After joining the Dartmouth coaching staff as an offensive assistant for the 2019 season, King mostly worked with the wide receiver core and created scouting reports for the team. In that season, she helped Dartmouth post a 9-1 record en route to an Ivy League Championship.
“(Dartmouth) helped a lot,” King said. “It was another stop along the way. And being with another program, Coach (Buddy) Teevens was awesome. The staff was awesome, the players were awesome. And it was just a really good experience for me.”
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Former Dartmouth lineman/GE CEO Jeff Immelt '78 is out with a new book, Hot Seat: What I Learned Leading a Great American Company. A Fortune review begins this way (LINK):
Why would Jeff Immelt write a book about his troubled tenure as General Electric’s CEO from 2001 to 2017? He confronts that question on page one. “My tenure had ended badly,” he acknowledges in the first paragraph of Hot Seat: What I Learned Leading a Great American Company. “My legacy was, at best, controversial … Maybe it would be better not to write a book at all.”
The New York Times looks at the book HERE.
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Norfolk State became fourth MEAC football team to opt out of spring football just days ahead of the first scheduled FCS game pitting McNeese at Tarleton State Friday evening. Despite the comings and goings, STATS editor Craig Haley is optimistic about the season, Tweeting:
Games were canceled or postponed regularly during the FBS season, nearly 130 overall, according to AP college football writer Ralph Russo. Six bowls were canceled from Dec. 15 and beyond.
Relax, the sun came up after each lost game.
STATS will be releasing its spring Top 25 today.
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The Dartmouth has a couple of stories spun out of the off-again, on-again saga of the school's swimming, golf and men's lightweight rowing teams:
Reinstated athletes alleged Title IX non-compliance in threatened litigation against College
And . . .
Reinstated teams gear up to resume practice
Green Alert Take: The D might want to keep its ear to the ground. There might be some more news on the way.
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Speaking of college teams, AthleticDirectorU writes about The Rise Of Collegiate Esports Programs. From the story (LINK):
As of 2019, according to a tally by ESPN, more than 100 varsity esports programs could be found on college campuses around the country. In the last year, however, that number has grown considerably. LFGroup.gg, a searchable database with information about many of the nation’s programs, lists almost 200 varsity programs.
And . . .
In the 2015-16 academic year, esports scholarships totaled $2.5 (million) nationally. By 2019, national scholarship dollars were up to $15 (,illion)–a 600% increase.
And . . .
All this growth was enough to cause two of the longest-standing governing bodies in college athletics, the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAAE) and the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference (ECAC), to create esports associations with the full backing of their traditional sports leadership.
Green Alert Take: I just hope they don't call the participants athletes.
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I'm a little late to the party with this, but it's worth a look. The Dartmouth posted its photos of the year HERE.
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EXTRA POINT
If you've been following along you know I was whining recently about how logging has closed down my regular hiking trail. That chased me to another trail in our local town forest that we tried for the first time in December only to turn back because of still-unfrozen wetland that made the hiking cold, wet and unpleasant.
Given single-digit nights finally freezing the wetlands I gave the trail another chance and I'm glad I did. It turns out that except for a couple of hundred yards on an old logging road the trail is terrific, it's the exercise I need, and the view is close to 360 degrees at the clearing atop the mountain. Here's a look at the White Mountains I snapped yesterday before heading back down:
