Friday, July 07, 2023

Welcome!

New defensive backs coach Aashon Larkins, a 2003 Lehigh grad, comes to Hanover from Ole Miss, where he was the program's lead defensive analyst last year. Prior to that he spent two years at Michigan, first as a defensive analyst and then as recruiting director (with a short stint filling in as safeties coach when Bob Shoop was unavailable). He's also been on staff at Bethune-Cookman, Jacksonville State and The Citadel.

Larkins started his coaching career at Lehigh and then spent a year working with corners at Holy Cross. At Dartmouth, he steps in for Sammy McCorkle, serving as interim head coach for the Big Green in place of Buddy Teevens.

Larkins will have a chance to coach against his alma mater when Lehigh helps Dartmouth open its home season on Sept. 23. Read the full story HERE.

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Mountain West Wire is taking a look at Air Force's 2023 opponents and one of them is Robert Morris. From the story (LINK):

The Colonials also need to replace their top two running backs from 2022, though transfer portal additions Zachary Bair (870 rushing yards in two seasons at Dartmouth) and DJ Moyer (Elon) should have every opportunity to compete with incumbents like Kimon O’Sullivan for carries.

No mention of DB Seth Verilus, another grad transfer from Dartmouth, or defensive lineman Bobby Jefferson, hoping to come back from Achilles surgery that cost him his final season in Hanover.

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The early signs are promising but only time will tell how grad transfer Shane Cokes fares at Colorado. But he's not the first Colorado player to have a Dartmouth connection. A story about offensive tackle Nate Solder being selected to the school's Athletic Hall of Fame reminds us that Solder, who go on to be the 17th pick in the 2011 NFL draft before an 11-year career with the Patriots and Giants, almost came to Dartmouth . . .  as a basketball recruit. (LINK)

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Late in a story in The Dartmouth about the men’s tennis and women’s rowing teams currently working without a permanent head coach there’s a brief mention about Sammy McCorkle stepping in for Buddy Teevens with the football program. (LINK)

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The Ivy League website has a story headlined, Ivy League Showcases Academic Strength; Leads Nation Once Again in GSR and APR. From the story (LINK):

For the 12th-straight year, the Ivy League leads the nation in GSR with a combined average of 98 percent across the league’s eight institutions.

An Ivy League institution also leads all NCAA Division I institutions for the 12th-consecutive year, with Columbia becoming just the seventh school to ever post a perfect score of 100. Harvard and Yale earned GSRs of 99. Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth and Princeton followed with a score of 98. Penn posted a GSR of 97. The Ivy League was the lone conference with each of its member institutions earning an overall GSR of 97-or-better.

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EXTRA POINT
Keeping a list of license plates should be one of the easiest "road trip games" to play. As we found out on our 6,000-mile drive out to Utah and back, it's not that easy anymore, for a couple of reasons.

First, states now have so many different specialty plates that don't look anything like the states' standard plate that it can be hard to figure out what state they represent unless you can get a close look, not always easy with a moving car.

And second, a lot of those dealer or affinity license plate holders obscure the name of the state.

We didn't start keeping a list of plates until our trip home and I think we topped out at 35. Given how many plates we couldn't identify I wouldn't be surprised if the actual count should have been 40 or more.

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