Getting Ready for Spring Practice; Coach Healey Update

The kids are back from vacation and it will be up to them to make an extra push as they prepare for our Non-traditional season. We will begin on April 6th , the Tuesday after Easter. We will devote three days that week to strength and conditioning testing for evaluation and awards. At the Division III level we have to count these as practice days to make them mandatory, but it has that much value to us. We plan on putting some of the events on video to showcase the top performances of the best kids.

An update on Coach Healey. His O-Visa was approved and he will meet in London at the American Embassy on March 22nd and after that interview he should be free to return to BC at the end of March. Good timing, and this secures his broad based contribution for BC in this off season and the season to come.

~Coach Clark

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Speaking at Ted Barker's House

I'll be speaking at an alumni event on Thursday night in Winchester, Va. at the home of Ted Barker. Feel free to join us, contact Alumni Office at campus web-site for details. Dr. Stone is going too, has been a nice event in the past. Quiet on campus with break, Got about three days to study last years film cut-ups. Can target spring improvement through this study. Go Eagles!

- MC

Stephon Healey Update

I wanted to update people on the Stephon Healey situation to clear up things on the status to someone who is of great value to our program. Bridgewater College is in the process of sponsoring Coach Healey in the procedure necessary to go gain his Green Card status. There has been a snafu or two in a complicated process and Coach Healey returned to London while the procedure plays out. It is our best hope that his O-Visa gets approved and that will allow him to return the end of March. If this visa is not approved we will then have to go the conventional route which should allow Stephon to return to BC this summer. Not only with football, but in track, strength training, and academics he gives the school a broad-based contribution of which a lot of us are doing double time to make up for in his absence. I have told him the job is here for him and is not a question of if, but when in regards to his return. Not perfect timing, but we will make do and benefit from the surge we get when his energy and contribution returns.

~ Coach Clark

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We've Entered the 21st Century!

We are up and running on both Facebook and Twitter now and those and this blog will stay connected in the months to come. Recruiting still is our primary focus in house, but next week’s spring break will give the staff time for in house football study.

In the off season that is often tough to do at the Division III level with the recruiting calendar we go by and the collateral duty we pick up.

Kudos to Taylor Marie Trobaugh and Ray Decker who have helped me set this up. Once spring ball starts in April will try to keep updates that allow fans to follow our progress. A lot of work to do, but in house development is the biggest key to 2k10 success.

~ Coach Clark

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Recruiting Updates

Recruiting still takes the bulk of staff attention at least until Spring Break which begins after class on March 5th. We have had kids visiting campus throughout the past two months and the snow has made the weekends difficult for prospects to get their travel in this past month. Financial Aid is being sent out now, and that will always be a key in the decision making process of most of the kids we are able to get on campus. I do not think that most people realize that the Division III recruiting calendar is most intense in the December to April window. Although some decisions are made late in the cycle (Mid-April/ May) most kids have made choices by the end of March. The difficult thing about Division III is that when a choice is made, and a student athlete puts in a deposit (which by NCAA standards is considered an intent to enroll) there is nothing that stops the competition from continuing to recruit a student athlete. Some coaches (I include ours in this group) will wish a student athlete good luck and move on, while others will push to change a student’s mind. It is a process where the kids themselves really are the only ones who can shut it down.

We have had BC Football FaceBook and Twitter on the table the last several months and anticipate being able to launch it soon. I hope it will serve as great communication tool for the fans, friends, and potential prospects of Bridgewater College Football. No question these are the tools this generation uses to communicate and I think we will have a concise and exciting message to send out. Coach Clark