Sources: Boston College is expected to promote Jonathan DiBiaso to quarterbacks coach. He was an analyst and assistant QB coach at BC last year. He’s worked at Pitt, Vanderbilt and a prior stint at BC as a GA (2018-20).
— Pete Thamel (@PeteThamel) February 13, 2024
DiBiaso battled injury at Dartmouth and never saw the field before transferring to Tufts, where he graduated in 2018. He was a grad assistant quarterback coach at Boston College from 2018-2021 while earning his master's degree in sports administration. As a graduate assistant quarterback coach at Pitt he played a role in former Dartmouth quarterback Derek Kyler doing a grad transfer year with the Panthers.
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Harvard made if official yesterday, naming Princeton alum Andrew Aurich as its new head football coach. Erin McDermott, the Harvard athletic director said in a press release (LINK):
"He brings great coaching and recruiting experience from Rutgers as well as his time at Princeton and in the NFL. He is a true Ivy model of an educator-coach and brings a hard-nosed, focused mentality that is both caring and demanding. We look forward to the future of Harvard Football with Coach Aurich."
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Speaking of coaches, here's a look at the win totals for Ivy League head football coaches entering the 2024 season:
0 – Jon Poppe, Columbia
0 – Dan Swanstrom, Cornell
0 – Andrew Aurich, Harvard
6 – Sammy McCorkle , Dartmouth
12 – James Perry, Brown
47 – Ray Priore, Penn
67 – Tony Reno, Yale
78 – Bob Surace, Princeton
That adds up to 210 total wins (while coaching in the Ivy League).
At this time last year the coaches expected to lead their teams in 2023 had a total of 702 wins, with Dartmouth's Buddy Teevens (117), Al Bagnoli (183) and Tim Murphy (192) accounting for 492 wins. Only Murphy would coach in 2023, finishing out with 200 wins.
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And regarding the union movement by Dartmouth basketball players, the college will have a little extra time to determine its next step (LINK).
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EXTRA POINT
Happy World Radio Day.
I have to admit two things. First, I didn't know there was a World Radio Day. And second, I worry about the future of radio. Seriously, how many people listen to the radio these days anywhere but in their car?
I'll always have fond memories of hearing the WOR program Rambling with Gambling playing on the radio in the kitchen when we kids were eating our Frosted Flakes or oatmeal before school. Little did I know that host John A. Gambling was a Dartmouth '51. (When he gave a talk in Hanover one year I grabbed his autograph for my mother, who was a huge fan. ;-)
My absolute favorite radio memories, however, are from another former WOR personality, humorist Jean Shepherd. Many a night I lay in bed listening to him spin stories about Flick and Schwartz and the rest. Long before Christmas Story, I got my tongue stuck on a metal pole testing out something I heard Shep say. I doubt I was the only one. Ah radio! Excelsior!
