Coaching Update

Dartmouth has officially announced new tight ends coach Wendy Laurent, a former Penn State offensive lineman and grad assistant at the University of Buffalo and then for two years with the Nittany Lions while working on his graduate degree. (LINK)

Find Laurent's bio as a Penn State player HERE.

The Dartmouth release confirms an earlier BGA report about David Coleman joining the program as an offensive quality control assistant and introduces D'ante Shaw as the new offensive quality control assistant.

Laurent replaces Cheston Blackshear, who departed after five years for a position at his alma mater, the University of Florida. Shaw replaces Tyrone Hendrix while Coleman replaces Mickey Grace, listed now as an offensive analyst at the University of Connecticut.

With spring practice beginning one week from Tuesday, here's the updated Dartmouth football coaching staff:

Buddy Teevens	Robert L. Blackman Head Coach
Sammy McCorkle	Associate Head Coach - Secondary/Special Teams
Don Dobes	Assistant - Defensive Coordinator/Linebackers
Kevin Daft	Assistant - Offensive Coordinator/Quarterbacks
Keith Clark	Assistant - Offensive Line
Duane Brooks	Assistant - Defensive Line
Dave Shula	Assistant - Wide Receivers
Danny O'Dea	Assistant - Running Backs
Ahmaad Smith	Assistant - Nickels
Wendy Laurent	Assistant - Tight Ends
Dino Cauteruccio	Director of Football Operations
Curt Oberg	Special Assistant to the Head Coach
D'ante Shaw	Offensive Quality Control
David Coleman	Defensive Quality Control

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Speaking of coaches, former Dartmouth wide receiver coach Cortez Hankton is on a rocket to the top. From a FootballScoop story headlined, The highest-paid wide receivers coaches in college football: 2022 edition come this (LINK):

When Ed Orgeron was fired and the staff was changed over, LSU paid a premium to pluck Cortez Hankton, still buzzed from the championship champagne, away from Georgia. Hankton netted a $300,000 raise to become the highest-paid wide receivers coach in the industry. 

Hankton is making a cool $850,000+. Here are the top five in the country per the Scoop:

1. Cortez Hankton, LSU -- $850,000+
2. Kasey Dunn, Oklahoma State -- $800,000*
3. Bryan McClendon, Georgia -- $700,000+
4. Dameyune Craig, Texas A&M -- $675,000
5. JaMarcus Shepard, Washington -- $650,000+

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A handful of former Ivy League players get mentioned in a HERO Sports listing of FCS players since 2015 who were and were not invited to the NFL Combine, and how they fared in the NFL Draft (LINK):

Ivy League players invited to the combine who did not get drafted:
2015
Yale RB Tyler Varga
Harvard DE Zach Hodges

2020
Princeton QB Kevin Davidson

Ivy League players drafted who were not invited to the combine:
2016
Princeton TE Seth DeValve (4th round, Cleveland)

2018
Penn WR Justin Watson (5th round, Tampa Bay)
Yale S Foyesade Oluokun (6th round, Atlanta)

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Stepping away from football, Dartmouth has posted a short video look at the sparkling new Engineering and Computer Science Center (ECSC) Building which will hold its first classes starting Monday:

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And in case you think I was exaggerating the mud season issues in these parts, Vermont Digger has a story headlined, ‘It’s of biblical proportions’: Vermonters contend with mud season unlike any in recent memory (LINK)

Even Dartmouth-Hitchcock's DHART helicopter ran into problems with the mud just down the road from us here in Vermont. (LINK)

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EXTRA POINT
It is hard to believe that TV journalist Anderson Cooper, a Yale graduate, introduced a guest yesterday as being from Dartmouth University. Believe it.