Heading This Way ...

Another relatively quiet day on the news front.

A defensive back from Hillsborough High School in New Jersey is headed Dartmouth's way according to a Courier News blog. Highly regarded in Central Jersey coming into his senior season, Mike Banaciski broke his leg during a summer camp. He then reinjured the leg trying to come back and was lost for the year.

Loyola High School in Los Angeles has been very kind to Dartmouth the past few years and so it's no surprise that Bronson Green, a 6-foot-1, 220-pound linebacker is on Dartmouth's radar. This Scout.com teaser says Princeton is in the picture and UCLA would like him to walk on.

Yale's early action class is profiled on the Portal 31 blog.

Look for a story on Big Green Alert early next week about Dartmouth's early decision class.

A regular reader has sent along an interesting link to a Washington Post story headlined:

Football arms race engulfs the CAA; Conference revels in rising stature but costs prompt two of its programs to fold

To borrow from the (old) SAT's, is it possible that Dartmouth is to UNH as UNH is to Montana and App State? Consider this quote from UNH Athletic Director Marty Scarano:

If the Delawares, and the Montanas, and the JMUs, the (Appalachian) States -- and you can name maybe seven, eight schools -- if they decide their brand of football is completely different than the UNHs, well, who are they going to play with in the future, then?

Due to the money crunch, Harvard has halted construction on its $1 billion Science Center after the foundation was begun according to the Boston Globe. Dartmouth, meanwhile, is going ahead with the Class of 1978 Life Science Center and the Visual Arts Center projects the Daily Dartmouth said in a story about renovations on the president's home. That work (on the president's house) is being completed all with private money.

And finally, early decision admissions are trickling in for that certain Hanover High senior's classmates. (She couldn't pull the trigger on going ED.) Even before all the schools have released their classes, she knows of five classmates headed to the Ivy League. The bet here is there will be more.