From a STORY about former Baylor head coach Art Briles coaching pro football in Italy (italics are mine):
The former NCAA coach of the year has already been building his team in Florence as the Guelfi have been busy this off-season. Along with the signing of the Texas football veteran, several former Div. 1 talents have signed for the 2022 season including South Alabama record-breaking tailback Xavier Johnson, former South Eastern standout Dejion Lynch, and Dartmouth quarterback and H-back Jared Gerbino.
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Speaking of quarterbacks, we can't be sure who will be doing the most throwing of the football for Dartmouth next fall but one thing we can be pretty sure of is that incoming freshman wide receiver Grayson O'Bara will have something in common with teammate and fellow receiver Jarmone Sutherland. That is, their college quarterback won't have garnered nearly as much recruiting interest as their high school quarterback had.
Sutherland, of course, was Arch Manning's favorite receiver at Isidore Newman School in New Orleans.
O'Bara's QB at Guyer High School in Denton, Texas is a junior named Jackson Arnold. From a Dallas Morning News preview of Saturday night's state championship game pitting 14-1 Guyer against 15-0 Austin Westlake. (As usual, the italics are mine):
(Arnold, a) four-star recruit holds offers from Alabama, Ohio State and Oklahoma, and 3,739 passing yards and 33 touchdowns this season. His favorite target is Dartmouth pledge Grayson O’Bara, who has 75 catches for 1,025 yards and eight touchdowns.
Lest you think all the Guyer talent is on the offensive side of the ball, the Dartmouth commit is teammates with a safety who is a Pitt pledge, another safety holding offers from Alabama, Notre Dame and Auburn, and a sophomore corner holding an offer from LSU.
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A few days ago X&O Labs posted an offensive line tutorial headlined, OL Eye Discipline In “No Chase” Tight Zone Principles. What got my attention was the byline:
By Mike Kuchar with Sanders Davis
Offensive Line Coach
Rice University (TX)
Yup, that's Sanders Davis '14, who didn't see much action at Dartmouth but surely absorbed a lot of information from offensive line coach Keith Clark. Find his Rice bio HERE and listen to Davis talk about how he gave up the idea of becoming a doctor and got into coaching on the Coach and Coordinator podcast HERE.
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The Dartmouth men's basketball nearly pulled off its second upset of a power conference team on Thursday night, but Stanford stole a victory from the Big Green thanks to a game-tying bucket with 0.7 seconds remaining in regulation. The Cardinal (6-3) then ran away in overtime for an 89-78 win at Maples Pavilion.
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And finally, Mrs. BGA and I are watching the Jeopardy Professors Tournament, which wraps up tonight, with a real rooting interest. The runaway leader (so far), is someone the Twitter world has decided is a doppelgänger for the comedian Steve Martin (LINK). Sam Buttrey just so happens to be the brother of a close friend.
It's fun to see people you know, or at least know of, do well on the show. That Certain Nittany Lion '16 had a very good friend (and high school baseball teammate) dethrone a 19-time Jeopardy champion two years ago.
