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With the former Dartmouth wide receivers coach receiving a promotion this week, LSU Tigers Wire has a story headlined, Four reasons why LSU promoting Cortez Hankton to co-offensive coordinator makes sense. The listed reasons: Hankton is a New Orleans native, NFL experience, National title pedigree and  Development record speaks for itself.

And from the story (LINK):

Along with years of SEC experience, Hankton spent 2012-14 at Dartmouth in the Ivy League, a conference that’s become synonymous with producing smart football coaches.

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Another former Dartmouth assistant is in the news with Chris Wilkerson, who rose to associate head coach during a stint in Hanover that ran from 2005-2012, being rewarded with a two-year extension after a successful second season as head coach at Eastern Illinois. He's now under contract at his alma mater through December 2028. Find his Dartmouth bio HERE.

This TV report says his new contract is worth $200,000 per year. 

Wilkerson, who left Dartmouth in 2013 to become head coach at Chicago in 2013, was recognized at the end of the 2023 season as the Big South-OVC Coach of the Year. After going 2-9 in his first season the Panthers went 8-3 last fall, registering their first winning record since 2017 and winning the most games since 2013. He finished sixth in the voting for the Eddie Robinson Award, emblematic of the FCS national coach of the year.

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The morning's email brought a link to a page from the Lost New England website that featured a pair of  then-and-now photos from downtown Springfield, Mass., in advance of Dartmouth's 24-6 win over Brown at Hampden Park on Nov. 25, 1905.

This banner flew between buildings in the downtown business area.

To see the two full pictures and accompanying text, CLICK HERE.

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It hasn't happened in a few years but Dartmouth has occasionally brought in transfers from FBS schools. Sometimes it works. Running backs Greg Smith (Missouri) and Pete Oberle (Colorado State) were mainstays on the undefeated 1996 Ivy League champions.

But sometimes the transfers don't work out, something a surprising number of FCS schools are learning in this era of the transfer portal. HERO Sports takes a look at how FCS schools fared after dipping into the portal and some of the results were eye-popping.

Stony Brook of the CAA brought in no fewer than 15 former FBS players last year to bolster a 2-9 team. The result? The rebuilt roster went 0-10.

Incarnate Word brought in 20 former FBS players and won four fewer games than the year before. 

Check out how FCS teams fared dipping into the transfer portal HERE.

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EXTRA POINT
The view out the window of the BGA World Headquarters this fine morning: