Hodgson Is New Coordinator

There's no press release yet, but it's official. Tight ends coach Mike Hodgson has been named Dartmouth's offensive coordinator.

For a different kind of look at incoming wide receiver Ian Ferrell of Colorado, click here. Ferrell, who brings 6-foot-5ish size to an already tall receiving corps, is an All-America lacrosse player who is listed by the Dartmouth lacrosse team (as well as the football team) as an incoming recruit... Missed this one the first tme, but here's a picture and brief story about 280-pound incoming offensive lineman Bo Yanker, who hails from The Lovett School in Atlanta, which sent two-time captain Clayton Smith and lineman/Olympic silver medal shot putter Adam Nelson to Dartmouth.

If you've been scanning the various school sites for news about their recruits, information has been scarce about who will be in Brown's freshman class. You can find the new guys mixed in on this roster.

Green Alert carried reports about the record-low percentage of applicants accepted by most Ivy League schools this year but the stories didn't really hit home because they were built around numbers, not names. The Cape Cod Times puts a face on what the acceptance rate meant in this story, which describes a talented graduating high school senior who was turned down by Dartmouth, Duke, Stanford and Harvard despite "a 3.88 grade point average while carrying heavy academic loads including five advanced placement courses and four honors classes in the past two years." (He was captain of his high school football team but was not going to college as a football player.) ...

As an aside, the paper reports the new grad -- who will attend Bowdoin (a terrific school by the way) -- scored 2,280 on his SAT's. Hmmm. The new SAT scoring system has me a little baffled. I guess I better start studying...