," and make sure the Added Points Formula (APT) to mathematically
analyze/predict the 2008 Ivy League race came up favorable with regard
to Dartmouth.
My answer: no.
So how did Dartmouth fare?
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Playoffs Or An
11th Game?
Ivy
Coaches Weigh In On An Imaginary 'Either-Or' Scenario
By Bruce Wood
www.biggreenalert.com
Aug. 14, 2008
HANOVER – You are the head coach of an Ivy League football team. It
seems that every other league in the country allows its teams to play
11 games and this year some are playing 12. Your team is stuck on 10,
as it has been since 1980. You are frustrated.
You are the head coach of an Ivy League football team. Every other
sport in the Ivy League can go on to the postseason to prove itself
against the best, but your team cannot, for reasons no one can really
explain. You are frustrated.
Late one night, after your assistants have gone home to their families,
you are rooting around for some reason in a dark and deserted corner of
the football equipment room when you stumble across an old bottle. As
you rub dust off the label to see just what some former denizen of the
dungeon had been drinking a genie squirts out. While you are marveling
at his physical resemblance to Warren Sapp and wishing he looked more
like Barbara Eden (you are not married by the way), the big fella says
he will grant you one of two wishes. But only one.
You can have an 11th game.
Or you can go to the NCAA playoffs.
What do you pick?
That was the question the Green Alert Genie popped on the Ivy League
coaches at the annual media day gathering in New Haven earlier this
week. The result?
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Toughest
Position To Fill?
Ivy Coaches Pretty Much In Agreement
By Bruce Wood
www.biggreenalert.com
Aug. 13, 2008
HANOVER – And the hardest position to
recruit for Ivy League coaches is ...
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The Great
Financial Aid Divide
By Bruce Wood
www.biggreenalert.com
Aug. 12, 2008
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The difference between a tremor and an earthquake
depends on where your feet are planted.
That appears to be true, at least, with regard to how much upheaval
there will be in the landscape of Ivy League football – in all of Ivy
League athletics, for that matter – in the aftermath of sweeping reform
in financial aid over the past year plus.
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Poll Positions
No Big Surprise In Annual Media
Balloting
By Bruce
Wood
www.biggreenalert.com
Aug. 12, 2008
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – There was nothing terribly surprising about the 2008
Ivy League media poll, except for one notable voting irregularity that
Brown coach Phil Estes got a chuckle out of.
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While a number of you have already signed up for the Big Green Alert
2008 premium service (thank you very much), the subscription cycle is
only now officially kicking off.
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I haven't worked up the numbers for the 2007 season, but in 2006 there
were 161 full-length stories on the Green Alert site. That worked out
to about 128,000 words. There were 45 full-length stories before the
first game. I'm sure last year was about the same and expect this year
to be no different.
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