HANOVER – Ricky Santos knows better than most the challenge freshman Miles Teodecki faces as Penn’s starting quarterback. But he also knows you can win with a first-year QB for one very good reason.
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Fearful Forecast Week Three
HANOVER – After a difficult start to the 2026 season, the Fearful Forecast rebounded with a flourish last week.
We’ll never know whether Yale would have beaten Cornell if starting quarterback Dante Reno had been available, which is why the only wrong prediction from a week ago deserves to have an asterisk, right?
Questions And Answers
BGA readers came through with questions for Coach Sammy McCorkle and he kindly answered a representative selection of those questions after Wednesday’s practice. What follows is a gently edited transcript of his answers to your questions. Where similar questions were asked they were combined.
And keeping with the theme, we begin the Q&A with a couple of questions I asked Wednesday coming out of last week’s loss to Monmouth.
Q: What are your thoughts looking back at that game?
The Optimist-The Pessimist Before Penn
HANOVER – While The Pessimist chats up their usual server at the door, The Optimist sits impatiently at the usual table studying a sheet of paper he brought from home.
When The Pessimist finally sits down The Optimist immediately slides the paper in front of his old friend.
Your Mileage May Vary After Monmouth
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And now for today's post . . .
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It’s Monday, and that means it’s time for your weekly Six Pack–plus one look at Dartmouth football after week two of the season, so buckle up.
1) Might as well start with the big one. It says here that Dartmouth has to be
What They Did & What They Said
HANOVER – If retooling a football team that took a heavy graduation hit is a little like putting together a jigsaw puzzle, Dartmouth found one of the most important missing pieces in Saturday’s loss to Monmouth.
Big Green Comes Up Short Against Monmouth
HANOVER – The concept was sound against a team that a week earlier had scored touchdowns on 60- and 46-yard passes. Stop the big play and see if a Monmouth team seemingly not built to play ball control can beat you with extended drives.
Turns out they could.
Monmouth Preview
HANOVER – Sammy McCorkle answered the way you’d probably expect him to answer.
The question: Are you one of those coaches who believes a team’s biggest improvement is between the first game and the second?
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