Thursday, February 08, 2007

Connecticut Running Back Turning Green

MORE to come in a bit, but I wanted to get the first post of the morning out ...

TJ Cameron, the talented running back from Greenwich, Conn., who missed most of his senior season, made it official yesterday, committing to Dartmouth over Penn, Princeton and Cornell. For a brief story and nice picture of the 6-foot-1, 185-pound Cameron, click here. Said his coach:
“He’s got great hands, is fast and elusive. He was always a threat to run for a touchdown every time he touched the ball."
For a Q&A with Cameron from last fall, click here.

One who got away is Andrew Niermann, a 6-foot-1, 305-pound guard from Louisiana. He flirted with Dartmouth before choosing Tulane. From the story: Niermann, who has a 4.0 grade-point average the past three years and scored a 25 on the ACT, said he almost picked Dartmouth. "I really looked at them for a while," he said. "New Hampshire being the state school was one of the drawbacks."

The Ivy League web site has been posting profiles every day about interesting and accomplished alumni who were student-athletes while in college. For as much time as I spend keeping an eye on things Ivy, even I have missed more of them than I've read. To catch up, click here. Yesterday I read perhaps a half dozen stories about Dartmouth alums that I missed the first time around.

Dartmouth's hiring process as a college -- not an athletic department -- has come under scrutiny. From an AP story: "Dartmouth College has an overly slow hiring process, a lack of communication among employees and staff confusion over where to take complaints, according to a set of reports from committee's set up to study the school's administration."

Dartmouth isn't mentioned in this New York Times story about rural colleges and the challenges they face, and to be sure, the Ivy League school is different than a small institution in Arkansas, but there's still food for thought here.

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