"There's nobody out there that you find that nobody really didn't know about. Maybe their evaluation is different than your evaluation. There's so much information that it's hard (to find an overlooked prospect). There's almost too much information out there."For what it's worth, after Dartmouth freshman quarterback Dalyn Williams had a strong game against his team last fall, I asked the opposing head coach if he had known about Williams when he was in high school. (It had been suggested to me that Williams had been somewhat under the radar coming out of Texas.)
Suffice it to say the coach looked at me like I had just fallen off a rutabaga truck before he said yeah, he knew all about him.
More from that Sports Network story:
"Locating a hidden gem was never an easy task," Robert Morris coach Joe Walton said, "but I do think finding one in today's world is certainly more challenging than when I started here due to the proliferation of the Internet, recruiting websites and social media. If you know about a high-quality potential prospect, odds are somebody else does, too."
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Is it possible that in a quarterback Dartmouth passed on that Penn State has found one of those hidden gems like Matt McGloin, the walk-on quarterback who this fall broke school records for passing yardage in a season and TD passes in a career?
ESPN's Nittany Nation has a story about PSU coach Bill O'Brien's program for walk-ons, players he likes to refer to as run-ons (because in their desire to prove themselves they don't walk anywhere). The story (with photo) is built around a Worcester Academy quarterback from Cape Cod named DJ Crook who fired out emails to coaches saying, "I'm hoping to be a midyear walk-on."
From the story (italics are mine):
Some schools, like Dartmouth, came through Worcester to inquire about the fleet-footed signal-caller. But Penn State was one of just three schools to respond to his emails.
Thanks for the link ;-)
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Boston.com has posted a story from the Boston Globe under the headline:NFL players union and Harvard team up on landmark study of football injuries and illness
Cross-campus research on 1,000 retired players aims to treat, prevent wide health problems.
