Green Ghost
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Loc: New York, NY
Reg: 11-22-04
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12-20-04 05:46 PM - Post#1158
In response to Rob
Although, Dartmouth has brought in some damn good players as of late, as well as some highly touted recruits. There have even been transfers from Wisconsin and Oklahoma State in recent years (as in, AFTER the letter was written). So, maybe what happened was that Jim Wright knew, made sure it wasn't affecting what he understood to be the athletics-admissions policy, and told Swarthmore that Furstenberg wasn't representing Dartmouth when he wrote that.
Wright is pretty pro-athletics, as school presidents go. I'm not sure that he would have knowingly allowed Furstenberg to hurt the athletic department or the football program. I don't know what his coaching was like during the good years, but Dartmouth's playcalling during some of these losing seasons has been pretty dreadful. When a team loses as many close games as Dartmouth has lost lately, at some point, the coach has to be held responsible.
I think the letter does a lot more harm now that it's out than it did before we knew about it. And THAT's the part that's going to be the end of Furstenberg at Dartmouth, I think.
-The Ghost
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