Dartmouth On A "Prime Time" Junior Corner's Radar

Thanks to a visitor for the link to this blog with background on a "prime time cornerback" who has been offered by Virginia Tech and has "major" interest from Clemson, Georgia, Florida, LSU and Florida State. The story goes on to say the junior has drawn interest from Colorado, Indiana, Stanford and Dartmouth, "where his brother goes."

That primetime cornerback is 5-foot-11, 195-pound Ahmed Shakoor. His brother is Dartmouth freshman defensive back Muhammed Abdul Shakoor. It may be a longshot that he ends up in Hanover, but then again, you never know. ...

As expected, Dartmouth will be holding two spring football scrimmage/games this year, on April 28 and May 5. Both are slated to start at 11 a.m.. The spring practice schedule (pending weather changes):

• Monday April 16th
• Wednesday 18th
• Friday 20th
• Saturday 21st
• Monday 23rd
• Wednesday 25th
• Friday 27th
• Saturday 28th (scrimmage)
• Monday 30th
• Wednesday May 2nd
• Friday 4th
• Saturday 5th (scrimmage)

Former Dartmouth assistant basketball coach Mike Maker is interviewing at Princeton according to this story. His background running a variation of the Princeton offense as a Dartmouth assistant, coaching a near clone of the offense as an assistant at Samford and running a hybrid Princeton offense as an assistant at West Virginia probably earned him the look. The fact that he's a good guy who is well-liked and well-respected couldn't hurt.

The headline in the Boston Globe is succinct: College trustees clash on key values. If you are like me and you barely give a second glance to those trustee ballots from your college and never fully understood what is going on at Dartmouth with regard to the vote, check out this story. Maybe it simplifies things too much, but for this non-Dartmouth grad, it does a good job of explaining what is going on.

Columbia will have three new assistant coaches next fall. That's a significant turnover after Norries Wilson's first season at the helm. ... UNH football will kick off spring drills tomorrow and conclude with a May 5 scrimmage.