Saturday, January 28, 2012

Lost in the Shuffle?




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Bryan Dewey


While the recruiting baton seems to have been handed cleanly to the the new coaching staff, there's a chance a good linebacker prospect from Southern California got lost in the coaching change shuffle.

Bryan Dewey from Beckman HS was in regular contact with Norries Wilson's staff, but hasn't heard anything since the new staff came in.

Princeton's coaches continue to recruit him to this day.

If the current staff has decided to pass on Dewey, that's fine. I'd just hate to see us lose him if the only reason is because his info wasn't passed on clearly.

Here's his 2010 highlight video below:



Honors

Incoming frosh Chris Cicilioni has been named a co-winner of the top honor given to the best football players in Pennsylvania's Lackawanna County, earning the annual Hookey Reap Award presented by the American Legion.


Joe's Boys

Coastal Carolina Head Coach Joe Moglia has hired former Columbia offensive coordinator Dave Patenaude as his new offensive coordinator.

You'll remember that Moglia is the former TD/Ameritrade CEO who left Wall Street to return to his first love of coaching. I thought there was a good chance he'd land a top Ivy job, but Coastal grabbed him.

Good luck Dave!

Witt Latest

Patrick Witt's lawyers have released a formal statement denying that Witt's Rhodes Scholarship candidacy had been suspended before he formally withdrew in time to play in The Game against Harvard.

I'm on the record for more than three years now as a Patrick Witt doubter, so let me stand up again and say I really doubt this kid and anything he or his lawyers say.

I'm no fan of the NY Times either, but the paper is standing by its story.

And even if what they say is true, surely the Yale administration knew of the sexual assault claim against Witt and should have known better to continue pumping out positive pres material about him.

There are a lot of people in trouble because of this mess at Yale, and other than the woman who Witt allegedly assaulted, I can't say I feel sorry for any of them.

The deplorable Yale PR department pushing this Rhodes story was overbearing to begin with, ex-head coach Tom Williams was almost always really inappropriate, and Witt should have been tossed off campus years ago when he wrote an editorial in the school paper trashing his fellow students.

But my favorite possible loser in this story is Yale President Richard Levin. Levin is by far the most hostile to athletics Ivy president right now.
He may be the most hostile ever.

And now, in a delicious case of beautiful irony, the most unfriendly to athletics Ivy president could go down because his school was being too friendly to one of its very troubled athletes!

I can't think of a better way for Levin to lose his job or at least lose his influence on the Council of Ivy Group Presidents.

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-yale-qb-and-the-new-york-times-all-the-news-thats-unfit-to-print/2012/01/27/gIQAFxKPWQ_story.html

Anonymous said...

The Post is entitled to its opinion, but the NYT gets it right more often than they get it wrong.

Anonymous said...

The Lions already have commitments from two talented linebackers, Cieslak and Ardron. According to Rivals, Columbia also offered another linebacker, C.J. Reimann, who recently visited Columbia and may have also visited William and Mary this past weekend. Rivals also reported that another possible Lion recruit, Jeremy Haynes, decided to walk on at Virginia Tech. Holy Cross, Davison and some other schools also offered Haynes.

Old Lion said...

Enough of the schadenfreude regarding Witt, Yale, and Levin's hostility to football. I frankly couldn't care less what happens at Yale, other than the fact that we probably had the talent to beat them for the last three years but astonishingly lost all three games by three points or less. As far as the LB recruit who may have fallen through the cracks, I think with this HC nothing, and I mean nothing, falls through any crack, even a microscopic one.

Old Lion said...

Enough of the schadenfreude regarding Witt, Yale, and Levin's hostility to football. I frankly couldn't care less what happens at Yale, other than the fact that we probably had the talent to beat them for the last three years but astonishingly lost all three games by three points or less. As far as the LB recruit who may have fallen through the cracks, I think with this HC nothing, and I mean nothing, falls through any crack, even a microscopic one.

Bob L said...

Interesting article by Joe Nocera in today's NY Times about Harvard's unwillingness to stand up to the NCAA regarding freshman woman's basketball star's eligibility. It appears even Harvard didn't want to contest the NCAA on an apparent screw-up.

Bohdan said...

Does anyone know why Gerst have so few rushing yards this year at Bergen Cath? Did he mainly play D? Was he injured? Did Bergen have King Kong playing RB ahead of Gerst?
-Dr.V

Anonymous said...

Gerst ran back kick offs and punts and also caught a number of passes. BC had another outstanding RB who also has a lot of carries. You are talking about a premier HS program at BC.

Anonymous said...

Jake,

Back from a safari in southern Africa where I got some great lion shots. How do I send them to you for possible posting on this blog?

Jake said...

Hey! Just send those pics to roarlions2012@gmail.com

Anonymous said...

Bob,

Nocera's attack in the New York Times on both the NCAA and Harvard seems unjustified to me and may reflect his ignorance of NCAA rules and regulations and college sports in general. While the NCAA may not be a perfect institution, it certainly does its best to prevent colleges from shopping the globe for athletes who are not prepared academically to attend a particular college. One of the ways it does that is to place direct or indirect restictions on the number of years an athlete from another country can attend an American high school before beginning college. That at least prevents some possible abuses. Obviously, some of these restrictions may seem unfair in light of the fact that they only apply to foreign students, but the restrictions make sense, because there is no other practical method for the NCAA to monitor students coming in from outside the United States. This rule was in place well before the young lady in question applied to Harvard and it would have been unfair for the NCAA to disregard its existence just because she was a great basketball player or her parents were wonderful people. If she chose to repeat her junior year at Blair, that violated the NCAA rule and led to her losing one year of eligibiity. Harvard has made numerous unsuccessful appeals on her behalf, so I don't see what Nocera is complaining about. He also says that the NCAA rule somehow discriminates against state laws. However, he fails to set forth any facts or reasons supporting his contention. Keep in mind, that Nocera is not a sports writer or sports columnist. If he were, I might take what he says more seriously.