The new dean

 

So with Frank Sullivan leaving Harvard, as Sebastien tells us below, that makes his term as "dean of Ivy League coaches" only one year.

The man taking his place as the longest-tenured Ancient Eight coach is Yale's James Jones, who has been the head man in New Haven since 1999-2000.

The rest of the list is as follows:
Steve Donahue, Cornell -- first season was 2000-01
Joe Jones, Columbia -- 2003-04
Terry Dunn, Dartmouth -- 2004-05
Joe Scott, Princeton -- 2004-05
Glen Miller, Penn -- 2006-07
Craig Robinson, Brown -- 2006-07
Harvard -- ?

Before Sullivan was the dean, it was Penn's Fran Dunphy, who had held that title since the 1999-2000 season.

Here's the all-time list of deans since the Ivy League officially began in 1955-56:

1955-60: Franklin "Cappy" Cappon, Princeton (tied with Cornell's Royner Greene in that they both had coached since 46-47, but Cappon had a previous stint with Princeton so he gets the tiebreaker, plus he lasted a year longer than Greene
60-67: Alvin Julian, Dartmouth
67-69: Stanley Ward, Brown (and Floyd Wilson, Harvard, in 67-68 only)
69-75: Joseph Vancisin, Yale
75-96: Pete Carril, Princeton (Ivy all-time win leader) 96-99: Dick Kuchen, Yale
99-2006: Fran Dunphy, Penn
06-07: Frank Sullivan, Harvard

Other than Carril, it's not been a long-held title, with every school but Columbia getting a piece of the action at least once.

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