The Kent State football pages now has a bio of new running backs coach Braxton Chapman. Part of it reads this way (LINK):
Chapman comes to Kent State from Dartmouth, where he spent the 2024 season serving as the running backs coach before being promoted to special teams coordinator in 2025. He helped guide the Big Green to a share of the Ivy League Championship in 2024 while mentoring back-to-back First Team All-Ivy running backs. Under his leadership, Dartmouth’s special teams was in the top half of the Ivy League, with the punt unit finishing second in the conference and 28th nationally. Sophomore punter Luke Armistead earned 2nd team all-conference recognition.
If you go to the 2025 Dartmouth football roster and click on the coaching staff link, Chapman's name is no longer there. Soon enough, retiring defensive line coach Duane Brooks' name will vanish as well.
But here's the thing. Both did coach the 2025 Dartmouth football team, so that roster is not a true history of the team. The correct way to handle changes like that is to post a 2026 coaching roster with the replacement coaches, not to "disappear" them from the 2025 roster.
One other problem: With the unfortunate decision to stop producing media guides, the website is where most will to turn in the future for the history of Dartmouth football. Unless Chapman, Brooks and anyone else who will be removed is added back to the '25 roster when the 2026 staff is completed, the site will not be accurate. Ten years down the road, when someone is researching the '25 team or digging into the background of a former Dartmouth coach, the information will be missing or incomplete.
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Apropos of nothing, FCS insider Sam Herder Xweeted this (LINK):
Interesting numbers after I cross-referenced my databases of 2025 FCS-to-FBS transfers, 2024 FCS All-Conference players, and FCS All-Conference players returning in 2025:
38% of 2025 FCS-to-FBS transfers were FCS All-Conference players - It's interesting how many players who aren't necessarily FCS standouts get signed by FBS schools
67% of 2024 FCS All-Conference players with eligibility remaining returned in 2025 - More FCS standouts returned than transferred to the FBS
Discuss among yourselves.
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After an outstanding season at Duke, former Harvard wide receiver Cooper Barkate is back in the transfer portal. Find a story HERE.
Lots of speculation Barkate is interested in following quarterback Darian Mensah to Miami if that comes about. Barkate caught 72 passes for 1,106 yards and seven TDs for the Blue Devils last fall. (LINK)
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EXTRA POINT
You know the hassle you have each fall and spring when you have to change your clocks? I'm here to tell you that's nothing compared to what happens when you switch internet providers and you have internet TVs (including a "dumb" one that requires Chromecast), along with a cellphone, an iPod, an iPad, several laptops, a digital picture frame, a wi-fi extender and more. Now add in switching your landline (yes, they still exist) from a traditional phone company to VOIP and it's a lot. We have most of it working now, but I'm sure there are still surprises in store with our move from DSL to fiber. That said, I'm not going back.
