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According to Twitter, Ernest Evans, a quarterback from Houston Second Baptist High School, is ticketed for Hanover. Evans, just 16, is listed on his Hudl page as being 6-foot-3, 195 pounds with a 4.5 in the 40. Your call on what it means, but the first position listed on his page – in bold-face type – is wide receiver, followed by quarterback and cornerback.

Houston News.com notes Evans, who played in TAPPS Division II, was chosen to the all-state academic team and was voted the District 4 Offensive MVP. According to that story, he ran for 772 yards and 13 touchdowns (6.3 yards per carry) and passed for 593 yards and five touchdowns although other stories push those numbers significantly higher. He played on the North team in December's Sportsmarketing.com Bowl featuring top private school players from Houston.

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I've got one more potential "commit" – a linebacker – but haven't been able to confirm him yet. Stay tuned.

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A column in today's Daily Dartmouth has a tongue-in-cheek suggestion that the Dartmouth Winter Carnival committee might have considered. From the column:

If Tim Tebow can get a life-size statue outside of the University of Florida football stadium for winning the Heisman Trophy, then Schwieger definitely deserves to be the snow sculpture in my hypothetical Carnival. Because of his phenomenal performance this past season, Schwieger was awarded the 73rd annual George “Bulger” Lowe Award, “New England’s Heisman Trophy,” along with Boston College linebacker Luke Kuechly.

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The Ivy League office has a note that three Ivy products earned their second Super Bowl rings with the Giants' victory last night. Those Ivies are offensive lineman Kevin Boothe of Cornell and longsnapper Zak DeOssie of Brown and Marc Ross, a former Princeton wide receiver. Ross is the team's director of scouting. (link)

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Speaking of the Super Bowl, thanks to DVR we had enough "time" built up to fast-forward through most of the halftime show. That Certain Hanover High Senior came back from a friend's house where a bunch of guys were watching and said they thought Madonna was a disaster. Can't say that we disagreed.

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The Yale Daily News has more on Patrick Witt.

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There have been numerous stories lately about the "decline in Ivy League applications," this year and pardon me, but they are silly. For the most part, what we have been seeing has been a decline in the growth of the number of applications, not in the raw number of applications. What is at play here? The Common Application has made it so easy to shotgun applications that kids have taken to applying to a lot of colleges. I mean, a lot of colleges. It only makes sense that at some point the saturation point would be reached and guidance counselors would start to pull in the reins. The Daily Dartmouth has a story about Dartmouth's applications increasing by 3 percent this year.

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We're headed down to Concord this morning for a ceremony honoring the state's scholar-athletes. That Certain Hanover High Graduate was in Texas working on a Habitat for Humanity house when her class was honored, so it will be fun to be there and applaud That Certain Hanover High Senior in the state capital this morning. (Perhaps he ought to be That Certain Penn State-Bound Senior ;-)

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I remember Mr. Schneider in 7th grade telling us how companies sometimes intentionally put inconsequential errors in their maps to see if they showed up on competitors' maps. I won't say I put any errors in the recruit list on purpose, but the fact that there were a few and I got emails correcting them is greatly appreciated. It lets me know someone out there is reading this stuff, that my time isn't wasted, and helps get things right. So email away ;-)

That said, here's my latest unofficial list of recruits with new-add Ernest Evans arbitrarily tossed into the wide receiver group. Again, that position is an educated guess. Did I mention this was unofficial and subject to correction? . . .

QB
Jonathan Dibiaso, 6-1, 185, Everett, Mass.
Thomas Militello, 6-4, 180, Mary Institute, St. Louis
Dalyn Williams, 6-0, 205, Lake Dallas, Texas

TB
Kyle Bramble, 5-11, 187, Floyd Central HS, Ind.
Brian Grove, 5-10, 191, King's Academy, West Palm Beach, Fla.
*David Daines, 6-1, 202 Weber HS, Utah

WR
KJ Booze, 5-9, 160, Spiro HS, Okla.
Earnest Evans, 6-3, 195, Second Baptist, Houston, Texas
Victor Williams, WR, 5-9, 158, Muskogee HS, Okla.

TE
Jonathan Moran, 6-5, 230, Loyola Blakefield HS, Baltimore
Jack Sheehy, 6-5, 230, St. Andrews School, Boca Raton, Fla.
Sam Laptad (or DE), 6-4, 215, Jenks HS, Okla.

OL/DL
Josh Clark, 6-5, 273 Bradenton Christian, Fla.
Jacob Flores, 6-4, 275, Grace Prep, Arlington, Texas
Cody Fulleton, 6-2, 265, O’Dea HS, Seattle
Brendan Johnson, 6-6, 272, Gonzaga, Washington, D.C.
Niko Mamula, 6-4, 275, Chartiers Valley, Pa.
Jerry Uwaezuok, 6-3, 250, Westbury, Houston, Texas
Jake Young, 6-3, 260, Avon Lake, Ohio
AJ Zuttah, 6-3, 290, Cheshire Academy, N.J.

LB
Will McNamara, 6-1, 210, St. Rita HS, Ill.

DB
David Caldwell, 5-11 1/2, 177, Groton School (Charlotte, N.C.)
Paddy Clancy, 5-10 1/2, 165, St. Thomas Academy, Minn.
Jordan Greenwood, 6-0, 180, Lutheran High, Orange, Calif.
Vernon Harris, 6-0, 166, St. Thomas Aquinas, Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
Frankie Hernandez, 5-10, 190, Belen Jesuit, Fla.
Will Konstant, 6-2, 190, Lyons Township, Ill.
Omete Anassi, 5-9, 154, Westside, Houston, Texas
Josh Winslow, 6-0, 180, Loomis Chaffee, Houston, Texas

* Admitted two years ago and will attend Dartmouth this fall after an LDS mission