The Manchester Union Leader had a story (not available online) that included this quote from Abuhoff:
“If I can get into camp, it’s my job to stay in camp. It’s always a dream to get drafted, but once you get to this point, this level of everything, just getting into camp is the most important thing.”Abuhoff was a little disappointed by his 4.53 time in the 40 but otherwise . . .
"Everything else was right on point, where needed it to be. I timed well and and I was catching the ball pretty well, so hopefully I sparked something there."
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Dartmouth tailback Nick Schwieger bypassed the UNH workout in favor of one at Boston College the next day.•
Yale has posted at Q&A with new head coach Tony Reno. Multiple reports, by the way, note that a quarterback recruit originally "committed" to Columbia has changed his mind and will instead attend Yale. Among those reporting the news is the New Haven Register's Portal 31 blog.•
In this video interview, Penn football coach Al Bagnoli analyzes why the Quakers failed to live up to their lofty expectations last fall and why this year could be different. He also touches on the importance of the team's "inflatable" structure (aka the bubble), noting that the playing surface actually offers his team more usable field space than Franklin Field.•
Worcester News Tonight has a TV interview with Holy Cross coach Tom Gilmore talking about the start of spring practice and the 2012 season. Holy Cross has posted a PDF of its spring prospectus, an immensely useful document that has gone by the boards at most colleges in the Northeast.•
Craig Haley of The Sports Network has a column about the process of starting up football programs at Stetson and Mercer universities. Stetson, of course, will be coached by former Dartmouth assistant and Princeton head coach Roger Hughes. Haley starts the column with the kind of anecdote sportswriters dream of stumbling across:On the morning that Stetson University introduced Roger Hughes as its head football coach, somebody rushed off to a local store to purchase a football for his introductory news conference.An interesting quote from Hughes on one of the advantages of starting a program instead of taking one over:
. . . (W)hen you go into a new coaching situation, you usually spend two or three years trying to change the culture. Here I don't have to, I just had to develop one. So all the energy that you put in can really go toward positive things rather than telling people, 'I know you used to do it this way, but we're not doing it that way now.'
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That Certain Hanover High Graduate and I crossed the river last night for a program titled Dirty Energy: From Fracking to Tar Sands at the Montshire Museum of Science in Norwich. The topic was fitting because TCHHG declared an Earth Science major this week. She plans to take a minor in environmental studies and also pursue the teacher education program.By the way, I'm not sure if there will be a blog tomorrow because we will be up early and driving to New York City. The Hanover High grad flies out of JFK tomorrow to spend the spring term studying Spanish and living with a family in Barcelona.
Oh yeah. In addition to declaring her major, she filed her "D Plan" this week. She will be back for Sophomore Summer and then will be in the west all next fall term studying in the Earth Sciences Department's storied Stretch program. She will then be "off" next winter with hopes of landing an internship in Washington, D.C., (all leads welcomed ;-) before returning to campus next spring.
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Speaking of D.C., that's where That Certain Hanover High Senior is this week as part of Hanover's March Intensive program. Led by two teachers, a group of Hanover students boarded the train in White River Junction Monday at 11:05 and arrived in Washington at 10:15 that night. They've toured the Holocaust Museum, Air & Space, National Archives and the Capitol among other sites so far, and are slated to visit the White House and the monuments today. Perfect timing for the cherry blossoms, which opened early.Oh, and thanks to some Internet sleuthing and effective lobbying by a Certain Hanover Senior, some members of the group were supposed to cap their trip by watching the Indiana Pacers play at the Washington Wizards tonight. In an interesting twist, while his sister is flying out of New York tomorrow, The Certain Senior will be clickety-clacking over the rails in the Empire State on the same afternoon.
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And finally, the string of 70-plus degree days in these parts is supposed to end after today. It's been fun to be outside in shorts and flip-flops although it has made a colossal mess of our road. As usual, the warm days have chased the mud up the mountain and as I write this the worst of it is approaching our house. In case you are wondering, just because I haven't seen anyone towed out of the oatmeal yet doesn't mean it hasn't happened. It's that bad.
