Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Familiar Names In The News

A couple of coaches who spent time in Hanover are in the news. As reported a few days ago by FootballScoop, Scott Sallach is moving from Princeton to Elon where he will be reunited with former Dartmouth assistant Pete Lembo. The Burlington Times News has a story. Sallach was at Dartmouth from 1998-2002 and has been at Princeton since. Until it's taken down you can find his Princeton bio here.

John Shoop, a "volunteer quarterbacks coach" at Dartmouth in 1991, is now the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at North Carolina. Inside Carolina has a five-part interview with him this week. Here are links to Part 1 on his acclimating to UNC, and Part 2 on the art of gameplanning. (After Dartmouth Shoop was a grad assistant at Vanderbilt before going to the NFL in a variety of roles. He's been back in the college game at UNC for two years. Find his North Carolina bio here.)

The Daily Dartmouth writes about outgoing college president Jim Wright's "Forever New" 10-year report. The D reports that despite the current economic woes ...
Wright said he will preserve the College’s new financial aid policy, enacted last year, which eliminated loans, offered free tuition to students whose families earn less than $75,000 per year, and extended need blind admissions for international students. Financial aid is crucial to maintain the academic quality of admitted students, he said.
Speaking of economic woes, the Yale Daily reports that, "The value of the University’s endowment fell an estimated 25 percent, roughly $6 billion, between the end of June and December ..."

Like Dartmouth, which put the Memorial Field grandstand rebuilding project on hold for at least a year, Yale has had to temporarily shelve some projects. From the story:
"Major construction projects will be stalled because of the economic woes. Construction on the already-delayed Yale Biology Building project will be postponed for another year, (Yale president Richard) Levin said, and the School of Management’s new campus — along with the second phase of the renovation of the Yale University Art Gallery — will be tabled indefinitely “until funding is secured or market conditions improve.”
Finally, there's a note to subscribers about the future of BGA on the Big Green Alert premium site.

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