Gallagher will sign an Ivy League Letter of Commitment. Ivy League schools don't use the National Letter of Intent.In the scholarship world, Signing Day makes commitments official. Until then, there are only verbal commitments and in some instances (a lot of them, actually) they are about as solid as the paper they aren't written on. (Think about it.) Check out this story from ESPN.
"They've committed to you," Gallagher said. "It's kind of more of a visual thing, something you can do with people."
Speaking of recruiting, the whole Willie Williams mess down at Miami several years back brought about some much-needed regulations about what you can and can't do with and for recruits on their visits. This SI.com story is worth a read.
Speaking of recruiting stories, there's a wild one unfolding out in Nevada where a 290ish-pound high school lineman told an assembly of his classmates about his decision to accept an offer to play at Cal. But it appears Cal wasn't recruiting him. SI.com writes:
Is it possible someone pulled off an elaborate hoax and made Hart believe he was being recruited when he wasn't? It's easy to guess that Hart invented his recruitment, but if he did, why would he hold a press conference and risk the potential embarrassment of being exposed? That part doesn't make sense. ... A little easier to understand is how a player and a family might not have understood how the recruiting process works.The local Reno Gazette Journal has followed the story here and again here.
An aside: I'd forgotten all about this but the story reminded me of a similar prank in a more innocent, non-Internet time back when I was in high school. I can't remember the victim or the school, but I do remember that one of my classmates (who wasn't even a starter) was initially hoodwinked into believing a high-profile coach was interested in him. I know it never got this far.
Our local paper has a story today about a tight end from Hanover High School named Carl Cutler who will sign with Syracuse tomorrow morning. This site suggests he was on Dartmouth's radar but I never heard much talk about that. In 20 or so years, Cutler is the second I-A (and that's what I'm calling it) scholarship kid to come out of this valley. The other was a placekicker, also from Hanover, who went to Rutgers but ended up transferring to Lehigh. A number of other players have walked on at scholarship schools but none has made much more than a cameo on the field.
Today's Daily Dartmouth has a story about President Wright's decision to step down and an analysis of his term as president.
The Princetonian has a story about former Tiger quarterback and Dallas Cowboy assistant Jason Garrett.
Yesterday's New York Times had a thought-provoking piece. It began this way:
Allan T. Demaree, a retired executive editor of Fortune magazine, gladly makes donations to Princeton University, his alma mater, even though he knows it has become one of the wealthiest educational institutions in the world. His son, who also went to Princeton, points to its endowment of $15.8 billion, and will not give it a penny.Plenty of smiles on Moose Mountain because it's a snow day. One more and it's going to wreak havoc on our summer vacation plans.
“Why give money to an institution that can seemingly live off its interest when other very deserving entities need money to function tomorrow?” asked the son, Heath Demaree, a professor at Case Western Reserve University who instead donates to Virginia Tech, where he was a graduate student.
And finally, please, please, please send along links from local papers about Signing Day festivities involving Dartmouth recruits from local media. It's a big help because I can't find 'em all. Thanks.
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