The Advocate's web presence has a column by Rod Walker about Dartmouth coach Buddy Teevens, his role in the start and success of the famed Manning Passing Academy and how he's fared since coaching at Tulane. From the story (LINK):
This is the 26th year of the camp, and Teevens has been a part of every one of them. He played a key role in getting it started during his time as coach of the Green Wave.
He had been running a camp at Tulane when Archie Manning approached him about joining forces. Archie’s son Peyton, a quarterback at the University of Tennessee at the time, pitched the idea of starting a camp for quarterbacks to his dad after being frustrated with the passing game (or lack thereof) in Louisiana high school football.
Teevens was all in on the idea.
“The Manning Passing Academy had a better ring to it than the Buddy Teevens Football Camp,” Teevens said. “The rest is history.”
And, regarding the role of Teevens and Jeff Hawkins, his childhood friend who worked for him at Dartmouth and Tulane as well as with the camps:
“Buddy is just a great guy,” Archie Manning said. “If something happens to him or Jeff, this camp is probably over.”
The columnist writes about Teevens' approach at Dartmouth:
The premise of his system is three-fold: academic, athletic and social success of his players.
It’s about more than wins and losses.
“It’s not just on the field, but having a goal for after their career,” he said. “And socially, it’s about just being a good guy. We talk about social issues a lot. Make sure guys interact with people that don’t look like them, that don’t come from the same background or geographical region. That will make the world a better place. We want to change the world.”
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Another photo from the Manning Passing Academy shows Dartmouth quarterback Nick Howard with LSU's Myles Brennan (center) and Penn State's Sean Clifford (right):
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| Screen grab from Dartmouth football instagram |
Clifford, by the way, was a high school teammate of Dartmouth lineman Bobby Jefferson at St. Xavier in Cincinnati.
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Oklahoma's Examiner-Enterprise has a story headlined Bartlesville Bruin football history laden with extraordinary athletic talent. The story has capsules of 10 of the program's top players over its last 40 years including one who should be familiar to Big Green football fans. From the story (LINK):
Kirby Schoenthaler:
Schoenthaler was the first Bruin to start at varsity quarterback for four seasons (2007-10). He got the starting nod his freshman year about halfway through the campaign. In 2009, Schoenthaler led by Bruins to a 9-3 record, including a playoff upset of Owasso. He finished with more than 10,000 yards of total offense as a Bruin and went on to play four years of college football at Dartmouth.
Find Kirby's Dartmouth bio HERE.
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It's summer and even when you aren't by the sea it's a good time to kick back and enjoy a beach book. Mrs. BGA did just that this week, reading Harlan Coben's Promise Me. She shared a screenshot from the book that featured this exchange about a fictional high school quarterback in New Jersey who would have been a questionable admit in the Ivy League. From the book:
"So Jake Wolf had you change his son's grades."
"Something like that. I just switched the academic part of his transcript."
"Randy wanted to go to Dartmouth. Dartmouth wanted Randy because of his football. But they needed him to be in the top ten percent. There are four hundred kids in his class. Randy was ranked fifty-third–not bad, but not top ten percent. There is another student, a bright kid named Ray Clarke. He's ranked fifth in the class. Clarke got into Georgetown early decision. So I knew he wouldn't be applying anywhere else. ..."
"So you switched Randy's transcript with this Clarke kid's?"
"Yes."
I haven't read the book so I don't know the details but consider this excerpt a little bit of a spoiler alert regarding whether the quarterback would ever wear the Dartmouth green:
“I don't know," (police officer Lance) Banner said. "The prosecutor has no jurisdiction over Dartmouth. If they want to rescind their acceptance, they can and probably will."
Green Alert Take: I'm gonna guess he never made it to Memorial Field. At least not in a Dartmouth uni. ;-)
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EXTRA POINT
And finally, I don't know about you but we were able to relax last evening when we got back from pizza night on the farm, turned on our wifi and found this message That Certain Dartmouth '14 shared around 8 p.m.:
I finished! Yahoo!! That was hard!!
Gee, do you think?
Here's her Strava report, showing the course was actually a little shy of 50 miles. ;-)
A little background, in case you took yesterday off from BGA Daily. TCD'14 competed in the San Juan Solstice 50, held on the Saturday closest to the Summer Solstice so that competitors have as much daylight as possible to cover the entire 50 miles.
She also sent along several photos, including this one, suggesting we enlarge it to see several runners ahead of her. If you click it you can see for yourself:
