Of 2 QB Recruits: One Reported Coming This Way

Still nothing official on the recruiting front except:

• news that the quarterback son of a former Dartmouth signalcaller is headed to Princeton
• and a published report saying the quarterback son of another Dartmouth alum is heading to Hanover.

Missed this the first time around but a recent Rocky Mountain News preview story about the Kent Denver boys basketball team referred to, "6-foot-5 senior Will Deevy (... bound for Dartmouth ... for football)." (Already at Dartmouth is wide receiver Ian Ferrell, one of Deevy's targets at Kent Denver year ago.) ... For a Rocky Mountain News story about Deevy prior to football season, click here. From that story:

"With his natural size and good arm strength, he grabbed the attention of college recruiters at every stop. Before going to the CU camp, Buffs coach Dan Hawkins told Deevy he was 'an unknown commodity.' That description didn't last long, as the Buffaloes started corresponding with Deevy after the camp."

... Deevy's high school basketball teammate Robbie Pride is a freshman on the Big Green hoop squad.

The son of a quarterback alum going elsewhere is Brett Kan, whose father Darryl (Wong) '82 had a couple of NFL tryouts after graduating from Dartmouth. (See earlier Green Alert post). Kan, who passed for for 2,566 yards and 17 touchdowns for his Hawaii high school this year, is headed to Princeton according to this story.

For thoughts about Columbia football's place in the Ivy cosmos, check out Jake Novak's Roar Lions Roar blog. I shared the Optimist-Pessimist concept with Jake after the season and he's taken it to a whole new level (with The Freshman and The Old Alum), not surprising given that he's a comedy writer.

Former Brown quarterback and coach Mark Whipple was bypassed for the head coaching position at Boston College, which is hiring Green Bay Packers offensive coordinator Jeff Jagodzinski according to the Boston Globe. Jadogzinski might have had the edge on Whipple because he had been on the BC staff and is less likely to rock the boat, according to this Globe story.

Stanford has rolled the dice and tapped Jim Harbaugh to be its new head coach as reported here. The former NFL quarterback, whose father was an assistant at Stanford, had tremendous success at non-scholarship, Division I-AA San Diego, but this will be his first head coaching job in the I-A ranks (or whatever they call it now). ...

A couple more notes before sending you on your way this morning. ...

First, I staffed the Dartmouth men's basketball win over Quinnipiac last night for the Associated Press and Basketball-U. The game was televised on NESN (New England Sports Network) and if you happened to tune in you might have seen a very pretty young lady holding up a sign that called Leon Pattman Dartmouth's meaN grEen Scoring machiNe (NESN, get it?). The sign-maker was a certain Hanover High freshman who gets mentioned here on occasion.

The best part of the night for our family, however, came at halftime. As a promotion, young fans were given green sheets of paper with instructions that they should fold them into paper airplanes, sign their name on the wings and fly them on command at halftime toward the jump circle. The plane closest to the middle would win a prize.

The winner? A certain 12-year-old who had been told he couldn't go to the 7:30 game unless he took a nap after school. He wasn't crazy about that idea, but the $100 he scooped up for his accurate flight made it all worthwhile. The funniest part of all might have been when someone, with tongue firmly in cheek, asked my son -- who has lived at Dartmouth since he was an infant and is known by most everyone around the gym -- for some identification before handing over the loot.

By the way, Dartmouth capped a pretty good night by winning its third game in a row after opening the season with six losses. That's a nice rebound. It's probably not a coincidence that the turnaround came when Leon Pattman, who missed the first six games with a high ankle sprain, returned to the lineup. The former Ivy League Rookie of the Year is averaging 19.0 points in his three games.

Finally, I'd like to thank the subscriber who clicked on the tip jar off to the right of this page and sent something this way yesterday. I put that jar up so non-subscribers who regularly come by can show their appreciation for the time I put in on this every day if they wish. It was very kind of someone who already helps keep Green Alert going to throw something in the kitty. Thanks. It makes it easier to keep going on those days when I wonder if it's worth it.