This and That

Both head coach Buddy Teevens and tailback Nick Schwieger get mentioned in a 10-point Dartmouth trivia list in today's Daily Dartmouth.

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With most high school seniors now committed, recruiting news around the Ivy League has slowed to a trickle but the Portal 31 blog writes that Yale could still be in line for a Division I transfer from Duke. If defensive tackle Tevin Hood heads to New Haven he won't be the first transfer into the Ivies this offseason ... and may not be the last. Roar Lions Roar reported last month that Wells Childress, a defensive end from Houston, is headed to Columbia from Texas A&M. Like Hood, he had been a walk-on at the scholarship level.

Today's trivia: Both Hood and Childress are sons of former NFL players. Hood is the son of former NFL lineman Eric Swann, who played for the Cardinals from 1991-99 and then one season with the Panthers. Childress' father, Ray, played with the Oilers from 1985-95 and then one season with with Cowboys.

The tom-toms have been suggesting that there's still another transfer from a prominent FCS school eyeing a move to one of the top Ivy League programs. Stay tuned on that one. ...

Check out the FCS Transfer Tracker to see who is going where.

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There are reports that Holy Cross has popped onto the University of New Hampshire schedule for an Oct. 1 game in Durham this fall. That's two weeks before the Crusaders host Dartmouth.

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Back to recruiting, Jay Paterno had a well-done column a few weeks back about the silliness of ranking the classes – even at the FCS level. Toward the end of the column he wrote something that those who think they have a grasp of how any particular Ivy League school's recruiting really went this year should keep in mind. From statecollege.com:

Just prior to President Obama’s speech at Penn State last Thursday—the day after signing day—White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs asked me how Penn State’s recruiting went and admitted that he had been checking his computer on signing day. When President Obama met Joe Paterno backstage, he asked how recruiting had gone.

In an honest response, Joe Paterno said: “Who knows? You don’t really know for at least two years.”

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And finally, following up on last week's mention of the cause, the Penn State dance marathon better known as THON wrapped up yesterday with a record $9.56 million raised for the Four Diamonds Fund, which supports pediatric cancer research and treatment. THON is the largest student-run philanthropy in the country.