TigerBlog is not a fan. On the other hand, none of its really stuck around very long, and it did look sort of pretty as it fell in big wet flakes.
It's not even winter yet, of course. That's still a little more than two weeks away. It's wintry, though, as the first week of December rolls through.
Will it be a white Christmas? Will it be a white winter? Last year wasn't too bad in terms of snow.
TAGD - Tiger Athletics Give Day - has come and gone, with a record amount of $3,185,738 raised in 24 hours, running the six-year TAGD total to more than $13 million. That money has gone directly into programs that benefit the current student-athletes, and Princeton Athletics is grateful to all those who so generously donated this week.
Also, if you didn't get a chance to check out the "Tiger Feud" videos - modeled on "Family Feud" - you can do so HERE, HERE and HERE.
The host was Noah Savage, a former men's basketball player. You can just say that Noah was born to do stuff like this.
In other big Tuesday news, Princeton football player Jeremiah Tyler was named a finalist for the Bushnell Cup as the Ivy League's Defensive Player of the Year. Tyler and Dartmouth's Jack Traynor are the two defensive finalists, and quartebacks E.J. Perry of Brown and Kurt Rawlings of Yale are the finalists on offense.
The awards will be presented Monday afternoon in New York City. Tyler, a junior from Detroit, is a very deserving finalist, after his unanimous first-team All-Ivy League season that saw him lead the league in tackles for loss and generally wreak havoc on a weekly basis with one impact play after another.
In addition, his enthusiasm is as obvious as his explosiveness.
Princeton had had a great run of football success this decade, and that's translated into Bushnell Cup success as well. In fact, the Bushnell Cup dates to 1970, and from that first year through 2012 (a total of 43 seasons), Princeton had six Bushnell winners - Walt Snickenberger (1974), Jason Garrett (1988), Judd Garrett (1989), Keith Elias (1993), David Patterson (1995), Jeff Terrell (2006).
Of course, for most of that time, there was only one Bushnell winner. The league split the award into offensive and defensive winners in 2010.
Since 2012, Princeton has had six more winners -
Mike Catapano (2012 •
Defensive), Quinn Epperly (2013 • Offensive), Mike Zeuli (2014 • Defensive), John Lovett (2016 • Offensive), Chad Kanoff (2017 • Offensive), John Lovett (2018 • Offensive).
Princeton went 8-2 this fall and came within a Hail Mary and a recovered onsides kick of a second-straight Ivy League championship. Tyler is not the only key piece of that team who returns next year, and Princeton figures to be right back in the hunt for another championship after having won three in the last seven years.
The fall season, by the way, is still not over for Princeton Athletics.
The women's volleyball team will be at Penn State tomorrow night in the opening round of the NCAA tournament. Princeton is there for the third time in four years.
It's also Princeton's eighth overall, and seven of those eight have included Sabrina King as either a player (1997, 1999, 2000), assistant coach (2007) or head coach (2016, 2017, 2019). King is not the only one on the team who knows what to expect from the big stage; there are seven players on the team who were there in two years ago.
Then again, the opponent also knows a thing or two about being involved this time of year.
Penn State is ranked seventh nationally and is the No. 11 seed in the tournament. The Nittany Lions, who tied for second in the Big Ten, are making their 39th NCAA appearance. Just so you know, there have only been 39 NCAA tournaments in women's volleyball.
Penn State has also won seven NCAA titles, including six since 2007.
In other words, it'll be quite a challenge and quite an atmosphere for the Tigers.
On the other hand, that's the fun part.
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