Saturday, May 22, 2010

Wikipedia-Ing the Coaches

Seven of the eight Ivy League head football coaches have Wikipedia pages. (The only one missing is new Princeton coach Bob Surace.) Most are little more than a minimal bio and won-loss records although the pages for Dartmouth's Buddy Teevens and Cornell's Kent Austin are a little longer because of the stops they've made in their careers.

Wikipedia pages for Ivy League head football coaches:
Brown coach Phil Estes
Columbia coach Norries Wilson
Cornell coach Kent Austin
Dartmouth coach Buddy Teevens
Harvard coach Tim Murphy
Penn coach Al Bagnoli
Yale coach Tom Williams
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New Hampshire is off the Dartmouth football schedule but it's still interesting to take a look at the bullet the Big Green is dodging this fall. There's some pretty thorough advance information on the Wildcats in the UNH CAA preview.

Speaking of which, it is May 20 and the 2010 CAA Preview website has been posted here. The site is interactive and allows media outlets to download the raw text in Word or Excel documents for use in newspapers, preseason magazines and on other sites. Very forward-thinking stuff.

The CAA also has a football blog, a Twitter page and a YouTube channel.

Other leagues could learn a thing or two about getting their product out in front of people by following the CAA lead.

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