COACH DIDN'T LIKE WHAT HE SAW DESPITE WIN ... WONDER WHAT HE THINKS NOW

 Of all things:



A week ago Randolph-Macon football coach PEDRO 

ARRUZAwasn’t pleased by what he saw despite a 35-17 

victory over homestanding Roanoke College. “I don’t like 

how my team is playing,” Arruza said.



His post-game snit included not making QB DANTE 

CASCIOLA available to the media. “He’s in the locker 

room. He can’t come out,” Arruza said, adding, “He’s 

declining to speak to you.”


The Yellow Jackets (5-1), winners of 29 straight ODAC 

games and always a threat to go deep into the DIII 

national playoffs, obviously got the message. They 

destroyed Averett 77- 20 Saturday in Ashland.



NEW YORK RANGERS put defenseman CARSON 

SOUCY on IR yesterday after suffering an upper body 

injury in Saturday’s 6-1 rout of Pittsburgh. Connor 

Mackey was called up from AHL Hartford to replace him.



Seldom used a season ago after acquired March 6, 2025 

from Vancouver for a conditional fifth-round choice in the 

2025 NHL draft, Soucy has played a regular shift on the 

No. 3 defensive unit for new Rangers coach MIKE 

SULLIVAN.


Ostensibly the 6-5, 220 pound Soucy replaced 5-11, 190 

pound Richmonder ZAC JONES who signed as a free 

agent with Buffalo.



OH, MY GOSH! DEREK DOOLEY is running for the 

U.S., Senate from Georgia. The son of football coaching 

icon Vince Dooley, he played for GEORGE WELSH at 

the University of Virginia (1987-1990).


A walk-on wide receiver, derek earned a scholarship prior 

to his sophomore season and proved to be steady if 

unspectacular as the Cavaliers rose to No. 1 in the country 

for three weeks during his final season. From 

Charlottesville, he returned to Athens, Ga., to get a law 

degree from the University of Georgia.



Dooley later became head football coach at Louisiana 

Tech and the University of Tennessee where he was fired 

in 2012 after three undistinguished seasons. His coaching 

tree also included stops as an assistant with the NFL 

Giants, Dolphins and Cowboys as well as Alabama under

 NICK SABAN.



“I’m certainly not your typical politician by any means,” 

D Dooley told Fox News’ WILL CAIN. “I did have a 

three-decade career coaching football. The thing I loved 

about football is you sat in kitchens and living rooms with 

people from all walks of life. It doesn’t matter what race 

they are. It doesn’t matter the income level, their religion 

or politics.


“Everybody has dreams. Every family has struggles, and 

you’re able to use football to fight for them … and that’s 

what I want to do for the people of Georgia. We need 

people who will fight for them ,,, not just for their 

political careers.”


Sure sounds like a typical politician, eh?



Until next time ...



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