California Receiver Chooses Dartmouth

Hawaiian lineman Elliot Kastner is the focus of attention earlier this week on signing day.

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Scout.com is reporting Corey Vann, a 6-foot-1, 160-pound wide receiver from Harvard-Westlake in California is headed to Dartmouth. Find a video that shows him in action here.

Vann caught 46 pass for 627 yards and nine touchdowns last fall. He averaged 13.6 yards per catch with 10 caches for 104 yards in a 21-21 tie with Lynwood and six grabs for 120 yards and three touchdowns in a 28-13 win over Chaminade. ... Find a series of photos of Vann here.

From an LA Times Insider story on the Lynwood game:

But the story of the game was Berman’s favorite target -- senior Corey Vann, who had 10 catches for 104 yards before leaving the game in the third quarter because of leg cramps.

Listed in the Harvard-Westlake game-program at 6 feet 1 and 160 pounds, Vann may not have ideal size or blazing speed but he gave Lynwood's secondary big-time problems every time a pass was thrown his direction.

With Levy lining him up in a variety of formations, Vann was unstoppable throughout the first half. Even when Lynwood moved Samuels over to defend him in single coverage, Vann still found a way to get open.

It would not be a reach to think that if Vann had stayed in the game, he could have finished with 20 catches.

Vann made the All CIF Southern Section Football Selections Northwest Division first team. ... For an impressive list of Harvard-Westlake graduates currently playing college sports (including Dartmouth basketball guard Jabari Trotter) click here.

UPDATE: The known ecruiting as of Friday morning can be found here.

They haven't forgotten. A blogger unhappy with coach Doug Marrone at Syracuse had this to say:

SU’s decision to hire Marrone has left me convinced that they no longer care about football. At this point, all that’s left for them to do is hire away Dartmouth’s Dean of Admissions.

Ouch.

The Daily Dartmouth follows up on a pledge not a to cut any varsity sports at the college in the face the economic downturn. From the story:

As the College faces a shrinking operating budget for the next fiscal year, the Dartmouth athletic department must scale back and assess its priorities, picking and choosing where to make cuts and where to maintain funding.

“We’re not any different from other institutions,” Harper said. “The College is looking to trim costs all around. We rely heavily on soft money and endowments, and those have been significantly down.”

Harper said the cuts will be discussed when the administration meets with the Board of Trustees this weekend.