Our local daily follows up the appointment of Mike Harrity as Dartmouth's athletic director HERE.
Nothing really new in the story but it does make this distinction between Harrity and predecessor Harry Sheehy, whose tenure saw the Big Green continue to struggle mightily in Ivy League competition – except for on the football field:
Having plucked Sheehy from his long-standing employment at smaller Williams College in northwestern Massachusetts, Dartmouth this time went for a candidate from the NCAA big time. Harrity began his full-time athletics administration career at the University of Minnesota before returning to his alma mater (Kansas).
Harris spent seven years on staff at Kansas, eight years in athletic administration at Notre Dame and the last two at Army.
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The Dartmouth-Pittsburgh connection has seen no fewer than four former Big Green quarterbacks landing in the Steel City, two with the NFL team and two with the FBS college team.
Dan Rooney '12 and Cole Marcoux '14 are in the Steelers' front office while Derek Kyler '21 and Jonathan DiBiaso, who was at Dartmouth from 2015-17 before transferring to Tufts, will be on the field and in the football offices of the University of Pittsburgh respectively this fall.
Steelers Now has a story about Marcoux – who made his mark as an All-Ivy League tight end after switching over from QB – being promoted to the Steelers' director of football operation. He replaces Omar Khan, a work-study student under Dartmouth coach Buddy Teevens at Tulane who is now the Steelers' general manager. (LINK)
Rooney is the Steelers' Player Personnel Coordinator.
Kyler committed earlier this week to do his grad transfer year with the Pitt Panthers and gets an interesting mention in a Bleacher Report story headlined, Breaking Down the 'New Guys' Likely Starting at QB for Top 25 Teams. From the story (LINK):
Pitt added Dartmouth transfer Derek Kyler on Wednesday. Although he's not likely to start, Kyler won a pair of Ivy League titles and threw 42 touchdowns to six interceptions. Tuck that one away, perhaps.
If he hasn't already, Kyler will soon make the acquaintance of DiBiaso, who begins his first year as an offensive graduate assistant with the Panthers. A record-setting high school quarterback in Massachusetts, DiBiaso struggled with injury and getting on the field at Dartmouth before moving on to Tufts.
In addition to coaching at the high school level, he spent three years as a graduate assistant at Boston College while earning his masters in sports administration at the school. He then did a year as a GA at Vanderbilt. Find his Pitt bio HERE.
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The Los Angeles Times has a story about a two-time Dartmouth alum headlined, Hated in St. Louis, Rams’ Kevin Demoff is L.A. hero aiming to build empire in Valley.
Demoff, who covered Dartmouth football both for The Dartmouth and on student radio as an undergrad before graduating in 1999, also holds an MBA from Tuck. He is the Chief Operation Officer of the Super Bowl champion Rams. Find his bio with the Rams HERE.
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No news yet on Dartmouth football games to be carried this year on ESPNU, but
Harvard has announced a couple of changes made for the "worldwide leader." From the story (LINK):
Harvard Football has announced a pair of game date changes for the upcoming 2022 campaign. The Crimson is now slated to play at Cornell on Friday, Oct. 7, and will welcome Princeton on Friday, Oct. 21.
Both Ivy League games were moved up by one day to accommodate national television as the ESPN Family of Networks is set to air the games live.
Green Alert Take: It's a safe bet that Dartmouth's Ivy League opener against Penn (this year slated for Saturday, Oct. 1) is a strong candidate to be moved up a day to Friday night. There's been nothing official to suggest that but the matchup between the Ivy's northernmost and southernmost schools – who happen to be first and second all-time in Ivy League championships – has been a Friday night ESPNU game the last two times it was played.
UPDATE: A look at the Dartmouth schedule reveals that the Penn game has indeed been moved up a day to Friday. It doesn't take a Dartmouth degree to figure our why ;-)
Green Alert Take II: Whether it helps or not (probably can't hurt) Harvard playing Princeton on a Friday will give the Crimson an extra day to recover and prepare for its contest at Dartmouth on Oct. 29.
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EXTRA POINT
We will be spending a few days camping on a lake in Vermont's remote Northeast Kingdom next week. In addition to bringing along Scrabble, Boggle, perhaps a chess set and maybe even a jigsaw puzzle I already have several "beach books" borrowed from the state of Vermont's digital library on my Kindle.
The last couple of novels I downloaded didn't really hold my interest and given that we're going to be off-the-grid while camping I'm taking no chances. Although I'm not much of one for re-reading novels I am going back to an old reliable.
Given that John Grisham' has had 28 consecutive No. 1 fiction books and half the time these days I can't seem to remember what I had for breakfast (that's a joke) I'm plunging back into his catalogue. Will I remember a little from the books I borrowed? Probably. But not so much that I won't enjoy them in a comfortable chair with my toes in the water and an ice cold drink in my hand ;-)
