Thursday, October 25, 2007

Thursday's Practice Story Posted

By Bruce Wood
www.biggreenalert.com

Oct. 25, 2007

HANOVER -- Curt Oberg led the Dartmouth football team in rushing in 1975 and again in 1977. He graduated in 1978 as the Big Green’s third all-time leading rusher and is still seventh in school annals for career run yardage.

When Oberg came back to his alma mater as a volunteer coach before the 2005 season, he came in confident he knew the game of college football, and he did. What he didn’t know, he discovered soon enough, was the game of college coaching.

“It’s much more complicated than I ever thought,” Oberg said after Thursday’s practice on Memorial Field. “There’s so much to it I never knew about.”

Including, he said, the tremendous amount of time and effort that goes into creating and finalizing a game-plan.

If that process was an eye-opener to someone with a background like Oberg had, it might be instructive for the rest of us to learn a little more about how just how a game-plan is developed.

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