Illinois Lineman Headed to Hanover

Alex Wodka, a 6-3, 285 lineman from Buffalo Grove, Ill., has apparently chosen Dartmouth. This link says he's made a decision and this message board says that decision is to come to Hanover.

A former volunteer assistant at Dartmouth who has worked in the NFL in recent years has been hired as North Carolina's offense coordinator and quarterbacks coach. From a story in the Herald Sun:

(John) Shoop spent 2004 as the quarterbacks coach for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He had spent four years (1995-98) as an assistant for the Carolina Panthers before taking his job in Chicago. A 1991 graduate of the University of the South, where he played quarterback, Shoop spent the 1991 season as a voluntary assistant at Dartmouth and worked from 1992-94 as a graduate assistant at Vanderbilt.

Of the Dartmouth football players running track this winter, Pete Pidermann had the best start. Read about the Big Green "thin-clads" as they used to be called, in The Dartmouth. There's another meet today and if I can get over there, I will.

Not much time this morning because there's a youth basketball game at 9 a.m.. Check back later for an update.