Saturday, March 28, 2026

Briefly

Here's how graduating Dartmouth safety Sean Williams performed at his Pro Day:

Per results from  the NFL Combine, Williams' vertical would have been third out of the 16 safeties who tested their vert. While the official results of the Combine are a reminder that more and more prospects limit their testing at the event, click HERE to see how Williams' results compare to other safeties.

Former Dartmouth defensive back Onye Onuoha, who grad transferred to Butler, was back in town for Pro Day but his results were not readily available.

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EXTRA POINT
This has been mentioned here before but one time when the long-suffering Dartmouth men's basketball program was conducting a search for a new coach former Valley News sports editor Don Mahler pushed for the school to try to bring Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to the Ivy League. At that juncture, Abdul-Jabbar was looking to get into coaching, and a splash hire like that would certainly have brought a lot of attention to Dartmouth.

The window for hiring Kareem closed some time ago, but here's a similar idea. How about the Big Green making a run at Bobby Hurley, recently let go at Arizona State?

As a former Duke standout, Hurley is no stranger to elite academic institutions, and he grew up in the northeast, so he's no stranger to the Ivy League footprint. He began his head coaching career at Buffalo, which isn't exactly the ACC, so he's not too proud to coach without the bright lights.

Granted, Hurley's ASU tenure did not end the way he would have preferred, but keep in mind fellow Dukie Tommy Amaker didn't have that much success as a head coach before Harvard, and all he's done is lead a Crimson team that had never won the Ivy League to seven conference championships. That's right. Seven!

It's been 67 years since Dartmouth won the Ivies. Maybe a call to Hurley wouldn't be a bad idea, huh?
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