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HANOVER – Neither The Optimist nor The Pessimist is in any hurry to begin their tête-à-tête on a fine Tuesday morning. Their server sneaks a peek and smiles as the two men she’s seen get on each other’s nerves eat in relative peace and quiet until the guy who is always smiling starts up with the guy who wears the perpetual frown.
HANOVER – Here’s your weekly six-plus-one thoughts on Dartmouth football and the Ivy League after three weeks.
HANOVER – If Dartmouth was going to win just one of three heart-stoppers to open the season, it picked the right one.
HANOVER - Dartmouth coach Sammy McCorkle got what he expected Saturday.
And more importantly, what he hoped for.
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.
HANOVER – After a difficult start to the 2026 season, the Fearful Forecast rebounded with a flourish last week.
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?
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.