More Change

After three years on the Dartmouth staff, inside linebacker coach Joe Scola '07 is heading back home to join the staff at Florida State. FootballScoop.com had it right about where the former safety from Punta Gorda, Fla., was heading, but that's about it in its first mention of the move (italics are mine):

We hear Dartmouth University inside linebackers coach Joe Scola has accepted a grad assistant job at Florida State.

The Scoop came back with what a little more definitive information the second time around:

Another source tells us Joe Scola’s position at Florida State will be defensive quality control.

The second jibes with what I had heard.

Speaking of Big Green assistant coaches, today's Daily Dartmouth has a story about new coordinators Don Dobes (defense) and Jim Pry (offense).

Dobes is best known for helping groom 26 Princeton linebackers who went on to earn All-Ivy honors of some sort. Pry, who was at Illinois the past four seasons, tutored Cleveland Browns third-round quarterback pick Charlie Frye at Akron.

Regarding Pry, Teevens told the Daily D:

“Last season, we didn’t have an offensive coordinator — it was a collective effort that I played a big part in. Now we have someone with a lot of knowledge.”

Teevens told The D that Dobes ...

"... knows the Ivy League intimately, as well as the recruiting an Ivy League athletic department needs. In this league you need to be able to defend the run successfully. You need linebackers who can dominate and make plays. (Dobes’) defenses have always played an aggressive and solid style of football, which apply pressure up front but also defend the pass efficiently.”

Pry and Dobes replace Cedric Calhoun and Mike Hodgson on the reworked Dartmouth staff.

National Republican Congressional Committee Executive Director Guy Harrison '94, who played on the Dartmouth offensive line, is profiled in CQ Politics. Harrison told the publication:

“I’m a firm believer being an offensive lineman taught me a lot. Being an offensive lineman means you have to count on the people beside you to be successful. There’s no such thing as a star offensive lineman.”

Be careful what you wish for. Chip Kelly's rise from obscure assistant coach at New Hampshire to successful head coach at Oregon has been meteoric, but hardly without its challenges. In the aftermath of a bumpy off-the-field few months, he tells the Associated Press:

"Do I go to bed at night thinking 105 players are going to do the right thing? No. I worry every single time the phone rings.”

Richmond isn't going to the extremes that James Madison is in building its new football stadium (see yesterday's blog), but Robins Stadium isn't going to be too shabby. Check out the concept and some recent photos.