BG To Big Green

Incoming linebacker Bennett Goff is joined by coach Tim Simon (left) and athletic director Bob Joers after the Middleton High School (Wisconsin) product announced his decision last week to continue his education and his athletic career at Dartmouth, where fellow Middleton alum Casey Cramer had a pretty fair career before going on to the NFL.

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Tom Williams, an assistant with the Jacksonville Jaguars before spending the past three years as head coach at Yale, is apparently going to be the safeties coach at UTEP. The New Haven Register's Portal 31 blog has a note.

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An Express-Times column out of the Lehigh Valley suggests that the the addition of scholarships in the Patriot League is, in some ways, little more than a bookkeeping ploy. From the story:

The league won’t be better or worse for it because essentially the same amount of money is being spent on players, regardless of how you package it.

To be completely honest, I'm not sure exactly where the columnist stands on scholarships or the idea of redshirting, which he also brings up.

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The largest student-run philanthropy in the world yesterday celebrated raising a record $10.69 MILLION this year to fight childhood cancer. In its 40-year history THON, the Penn State dance marathon, has raised more than $88 million FTK: For The Kids. Link