Injury and illness conspired to keep Dartmouth safety Tony Pastoors '10 from accomplishing everything he hoped on the football field but he's making up for it in the front office for the Los Angeles Rams. The team's "vice president, football & business administration," is having his name floated around the NFL when jobs open up. One of the latest stories mentioning him is from the Las Vegas Review Journal, which writes (LINK):
With free agency, the draft and potentially naming a new head coach all facing the Raiders, they are expected to act expeditiously in finding a replacement for Mike Mayock, who they fired as general manager on Monday.
The outlet offers capsules of a dozen or so possible GMs for the team including this one:
Tony Pastoors, Rams vice president: The former Dartmouth football standout has played a key role in the construction of the Rams. His deft handling of the salary cap has enabled the Rams to add star players under big contracts without sacrificing soundness across the roster.
Find Pastoors' LA Rams bio HERE.
For a story I wrote about Pastoors back in 2009 when as a Dartmouth student told me he hoped one day to be general manager for a professional sports franchise, click HERE.
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Cortez Hankton's move from Georgia to LSU is now official. New LSU coach Brian Kelly on the former Dartmouth wide receivers coach who will work with the receivers and serve as passing game coordinator in Baton Rouge (LINK):
“Cortez is a tremendous coach who has developed outstanding receivers everywhere he’s been. He understands what it takes to win at the highest level having spent the past seven years in the SEC. Our players will benefit from Cortez and all that he has to offer – on the field and off the field. The experience he brings to our program will help create a championship culture at LSU.”
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A Yardbarker story headlined Ranking the new college football head coaching hires for 2021 (LINK) might catch the eye for a couple of reasons.
First, yes that's former Dartmouth provost and interim president Carol Folt, now president of USC, smiling broadly alongside Lincoln Riley, the Trojans' new head coach.
UMass hopes that their second helping of Don Brown is just a great as the first go around. Brown's first stint with the Minutemen saw the best five-year stretch in the program's history (43-19) and won two CAA titles. He knows the New England area very well, coaching at UMass, Plymouth State, Dartmouth, Yale, Brown, Northeastern, UConn, and Boston College.
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The only real news on the transfer portal front has to do with Dartmouth's fifth opponent this fall. New Hampshire running back Carlos Washington won't be on the field when the Wildcats visit the Big Green on Oct. 15 because the December UNH grad has decided to take his talents to Southeastern Louisiana as a grad transfer.
Washington ran for 547 yards and caught 137 yards of passes this fall as half of what was expected to be a potent running back tag team with sophomore Dylan Laube. But it was Laube who did the most damage in New Hampshire's loss to Dartmouth last fall with TD runs of 75 and 53 yards.
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Seth Tow, a name some of you may have come to know from his stint covering the Dartmouth football beat in his one season in Hanover last fall, Tweeted that his new destination will be back in Bloomington, Ind., where he went to college. He wrote: "I’m joining @theheraldtimes to cover HS sports and IU women’s basketball, men’s soccer, and more."
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EXTRA POINT
For those of you keeping score, the snowfall that buried much of the Northeast was a dud here. While they got as much as a foot just south and west of Hanover, we received just two-to-three inches.
That's not much but our plow guy showed up anyway. He's a good fellow and I'm guessing he's feeling a little awkward because, rather than charge by the storm – which is how our guy in Hanover charged us – we pay him a flat rate for the season. If there are a lot of storms, advantage us. If there's not much snow, advantage him. So far it's been huge advantage him with just two visits to date (and the first no more necessary than this last one).
Things could still even out, of course. I'm gonna guess he hopes so, because he hasn't sent us a bill yet and might be feeling a little sheepish doing so if we don't get a few real storms before he pulls the plow off his pickup truck. But that's fine. It all evens out in the end.
