FootballScoop has a ranking of the highest-paid wide receiver coaches in the nation HERE and former Dartmouth assistant Cortez Hankton comes in tied for sixth at $550,000 per year. Find his Dartmouth bio HERE and his Georgia bio HERE.
From last summer: An anonymous survey completed by the coaches around college and NFL football says that Georgia's Cortez Hankton is a top rising assistant (LINK).
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Green Alert Take: For several years on BGA Premium I ran a weekly Q&A with coaches and others around the Dartmouth program asking questions designed to get a sense of their personalities away from the game. I’d ask their favorite meal, something they absolutely would not eat, their hobbies, their favorite TV show, the last book they read and much more. One question was, “What is your dream car?” Only one person I ever interviewed followed that question up with a little extra information: “And I own it.” That was Cortez Hankton, who was able to buy that ride after playing a handful of years in the NFL. Now, even if it hadn’t, he could probably afford that car!
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This note from the web surprised me.
The non-scholarship Pioneer Football League, widely viewed as the lowest-rated FCS conference in the country, had six active players and three practice squad players on NFL rosters last fall. Two played under former Dartmouth assistant and Princeton head coach Roger Hughes at Stetson.
PFL Players in the NFL
Tight end Donald Parham (Stetson) – Chargers
Tight end Adam Trautman (Dayton) – Saints
Receiver/Return Specialist Jamal Agnew (San Diego) – Lions
Tight end Ross Dwelley (San Diego) – 49ers
Kicker Jason Myers (Marist) – Seahawks
Tight end Eric Saubert (Drake) – Jaguars
Practice Squad
Quarterback Josh Johnson (San Diego) – Lions
Linebacker Donald Payne (Stetson) – Ravens
Quarterback Reid Stinnett (San Diego) – Dolphins
Green Alert Take: Interesting that, as is the case with Ivy League alums in the NFL, tight end is the position of choice with four of the six active PFL players in that position.
And in case you are wondering, the Ivy League had 21 players on NFL rosters to start the season with 13 active and eight on practice squads. (LINK) Dartmouth's Niko Lalos (Giants) and Matt Kaskey (Panthers) were both promoted from practice squads during the year.
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Former Dartmouth long snapper Grant Jaffe (BIO) has a new video interview headlined, The Sacred Art of Long Snapping REVEALED. I kept wondering if at some point he was going to have a little fun at the expense of a couple of guests who clearly haven't watched a lot of football, but he never takes the easy way out. Watch it below or HERE.
Dartmouth College trustees last week approved a 2% increase in tuition, room, board and fees for fiscal year 2022, raising the total to $78,010.
The trustees, who met virtually for their annual spring meeting on Thursday and Friday, also approved a $1.2 billion operating budget for the fiscal year that begins July 1, Dartmouth said in an announcement on its website Tuesday. That compares to a $1.13 billion budget approved at this time last year, shortly before the COVID-19 pandemic hit New England hard and prompted some cutbacks, layoffs and early retirements at Dartmouth.
Dartmouth in September announced that its endowment had generated a return of 7.6% for fiscal year 2020 and had risen to a record $5.98 billion.
Green Alert Take: Discuss among yourselves.
The temperature is expected to approach 60 degrees on our Vermont hillside today. While most of our property still has at least eight inches of snow on it, grass has started peeking through at the base of a few fir trees alongside the driveway on the south side of our home. If it does get as warm as predicted and there's more melting I may just break out a lawn chair and my Kindle to spend a little time reading and soaking up sun this afternoon on our first patch of green in 2021!
