Dartmouth made it official yesterday, announcing Conor McNally as football's new director of strength and conditioning. He replaces Spencer Brown, who has moved on to Rutgers. From a Dartmouth release available HERE:
(A)t the Big 12's University of Kansas, McNally played a key role in the athletic development and performance readiness of all football student-athletes. He led the training programs for all incoming players while overseeing the Sports Science program, integrating advanced performance technology and systems such as GPS, force plates, velocity-based training, strength testing and heart rate monitoring.
Prior to Kansas, McNally was an assistant strength and condition coach for The University at Buffalo. A 2013 Buffalo graduate, he also interned with the NFL's Buffalo Bills, and was an S&C assistant at Wofford.
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Joe Moglia, the Dartmouth assistant coach from 1981-83 who became a giant in finance before returning to football and enjoying success as head coach at Coastal Carolina, is subject of a New York Times/Athletic story under the headline, How ‘spiritual soundness’ led Joe Moglia from Wall Street CEO to college football head coach. Find the story HERE.
From the story, which traces his coaching history back to his start leading a Delaware high school program:
It wasn’t long before Moglia climbed his way to collegiate coaching, helping guide the Lafayette College football team before becoming the defensive coordinator at Dartmouth in 1981. It was there, in his first season, that he received divorce papers and moved into the storage room above the football offices.
(Editor's Note: That area of Davis Varsity House is where legendary basketball coach/broadcaster Al McGuire lived when he started his coaching career at Dartmouth from 1955-57).
Also from the Moglia story:
In the 1980s, without contacts of his own, he approached alumni groups at Fordham and the two schools where he had coached, Lafayette and Dartmouth, and asked for names and numbers. Slowly, he built a list of people who worked on Wall Street and began to cold call.
Again, to access the full story (behind the paywall), click HERE.
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With snow again falling outside, how about a touch of spring? Dartmouth baseball opened the season with a three-game series at No. 15 Texas, and while the outcome wasn't what the Big Green wanted, back-to-back one-run losses and narrow defeat in the final game gave reason for optimism. From a recap out of Texas (LINK):
Texas head coach Jim Schlossnagle praised the work of Dartmouth pitching coach Blake McFadden working under 36th-year head coach Bob Whalen, a Hanover institution.
"At least from where I stood, their pitching coach did an awesome job of having a game plan and executing it," Schlossnagle said on Monday.
McFadden put the Big Green pitchers in a position to be successful and they did the rest, in part by showing physical improvement over the 2024 season, the last available video the Longhorns had on their opponents since Dartmouth hadn't played a game this season prior to Friday.
And . . .
According to Schlossnagle, Saturday starter Eddie Albert was at 88 to 91 miles per hour on his fastball with some sync, but was throwing up to 94 with that ride to his fastball at the dish.
"Dartmouth's starters, they all did a really nice job of pitching in their own way and pitching to the conditions and did a pretty good — you've got guys running it up to 94, you've got guys executing, they were throwing strikes, I mean, tons of tons of strikes and tons of strikes with the off-speed pitches," Schlossnagle said.
"Yesterday's starter had great ride to the fastball, like SEC-type ride. Not 95 with ride, but 90-92 with good ride to the fastball, and that's good preparation for us."
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EXTRA POINT
Earlier this week I did something I'd never done before.
I wrote a letter to Bruce Wood. No, not one of those "Where I want to be in the future" letters teachers like to assign. This one was to a real, flesh and blood Bruce Wood.
I don't know how this happens, but I've been getting periodic email intended for another Bruce Wood for the past half dozen years or so. Fortunately, the emails have alway been from businesses. I've tried contacting the senders to let them know that they have the wrong person, but almost always they are "do not reply" addresses. I've gotten emails regarding purchases the other BW made, services he's used, medical appointments, and events that he's booked, among others.
On those few occasions when a business did have a live email address, I asked them to change the address they had on record and please let the other fellow know what was happening – but the emails still keep coming.
Clearly, the best solution might have been to email the other guy, but the only address I have would obviously have bounced straight back to me. And I didn't have a phone number to call him.
But then, finally . . . I got an email invoice a few weeks ago that for the first time had the other fellow's mailing address. So I sat down and wrote him a letter explaining what has been happening.
The bottom line is I may eventually shut down my gmail address and switch over to my iCloud address as my main account. That would be a huge headache, but might be worth it. I can promise you, no one in the world has an address as unique as the one I use with that account. ;-)
