Malik Forrester, who joined the Dartmouth coaching staff as defensive quality control assistant shortly before the start of the 2021 season, has landed at Auburn as a graduate assistant working with the defensive line. The Auburn Undercover 247 Sports story includes a bit about Forrester, although its timeline is wrong. (LINK)
Forrester was a two-year starter at Fresno State.
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Dartmouth coach Buddy Teevens and Harvard coach Tim Murphy, his old high school teammate, may be very close friends but apparently their approach to spring football practice couldn't be much more different.
When the Big Green concludes its spring drills one week from Saturday, the "Green-White Game" will most definitely not include tackling. Players will bang into each other but they won't be taking ballcarriers to the ground, and when it happens, the coaches will let the offending party know about it in no uncertain terms. Teevens proudly tells recruits and their parents that at no time in their Dartmouth careers will Big Green players tackle Big Green players.
Harvard? The Crimson had its spring game a few days ago and check out how the affair was described on the New England Football Journal website (LINK):
If you thought you may see some two-hand touch or light tackling, you were sadly mistaken. Right from the opening drive, the Crimson were laying the wood and going full speed for the entire game. Head coach Tim Murphy’s no nonsense attitude and approach to the game seeped through and was on full display.
“They really embrace the spring game, they love to play,” Murphy said. “You do so little of that (hitting) in the spring, it’s a great opportunity to have game conditions, have officials, have game uniforms on, the kids got geeked up and went after it pretty good.”
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The NCAA has posted a bunch of data, charts and general information on the Transfer Portal that can be accessed HERE.
Among the findings:
• 12 percent of FCS players entered the portal in 2021.
• By far the leading month for portal entries last year was April, followed by May.
• 38 percent of FCS players who entered the portal in 2021 ended up at a new school.
• 6 percent came back out of the portal, likely at their own school.
• 56 percent "may still be exploring transfer options, may have transferred to a non-NCAA school or may have left their sport."
• There were 2,538 FBS players who entered the portal, more than in any other sport.
• Of the DI football players who entered the portal in the last two year 54 percent actually enrolled at new schools.
• Men's basketball led the way with fully 31 percent of its players entering the portal in 2021.
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A reminder that today marks the seventh of 12 Dartmouth spring practices. Visit BGA Premium tonight for a story out of the session.
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