The Dartmouth coaching staff continues to evolve, with tight ends coach Wendy Laurent departing Hanover in favor of an analyst role at Ohio State. Laurent had been named the Big Green's associate head coach only last year.
Green Alert Take: Upon hiring Wendy Laurent, Buddy Teevens said he had a bright future, comparing him favorably to former Big Green assistant Cortez Hankton, now on staff at LSU. While recent changes in FBS coaching rules allow analysts more involvement in practice, it's interesting that the move for an associate head coach at a successful FCS program would be to an analyst's role, rather than a regular position coach.
Green Alert Take II: As a fellow Penn Stater, it's easy to wish Laurent good luck in his new role. But not too much good luck for tOSU. ;-)
Here are changes in the Dartmouth staff under Sammy McCorkle:
• new offensive coordinator 2025 – Shane Montgomery
• new secondary coach 2025 – TBA
• new nickels/special teams coach 2025 – TBA
• new head of strength and conditioning 2025 – TBA
Also:
• new wide receivers coach 2024 – Dan Herbert
• new running backs coach 2024 – Braxton Chapman
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The new hires will be on the field with the Big Green when it begins spring practice in 48 days. Here's the schedule for the 12 days of spring ball allowed Ivy League teams:
SPRING PRACTICE
Tuesday, April 8
Thursday April 10
Saturday, April 12
Tuesday, April 15
Thursday, April 17
Saturday, Aprl 19
Tuesday, April 29
Thursday, May 1
Saturday, May 3
Tueday, May 6
Thursday, May 8
Saturday, May 10
Once again, practice will be interrupted for a week midway through, allowing coaches to hit the road recruiting and players to recover and gear up for the final two weeks of spring.
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The NFL Women's Forum will coincide with at the NFL Combine in Indianapolis. A release from the league about the forum included this:
For the second year in a row, the NFL will also honor the life and legacy of Buddy Teevens, former Dartmouth College head football coach and advocate for the inclusion of women in football, with the presentation of the Buddy Teevens Forward Progress Award.
Former NFL head coach Ron Rivera, who had onetime Dartmouth assistant Jennifer King among the women on his staff, won the inaugural Buddy Teevens Forward Progress Award last year. (LINK)
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EXTRA POINT
The network news last night mentioned that the term Artificial Intelligence was coined by a mathematics professor at Dartmouth. A web search this morning confirmed that the term was first used to promote a workshop regarding what previously been called, among other things, cybernetics or automata theory. From a Science and Technology web page (LINK):
In 1956, two years after the death of (Alan) Turing, John McCarthy, a professor at Dartmouth College, organized a summer workshop to clarify and develop ideas about thinking machines — choosing the name “artificial intelligence” for the project. The Dartmouth conference, widely considered to be the founding moment of Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a field of research, aimed to find “how to make machines use language, form abstractions and concepts, solve kinds of problems now reserved for humans and improve themselves.”
