Saturday, December 22, 2012

Transfer QB For Columbia?

He hasn't confirmed it 100 percent, but Jake Novak of the blog Roar Lions Roar is reporting that Columbia has landed a major transfer in former Stanford quarterback Brett Nottingham. From Nottingham's Stanford bio:
. . . four-star recruit ranks as one of the top quarterback prospects in the nation...ranked as the fourth-best pro-style quarterback by Rivals.com, 12th by ESPNU.com and 14th by Scout.com...ranked as the nation's 74th top recruit on PrepStar's Dream Team...SuperPrep All-American (No. 19 quarterback).
Because he would be transferring "down" to the FCS, Nottingham would not have to sit out a year. He is believed to have two years of eligibility remaining.
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It comes a little out of left field, but in an opinion piece about the passing of Sen. Daniel Inouye, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette executive editor David Shribman includes a note about Dartmouth coach Buddy Teevens, Harvard coach Tim Murphy and Oregon football ops director Jeff Hawkins being from the same high school. It doesn't hurt that Shribman is a 1976 Dartmouth grad who has written frequently about Big Green football.  Find the column here.