A Quiet End To Signing Week

After the National Signing Day buzz, things have quieted down on the football front. Today's Harvard Crimson mentions that Harvard defensive line coach Jeff Commissiong will be coaching the same position at Boston College while linebackers coach John Butler is headed to Minnesota to coach the linebacker there. ...

So far, Dartmouth coach Buddy Teevens has been able to keep his staff intact. ... It will be interesting to see if New Hampshire makes a run at former Dartmouth offensive coordinator John Perry (see this morning's posting, below) should UNH assistant Chip Kelly go to Oregon. Perry, now an assistant at Hofstra, was a record-setting receiver at UNH and was on the staff there before bringing some of the Wildcats' sleight-of-hand to Hanover. ...

In addition to Derham Cato going to the CFL (below) another former Dartmouth player is weighing an offer to play the indoor game in af2. The details will be coming in another week or two. And no, it's not Brian Mann or Anthony Gargiulo. ...

Freshman defensive back Pete Pidermann will be seeing a few former teammates from Belen Jesuit Prep on Saturday afternoons in the fall as one "signed" this week with Yale and another with Columbia. Another couple of Belen products are at Princeton. Belen is giving State College (Pa.) High a run for its Ivy money with seven players headed to the Ancient Eight in recent years.

Early Decision admission is a hot topic these days around the Ivy League and what's happening at Princeton is sure to stir up the conversation. Jeff Peterson, a well-regarded basketball player from DeMatha High School in Hyattsville, Md., was admitted to Princeton early decision, but has decided to reconsider his options. Excerpts from a story in today's Princetonian:

Despite reports that Jeff Peterson — one of the top recruits for the men's basketball team in the last decade — has backed out of his early-decision commitment to Princeton, the University insists he will be joining the Tigers in the fall.

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Peterson may be thinking about going elsewhere, but his Early Decision agreement means that he has a binding contract with the University, Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye said.

"I can assure you that, in Early Decision, athletes are bound by the same rules as non-athletes." Rapelye added that "extenuating financial circumstances" would be the only exception to the binding nature of the contract.