I have gotten a lot of questions about the status of Bridgewaterfootball.com. That site was the child of Matt Barnhart who started it while a student at BC and expanded it through his graduate school time and eventual employment here at Bridgewater College. It was something he did during his off the clock time and, no question, provided a unique and special perspective on our program. As you all know last August Matt left BC to take the job has the Assistant Recruiting Coordinator at the University of Virginia. I campaigned for the job for him and I will always be grateful that Al Groh trusted us, and took a chance on a Division III guy who was doing quality work to come into his program. This is a business that is very class oriented, and these jumps do not happen often. The feedback from the Wahoos is that Matt is doing great work for them.
Working for UVA football involves a tremendous amount of time. Justifiably so, they have told Matt that continuing this site for another college is out of the question. You can see Matt’s work on their sites and recruiting material now if you look. After consulting with Steve Cox the decision was made to transfer some of the quality material from Matt’s site to the official site of the school and look for ways to expand the coverage from what we have set up. This would include the record books, newspaper stories from the surrounding media, my blog, and hoping for an expansion of post game and pregame material for the 2009 season. My hope is that those of you that used to bookmark bridgewaterfootball.com will do the same with our official school site and I will do my best with our SID department to keep it updated and interesting. The college will not allow chat rooms on an official college site and I would encourage you to use the forum at D3Football.com and contact me on my blog and I will try to answer select questions.
I hope this helps answer questions and we move on to a new phase in the football program. The site helped us along on a great ride. We are looking forward now.
Go BC,
Coach Clark
