Friday, May 16, 2025

We Know That Guy!

HERO Sports has something called FCS Spotlight and this showed up today:

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Missed this somehow, but add to the list of Dartmouth players grad transferring after helping the Big Green win another Ivy League title last fall the name of Danny Cronin. The linebacker is headed to Northern Illinois, where his bio is already up on the roster HERE.

Former Dartmouth quarterback Jackson Proctor isn't yet listed on the roster but he committed to join his former teammate at Northern Illinois.

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Will Griffith '93 was a 5-foot-11, 195-pound fullback at Dartmouth from Carmel, Calif., and R.L. Stevenson High School who lettered in 1992. Now you can call him a part owner of the San Francisco 49ers. From a story in The Athletic:

The San Francisco 49ers are in the process of selling 6.2 percent of the team to a trio of Bay Area families at a valuation around $8.5 billion, according to a league source familiar with the proposal.

The York family, who own the 49ers, would sell 3.1 percent to the Khosla family, 2.1 percent to the Deeter family and 1 percent to William Griffith.

The story notes that . . .

Griffith, 53, is a partner at ICONIQ Capital in San Francisco. He played football at Dartmouth and earned an MBA from Stanford.

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Former Dartmouth defensive lineman Shane Cokes earned minicamp tryouts from the Broncos and the Seahawks after two years playing as a grad transfer at Colorado. Here he is (left photo) with the Broncos:

 Checkin’ in with Shane Cokes & Justin Mayers 🏔️#ProBuffs x #BroncosCountry

And here's Cokes (94 on the left) going through Seahawks drills with former Harvard defensive lineman Thor Griffith (95 on the right) – who grad transferred at Louisville:

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EXTRA POINT

Got up early today and drove a half hour south to take care of a recall on our new EV. It was supposed to take two hours and I figured I'd use the fast wifi at the dealership to work on this posting. No more than 10 minutes after I set up in the customer lounge one of the mechanics came out and handed me the key to the car. "The recall was taken care of before you picked up the car at the other dealership, and I guess no one told you," he said.


I'd be tempted to ask the dealer to reimburse me for a couple of gallons of gas . . . except the car doesn't use gas, and this time of year it's fueled essentially for free by the sun, courtesy of our solar tracker. ;-)

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