Hailing from 17 different states and Washington, D.C., six of the incoming players will fly in from Florida and four will make the journey north from Texas, continuing the trend of Big Green football players that call the two states home.
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One of those recruits is Bennett Goff, a finalist for top linebacker in Wisconsin, who will play this weekend in the Wisconsin Football Coaches Association All-Star game in Oshkosh. The first-team all-state selection will be calling signals for the defense and playing inside linebacker.Goff is the "lede" to a Wisconsin State Journal story that says he chose Dartmouth over "more than 10" scholarship offers after Wisconsin – which liked him – did not come through with a scholarship.
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Cornell's Jeff Mathews is on the Payton Award watch list put together by The Sports Network. Find Mathews' entry here.
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A new song from former linebacker Gordy Quist (blue shirt) of The Band of Heathens: