HANOVER – At the end of the first week of spring practice, Dartmouth coach Sammy McCorkle fielded a question about what positional “room” concerns him most at this juncture.
He pointed to one area, but cautioned against calling it a concern.
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Don't Call It A Position Of Concern
Morning Has Broken
Dartmouth's fourth practice of the spring was moved to the early morning hours because the forecast in the usual 5 p.m. time slot indicated a strong possibility of a thunderstorm. As it turned out, the audible was a good idea because the forecast got it right.
Given pleasant weather at 6 a.m., the practice was held on Memorial Field where Zach Pierson, the Dartmouth program's manager of content services for football, put his camera to work and produced some epic photos.
These pictures were posted on the Dartmouth football Xwitter page as well as its Instagram page. Because a lot of Dartmouth fans do not visit those sites, the photos are reproduced here to help them get the viewership they deserve.
Huge kudos to Zach for his work producing these images from the first full-pad practice of the spring. Click on the photos for a better look.
BGA will be back at practice Thursday for a look at how full-padded sessions are going, and again Saturday for a breakdown of the first half of spring practice.
Saturday Showtime
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| Jordan Belfori, linebackers coach and defensive coordinators, gives instruction to Sean Chester and the other Big Green linebackers. |
HANOVER – Dartmouth wrapped up the first week of spring football on a blustery Saturday morning, and coach Sammy McCorkle is hopeful the blue-chip prospects on campus doing official visits were impressed, because he was.
“We had a better day out here,” McCorkle said. “We were a little bit more of a well-oiled machine. You could see the growth from our first day. Each practice we’ve gotten better and better.
Practice 2 In The Books
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| Offensive line coach Keith Clark watches a drill closely. |
HANOVER – There were a good number of high school juniors on unofficial visits gathered around the midfield huddle at the end of practice Thursday listening to the parting message Sammy McCorkle had for his players after the second of 12 spring sessions.
You didn’t need to be that close to hear what the head coach had to say.
2026 Spring Practice Kicks Off
HANOVER – Sammy McCorkle has no doubt been asked what kind of impact the many changes in the Dartmouth coaching staff will have on the Big Green this year.
What he may not have been asked – at least until Wednesday morning's delayed start of spring practice – is how bringing in no fewer than five new position coaches along with two new quality control coaches, impacts him.
Thank You
HANOVER – Hard as it is for me to believe it, this was the 20th season of Big Green Alert. I never imagined it would last this long.
First and foremost of the people I need to thank is Sammy McCorkle. It would have been easy as a first-year head coach a couple of seasons back for him to say he wouldn’t be comfortable having someone show up at every single practice continuously jotting things down in a notebook. But he took my presence in stride and has been incredibly generous with his time since Day One, always jogging over after practice to answer whatever inane questions I might have.
Your Mileage May Vary – Week 10
HANOVER – Here’s your “Season-Ending Six,” with a bonus tossed in for good measure.
1) A study of the 2013 college football season determined that teams that won the turnover battle won the game 73 percent of the time. Brown came into Saturday’s contest having won all four games in which it had fewer turnovers, and having lost all four games in which it had more. (In one game, the turnovers were even.) Nothing changed against Dartmouth. Brown won the turnover battle by turning the Big Green over four times and the ball over twice, and won the game.
As Playoff Picture Clears, Dartmouth Focuses On Reflection and Reset
HANOVER – Several dozen or more football teams gathered in their football complexes Sunday to watch the FCS playoffs selection show. Dartmouth had a regular team meeting planned, but the Big Green could be excused if tuning in to ESPNU to see which teams made the cut, and who they would be playing was not on the agenda.
Thanks to Saturday’s win over Harvard, Yale knew it was in the field, and learned it would be playing at 15-seed Youngstown State, with the winner going on to face second-seeded Montana State. Harvard, widely expected to be a top-eight seed before being battered by the Bulldogs, was one of the “last four” in the field as an at-large entry, and will play at 12-seed Villanova Saturday, with the winner advancing to a matchup with fifth-seed Lehigh.
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