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Subject: Re: Pretty sure this is a new thing

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Date Posted: 12:53:09 10/10/25 Fri
In reply to: Go Green 's message, "Pretty sure this is a new thing" on 06:57:18 10/10/25 Fri

Obviously, this is only one data point but, given the rarity that co-championships are acknowledged as shared, it's worth noting.

Maybe it's just a "one-off" that is not the tip of a new policy spear.

On the other hand, maybe this is a new policy implemented by "new" Dartmouth Mike Harrity, who has been on the job three years now.

"New" Dartmouth president Sian Leah Beilock strikes me as a real maverick, just the type who would encourage her subordinates to call balls and strikes as they see them.

Maybe this is the athletic analog to Dartmouth graduate Jeff Immelt, who took over as the new CEO of GE in 2001 and, all of sudden, corporate earnings started fluctuating wildly from quarter to quarter after years of smooth compounding. Was GE a more volatile company after 2001? Yes, but really it was that Immelt stopped Jack Welch's decades-long habit of aggressive accounting management/outright fraud.

Sports information departments of course are under tremendous pressure to report mostly good news and to present it in the most flattering manner possible. That's their job.

Any candor in terms of everything not being Lake Wobegon, where every child is above average, is refreshing if only for its rarity.

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Author: Ghost [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 19:22:04 10/10/25 Fri All good observations and kudos to Dartmouth. An obvious tiebreaker in football and most other sports is head-to-head competition. Last year, in a summer camp 'everybody gets a trophy' scenario, a three way tie when one team beats the other two, is clearly not a tie. The tie was broken on the field.