Green Lands Lineman With Pretty Impressive Pedigree

Add the brother of an NFL lineman for the Tampa Bay Bucs to the Dartmouth recruiting list. AJ Zuttah, a 6-foot-2, 290-pound lineman from Edison, N.J., by way of the Hun School and then Cheshire Academy, has committed to Dartmouth according to multiple published reports including the New Haven Register. His brother Jeremy is a Rutgers grad who plays for Tampa Bay. Oldest brother Jeff was a Michigan recruit who transferred to Stanford under current Dartmouth coach Buddy Teevens only to see his football career ended after four games because of illness. Story

Hanover-bound Jonathan "AJ" Zuttah is a two-star Rivals player who posted 63 tackles with five sacks and two forced fumbles last fall at Cheshire and helped the offense run for more than 1,800 yards. He was the 2011 New England Prep Class B Lineman of the Year. There was mutual interest in Boston College (link) and he held offers from William & Mary, Delaware, Elon and Georgetown.

From a story in the Pennington Post:

The 6-2, 295-pound lineman was first-team, All-Prep on both sides of the line and was named Player of the Year by Princeton Packet. A 4-year varsity starter Jonathan also lettered in wrestling and track and field at Hun.

“I can honestly say A.J. Zuttah is a cut above,“ Hun coach Dave Dudeck says. “In my time with A.J., I have come to know him as a hard working, honest, and driven young man on the football field, in the classroom, and socially. A.J. has a wonderful personality that makes him a joy to coach. I know from a personal standpoint that his devotion and commitment to everything he does is superlative.”

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Took a "Daddy Trip" to UMass yesterday to watch a very entertaining basketball game between the Minutemen and Rick Majerus' St. Louis team and to visit with the kids' cousin, who is a drummer with the fabulous UMass pep band. Now the fine print. "Daddy Trips" used to be taking Those Certain Two Kids somewhere so their mom would have a free day. But since one is now in college, we replaced her with . . . wait for it . . . mom. Oh, and cousin Andrew, who marched last year with the world champion Cadets, had to bag out for a weekend practice schedule with the Cadets. But hey, it was a good game between a couple of 16-5 teams playing in front of the largest crowd at the Mullins Center in five years ;-)