Rivals.com analyst Barry Every has this to say about Marcoux in the story:
"Marcoux is a tall, strong armed pro-style quarterback that is super intelligent and possesses the work habits off the field to develop into a successful player."At the end of the story Marcoux says all the right things from a Dartmouth perspective ... except for leaving a door slightly open:
"Academically coming from the school I come from, it's important to meet your goals and from an academic standpoint I feel like I've done that. So I'm very happy in going to Dartmouth College. From a football standpoint, I feel it's a great level and somewhere I can be successful. If something comes along, a bigger Division I school, I'm open to consider it, but I'm happy where I am and I'm excited about that."For an early Green Alert blog mention about Marcoux, click here.
Here's what appeared on Green Alert Premium about Marcoux last month:
Quarterback Cole Marcoux, 6-5, 234, Fieldston School, N.Y.Former Dartmouth offensive tackle Guy Harrison '94, now the executive director of the National Republican Congressional Committee, is quoted in this story. From the story:
All-Bronx selection chosen for the football reality TV show The Ride. ... Led Fieldston to a 7-1 record this fall (8-1 with a forfeit). ... Completed 106-of-199 passes (53.3 percent) for 1,701 yards or 203.7 yards per game. ... Had 19 touchdown throws and five interceptions. ... Ran 23 times for 110 yards and three touchdowns. ... Threw for 319 yards and three touchdowns in top performance. ... Completed two passes with one for a touchdown in the Aloha Prep Bowl all-star football game at Aloha Stadium on Dec. 12. ... High school coach Gus Ornstein was recruited by Buddy Teevens when he was at Tulane but ended up playing at quarterback at Notre Dame, Michigan State and Rowan before spending time in several NFL camps.
Coach Teevens: “I was really impressed with his athleticism. He's a prototypical drop-back quarterback but with the ability to run the ball as well. He comes from a small school and not many people knew about him but he did have some feelers from Virginia, Duke and Vanderbilt. I tried to recruit his coach 20 years ago. He spent some time up in the pros, so the kid is pretty well coached. I saw him in camp and was surprised more people weren't on him.”
Harrison, a combative 6-foot 4-inch former college offensive lineman, is spending his first election cycle at the NRCC after serving as the chief of staff of the new chairman, Texas Rep. Pete Sessions. Both men learned the lesson of 1994 firsthand: Sessions ran and lost narrowly in a little-noticed 1994 race in Dallas. The incumbent, a conservative Democrat, retired in 1996, and Sessions took the seat.The WHRB sports blog down at Harvard lists the Top Five Performances of the year at Harvard and No. 2 on the list was tailback Gino Gordon topping 100 yards rushing and receiving and scoring three touchdowns in a 42-21 win over Dartmouth. From the story:
“They were in a race nobody thought they could win,” said Brad Todd, a longtime Sessions adviser and now a key consultant to the NRCC. Sessions and Harrison, then fresh off the Dartmouth College football team, “drove around in a truck of manure (with a sign saying) ‘Congress stinks worse than that truck.’”
And to finish it all off, Gordon did it while suffering from the flu. But as play-by-play man Alasdair Wilkins astutely noted during WHRB's broadcast, the Dartmouth defense was never in danger of catching the flu from Gordon, because they couldn't lay a hand on the powerful tailback all day.
Ouch.
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Boise State's blue turf isn't quite so hard to watch on TV when neither team is wearing blue uniforms. Uniform color should be a factor in choosing teams for the Humanitarian Bowl if they want anyone to watch.*
I'd pay to watch Air Force and Navy run their offenses and don't understand why at least one Ivy League team won't try doing the same thing.*
I couldn't help but wonder what UCLA was thinking when it left La-La Land and flew across the country to freeze its bippy off in the Washington, D.C., suburbs. The Bruins looked more like polar bears. OK, here's the deal: No Bowl games should be allowed anywhere that the average daily temperature over the past 20 years is under 50 degrees on the day of the game.*
The punt game in college football has gotten boring with the three-man shield in front of the punter. Two questions: Has anyone actually seen a punt blocked against that alignment? And why did it take so long for someone to come up with it?*
As long as we're on the subject of boring special teams, the time has come to squeeze the goal posts in a little more. You might as well pick up and head off to the fridge when you see a field goal kicker run onto the field. You won't miss anything because the kickers won't miss anything. It's getting a little too automatic.*
Is holding the Liberty Bowl and the Alamo Bowl after the Rose Bowl someone's idea of a joke? Those are the Grandchildren of the Grandaddy of them all.*
Whoa Nellie, do I ever miss Keith Jackson's voice on New Year's Day, but it was good to hear Pat Summerall calling the Cotton Bowl. (In the interest of honesty, I heard him do a quarter of a game and couldn't remember which one, so I Googled it and came up with this story.)*
The field condition for the Capital One Bowl between Penn State and Louisiana State was a disgrace.*
Speaking of the Nittany Lions, do you realize their last game before the bowl was the day Dartmouth played Princeton?*
It was great to see ABC give the marching bands a little air time during the Rose Bowl halftime. Nice change of pace. Analysis overload had already set in, and the bands were pretty good.*
Speaking of the Rose Bowl, did you catch the snowboarding bulldog float during the Rose parade? Awesome. Check it out here.*
I always enjoy the overhead views of the Sun Bowl in El Paso. Something about the way the bowl is cut into the rock. Pretty cool.*
And back to the Rose Bowl, how about the views of a glorious sunset in Pasadena? I knew they were coming and still was impressed.*
Not being much of a TV watcher, I was surprised to see the fellow from the Allstate commerical doing the coin flip from the Sugar Bowl. I thought the Allstate net behind the goal post was a bit much and having the Allstate guy at the coin flip was over the top. Then I heard he's actually some famous actor on a TV show I've never seen. Bet it's on the network that was showing the game.*
I guess Allstate's "Hot Bobby" commercial featuring a Bobby Bowden grill has been around all year but I hadn't seen it before New Year's Day. Funny and fitting. See it here.*
I think one of my favorite commercials (and good thing, because it was repeated over and over) was the oldie-but-goodie about the father and son making the trip to Norway only to find out their roots are in Sweden.*
We got a DVR when we switched satellite TV providers last year. My tolerance for commercials (other than the aforementioned) since then is way, way down. The trick is to pause the game, go do something else and when you come back just zip through the commercials.*
I'm sure it's not intended, but one hit of the "advance," button on the DVR takes you almost perfectly from the end of one football play to the snap for the next – except during the two-minute drill. You can watch a 60-minute game in just about 60 minutes.*
The magazine show 20/20 put a real-life look at Michael Oher and his story up against the Sugar Bowl. Fortunately, Florida's punchout of Cincinnati was easy to turn away from.*
Something about the Cotton Bowl not being played in the Cotton Bowl seems sad. But that's hardly new ground. The Orange Bowl isn't in the Orange Bowl anymore either.*
Boise State and TCU in the Fiesta Bowl will be interesting, but nowhere near as interesting as Boise State against, say, Florida. Or TCU against, say, Penn State. The big-guy vs. little-guy scenario is always compelling.*
What a shame that the NHL game at Fenway Park went up against the New Year's Day bowls. I switched back and forth a bit, not to watch the hockey action but for the scenics of the hockey rink at Fenway.
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