After a great talk with @coach_dobes and @Coach_McCorkle I am excited to announce my commitment to Dartmouth! Thank you to my family and coaches for all your support and for pushing me to be the best I can be, on the field and off. Looking forward to what’s ahead in #thewoods!!! pic.twitter.com/PVuEcphnk0
— Johnny Riley (@_JohnnyRiley_) August 14, 2023
Riley is a 6-foot-3, 210-pound linebacker from Delbarton School in Morristown, N.J. His social media shows him visiting most of the Ivies and holding offers from Cornell and Lafayette. He's also a lacrosse player.
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These are the commitments BGA has come across so far:
• DE Jackson Ashford, 6-2, 250, IMG Academy/Bradenton, Fla.
• WR/DB James Elliott, 6-2, 195, Willison Northampton/Leeds, Mass.
• OL Anthony Ndika, 64, 290, Loomis Chaffee/Nigeria
• LB Johnny Riley, 6-3, 210, Delbarton/Morristown, N.J.
• WR Luke Rives, 6-0, 170, Stratford HS/Houston
• OL Ryan Turk, 6-4, 280, Loyola HS/Los Angeles
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The Manchester Union Leader has a story spun out of yesterday's Ivy League media day headlined, As Buddy Teevens continues his fight to recover, Dartmouth football team carries on. (LINK)
The AP has a story headlined, Ivy League football coaches praise conference's stability. (LINK)
Editor's Note: If you haven't already, you might want to scroll down to yesterday afternoon's BGA Daily where there's a transcript of the entire Dartmouth segment from media day. Please make the time I took transcribing the thing worth it. ;-)
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| Garrett Waggoner '13 and Andy Gay '14 in a screen grab from the video. |
A TV news outlet in Florida has a story that begins this way (LINK):
A couple of former Ivy League football players say they are seeing exponential growth in their Tampa-based flavored water business.
Former safety Garrett Waggoner '13 and quarterback Andy Gay '14, now have "more than 1,200" employees helping get their Cirkul water bottles and cartridges into the hands of consumers. Per the story, the onetime Big Green teammates developed the concept for their flavored water bottles after making a mess pouring powder into water bottles in the Dartmouth locker room.
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Bruce Feldman has posted his annual college football Freaks list on The Athletic and Harvard's Thor Griffith comes in at No. 9 in the nation, slotted between Alabama linebacker Chris Braswell and Penn State defensive end Chop Robinson. From the story (LINK):
The 6-2, 320-pound powerhouse, who packed on 10 more pounds this offseason thanks to a diet, he says, of 6,000-8,000 calories a day, bench-pressed 225 pounds 45 times and improved his 40-time two-tenths of a second from a year ago, down to 4.95. His 10-yard split is 1.65 to go with a 4.57 pro shuttle time. To put that in perspective, Oklahoma’s Jalen Redmond, almost 30 pounds lighter, clocked the fastest time among defensive tackles at this year’s NFL combine, going 4.51 in the shuttle.
It also includes this about the New Hampshire native:
Thor says it was his dad’s idea to give him that name. “He’s big into comics, and I guess he had a little foresight too,” he says.
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EXTRA POINT
It's raining.
Again.
With the start of Dartmouth football practice Saturday morning putting me out of commission for much of anything else until Thanksgiving, Mrs. BGA and I took a look at the weather forecast earlier this week and pulled the trigger on one final end-of-summer escape.
Just in case, the good news is that our '84 VW poptop camper – the photo is a model of Wiffle I put together a few years ago – leaks only a little bit through the skylight.
Oh, and in case you are wondering, Saturday's first preseason practice should be under partly sunny skies with no rain in sight for the next few days.
