The Green Bay Press Gazette has a story behind its paywall headlined, Southwest’s Nick Howard will be counselor at Manning Passing Academy. In the story the All-Ivy League running quarterback for Dartmouth addressed the goals of the camp and the value the experience has for him (LINK):
"Learning is the main objective for the young kids, the older kids and us as well," said Howard, who is living in Chicago this summer after receiving an internship at a commercial real estate firm. "The best way to show you know and understand something is to teach it. I think that itself provides an excellent opportunity, as well as anytime you are around the kind of talent that is going to be there, the knowledge that is available is almost unlimited."
Also from the story regarding the way Howard will be used this fall given the graduation of Derek Kyler:
There haven't been many conversations about whether his role will be different this season. The message has been the same since he arrived on campus: The best players will play.
The only thing conveyed to Howard is that the team will utilize his strengths and let him prove what he can do. He believes he has done a solid job displaying that he can be a quarterback that produces in both facets of the game. . . .
"I don't think anything really changes," Howard said of his mindset entering an important summer. "It's the same game. I've been practicing the same. It's going to be fun to be able to do everything that I can do this fall."
More from Howard, who the story notes "showed his ability to lead an offense with his arm during his time at Southwest, where he threw for more than 5,000 yards in his career and more than 2,000 as a senior in 2018."
"I had the opportunity to throw a lot at Southwest," Howard said. "I think our coaching staff, Coach (Kevin) Daft and Coach Teevens, understood that when they brought me in. For me, and the way I see it and the way it has been communicated to me, it's never been an issue with what I'm doing or my ability.
"Derek is a guy you can't take off the field all the time. He displayed how good he was last year and the year before that. The opportunity to go to Pitt is a culmination of all his hard work. ... I feel really confident in my ability. I'm not stressed or worried about it at all. It's just making sure I'm on the same page and comfortable with my teammates. That just comes from reps in practice and spending time together."
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Speaking of Derek Kyler, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has a story headlined, Pitt football roster reset: Assessing the Panthers' depth after transfer portal activity that takes a look the Pitt quarterback room that lost transfers to Oklahoma and Hawaii and gained Kyler and a USC transfer. From the story (LINK):
Typically, you want at least four scholarship quarterbacks. So the addition of Kyler was necessary after (transfers) Beville and Yellen saw the writing on the wall. Kyler, one of the most efficient passers in Ivy League history, has experience. But he also has only one year of eligibility available, giving Pitt flexibility looking ahead to the 2023 recruiting class. Kyler will compete for the third-string gig while (USC transver Kedon) Slovis and (returnee Nick) Patti battle for the top spot.
Green Alert Take: It will be very interesting to see how Kyler's high football IQ and hair-trigger release play out in the Steel City.
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And speaking of grad transfers, former Dartmouth tight end JJ Jones won't be with New Mexico State when it debuts in CUSA in another year, but he'll help set the stage this fall as the Las Cruces Sun News writes under the headline, Transfers will give Aggies chance in 2022, as well as long term. Regarding the former Dartmouth standout, the paper writes (LINK):
Dartmouth graduate transfer tight end JJ Jones will also need to step in and fill a role in his first and only year at NM State for an important position group in (Aggies offensive coordinator Tim) Beck's offense. The 6-2, 220-pound Jones has 17 career receptions with 10 for 146 yards and a touchdown on an Ivy League championship team last season.
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Defensive lineman Alex Schmidt, who will return for a fifth year in the fall, has written for a number of different outlets in the past and now has a story on the Jakib Media Sports page about a former Philadelphia Eagles defensive end headlined, Vinny Curry Talks Comeback with NY Jets. Find it HERE.
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A couple of Tweets featuring former Dartmouth football players:
.@TribeAthletics AD Brian Mann chooses three words to describe the culture of William & Mary athletics, explains his strategic vision for the future, and shares more on the Tribe's open role for their next senior leader.
— Collegiate Sports Connect (@CS_Connect1) June 20, 2022
Watch more: https://t.co/7X4aOjy1Ob pic.twitter.com/xUBbdb7WeY
Mann '02, still holds the Dartmouth record for total offense in a season at 3,306 yards (2,913 passing and 393 rushing in 2002).
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The Analyst takes a look at FCS overtime games since ties were eliminated in 1996 and finds that Princeton is second in total OT wins at 10, one fewer than The Citadel, which has had 11. Penn and Yale have won seven apiece. Dartmouth has won five OT games, the most recent last fall's 24-17 victory over Yale.
With 19 total overtime games, Princeton is again one behind The Citadel, which has played in 20 OT games with a 10-9 record. Dartmouth has played in 11 overtime games with a 5-6 record.
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A loyal reader who read yesterday's posting about the The National Football Foundation story headlined, NCAA D1 Academic Progress Report Showcases Success of College Football has shared a response from The Drake Group, "a network of American academics who believe that college athletics has become too dominant a force on university campuses." Under the hreadline, Why the NCAA Academic Progress Rate (APR) and the Graduation Success Rate (GSR) should be Abandoned and Replaced with More Effective Academic Metrics, the group offers this summary of its findings (LINK):
The Drake Group found that NCAA academic measures are often public relations “smokescreens,” hiding widespread exploitation of academically underprepared athletes and academic fraud by institutions chasing financial success in Division I athletics.
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EXTRA POINT
Ka-ching.
Hard as it is for me to believe, since moving BGA Daily to this platform I've put up 7,546 posts without a paywall of any sort. A handful or so folks each year click on Griff the Wonder Dog to help with his kibble, but that's about it.
Back in April I resumed having a couple of ads over on the right-hand column. The back story on that is BGA Daily had accrued $86 in ad earnings as a result of clicks only to have Google shut the account down in 2016 before it reached the $100 threshold required for issuing a payment. Apparently someone (not me) had gone a little overboard clicking on ads in an ill-advised attempt to help out.
Taunted by that $86, I restarted the ad program almost two months ago and after at long last topping $100 I got an email today that a direct deposit from Google had been made to my bank account.
It won't cover the bill we got when I brought the Wonder Dog to the vet yesterday and he got prescriptions for conjunctivitis and a "hot spot," but it will help ;-).
