Happy June, everybody.
Can't say I've seen this short blurb for a recruiting service before but I have to admit that what Mrs. BGA calls the Adrian Monk in me desperately wants to change "a Ivy League Player" to "an Ivy League Player."
Head coaches of men’s sports at Dartmouth College earned nearly $40,000 more on average than those of women’s sports last year, according to an annual federal report that requires colleges and universities to make public gender equity information about their athletic programs.
The salary disparities found at Dartmouth are not unusual for the Ivy League, according to numbers from 2019. At Harvard, for instance, head coaches of men’s teams similarly earned nearly $40,000 more than those of women’s teams. The widest gap in the Ivy League was at Columbia, where the difference stood at $81,941 in 2019-20.
Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act data indicates that when revenue generated from football and basketball is taken out of the equation, women’s sports actually make more money than men’s sports at Dartmouth.
Green Alert Take: I'm reminded of one of the best quotes I ever got when I was the Dartmouth beat reporter at the paper. I was working on a similar story and when I gave a Dartmouth mucky-muck the figures I'd gotten from a government report he reminded me that the numbers are self-reported and interpretations of what should be provided for the reports varied greatly from school to school. The quote I got: "Those aren't apples to oranges comparisons. They are apples to hubcaps."
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Kudos to the Dartmouth heavyweights for what they accomplished on the water this weekend. From a college release (LINK):
It had been over a decade since the Dartmouth heavyweight rowing team had qualified any boat for the grand finals at the IRA Championship, and 17 years since the varsity 8 had done so. Yet the Big Green, which did not compete until May 8 this spring due to the COVID-19 pandemic, managed to place all four of their boats in the grand finals, earning a medal in three of them with the varsity eight and third varsity taking the bronze and the second varsity claiming the silver.
Green Alert Take: If I'm a Dartmouth football player I would be congratulating my fellow Big Green athletes while staring lasers at the Ivy League presidents. Not only could the rowers row in the spring but they could go on to the postseason. Football wasn't allowed to do the first in the fall or spring, and is prohibited from ever doing the second, the only Ivy League sport not allowed to go on to the postseason. To quote Ricky Ricardo, the Ivy presidents, "have some 'splainin' to do."
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Coaches from Alabama to Wyoming, Brown to Yale, Maine to San Diego can hit the recruiting trail and have prospect visits starting today. The Associated Press has a story HERE. The lede pretty much says it all:
Minnesota’s P.J. Fleck spoke for many coaches nationwide last December when he noted he still hadn’t shaken the hands of about half the prospects who were about to sign with his program.
Those days finally are coming to an end.
And this from wide receiver prospect Max Reese makes it clear it wasn't just the coaches who were struggling during the shutdown. He said:
“It’s like dating a girl online. You don’t know what you’re really getting until you see them in person.”
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As classes end and the school year winds down The Dartmouth offers an update on the current COVID situation at the college HERE.
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