Former D-Coordinator To Address AD's

From a National Football Foundation and College Football Hall of Fame, Inc., press release (italics added):

TD Ameritrade Chairman Joe Moglia, a former defensive coordinator at Dartmouth, will headline the “Leadership in a 24/7 Stress Filled Environment” session at the 34th Annual NACDA Convention June 22-25. Former Secretary of State, Condoleelzza Rice, will be the keynote speaker at the convention.

(Editor's Note: NACDA is the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics.)

Moglia was a candidate for several collegiate head coaching opportunities during the winter after working last year as Executive Advisor to the Head Football Coach at Nebraska. Moglia's website, Coach Joe Moglia, has an essay under the headline, "Why I Believe I Can Be A Winning Head Football Coach."

From the essay:

In recognizing the qualities that make a great head football coach, they are much the same attributes that I have learned about leadership in business. I was a much better leader in business because of my experience as a coach. I can be a much better head coach because of my experience as a business leader.

My opportunities for my third career are numerous. However, returning to football is the one that touches me the most. I have no doubt that great universities will be able to find a great head football coach. But most universities will not find an individual that would be a better leader for their institution than what I would be for a team, student body, faculty, administration, alumni, or the media. I have no doubt that the school would be very proud of my ability to represent them.

There is little doubt that I am much better qualified today to be a head football coach than I was 20 years ago. It would be my honor to be a mentor and advisor to assistant coaches, teacher and inspiration to student-athletes, and a great ambassador for an institution of higher education.

Calr Ehrlich, the former Harvard football captain-turned blogger has a Senior Perspective on the Crimson website. It's a touching look back at how he ended up in Cambridge and includes this:

When I think about Harvard, I think about myself as a junior in high school, laughing at the idea of me in a Crimson jersey; then I think about how hard it was to take that jersey off six years later. When I think about Harvard, I think about a coach who won over my dog and, in the process, won over my family; then I think about Coach Murphy hugging my mom as we left the football banquet my senior year. I remember wondering into a locker room with 110 strangers and leaving it with a 110 new brothers.

Speaking of players Dartmouth faced in recent seasons, former UNH wide receiver David Ball, who broke Jerry Rice's Division I-AA/FCS career touchdown record, has signed with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the Canadian Football League. Ironically, quarterback Ricky Santos, who threw most of those TDs to Ball, was released by the Bombers last month.

And finally, Villanova football and baseball standout Matt Szczur was chosen by the Chicago Cubs in the fifth round of the Major League Baseball draft yesterday. His father told the Atlantic City Press, "We're going to hopefully work out a deal with (Chicago). Within a week, he will be playing somewhere with the Chicago Cubs."

A receiver, return specialist and running back, Szczur was the Most Outstanding Player in the FCS championship game won by Villanova last season but his most heroic action wasn't on the football field or the baseball diamond. Earlier this year he donated his bone marrow to help try to save the life of a 19-month old girl.