Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Quite The Change

I very clearly remember at a preseason practice in Buddy Teevens' first year back at Dartmouth talking with the father of a prospective recruit who had toured Middlebury the day before. In no uncertain terms he told me he was surprised how much nicer the facilities were at Midd than at Dartmouth.

It's not that way anymore and that's not meant as a knock on Middlebury. This video is a couple years old but it shows just how much things have changed in Hanover over the past 15 years or so:


Here's what's missing from that video:


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Callie Brownson, whose breakthrough into college football and now the NFL was jump-started by Buddy Teevens, has a new role with the Cleveland Browns. Brownson, of course, went from quality control assistant with the Big Green to recruiting coordinator.


The Cleveland.com story reports that "Brownson has been promoted from Chiefs of Staff to assistant receivers coach under passing game coordinator/receivers coach Chad O’Shea. Brownson, the first female full-time assistant position coach for the Browns, enters her fourth season with the club."

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When New Hampshire visited Dartmouth last fall tailback/returner Dylan Laube was sidelined by injury. HERO Sports is posting tweets about some of the top FCS players and this one is a reminder of what Dartmouth will see in its Sept. 16 opener at Durham:

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Former Dartmouth quarterback Brian Mann '02 has to be enjoying the hype William & Mary football is getting during the offseason. The Tribe athletic director saw some unique offensive packages at Dartmouth and then in the Arena League so he's probably getting a kick out of a headline in The Athletic reading, William & Mary has the most creative offense in CFB. Here’s what you might be missing, and out of a lede like this (LINK):

It was the most bizarre-looking successful play that anyone ran in college football in 2022. The man who birthed it didn’t give it an interesting name or title, but when Christian Taylor, William & Mary’s offensive coordinator, called the play over the headset, the rest of the offensive staff grew very quiet. Taylor thought he detected a bit of an apprehensive, “Oh crap, here we go” vibe until head coach Mike London chimed in.

“Da-da-da! Da-da-da!” London replied, mimicking the famous ESPN SportsCenter theme.

That play started with the center actually snapping the ball through the legs of another player. Watch it here:


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EXTRA POINT
As she has numerous times since retiring last month, Mrs. BGA joined me on my hike up the mountain yesterday and it couldn't have been more beautiful, with new snow over a trail that had been nicely packed down by a showshoer or two after the previous storm.

On the hike I noticed, as I have many times previously, that there were almost no tracks left by animals large or small. Most creatures, it would seem, are way too smart to be venturing out into new-fallen snow. That's most, but not all.

To see tracks from the only beings clueless enough to be tromping through the new-fallen snow all I had to do was turn around – and look down the trail we left coming up the mountain.

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