One of the questions was about the coaches' dream cars, and while I can't remember the exact model Cortez Hankton mentioned, I do remember the addendum he tacked onto his answer. "And I have one."
Such is the life of a former NFL wide receiver.
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It's a sunny morning here at our Vermont hillside home and our solar tracker is hard at work converting the rays into electricity. With gas prices being what they are right now, the sunshine that keeps our two EVs going is more welcome than ever.
I bring that up because Hankton is the new wide receivers coach at Ohio State and he just met with the media for the first time. Watch this video and you'll see why former Dartmouth coach Buddy Teevens jumped at the chance to give Hankton his first full-time coaching job in 2012, and why he's been so welcome at each of the next stops on his coaching career:
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And speaking of coaches who arrived at Dartmouth in 2012, Kyle Metzler – who lost his job at Penn when head coach Ray Priore was let go – has started the Metzler Performanc Group (MPG), a "standards-based athlete development and evaluation firm built on clarity, accountability, and honest assessment."
Hankton and Metzler were two of three new coaches Dartmouth brought on in 2012. The third was defensive line coach Kevin Lewis, now at Furman where he's joined this year by another former Dartmouth coach. Grayson Kline, who spent a couple of seasons as an offensive quality control coach for the Big Green, is starting his first season as tight ends coach with the Paladins.
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I had to laugh when I saw the headline, Memphis HC Charles Huff Drops Epic Quote Citing Lil Baby to Explain Why Music is Banned at Practice. (LINK)
Green Alert Take: When Buddy Teevens first brought a first tinny speaker out to football practice to play music I asked him to explain the move, and he said it was intended to be a distraction. The thinking was, he said, it would force the players to tune out the music and concentrate on what was happening on the practice field because if they didn't, they'd be completely lost. Or something like that. ;-)
In time the music at practice became almost white noise and when it did I offered Buddy a suggestion. If you really want to help the players learn to deal with distraction, I said, in the middle of a "Lil Baby" song (I obviously didn't say Lil Baby ;-) have it segueway into the loudest refrain from a Kate Smith recording of God Bless America. Just imagine the heads of the offensive linemen popping up at that.
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It's a sunny morning here at our Vermont hillside home and our solar tracker is hard at work converting the rays into electricity. With gas prices being what they are right now, the sunshine that keeps our two EVs going is more welcome than ever.
