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Former Dartmouth quarterback Brian Mann '02 will be introduced today as the new athletic director at William & Mary.
Mann, who stands third on the Dartmouth career list for passing yards, left private business and started his career in athletic administration in Hanover in 2009, working as the Big Green's director of football operations for two years. He then shifted to the fundraising arm of the Dartmouth athletic department before eventually moving on to Rice University and in February of 2019 to UC Berkeley.
As a fifth-year senior in 2002 Mann set the Dartmouth single-season yardage mark for passing with 2,913 yards, a record that still stands. He's third in career passing with 5,912 yards.
Find the William & Mary press release about its new athletic director HERE and a "What They Are Saying," post HERE.
W&M President Katherine Rowe:
“He has a wonderful habit of exceeding goals at top institutions, which also is a hallmark at William & Mary. . .. (He) has the strategic insights and know-how to get us to where we need to go.”
Green Alert Take: In the interest of full disclosure, I consider Brian a good friend. That said, I wholeheartedly agree with those who say W&M hit a home run. I'll be tuned in to his introductory press conference at noon today HERE.
Green Alert Take II: The field of strong candidates to be the next permanent director of athletics at Dartmouth has shrunk by one.
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A news service story about Dartmouth's latest Community Conversation with outgoing Provost Joseph Helble offers another sign of progress looking ahead to the fall under the headline, Community Conversations: Masks off, Vaccines on; Many COVID-19 restrictions will be lifted on campus, effective June 24. (LINK)
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EXTRA POINT
When we lived on the shoulder of Moose Mountain I spent time on a Hanover rural broadband committee. I remember a radiologist (or maybe he was some other kind of doc) pleading at one of our meetings for improved Internet in rural Etna because without it he couldn't do work from home and real estate values in the outlying areas of town might drop.
When we lived on the shoulder of Moose Mountain I spent time on a Hanover rural broadband committee. I remember a radiologist (or maybe he was some other kind of doc) pleading at one of our meetings for improved Internet in rural Etna because without it he couldn't do work from home and real estate values in the outlying areas of town might drop.
I'm no doctor but I felt his pain back then and I feel it now. I suppose we should consider ourselves fortunate that we at least have DSL at our Vermont hillside house, but yesterday was another day when Mrs. BGA was videoconferencing from home and had to throw up her hands and switch from our DSL service in favor of the mobile hotspot that we got when we were living off the grid. I've got a family video I'm going to toss up on YouTube this afternoon and I'll be parking the VW bus outside the library to use its signal rather than be stuck for hours trying to upload it from home.
Seriously, shouldn't the stability and speed we get from our regular internet provider be more robust than what is beamed from a cell tower to a mobile hotspot?
For what it's worth, we've heard that fiber optic internet will be installed in the next two years but I'll believe it when I see it . . . or when the "buffering" stops. I just hope it's working when I try to watch the presser at noon.
