Signing Day

Given the number of recruits who have been featured in newspaper stories and on recruiting websites already, there won't be that many new names revealed on Signing Day. Here's one that showed up this morning: 6-foot-5, 275-pound offensive tackle Sanders Davis of Catholic High School in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

A story in The Advocate says he considered Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Brown. (Thanks for the link. (Here's a head shot) From the story:

As a senior, Davis, who started two years on Catholic’s offensive line, earned first-team All-District 5-5A honors. He played for the Rough Riders in the U.S. Army Red Stick Bowl in December.

The Boston Globe has some nice words about incoming lineman Cam Colwell of Xaverian High School. The Globe writes:

Dartmouth beefed up its line with perhaps the best player on Division 1 Super Bowl winner Xaverian, Cameron Colwell -- a 6-5, 275-pound two-way force.

The Lehigh Football Nation blog doesn't necessarily buy that the Ivy League is 100 percent accurate in billing itself as "non-scholarship," and explains why. LFN also wonders about a quarterback's decision to walk away from Ivy League admission in favor of a football scholarship.

In the aftermath of his school's appearance in the men's basketball Top-25, a columnist in the Cornell Sun wonders why the Ivy League can't find a way to be more successful in mainstream sports.

Back to the Dartmouth budget problems, a columnist from College Sporting News writes:

Athletics appears to once again is a popular target by academics at Dartmouth, but even if they eliminate it all - it won't come close to balancing the books.

Jimmie Lee Solomon, the former Dartmouth football standout-turned-baseball's executive vice president of baseball operations speaks to students of his high school alma mater in this MLB story.

An Illinois daily reprises the story of Dartmouth football legend Clarence Wiley Spears. From the story:

Clarence made a decision to drop out of Knox College and pursue the field of medicine while attending Dartmouth, College in Hanover, New Hampshire. His classroom studies were so-so, but after graduating from Dartmouth he was heralded as one of the greatest football players ever produced at the school. He was chosen to the All-American team in both 1914 and 1915.

And finally, a reprise of a posting from earlier this week that comes from the Tucson Citizen and provides some common sense that is well worth remembering today:

1. “Commitment” doesn’t mean anything.
2. Everyone always likes their class.
3. Highly rated players aren’t always great…unless they are.