Written by Collen Keane UPDATED at 3:29 p.m. on February 2, 2020 after being published at 10:29 a.m. on the same day in 2020. Your audio article is loading. The first time Dino Babers watched Jimmy Garoppolo toss a football in person, he reacted angrily. After Robert Gryphon III’s Heisman Trophy-winning season, Babers left his position as head coach at Baylor to take a position as assistant coach at Eastern Illinois. In 2012, he attended his first spring practice to assess his new quarterback, a three-year college graduate from Rolling Meadows High School. Babers claimed, “After witnessing him toss the ball five times, I turned to a campus administrator and said, ‘This kid shouldn’t be here.'” There ought to be roughly forty.
